The Acquia Certification Program is offering a live test center to earn your credentials while you are at DrupalCon! Testing during DrupalCon makes you eligible for a free retake if needed. Tests will be given from Monday, 26 September through Thursday, 29 September. For more information and to pre-register for your test, go to www.acquia.com/drupalcon-certification.
Training
We are excited to offer training courses at DrupalCon Nashville.
All trainings will be held on Monday, April 9, 2018 from 9:00am-5:00pm. Trainings are not included in a regular DrupalCon ticket. Training tickets include lunch and coffee breaks.
- Beginner
- Intermediate
- Advanced
- Certification
Certification
In this course we will explore the world of entities in Drupal 8 using the example of managing events as part of your Drupal site. While historically nodes and node types are used exclusively for all content management needs, Drupal 8 makes it very appealing to create new entity types that are custom-tailored to your specific use-case. By gluing together just the parts of functionality that you want, you can utilize all of Drupal’s power and flexibility for your custom entities with a minimal amount of code. In addition to being a great, practical addition to your toolbox for future Drupal projects, the ability to create your own entity types comes with a deep understanding of the Drupal 8 Entity API and its components.
What is the Business Summit?
For years the Business Summit on the day before DrupalCon has helped leaders of Drupal businesses to share experiences. As the market matures and these businesses grow, it’s time to take the day to the next level.
This year the day will focus on practical sessions to develop a clear business improvement plan for your company.
Come help us close out and celebrate a fantastic Con and find out where we are going next!
Thanks to Commerce Guys by Actualys for a tasty break to refuel before sessions and BoFs.
Thanks to Commerce Guys by Actualys for a tasty break to refuel before sessions and BoFs.
Thanks to MailChimp for a tasty break to refuel before sessions and BoFs.
Join us on Monday September 26 at DrupalCon Dublin for a One Day UnConference dedicated to exploring the issues that matter most to the Drupal community.
Wait! What’s an unconference?
Come collaborate in person with hundreds of other Drupal community members.
What magic happens between the start of a D8 request and the page being returned? How do routes and controllers fit in? Where are services useful and how are they built?
These questions are at the "foundation" of the new D8 architecture and of the Symfony framework itself. In this workshop, you'll get an intro into routes, controllers, services and events: the 4 concepts that most fundamentally drive the new Drupal. With these new tricks, we'll pull apart the layers of Drupal to see how things actually work. And ultimately, we'll uncover that it's really not all that complicated.
By the end of the workshop, D8 will look a whole lot less mysterious. And as a bonus, the Symfony framework will look simple. Go forth and build something amazing!
Belgium-born Drupal founder, Dries Buytaert is a pioneer in the open source web publishing and collaboration platform space. Dries is passionate about technology innovation, social media and photography. During his keynote, dubbed the 'Driesnote', he shares the State of Drupal with the community as well as where we are headed.
Once you try Drupal 8 you definitely don't want to go back: out of the box, you can create and maintain sites in Drupal 8 with unprecedented efficiency and robustness. This day-long course focuses on describing best practices on how to structure the codebase of a Drupal 8 project with Composer, manage configuration, automate tests with unit testing and Behat, and be able to work effectively in different scenarios, ranging from the lone developer to a big team. We will see what is available, the concepts behind it and practices coming from real experience with Drupal 8 projects.
All are invited to join the Drupal Association for our public board meeting. Lunch will be served in the room, so come on in! We ask attendees to please arrive on time to prevent disruption.
Learn what the Drupal Association's Engineering Team is actively working on and their plans for the future of Drupal.org. We'll have a few lightning presentations from the team, and then an open Q&A session. Topics may include:
The Irish Drupal community would like to welcome you to Dublin by inviting you to mingle and mix with fellow Drupalistas on the MV Cill Airne Boat Bar and Restaurant. It's a fab venue and is right on the doorstep of the Convention Centre. We hope you will be able to join us!
Visit the Exhibit Hall
Monday, 26 September: 17:00-19:00
Tuesday, 27 September: 10:15 - 18:00
Wednesday, 28 September: 10:15 - 18:00
Thursday, 29 September: 10:15 - 14:00
Sponsors:
Visit the Exhibit Hall
Wednesday, 28 September: 10:15 - 18:00
Thursday, 29 September: 10:15 - 14:00
Sponsors:
Visit the Exhibit Hall
Tuesday, 27 September: 10:15 - 18:00
Wednesday, 28 September: 10:15 - 18:00
Thursday, 29 September: 10:15 - 14:00
Exhibitors:
Visit the Exhibit Hall
Thursday, 29 September: 10:15 - 14:00
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Sponsors:
To help ease newcomers into DrupalCon, we've put together an orientation designed to explain all DrupalCon's many moving parts and introduce you to a new friend or two. We think starting out the week with a buddy makes networking and navigating an unfamiliar event so much easier!
The event is short, so please be on time. We'll end at the Opening Reception where you can put your new DrupalCon knowledge to work.
Hope to see you there!
Join this free workshop if you are familiar with Drupal but new to Drupal contribution. This hands-on workshop will cover the basics of contribution essentials like the Drupal.org issue queues and IRC, and optionally git and setting up Drupal 8 on your laptop.
If you want to try setting up a development environment ahead of time, try the tools installer. The individual tools we use at the sprint are listed on the Mentored Core Sprint page.
Come collaborate in person with hundreds of other Drupal community members from 9:00-18:00 on Friday, September 30 at the Dublin Convention Centre. This awesome day of collaboration is open to anyone; you do not need to be registered for the conference to participate. There are also other sprint days available.
No Con would be complete without the huge group photo that takes place right after the Driesnote! Bring your best Irish attire to stand out in a sea of Drupalers as we celebrate DrupalCon Dublin.
Module development for Drupal is more powerful than ever with Drupal 8. Object-orientation, the maturity of Drupal's various APIs, Drupal 8's new underlying Symfony (and other) components, and the emergence of Drupal Console means that developing for Drupal 8 requires some new knowledge for existing Drupal developers. This workshop is designed to introduce existing Drupal developers as well as (non-Drupal) PHP developers to some of the techniques and concepts for Drupal 8 module development. The workshop includes an overview of some of the main concepts and tools as well as several hands-on module development exercises designed to build knowledge and confidence.
Food will be available from 11:45-14:00 so that you can catch a lunch session as well as enjoy your meal.
Thank you to SiteGround for sponsoring a delicious and local lunch. Food will be available from 11:45-14:00 so that you can catch a lunch session as well as enjoy your meal.
Thank you to SiteGround for sponsoring a delicious and local lunch. Food will be available from 11:45-14:00 so that you can catch a lunch session as well as enjoy your meal.
Learn while helping with core! Plenty of mentors will be available to help you get started. If you're not sure where to start contributing, or not even sure about the whole sprint thing, this is for you! This is one of our many sprints. If you are new to contribution, attend our First-time Sprinter Workshop first to set up tools like IRC, git, and a Drupal 8 development environment, and then join this Mentored Core Sprint.
Located in Forum of the Dublin Convention Centre, the opening reception for DrupalCon promises to be a great time. Whether you spend the day in sprints, training, summits, or just showed up to get your badge early, our doors are open to you. Thanks to Faichi Solutions, light snacks and refreshments are provided. Don't miss this chance to kick off DrupalCon Dublin the right way!
The Prenote!
Don't miss it! 8:00 on Tuesday! Get a good seat for Dries' keynote!
Coder and Themer are back! The Irish say there’s a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, and Drupal’s dynamic duo are determined to find it. But trapping a leprechaun will take more than just good kung fu and code indents!
Come and help our intrepid heroes on their Irish adventure as they overcome obstacles, form new alliances, and travel to the very edge of scope (but not beyond!). Maybe you’ll even get a piece of that Leprechaun gold yourself!
Grab your badge at our registration counters to get you access to the conference.
Grab your badge at our registration counters to get you access to the conference.
Grab your badge at our registration counters to get you access to the conference.
Grab your badge at our registration counters to get you access to the conference.
Do you know EVERYTHING about Drupal?
Well now it's your chance for you and your crack team of 4 buddies to prove it.
In the grand tradition of pub quizzes, there will be 6 rounds of 10 questions covering everything about Drupal, and a few more about general web topics. Your team will compete with the best of Drupal brains to capture the title of Drupal trivia champions. We'll have small prizes to keep things interesting.
Of course, you'll have to know it all in your head - strictly no use of mobile devices or laptops etc. allowed!
This course is specifically designed around teaching attendees how to use the views module. The program consists of 8 real world (and useful) views that are created with an increasing level of complexity. The views functionality covered will include creating pages, overriding system pages, working with different display methods, using filters and context filters, relationships, and more. By the end of this class, you will be able to take almost any display currently being used in Drupal, and override it, making it fit better with your particular admin style and needs.
Emer has a wealth of experience spanning technology, open data, social media, communications and engagement and organizational change. She has worked extensively with local, regional and central government variously as Director of Strategy, Assistant Chief Executive, and Director of Digital Projects (City Hall London) where she established the London Datastore. Before founding Disruption Ltd she was Deputy Director of Digital Engagement, Government Digital Service (Cabinet Office) described by Tim O’Reilly as “one of the best teams working in digital government in the world”.
The Women in Drupal team invite you to come, meet, and mingle with other women in Drupal. This year's Women in Drupal event will be held at the historic and wonderful Sams Bar. We will have light appetizers available, provided by our wonderful sponsors and donors, and a cash bar will be available for drinks.
With only about 20% of DrupalCon who identify as women, we know it can feel lonely when you are walking around the event, especially if this is your first DrupalCon.