• over one million downloads of CMS Made Simple™
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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 - 9:30
Speaker(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 - 10:30
Speaker(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..
  • What is CMSMS
  • Who is it for
  • Our principles
  • The Team and how we work
    • The 80% rule
    • Team Changes
  • The past, the present, and the future
    • More Policies and Procedures
    • The NFP
    • Future of CMSMS
  • The Workflow/Versioning debate
  • The MultiLang debate

  • The Showtime Module

    A walkthrough of the latest version

    Day: Mar. 9th - time: 10:45 - 11:30
    Speaker(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 - 12:30
    Speaker(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 - 14:30
    Speaker(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 - 15:15
    Speaker(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 - 16:30
    Speaker(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 - 10:30
    Speaker(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 - 11:30
    Speaker(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 - 12:30
    Speaker(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 - 14:45
    Speaker(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.

    CMSMS Award Ceremony

    Day: Mar. 10th - time: 14:45 - 15:15

    Summary: This year we have another big scoop! The CMS Made Simple™ awards for: - Developer of the year. - Design of the year. - Community Member of the year. - Themebuilder of the year.

    Dev Team Q&A - Round Table

    Day: Mar. 10th - time: 15:30 - whenever we finish!
    Speaker(s): All attending devs.

    Area: Panel discussion
    Summary: Voice your questions and concern and talk back to the devs about the direction of the project.

    Lunch and Refreshments

    All workshop attendees will get lunch included as part of their day:

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