Drupal Camp Asheville 2023

Many higher-ed institutions and non-profit organizations have large amounts of content available on their websites today. And it's getting harder and harder to explain what your company or website is all about without revealing too much information.

Drupal is a popular content management system (CMS) used to build websites, web applications, and online platforms. It has a large community of developers and users, and there are many career opportunities in Drupal development and related fields. Here are some potential career paths in Drupal:

When a decoupled project begins one of the hardest parts that I’ve found is setting up a local environment to simulate all the necessary components.  How will the CMS be served? How will the decoupled front end be displayed? What about the dev server for rendering previews? Can I still call it headless or is decoupled the only appropriate word?

Managing a digital accessibility project is a complex endeavor at any size – throw in thousands of pages, multiple content types, and large editorial teams into the mix and it can get daunting quickly. In this session, we will cover:

In this session, we will explore the future of Drupal as a CMS, addressing emerging trends, technologies, and the importance of adopting a forward-thinking approach for businesses to remain competitive in the market.

Google replaced Universal Analytics (UA) with Google Analytics 4 (GA4) this month, which delivers an updated analytics model and expanded capabilities over Universal Analytics. 

Agile antipatterns result in misleading burn reports and heavily fluctuating velocity graphs in most projects.

In addition, it leads to a demotivated team, wasted efforts, and dissatisfied clients.

You've read the Statement of Work for your next client project: A full content audit of their website to prepare for the client's first migration to Drupal.

This client has 50k+ PDFs on their website, and few (if any) are 508-compliant. Your job is to audit all PDFs for 508 compliance to support a new, accessible Drupal website.

Adding new block types to Layout Builder is hard… harder than it should be. You either have to deal with Custom Block types which have a fairly rigid field structure that lack composability and are tracked as config. Or there’s Inline Blocks which require creating a new Block plugin PHP class and understanding how to create a form using Form API.

Over the course of three years and having started up amidst the first rumors of Covid, we have learned a lot about business and how to approach an ever-changing landscape.

As new services pop up which compete with Drupal, we need to look at how to make the platform easier to adopt and decrease the build time needed to get a site live. As a Drupal community, we need to look at the ways we can make the platform more versatile and competitive.

Markdown is very popular for authors and developers. It's lightweight and straightforward to learn. Its open format allows it to be used across environments and tools.

How one website platform developed and maintained by the State of North Carolina Department of Information Technology works to support state websites with a variety of audiences and service needs. "Digital Commons" success story and lessons learned through Drupal platform.

Open Collective is a fundraising + legal status + money management platform for communities. By connecting to one of the Fiscal Hosts on the platform, you can have 501c(3) status to support and grow your project.

We will start by giving some prizes away and then Lightning Talks.

Anyone can present a lightning talk and it can be about any topic. Each speaker gets 5 minutes to talk about their topic, slides or no slides.

If you want to speak, sign up during the prize raffle.

The hardest part of being a Jr Dev is understanding the value you bring to your organization and also understanding why you are considered a Jr Dev. and not a Mid Level one.

The difference between where you are and where you want to be is less about the technical knowledge you have, but more about the fine details in communication and delivering on expectations in a timely manner.

With Drupal 10 now available, we still have (as of December 4, 2022) 441,095 sites running on Drupal 7.x. According to the usage statistics from Drupal, this figure is 51.77% of the total 852,058 sites running on Drupal.

The Media Manager is one of my favorite developments in Drupal 9, but there are some quick improvements we can make to create a truly amazing digital asset management system right inside your Drupal site.

In this session we'll cover:

Ever wish you could create universal widgets? A widget that could be placed in WordPress, Drupal, 11ty and anywhere else? Are you curious on how chat bots and other embed JavaScript widgets work? Stop by to gather some tips and tricks. There are plenty of tutorials out there on creating JavaScript apps but there's a lack on libraries and widgets.

In this session we'll review some useful FIGMA plugins, open source FIGMA UI Kits and Design Systems that will help you supercharge your design process and share the love with your clients and your development team.

A good website must be accessible. While Drupal is a very accessible platform, sometimes once a site is built, an editorial team will make updates that do not adhere to accessibility best practices. The Editora11y module is a new module which checks the content automatically and will warn editors and site builders on accessibility errors.