Srijan

In our continuing effort to foster and mentor discussions centered around open source technologies, we are organizing a tech-session on the following topics related to web application development:

Migrating to Drupal – I (Node migration)
Syntactically Awesome Stylesheets (SASS)

Migrating to Drupal – I (Node migration)

Background
Migrating large amounts of data from one CMS to another is, surprisingly, something that requires doing more often than one would expect. The reasons for doing so vary from changes in customer requirements to the availability of better features in a newer CMS to programmer preference. One of the crucial stages during such migrations is the transfer of data across databases without compromising the integrity of the data.

The session
While there are numerous combinations of such CMSs, This tech-session will focus on migrating data from TYPO3 (while also touching upon other commonly used CMSs) to Drupal using the node_import tool provided by Drupal.
Depending on the popularity of the topic within the community, we hope to have more tech-sessions on various CMS migration related issues across many more systems.

Target Audience
Anyone who works with Content Management Systems

Chief Presenter: Rashmi Rajput
Date: November 7th, 2009
Time: 11:30 Hrs to 12:30 Hrs

Syntactically Awesome Stylesheets (SASS)

What’s the sass about?
SASS is a meta language that brings structure and scalability to CSS while putting the fun back into creating perfectly themed web applications. It was originally written to be used with HAML in Rails applications, but is completely language agnostic.
http://sass-lang.com/

The session
Will serve as an introduction to the world of SASS and cover numerous powerful ways in which SASS makes the world a better place, such as

• SASS variables,
• Style Mixins (for repeatable CSS definitions),
• Selector scoping,
• Intelligent file importing (for better CSS file organization)