Expanding Drupal's Horizons
We already know that Drupal is more than just PHP. Now that the community has embraced the "proudly found elsewhere" mantra with the adoption of software projects outside the Drupal ecosystem, we're looking even further beyond. We want to hear about all the interesting ideas and projects you've been working on at the fringes of Drupal. We're not only interested in technical solutions, but also thoughts around what we can learn as a community from all the other people out there building things on the Internet.
There's an often used analogy about Drupal being like pieces of lego, where sites can be clicked together using community contributed modules and custom code. We invite you to zoom out further and explore how Drupal interacts as part of a larger set of systems that are powering large sites and solving complex problems. In the Horizons track, we are looking for sessions that don't necessarily fit into the traditional tracks, as well as those which potentially span across several.
One Piece Of The Puzzle
Have you or your team been working with technologies other than Drupal or even PHP? What challenges and successes have you had from integrating them with our favourite CMS? Interesting ways to get data in and out of Drupal, progressive and fully decoupled sites, working in a cross-disciplined environment — we want to hear about it!
Content Publishing
Drupal has some of the most powerful content modelling tools out there, but how does that fit into a world where we now have an uncountable number of devices and channels to publish to, whilst keeping the content authoring experience sane? How does this impact on other important areas of managing content, such as accessibility and portability?
Hello, world!
There's a whole Internet of smart people out there building software, and we're very interested in what we can learn from complementary, or even competing, platforms. We want to hear perspectives on how Drupal fits into the wide world of software, as well as how we manage ourselves as a community of developers, designers, businesses, managers and beyond.
I've Got An Idea, Hold My Beer
Something weird, wonderful, or seemingly off the wall that we haven't covered here? This is definitely the track for you!
So head over to the Horizons track description and get submitting. You have until 6th July at 23:59 (UTC +1) to get your proposals in. We can't wait to see what you come up with!
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Sally Young
Horizons Track Chair
DrupalCon Dublin