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Hans Hoerschelman
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 Hans Hoerschelman
 @hoerschelman hans@460design.net
 Sr. Application Developer @ UI
 460 Design (moonlight)
 UIDUG & DrupalHawks
 DrupalCorn 2013 Steering Committee
 CoderDojo Mentor – coderdojo.ictechnest.com
 Rabbit owner
What is COD?
 Conference Organizing Distribution
 https://drupal.org/project/cod
 Drush dl cod
 What’s a Distribution?
 Drupal core + a set of modules and/or features aimed at
a specific use case
COD Features
 “Events” with a registration
 Free
 Paid (w/Commerce, Commerce Registration, and Paid Event
modules)
 Resource Management
 Sessions
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Users propose sessions
Schedule Item (eg – lunch, breaks, etc)
Rooms
Timeslots
Attendees
Sponsors
COD Features
 Scheduling
 Automate conference schedule
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Sessions
BoFs
 User can build personalized schedule
 Sponsor Management
 Associate users with sponsors
 Allow sponsor to manage their content
 Sell sponsorship
COD Features
 Promotion
 All the stuff you can already to with Drupal
 Tools for contacting users
 Community Section
 Feedback / Post event
 Session Evaluations
 Video embeds of sessions or other resources
The Guts of COD
 What COD is NOT
 A turnkey solution (for now)
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No example with clean install
 Really easy to understand
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Have to grok Rules
Have to grok Commerce (for paid events)
 A stable release
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Currently Alpha2
The Guts of COD - Default
 Drupal 7
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addressfield
admin_menu
admin_menu_toolbar
advanced_help
auto_nodetitle
block
comment
commons_profile_ba
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commons_wysiwyg
content_access
context
contextual
context_ui
ctools
ckeditor
dashboard
date
date_api
date_popup
dblog
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devel
devel_generate
diff
entity
entityreference
entityreference_prep
opulate
entity_token
features
field
field_group
field_permissions
field_select_ct
field_collection
field_sql_storage
field_ui
file
Filter
flag
forum
image
jquery_update
link
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list
menu
node
number
options
og
og_access
og_context
og_field_access
og_ui
path
pathauto
quicktabs
quicktabs_tabstyles
rules
rules_admin
search
strongarm
system
text
token
update
user
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views
views_field_view
views_bulk_operation
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views_content
views_data_export
views_ui
Webform
The Guts of COD - Default
 Features
 cod_base
 cod_session
 cod_events
 cod_community
 cod_sponsors
 Views
 Admin views embedded on dashboards and other nodes
 Community
 Sponsors
 Events
 Patches
 Its still Alpha!
Modules You’ll Have To
Understand to Set things Up
 Views
 Rules
 Commerce (for paid registrations)
 Organic Groups
 Especially permissions
Getting Started
 After install, start with 1 event “DrupalCamp Antartica”
 No other configuration
 COD default ‘on’ modules
 Base, Session, Sponsor, Events
 Some default views
 A really ugly frontpage with no content
Getting Started
 To get a single free event with 1 session up and going
 Create the Event, making sure it is an OG Group
 ALL EVENT CONTENT MUST BELONG TO THE EVENT GROUP!
 Have to set proper Event OG permissions:
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<site>/admin/config/group/permissions/node/event
 Need a Session
 Need a Room/location
 Need a timeslot
 Need a track (taxonomy term)
 Can’t promise you won’t run into trouble…
Lets look at the (DEV) site.
COD 7
Acquia Cloud hosting
A simple custom module
Some contrib and sandbox modules
Some small hiccups
Our Experience
 Lots of learning curve
 Understanding the usage of OG
 Figuring out commerce and rules
 Bugs
 Paid Event registration ‘half open’ carts
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Person is registered but not paid, leaves cart/session timeout,
blocked from registering when return OR Multiple carts
 Bad field settings (holdover from D6->D7)
 Unused features due to lack of understanding
 Session Evaluation
 Multiple registration
QUESTIONS?
hans@460design.net
@hoerschelman