This week, Jeff Eaton joins me, once again, to talk about the Lullabot training sessions "Plan Build Launch - Real World Drupal."

Questions for presenter

• What is the title of your training session?
• Can you give us an overview of your training and what to expect?
• Who is your target audience?
• What's the case for people outside the Drupal community
• So, the theme of the conference is “Growing Drupal Down Under” - how does the ‘Real World Drupal’ training session fit in?
• Who are going to be the trainers at the event?

Wrap-up

• Where can people find out more about you and the trainings at DrupalCon Sydney?

This week I talk with Mr. Snow and John Albin about the Frontend Track at DrupalCon Sydney

Track Chair

• What is your vision for the frontend track?
• What sessions have you chosen and why?
• What are you most excited about at DrupalCon?

Featured Speaker

• What’s the title of your talk?
• What's your talk about?
• How does your session fit with the track's theme?
• What are you most excited about at DrupalCon?

Wrap-up

• What are some other sessions in the frontend track that you guys are excited about?
• John, do you have any other plans for your visit to Australia?
• Where can people find out more about you and the Front end track at DrupalCon Sydney?

Track Chairs

• What was the vision for the track?
• What sessions have you chosen and why?
• What are you most excited about at DrupalCon?

Featured Speaker

• What’s the title of your talk?
• What's your talk about?
• How does your session fit with the track's theme?
• What is XHProf? and how do you recommend people use it?
• What are you most excited about at DrupalCon?
• What are your thoughts on Drupal 8?

Wrap-up

• What are some other sessions in the dev track that you guys are excited about?
• Do you have any other plans for your visit to Australia?

This week James Gollan gives us an intro to the training sessions that will be happening the day before DrupalCon Sydney

Questions for organizer

• What is the theme of the conference?
  • Don't close the door to people outside the community
• How did you get involved with choosing sessions?
• What is the DA’s involvement in the session selection?
  • Donna Benjamin and Stephanie
  • Feedback to those that were not accepted.
• What was the selection criteria?
• What were prioritized in the submissions?
• How many submissions were there?
• How many were chosen.
• Why are there three training sessions?
• What are the three sessions?
  • DrupalEasy - Blue Collar Git
  • Lullabot - Plan, Build, Launch: Real-World Drupal
  • Commerce Guys - Commerce Kickstart

This week Pamela Barone (track chair) and Jeff Eaton (featured speaker) talk about the Content Authoring Track at DrupalCon Sydney.

Track Chair

• What was the theme and vision for the content authoring track?
• What are some of the sessions we can expect in the content authoring track?
• What are you most excited about at DrupalCon?

Featured Speaker

• What’s the title of your talk?
• What's your talk about?
• How did you get involved in the world of content authoring?
• What are you most excited about at DrupalCon?
• What are your thoughts on Drupal 8?

Wrap-up

• What are some other sessions at DrupalCon that you guys are excited about?
• Do you have any other plans for your visit to Australia?

Track Chair

• Tell me about your vision for the track.
• What are some of the sessions we can expect to be presented?
• What are you most excited about at DrupalCon?

Featured Speaker

• What’s the title of your talk and what’s it about?
• We’ve heard Mark talk about the Business & Strategy track theme. How does your session fit in with that?
• Mori, you’re a “technical” account manager. Does that mean your session will be technical and hard to understand for managers and other non-technical people?

Wrap-up

• Mark, what are some other sessions in the track that you’re excited about?
• Mori, what are you hoping to see during Drupalcon Australia?
• Mark, where can people find out more about the track?

Track Chair

• Tell me about your vision for the track.
• What are some of the sessions we can expect from the business and strategy track?
• What are you most excited about at DrupalCon?

Featured Speaker

• What’s the title of your talk and what are you talking about?
• We’ve heard Mark talk about the Business & Strategy track theme. How does your session fit in with that?
• Vesa, you’re on the Drupal Association board. What was the rationale in choosing to promote the Sydney conference to a fully-fledged DrupalCon and what effect do you think it will have on Drupal adoption in the region?

Wrap-up

• Mark, what are some other sessions in the track that you’re excited about?
• Vesa, do you have any other plans for your visit to Australia?
• Mark, where can people find out more about the track?

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Track Chair

• What was the vision for the track?
• What sessions have you chosen and why?
• What are you most excited about at DrupalCon?

Featured Speaker:

• What’s the title of your talk?
• What's your talk about?
• How does your session fit with the track's theme?
• What are you most excited about at DrupalCon?
• What are your thoughts on Drupal 8?

Wrap-up

• What are some other sessions in the Site Building track that you guys are excited about?
• Do you have any other plans for your visit to Australia? (if relevant)
• Where can people find out more about you and the Site Building track at DrupalCon Sydney?

Translation as it is in Drupal 7

• How has translation been done (in Drupal) in the past?
• Why Entity Translation? What holes does it fill?
• The second beta of Entity Translation was just released at the end of November, what kinds of updates were included with that?
• What’s left to do before a 1.0 release?
  • Roadmap in the issue queue: http://drupal.org/node/1624830
• Does ET integrate/use TMGMT? (Translation Management Tool)

Entity Translation in Drupal 8

• Entity Translation has been committed to Drupal 8 core! Congratulations! When did that happen?
• How will translations be handled in Drupal 8?
• Before we started recording you mentioned some other entity related aspects you ran into while getting ET into D8. Would you mind talking about some of those?

Questions from Twitter

• Transition (‏@Transition) - @ModsUnraveled how's support for CJKV languages? Chinese characters and such.
  • Is there somewhere people can go to find out more about unicode in Drupal 8? http://hojtsy.hu/d8mi
• Cathy YesCT (@ctheys) - Could it be said Entity Translation is a culmination of X months/years of work? #MUP049 #drupal #d8mi
  • Started Feb 2009
• Thomas Svenson (@tsvenson) - Will revisioning & staging work on translations too? With WB Moderate only the original content is staged, not the translations. #MUP049

Morten DK and Pedro Cambra were both recently elected to the Drupal Association Board, and took some time out of their day to talk with me about the Association and what they plan to do now that they're on the board.

Drupal Association

• Can you explain who the DA are and what they do.
• How can the DA improve understanding of what they do.
• What does being an at large board member actually mean?
• Do you get paid
• Are board meetings in face to face and how often
• Can you explain a little of how the process works behind closed doors in board meetings
• Can normal community members get involved in the decisions the DA make

Your Opinions

• Where do you think the DA should focus efforts to help grow Drupal
• Where do you think the biggest challenges exist in the Drupal community
• How does the DA become a truly globally represented organization

Questions from Twitter

• Thomas Svenson (@tsvenson) - Besides Danish dynamite and the Spanish passion, what are @mortendk & @pcambra bringing to @DrupalAssoc? #MUP048
• jerryitt (@jerryitt) - #MUP048 Hey guys. Congrats on your appointment's to the @DrupalAssoc
• Christopher Dunne (@dunnee88) - #MUP048 Enjoyed @mortendk 's talk at #dcnw12 I'm a student @SalfordUni How can I get involved? :)
• steinmb (@steinmb) - Would you discuss what's the major challenges @DrupalAssoc are facing due to the growth of the Drupal community? #MUP048
• jerryitt (@jerryitt) - Are there plans for the open board meetings to be held over Google+ hangout or similar so it is more accessible #MUP048 @mortendk @pcambra
• Thomas Svenson (@tsvenson) - Only time you can get @mortendk quiet is when he takes a sip of the #awesomesauce... #MUP048
• steinmb (@steinmb) - Amazing, a podcast with @mortendk that we can tag as "clean" - no swearing? #MUP048 #Drupal
• Thomas Svenson (@tsvenson - Thanks @mortendk & @pcambra, that's exactly what I wanted to hear. Great to hear your enthusiasm for the task. #MUP048