Drupal Commerce Blog

DrupalCon Denver will be the first major DrupalCon to offer a Commerce track in addition to a full day of Drupal Commerce training before the conference. While it's a modest start at 5 sessions spread throughout the entire 3 day session schedule, it's an important step toward raising the profile of e-commerce on Drupal.

The Commerce sessions accepted include:

• Drupal Commerce by Ryan Szrama - the big picture overview and functional demonstration of Drupal Commerce.
• Drupal Commerce Contrib Overview by Pedro Cambra - a trip through all the major contributed Drupal Commerce modules and their current state of development.
• PCI: A Four Letter Word of E-commerce by Matt Kleve - an explanation of the payment card industry's security standards and requirements for e-commerce sites.
• Recurring Billing is hard, is hard, is hard... by Joe Shindelar - a discussion of the strategies and pitfalls for recurring billing on an e-commerce site.
• Accepting Payments Online: A Building Block Approach by Allie Micka - a discussion of the vocabulary and processes involved in accepting payments online.

If you haven't attended a DrupalCon in the past, it's the premier Drupal event in the U.S. drawing upwards of 4,000 attendees. While there are only a handful of sessions dealing directly with Drupal Commerce or e-commerce topics, the variety of sessions presented at the conference will more than likely apply to your process of building a complete Drupal based website. Sessions pertaining to Views, Rules, Git, and other contributed modules and contribution processes are sure to help you.

We look forward to seeing you there!

With the call for sessions for DrupalCon London now closed, the proposals are now open for voting and commenting. Check out the list of session titles below and follow their links to vote them up. The more coverage we can get in the final conference schedule, the better. Thanks to all those who proposed Commerce related sessions, helping us promote e-commerce on Drupal to the rest of the community.

You can also check out proposals tagged Drupal Commerce on the site for a teaser list including a bit of introduction for each session topic. There are some great ideas being presented!

If you want to get some pre-conference learning in, you should also sign-up for Commerce Guys' Drupal Commerce training taking place on August 22, 2011 at a discounted DrupalCon rate, £325.

With the recent unveiling of the beta release, I'm extremely excited to be at DrupalCon Chicago to promote the project and help new users figure out how to put the modules to work for them. I'll also be on the lookout for more developers interested in helping extend the functionality of Drupal Commerce through contributed modules.

Read more to find out how to learn more Drupal Commerce at the conference.

You can find out more about the project and how to get involved in any of these ways...

The first Drupal Commerce alpha release received little fanfare here somehow. In the press of DrupalCon Copenhagen, I neglected to post the news here of all places! Well, I'm fixing that right now with this little announcement for our second alpha release that just went live minutes ago. You can download it from our project page on drupal.org.

Most everything worth saying about the release is in the release notes, so I encourage you to read those. The short version is we now have a fully functioning Payment module, making alpha 2 a great time for payment integrators to start roughing out their Commerce integration. There's also a great base test class for Commerce tests with documentation to go with it, so folks looking to dig into the modules and APIs are encouraged to do it while writing some much needed tests.

The Specification handbook here has also received quite a bit of love to go along with the release, so I encourage you to poke around and provide feedback on its structure and on the content that's actually there. For now you'll need to look in the Info hooks and Utilizing the core APIs sections as the others are just scaffolding.