WYSIWYG in Drupal 8 |
quicksketch |
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Drupal 8 will ship with a WYSIWYG editor out of the box (finally!) Come and see it in action, get a recap on the decisions we've made so far, and see... |
Beginner |
Site Building |
What's New in Drush 6 |
moshe weitzman, msonnabaum, jhedstrom, Owen Barton |
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The Drush maintainers discuss new features for Drush 6, and new developments in the Drush ecosystem |
Intermediate |
DevOps |
What Users Want (or Why Webpages are Dead) |
namho, setvik |
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Mobile devices sales have overtaken PC sales. Social media is where people now connect. Lives are stored in the cloud. As... |
Beginner |
User Experience (UX) |
What is Enterprise Drupal? |
rgs |
What are the unique qualities of Enterprise Drupal projects and why is it so important to distinguish them from other projects. |
Beginner |
Day Stage |
Weathering Storms: How Robin Hood Uses Drupal to Fight Poverty |
Steven Merrill, LSU_JBob, sephie, mbyrnes, bmcmurray |
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Your typical day’s traffic barely tips the scales … until Lady Gaga tweets your project and the Black Eyed... |
Intermediate |
Government, Nonprofit, and Education |
We're getting OOP wrong and there's still time to fix it |
msonnabaum |
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In Drupal 8, we've tried to break up our procedural codebase into classes, use statics as as a last resort, and... |
Advanced |
Core Conversations |
Was It Something I Said? The Art of Giving (and getting) A Critique |
emmajane |
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There is a lot happening in the Drupal community. It's easy to get overwhelmed. As a community we've seen... |
Beginner |
Community |
Velocity & Viscosity: Train-wrecks and Ugly-Baby Meetings |
Susan Rust |
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Intermediate |
Business + Strategy |
UX Under Fire - On Communicating the Value of UX |
solipsist |
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As a UX professional you've probably found yourself forced to argue for the importance of UX in a project. You've probably... |
Beginner |
User Experience (UX) |
UX Spaces: A new approach to site building and front-end design for Drupal |
xtfer |
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Drupal gives us a range of powerful tools for structuring and presenting content, but relying on... |
Intermediate |
Site Building |
UX Case: Love and Hate in The Issue Queue Garden |
User Advocate, tsvenson |
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Update: Based on the insightful comments and questions we’ve received on this proposal, we have decided to switch tracks... |
Beginner |
Community |
Using Twig: The new template engine in Drupal 8 |
jenlampton, Fabianx, JohnAlbin |
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Drupal 8 will have a fancy new template engine (Twig) and a simplified theme layer. We'll show you the new syntax (don't... |
Beginner |
Frontend |
Using the Drupal 8 configuration system |
heyrocker |
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Drupal 8 has a new configuration management system, but what does that even mean? This session will outline how to work with the new... |
Intermediate |
Site Building |
Using Drupal to build a global catalog for open source software |
Sheldon Rampton, ahoppin, acouch, pmackay |
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Drupal was the platform of choice when Code for America built its "CfA Marketplace," a “marketplace for open... |
Intermediate |
Government, Nonprofit, and Education |
Using Backbone.js with Drupal 7 and 8 |
dealancer |
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Backbone.js is a lightweight JavaScript framework which is freely based on MVC pattern and allows developers to create single page AJAX... |
Beginner |
Frontend |
User experience for online education |
technicka |
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I work for UniversityNow, a San Francisco startup in the online higher education space. We deliver online education to working adults... |
Intermediate |
User Experience (UX) |
Upgrading your modules to Drupal 8 |
effulgentsia |
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This session will demonstrate how to take the code from a Drupal 7 module and convert it to Drupal 8. You'll learn about many of the new... |
Intermediate |
Coding + Development |
Unconsortium: the Next Phase of Drupal Collaboration in Higher Education |
zchandler, bwood, Shawn DeArmond |
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There is a growing Drupal movement in Higher Education: Drupal has moved from experimental... |
Beginner |
Government, Nonprofit, and Education |
Tooling for Drupal core initiatives |
Gábor Hojtsy |
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Different Drupal 8 core initiatives used different tools to achieve their goals, some of the most common tools included:
IRC meetings... |
Advanced |
Core Conversations |
Too big to scale? Why enterprise websites fail to scale (& how some companies are breaking free from their own servers) |
joshk |
For a large company with a mission-critical site, launch day is a day of reckoning. The bigger the website, the greater the risks. Is your architecture scalable enough to support hundreds of millions... |
Beginner |
Day Stage |