CiviCon 2011 Session Proposals

Add your session proposals for 2011 CiviCon below! Deadline for submitting proposals is February 21th.

Session proposal guidelines

These are only guidelines - feel free to suggest any subjects and formats...

We want to cover as broad range of subjects and use cases as possible. Our aim in these sessions is to talk about what folks are doing with CiviCRM, how you are using it, and the things you'd like to do in the future. We're keen to steer away from training sessions at this event, but if you are interested in training, consider attending one of the two training events preceding the conference (User and Admin Training or Extending CiviCRM).

Subjects we'd like to cover include:

panels to discuss configuring and using CiviCRM in specific types of organizations / use cases (e.g. advocacy, art and culture, education, fund-raising, human services, membership associations)
hooks - walkthrough of a module which uses them
theming - making your site look different than the standard CiviCRM design.
CiviMail best practices
performance and hosting
security
tips and tricks for users - making the most out of CiviCRM's UI, short cuts and lesser known functionality
fundraising techniques with CiviContribute
the community - ideas for growing and strengthening

Title	Track	Description	Proposer/Contact person
Ask the Experts	Introductory	Ask our panel of CiviCRM pros your most burning questions	Dave Greenberg
CiviAccounts	Developer or Community	An overview of CiviAccounts and the roadmap for building out its functionality, including a case study around how the Registered Nurses Association of Ontario is integrating CiviCRM with its accounting	Joe Murray & Derek Laventure
CiviMail Best Practices	Campaign?	Tips and lessons learned from emotive on sending large volumes of email through CiviMail	Matt Briney
Drupal 7 & CiviCRM	Developer	Discussion on upgrading to Drupal 7 with CiviCRM	Chang Xiao
CiviCRM Security for Users	Introductory	Basic security tips for using permissions & ACLs, especially as related to Profiles	Matt Chapman
CiviCRM Security for Developers	Developer	Writing Secure code; Identifying, reporting and fixing Security issues in CiviCRM. A case study.	Matt Chapman
CiviCRM for Drupal Developers	Developer	Coming to peace with the fact that CiviCRM is not really a Drupal module & easing the pain.	Matt Chapman
Contributing to CiviCRM	Introductory	Navigating the CiviCRM community & interacting with the Core team. For both developers and non-developers. (If this session is selected, please schedule last in the day.)	Matt Chapman
Is CiviCRM the right tool for the job?	Introductory	When to choose CiviCRM over competing or custom solutions. Lots of Q&A.	Matt Chapman
The State of Reporting in CiviCRM	Introductory	7 or more ways to get data out of CiviCRM. Advanced Search, Search Builder, Custom Searches, CiviReport, Views, API, & third-party tools compared and contrasted.	Matt Chapman
CiviEngage + CiviCampaign	Introductory	Use cases: electoral, community organizing, surveys, collecting responses. Will include showing demo sites.	Alice Aguilar
Lighting Case Study Session	introductory	1 hour: 6 case studies, no more than 10 minutes each. - Case Studies presented by a variety of people	Gregory Heller
CiviCRM Duplicate Matching Criteria	Introductory	Not sure if this is worth an entire session, but i think this, like ACLs is a bit of mystery to many people	Gregory Heller
User interface customization	Developer	Using custom CSS, jQuery, and .tpl to make CiviCRM look and act differently, with emphasis on public facing forms, profiles, and views	Stoob
Heavily Customizing CiviCRM	Developer	Using Hooks, API's and overwriting classes to heavily customize CiviCRM. How far can you go. Is it a good idea? Benefits and pitfalls of trying to stop CiviCRM from doing some of the thing it wants to do by default.	Jim Taylor
A new Framework	Developer	Can we come to consensus on a new framework to replace the now stagnent PEAR libraries. The obvious candidates are Drupal and Zend as far as PHP frameworks are concerned. Lets talk about it, eh! And hey maybe we can talk about other programming languages can you say ROR? (okay I'm going out on a limb there :))	Jim Taylor
Why I hate CiviCRM	Introductory	CiviCRM is a world class CRM solution that can stand toe to toe with the like of Salesforce, Raisers Edge, SugarCRM, etc... I know this because I have used many of the competitors and now make a living implementing CiviCRM. That said there are days when even I have to ask "Why is it working like this?"	Jim Taylor
Scaling CiviCRM	Developer	How to scale CiviCRM to 100,000's or even 1,000,000's of records	Jim Taylor (though I will need help here :))
CiviCRM in a Government Context	Developer	Case Study: New York State Senate Special considerations when working in a government context; customization and workflow overview; managing multi-site implementations for ~100 sites; pain points (scalability, support, revision releases)	Brian Shaughnessy +
CiviCRM and VoIP Drupal	Introductory or Community	An overview and introduction to VoIP Drupal, and its possible applications to CiviCRM as an extension	Leo Burd (MIT) and Owen Barton (CivicActions)
Managing CiviCRM sites using Aegir	Developer	The Aegir hosting system allows developers and site administrators to automate many of the common tasks associated with deploying and managing websites. This session would provide a quick overview of Aegir, how to manage CiviCRM sites with it and the road ahead.	Mathieu Lutfy/bgm (Koumbit.org)
Localized or multi-lingual CiviCRM	Introductory or Community	How to create a localized CiviCRM site; how to contribute to translations (Transifex); a few warnings when going multi-lingual. Ideally this would be in the form of a "birds of feathers", since I don't consider myself an expert on the topic (and I really hope Piotr can give a hand ;-)	Mathieu Lutfy/bgm (Koumbit.org)
Intro to CiviCRM	Introductory	Could CiviCRM work for your organization? CiviCRM provides more functionality out of the box and for free than the largest and most popular fundraising packages provide even after you've purchased all of their add-on modules. Get an overview of CiviCRM core functionality and capabilities in this introduction and demonstration of CiviCRM.	Mary Kay Bianchi
Volunteer Management with CiviCRM	Introductory	Using Events and using Activities to manage volunteers. How are they tracked? What are the benefits & drawbacks of each approach?	Mary Kay Bianchi

CiviCon 2011 Session Proposals

Session proposal guidelines

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