Hans Hoerschelman whoami  Hans Hoerschelman  @hoerschelman [email protected]  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       Users propose sessions Schedule Item (eg – lunch, breaks, etc) Rooms Timeslots Attendees Sponsors COD Features  Scheduling  Automate conference schedule   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)  No example with clean install  Really easy to understand   Have to grok Rules Have to grok Commerce (for paid events)  A stable release  Currently Alpha2 The Guts of COD - Default  Drupal 7  Modules                     addressfield admin_menu admin_menu_toolbar advanced_help auto_nodetitle block comment commons_profile_ba se commons_wysiwyg content_access context contextual context_ui ctools ckeditor dashboard date date_api date_popup dblog                       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                        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        views views_field_view views_bulk_operation s 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:  <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  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? [email protected] @hoerschelman