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.

Session Track

Site Building

Experience Level

Beginner

Drupal Version