Building Drupal Social to replace Commons in Drupal 8

Taco Potze

Without Drupal distributions, we won't be able to successfully compete with commercial vendors. Drupal distributions have great potential, but we have to do them right, and we have to figure out how to make them sustainable.
- Dries

Drupal Commons with over 2.000 active installations is the 4th most popular distribution of Drupal. However Acquia will not make a new version of their ‘Commons’ in Drupal 8.

At GoalGorilla we are currently working on building the new social distribution for Drupal 8, called Drupal Social. In total we will invest half a million euro in building the distribution.

In this session we will go in depth in:

  • For who is Drupal Social and how does it compare to for example Open Atrium
  • Our roadmap for Drupal Social and alpha launch date
  • How we will make it better that Drupal Commons
  • How we are designing Drupal social using mobile first and material design philosophies
  • How you can see our progress and contribute to the distribution
  • Why we will built an open-SaaS product on top of the distro
  • Discuss the MVP, feature you and your clients want and the future of Drupal Social in the Drupal community

By the end of the session we hope to have informed the community why and how we are building Drupal Social, have a discussion about the direction of the project (to continue online) and explain how the community can contribute and benefit from the project.

More info at: https://www.drupal.org/project/social

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Session Track

Site Building

Experience Level

Intermediate

Drupal Version