The Drupal project is a GPL-licensed open source content management system that thrives on people helping out. Let me show you how anyone can contribute to the project, without ever touching a single line of code.

This will lead into another session, Contribute to Drupal with code, attending both sessions is suggested but not required.

The Features module enables the capture and management of features in Drupal. A feature is a collection of Drupal entities which when taken together satisfy a certain use-case. This module provides an easy-to-use mechanism for converting site configurations such as views and taxonomies into code – which ultimately can be version controlled and deployed.

During this presentation, we will walk you through everything you need to know about working with the Features module through the Drupal user interface, including best practices with:

To use a contrib (community) module, patch a contrib module or write a custom module, that is the question.

With over 25,000 community contributed modules available for download it is rare to find one that does not offer the functionality you are looking for. However, when you cannot find a module that fits your needs you are then faced with a choice. Do you patch an existing contrib module? Or write a custom one?

To figure out the answer to the answer you just need to remember to R.E.A.D.

In our massively multidevice world, we want to make sure our content travels well. Designing and structuring content and content types should be one of the first steps taken in the design process.

In this session we'll look at incorporating content strategy into the design process in order to build better content types including:

A camp favorite! Now with new examples!

Let's look at some thought patterns in solving problems with Drupal by bringing an idea from concept to completion.

This is a session that experiments in exploring using Drupal from the most basic standpoint possible. Looking at the Node as "the thing itself," this sessions gets down to the business of understanding the essence of the building blocks needed for completing concepts in Drupal.

See how Drupal sites can benefit from using the Panelizer module to provide tremendous editorial flexibility, without causing the editorial team to break into tears. Additional modules can be used to further this, for sites that need more granular control.