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.
Are you new to Drupal and to DrupalCon?
If you are, the Absolute Beginner's Guide to Drupal is the class for you.
This class will get you up-and-running with Drupal so that you are fully prepared for your week at DrupalCon.
You'll learn from the team that created the most popular Drupal videos (2 million views!) and the most popular Drupal book (Drupal 8 Explained).
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? How does Composer fit into all of this?
Are you responsible for project management, content, or vendor selection and preparing to work with Drupal? This one-day training delivers all of the tools you need to get started. Delivered by an Acquia Certified Drupal Developer, this training will answer the questions you didn’t even know to ask. Targeted to the non-developer, this training is perfect for individuals that need to get up and running in Drupal - fast!
Whether you're new to Drupal 8 or you want to improve your skills, the Site Building training has you covered. In Drupal-speak, Site Building means using the Drupal administrative interfaces to put together custom CMS-driven websites without writing code.
Drupal 8 uses Composer to manage dependencies. In this training, we'll look at how to keep dependencies, like Drupal core and contrib modules, out of GitHub and automate the build portion of your workflow with Continuous Integration. This will allow for cleaner pull requests, reliable site builds and integration with other tools, like Slack.
With the component-based approach becoming the standard for Drupal 8 theming we’re beginning to see some slick front end environments show up in Drupal themes. The promise that talented front enders with little Drupal knowledge can jump right in is much closer to reality.
However, before diving into this new front end bliss there are still some gotchas, plus lots of baked in goodies Drupal provides that one will need to have a handle on before getting started.
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.
This training is designed to help developers shift their thinking to build accessibility compliant digital content. During this full day training developers will gain hands on experience in using automated evaluation tools, learning how to incorporate Drupal core and contributed modules that assist with accessibility into their sites, identifying accessibility issues at the code level, and finally developing their sites with accessibility always in-mind.
Learn how to configure and theme landing pages for Drupal 8. This training will cover various techniques for landing page design, configuration, and theming. You'll learn what questions to ask before you start building a landing page and how to decide what approach to take.
We'll build out several landing pages throughout the course and create a theme that provides a layout for each one. We'll also talk about ensuring that your landing pages enable accessible and effective content.
Drupal 8 is a stellar CMS which is more than capable of standing on its own. But when it comes to building app-like websites, JavaScript frameworks have taken the web by storm, and React is leading the pack.
In this course, we will give a section of our Drupal 8 website a boost by building a ReactJS App.
The Acquia Certification Program is offering a live test center to earn your credentials while you are at DrupalCon. All the tests are offered at a special discounted price for the DrupalCon test center. Tests will be given from Monday, April 9- Thursday, April 12. For more information and to pre-register for your test, go to acquia.com/drupalcon-certification.
Wrap up DrupalCon with us by celebrating the community that put it together, and find out where were are going in 2019!
Join us for coffee in the Exhibit Hall!
Join us for coffee in the Exhibit Hall!
Join us for coffee in the Exhibit Hall!
Join all-day sprints to contribute back during the week.
Join all-day sprints to contribute back during the week.
Join all-day sprints to contribute back during the week.
Watch live Learn more about the keynotes
Belgium born Drupal founder, Dries Buytaert is a pioneer in the open source web publishing and collaboration platform space.
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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.
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!
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!
First-Time Attendee Social is sponsored by:
Get up to speed with community tools: Drupal.org, issue queues, IRC, and installing Drupal 8 locally. Our mentors are excited to get you ready to tackle real issues.
Come to the General Sprints if you have a bit of experience working with the Drupal issue queue. You can join one of the many groups including documentation, migrate, media, front-end, layout, API-first, workflow, and lots more.
We particularly welcome participants from all experience levels, backgrounds, genders, races, sexual identities, religions, ages, abilities and other marginalized groups in our community to participate. The world is diverse and we can only make the best Drupal experience for everyone with your inclusion.
We have both kinds of code here: Country, and Western.
Help us capture what makes DrupalCon special by appearing in our attendee photo - smile big before heading into the Exhibit Hall for coffee.
Join us Tuesday through Thursday mornings for inspiring keynote speakers. All keynotes are in Hall A on the Level 3 of Music City Center.
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Steve Francia, PRODUCT LEAD, GOOGLE |
Join us in the Exhibit Hall for lunch - served between 12:00pm-2:00pm.
Join us in the Exhibit Hall for lunch - served between 12:00pm-2:00pm.
Join us in the Exhibit Hall for lunch - served between 12:00pm-2:00pm.
Learn while helping improve Drupal 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.
Located in Exhibit Hall,, 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. Don't miss this chance to kick off DrupalCon Nashville the right way!
5:00-7:00 pm
Exhibit Hall
Stop by and pick up your badge all day!
Stop by and pick up your badge all day!
Stop by and pick up your badge all day!
Stop by and pick up your badge all day!
Join all-day sprints to contribute back during the week.
A Summit is a one-day topic intensive meeting where people who share an industry or interest can come together to collaborate, share pain points and solutions, and meet like-minded individuals in a structured, safe environment. Summits are scheduled on Monday during DrupalCon.
Check out our Summits Page to see what Summit would be right for you, and sign up!
The Drupal Community Working Group, in partnership with the Drupal Association, is very excited to offer a special workshop at DrupalCon Nashville designed to explore leadership, followership, and teamwork as it applies to various roles in our community. This workshop requires a separate free registration. Register here: https://goo.gl/forms/7SWzVS4qhHqbiRrW2
We are excited to offer multiple hands-on training opportunities to help you level up your Drupal skills.
Check out our Training Page to see which training course would be best for you and sign up!
Stop by the Exhibit Hall in Hall B to check out a large line-up of sponsors, solutions they offer, and a chance to network with the best in the business.
Stop by the Exhibit Hall in Hall B to check out a large line-up of sponsors, solutions they offer, and a chance to network with the best in the business.
Stop by the Exhibit Hall in Hall B to check out a large line-up of sponsors, solutions they offer, and a chance to network with the best in the business.
Stretch your legs and move around a bit before you head back into afternoon sessions.
Stretch your legs and move around a bit before you head back into afternoon sessions.
Stretch your legs and move around a bit before you head back into afternoon sessions.
The Women in Drupal team invite you to come, meet, and mingle with other women in Drupal. We will have light appetizers available, provided by our wonderful sponsors and donators, 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.
