Presentations
Preliminary program! Changes may occur...Presentations Conference Day 1 - Friday 9th of March
Introduction to the conference
Welcome to the conference
Day: Mar. 9th - time: 09:00 - 9:30Speaker(s): Anne-Mieke Bovelett and John Scotcher
Summary: An introduction to the conference and all the development team present.
The State of the CMSMS - Keynote address
Day: Mar. 9th - time: 09:30 - 10:30Speaker(s): Robert Campbell
Summary: Delivered this year by Robert Campbell, our keynote address will tell you where we are with your favorite content management solution and where we are going. The topics this year will include..
- The 80% rule
- Team Changes
- More Policies and Procedures
- The NFP
- Future of CMSMS
The Showtime Module
A walkthrough of the latest version
Day: Mar. 9th - time: 10:45 - 11:30Speaker(s): Peter Orije
Area: Module overview - Level: easy
Summary: A presentation to unveil the latest version of the excellent Showtime module - a module that makes adding flash or javascript animated slideshows to your site a breeze. Peter Orije, the modules developer, will show you how the module works including all the latest features.
Fombuilder now and then
The development of the module
Day: Mar. 9th - time: 11:45 - 12:30Speaker(s): Tapio Löytty
Area: Module overview - Level: Medium
Summary: An overview of the FormBuilder project and it's current status.
- What new stuff has been added to it.
- How database handling / structure has been and will be changed.
- Where can you use it. Including some interesting examples of how it can be used.
- How association with FBR will change.
Marketing
Report and open discussion
Day: Mar. 9th - time: 13:45 - 14:30Speaker(s): Anne-Mieke Bovelett and John Scotcher
Area: General - Level: Easy
Summary: A report on the state of CMSMS marketing and our plans for the future, followed by an open forum for you to discuss ideas to help promote CMSMS.
CMSMS in a professional business model
How CMSMS can work for your business
Day: Mar. 9th - time: 14:30 - 15:15Speaker(s): Jean-Christophe Cuvelier & John Scotcher
Area: Business - Level: Easy
Summary: Jean-Christophe and John both use CMSMS as the mainstay of their businesses, basing 90% of sites developed on the system. Here they present their two methods as to how they create revenue streams from the open source model and answer queries from the audience about how to do the same.
Management of databases
How to improve the API modules in cmsmadesimple
Day: Mar. 9th - time: 15:30 - 16:30Speaker(s): Kevin Danezis (Bess)
- Level: Easy to medium
Summary: During the last 9 months Kevin Danezis had the opportunity to achieve 3 modules for clients who have all supported on a framework of his own conception that completely renew the management of access to databases in cmsmadesimple. In this informative presentation, he shows us how.
Presentations Day 2 - Saturday 10th of March
Creating modules with MC Factory
Build your own modules the easy way!
Day: Mar. 10th - time: 09:00 - 10:30Speaker(s): Jean-Christophe Cuvelier
- Level: Medium
Summary: Jean-Christophe Cuvelier is the author of MC Factory, the module generator made for non-developers and developers. In this presentation JC will show you the latest and greatest version of MC Factory, showing you how you can generate a new module with custom fields without any knowledge of PHP or MySQL and give you a tour of this excellent module's many features. A must for anyone who has ever wanted to create a custom module for their CMSMS driven website.
Ten things to change your CMSMS-website into a professional website."
Day: Mar. 10th - time: 10:45 - 11:30Speaker(s): Sander van den Broek
- Level: Easy / intermediate
Summary: The difference between a CMSMS-website and a professional CMSMS website.
1.11 Preview and the Future of CMSMS
Our next steps with the software
Day: Mar. 10th - time: 11:45 - 12:30Speaker(s): Robert Campbell
Area: The future - Level: Easy
Summary: A presentation of the new features in 1.11 including..
- The goals of 1.11
- The features of 1.11
- An online presentation of the new theme and file manager improvements
- What else is planned
- Where we're going with
- PHP 5.3
- Mobile/Ajaxy
- Accessibility
Editing CMSMS from your Mobile – an IPhone App presentation
Day: Mar. 10th - time: 13:45 - 14:45Speaker(s): James Golding
- Level: Easy / intermediate
Summary: The aim of this project from James Golding is to develop an iOS app primarily designed for the iPhone that allows for basic content editing of a site running CMS Made Simple. This presentation will showcase the app and the main areas of content editing that the app facilitates in version 1.0, and the operations that will be possible in the respective areas.
Lunch and Refreshments
All workshop attendees will get lunch included as part of their day:
