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Tracks are a series of sessions in a particular area which span in experience level from beginner to advanced. Sessions are 60 minutes.

Coding and Development

Core Conversations: Achieving sustainability

DevOps: One environment to rule them all

Drupal Business: Paying the bills and growing the business

Frontend: Let's kill the Divitis!

Site Building: Building sites fast without needing to code!

Case Studies

Coding and Development

PHP and Drupal are changing rapidly and collaboration among projects is shaping a new way to create code. The Coding and Development track will show you how you can leverage evolving tools and processes to increase the efficiency, velocity, and quality of projects.

This track will help developers to be up to date with the new release of Drupal, not only on the Drupal island, but demonstrating the best practices and industry standards of the web today.

We are actively seeking the following session topics:

Drupal 8 for Drupal 7 developers
Tools for upgrading your modules
OOP methodology relevant for Drupal 8 projects
Introductory sessions to the Drupal 8 changes, new entity system, plugin system, etc
Software quality as a tool, not a goal
BDD and TDD team workflows used in real projects
Software design oriented to security
Symfony components
Configuration Management

Core Conversations: Achieving sustainability

Core Conversations are a place for people actively working on and contributing to Drupal core or Drupal.org to meet, discuss and plan the future of Drupal.

This is the place for big ideas about the future of Drupal, as well as discussions about where we want to go, how we're going to get there. Where regular tracks and sessions focus on the present and immediate future, Core Conversations are about long-term.

We are actively seeking the following session topics:

Improving drupal.org (website, testbot, process)
Funding core
Performance and tracking data overtime
Welcoming designers, UX professionals, and architects
Behat/Frontend testing

Drupal Business: Paying the bills and growing the business

DrupalCon Latin America is not only a great place to meet new Drupalist from other parts of the world, it is an opportunity to do business together, grow and help each other.

We are looking to talk about how we can grow business and push forward to compete locally and internationally.

We are actively seeking the following session topics:

Strategies and tactics for marketing Drupal businesses and their services.
Techniques and tools for setting up projects for success.
Good communications during a project so that it continues to run smoothly
Management tips and tools for agency-style businesses
Drupal 8 for business

DevOps: One environment to rule them all

“It works on my computer” is a thing of the past, the coordinated work of developers and operations now allows us to create the different development environments in a way that they look all the same.

With technologies like Vagrant, chef, puppet, ansible, and many others we can not only have the same environment in dev, stage, production (Same PHP, same Web Server, Same configuration, etc.) but we can also work on automated server generation and Continuous Integration.

With Continuous integration we give a better experience not only to the customer, but tall involved in the development and design team. By working together we simplify that development, deployment and release of the project.

We are actively seeking the following session topics:

Lean and Devops principles.
Drupal conventions and best practices discovered by experienced ninjas, to keep a project healthy and with less deploy effort.
Devops with Ubuntu Juju, CloudFoundry, Ansible, Puppet and/or Chef, among others.
Continuous Integration and Delivery.
Post production monitoring.

Frontend: Lets kill the Divitis!

Frontend development is where the innovation is at: rich client-side applications now consume RESTful resources, stitched together with diverse contributed javascript technologies, stylized with shared CSS components and frameworks. Drupal 8 is embracing some of these technologies and making room for contributed modules to adopt new technologies as soon as possible.

Let’s talk about the technologies and procedures that are in use in today’s frontend development: preprocessors, build automation, JS and CSS architecture, new template systems and client-side applications. What about headless Drupal, where the backend deals with data and leaves the interface to the frontend?

And how has web design changed to cope with the innovations in frontend? Let's see how are rich applications designed, from component design to responsive layouts. Designers have now all the freedom we ever dreamed of, lets see where it can take us!

We are actively seeking the following session topics:

CSS and JS preprocessors
CSS and JS architecture
Frontend and Backend Templating systems (Twig, Twigjs, Handlebars)
Performance
New HTML5 specifications & browser features
Automation tools
Grid and UI frameworks
Content-first, Atomic design and new design issues
Drupal adoption of the top notch front-end technologies, core and contrib
Headless Drupal

Site Building: Building sites fast without needing to code!

Drupal 8 has changed Site Building and made it even more powerful, with Configuration Management in core, important modules as views in core as well Drupal 8 makes Site building much more powerful than ever. And don’t forget, Drupal 7 is still out there and most contrib modules are just working on porting to D8.

With Site Building we can achieve and build great sites without needing to code, one thing that Drupal makes special and great. But there are a lot of ways to reach a goal, let’s share the knowledge, and teach each other how to achieve. Are you using a module in really cool ways? With real life examples? Have you worked with D8? What is new? how have you improved your workflow with D8? Tell everybody about it!

We are actively seeking the following session topics:

Drupal 8: which modules exist, which are coming, and what is changing
Drupal 7 to Drupal 8
Comparison of different techniques for Layouting that currently exist
Studies and real life examples of Site Builds (Special ways, new ways)

Case Studies

Latin America has a great variety of case studies that involved different local and international Web Development agencies, because of the particular needs in each Latin America country this challenges are diverse and show the versatility of Drupal in sectors like Universities and government.

The Case Studies track allows delegates to learn from the experience of others on real Drupal projects, and to see the power of Drupal in action. We would like to hear the whole picture of a project, so bring the whole team, including the client!

Case studies should not seek to directly promote a vendor, but to genuinely share knowledge and experience (which will of course show agencies in a good light). Preference will be given to submissions where there are clear learning points, innovation and best-practice.

A case study presentation should include:

What? (the need the project had to fulfill)
How? (Modules, issues, wins, examples, process and project methodologies)
Why? (Business reasons, user feedback)
Who? (Team structure, customer, developer skills)
When? (Timeline, milestones)
Result? (Learnings, take aways)

Tracks

Los Tracks son una serie de sesiones en un área en particular que abarcan los niveles de novato hasta avanzado. La charlas duran 60 minutos.

Codigo & desarrollo

PHP y Drupal están cambiando rápidamente y colaborando con otros proyectos esta formando una nueva forma de hacer código. El Track de Codigo & Desarrollo te mostrará cómo puedes sacar ventaja de herramientas en constante desarrollo y procesos para incrementar la eficiencia, velocidad y la calidad de tus proyectos

Éste Track le ayudará a los desarrolladores a estar actualizados con las últimas versiones de Drupal, no solo en la isla de Drupal, sino también demostrando las mejores prácticas y estándares industriales de la web hoy en día.