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Handing media has always been a painful feature in Drupal. With Drupal 7, changes to Drupal Core provided major steps forward. Drupal Core now includes file and image fields which provide users with the basics. The Media module takes the next step: providing an easy, useable, and flexible media solution that fits the wide variety of needs and requirements. This session will give a short detail of the history of Media module, the current features and overall architecture, and the future of the Media module and Drupal core itself. The results of a Media maintainers sprint in September 2011 will also be presented. I will also be giving a lightning talk about improving media handling in Drupal 8 core. Intended audience: Site builders, architects, developers, people evaluating Drupal Questions answered by this session: How did Drupal 7 help improve media handling? Why and when do you want to use Media module? What are the new features being planned and implemented for the new version of Media module? What about the Media initiative that Dries mentioned in his London keynote? What's that about? What lessons have we learned in Media module that can be used to improve Drupal 8 and beyond. Resources Session slides http://drupal.org/project/media http://groups.drupal.org/project/media

The Media module is poised to bring media in Drupal (images, video, audio, documents, etc.) into a united, powerful, and beautiful system for Drupal 7. Come see a demo of the module in action, learn how to develop additional integration, understand stream wrappers and the related file system changes that went into core Drupal 7. This session is appropriate to beginners through expert users, as this module is intended to become a standard building block of most Drupal sites. * Thanks to PHP stream wrapper functionality landing in Drupal 7, Media module treats internal and external files the same way, and therefore is the successor to Embedded Media Field module. * It allows files to be placed into wysiwyg textareas, eliminating the need for iMCE module in many cases. * It uses Field API to allow custom meta-information to be included with files. * It has a powerful system for customizing the display of media. Aaron Winborn and Jacob Singh are currently doing most of the Media Module development, with additional work done by over a dozen top Drupal developers, through online collaboration and a series of code sprints. This panel will be led by Katherine Senzee, Arthur Foelsche, Andrew Morton and Jody Hamilton.