Patterns - Managing and Automating Site Configurations
Drupal is an amazing framework. Complicated websites and web applications can be created by combining configurations of Modules, Content Types (CCK,) Views, Panels, Menus, Blocks, Categories, Roles & Permissions.
Much of this site setup and configuration process can be very time consuming and repetitive, submitting form after form after form.
This process can and should be automated!
The site configuration should also be stored in a format that is easy to read, modify, manage, share and collaborate on.
The Drupal Patterns Module (http://drupal.org/project/patterns) attempts to solve these issues and more. Join us for a presentation and demo of what Patterns is all about and how it can help you (as well as how you can help it!)
More information can be found here:
http://drupal.org/project/patterns
http://groups.drupal.org/patterns
Non-core core modules
Learning how to quickly do common we design tasks quickly with drupal can only be a good thing.
Automation can be a good
Automation can be a good thing, but beyond that, I think this session will give me a great overview of best practices, design patterns, and various capabilities and ideas that might take a long time otherwise to figure out bit by bit.