Adapting Drupal for specific industries – Learn from Thunder, the distribution for professional media
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What is Thunder?
Thunder (thunder.org) is a Drupal 8 distribution for professional publishers developed by Hubert Burda Media, one of the largest publishing houses in Europe. With the launch of the open-source CMS Thunder one year ago, Burda is creating a worldwide coalition of publishers, industry partners, and developers, which aims at joining forces to develop the best CMS for the media sector.
What will you learn in this session?
- How to improve working with Drupal for editors? See our ideas for a better editorial backend.
- How to organize the joint development of new features by several companies? Learn from our experiences with a new liveblogging module for Drupal, developed by an Austrian publisher, a Berlin partner, and a Burda brand.
- How to connect Drupal to third party systems and enhance traditional publishing processes? Get a sneak preview of our planned connection to Adobe InDesign.
- Which problems do you face if you are building a Drupal distribution – and how do we handle them?
- In which cases should you use Thunder as a starting point for new projects?
This session is perfect for
- anyone interested in media,
- anyone who wants to develop a distribution, and
- anyone who strives for bringing competing companies together to work for a common cause.
No previous knowledge required.