Schedule

The Drupal.org issue queue is where the Drupal Community interacts on a daily basis and it thus provides an impressive amount of insights on the community health, corporate dominance and diversity.

In April 2022 I started as GitLab's Director of Contributor Success. GitLab was at the time looking at how to incentivize, reward and build a sustainable ecosystem where contributors would be proud of what they build and co-create with GitLab. As I have 15 years of Drupal experience and as organizer of the Drupal Developer Days, I knew quite something about the Drupal ecosystem ;-)

Having an open-source project is great, but if no one is using it, there doesn’t seem to be much point in working on it, right? Lots of open-source projects are small and easy to integrate into your workflow, and so communities quickly form around them organically.

In April 2022 at Drupal Dev Days in Ghent, a group of volunteers initiated the port of the Drupal community translation server (localize.drupal.org), from Drupal 7 to Drupal 9, based on previous work by Tobias Bähr. We had a feeling that this platform, being after all an important part of Drupal's infrastructure, does not get the attention it deserves from the community.

At the last DrupalCon (Portland, 2022), Dries spoke about his vision for getting Drupal back to its roots with a small core and empowering ambitious site builders through powerful tools like Automatic Updates, Project Browsing, and Starter Templates.

Teams accomplish more by unlocking the magic of collaboration. We’ll look to the magic of 5 famous wizards for true lessons in collaboration. We’ll analyze some data on how collaboration is magical with Twilight Sparkle. Gandalf will show us that a fellowship’s greatest strength comes from diversity.

I am planning to talk about the importance of Open Source Contribution and how one can encourage more and more of their team members to contribute. Most of us who are part of the Drupal community or involved with any other open-source project understand the importance of giving back to the project and the benefits of that as well in the long run.

Presentation of the collaborative flow between design and frontend in the development of an atomic design system for any project. On the design side, the work methodology will be explained, in Figma, and a project will be presented in the form of a template that could correspond to the component system to be used in the frontend development.

Personalization is a hot topic, but in the era of consent, privacy and GDPR it may seem it is no longer acceptable to do any form of personalization. Personalization doesn't necessarily have to be this evil non-transparent tracker without any advantage to you as an end-user.

How does an open source distribution create a sustainable community of users and provide sufficient developer and product management resources to keep the project secure, performant and evolving with new features?

What is open source culture, why is it important and how do we measure it? Open source programs support a corporate culture that prioritises DevOps and microservices architecture, and enables developers to quickly use and participate in internal and external projects.

Community organizing can be challenging not only for someone just getting started but for veteran leaders as well. This panel discussion will highlight a few major lessons learned while managing a community of volunteer contributors. These lessons will help new community organizers be successful whether their teams are writers, developers, designers, or speakers.

Modern JavaScript frontend frameworks became the go to solution for a new generation of web developers - but how can we as a community make Drupal relevant to them?