Drupal Camp Asheville 2024

Our State of North Carolina Digital Commons platform supports 85 state websites that serve over 10 million constituents. As we acknowledge the growing preference for digital channels as the primary means of engagement, we work to prioritize the development and design of their websites and digital services to align with the public's expectations.

Attendees will receive a certification upon attendance of this session that can be used toward their continued professional development through the Project Management Institute (PMI). Certification will include 1 hour toward Ways of Working PDU.

Accessible code is imperative for inclusion, but all the code in the world doesn’t do any good if the content is not meaningful to our content consumers.

There is so much focus on people, process, and product that we sometimes forget about the concept of culture as an essential ingredient for a highly effective teams. Teams who focus on building effective cultures are 15% more productive than teams who just let the culture develop and take shape on its own. 

When selecting a place to host your Drupal site (or any kind of website) you may feel stuck between the many commercial products out there, from Plesk and CPanel to third-party ISP hosting.  There is another option: you can still build your own fully open-source web server in the tradition known as LAMP (Linux, Apache HTTPD, MySQL, PHP).  We'll step through the process of standing up

When working with color on the web, we’ve always had a few choices: HEX, RGB, and HSL. In recent years, however, the color level 4 specification introduced a few newcomers: HWB, LCH, okLCH, LAB, and okLAB. What are these new color options, and what do they add to variety of color choices we already have? Let’s get nerdy about colors and the options we have today.

In an ever evolving web landscape, it's crucial to keep up with the latest trends and technologies. If you've ever found yourself scratching your head over terms like "Coupled," "Decoupled," "Headed", or "Headless" when it comes to Drupal, you're not alone. This session aims to demystify these concepts and provide a clear understanding of how Drupal fits into each.

In 2024, Google and Yahoo have instituted more stringent email requirements for senders who wish their email to be delivered to Gmail or Yahoo Mail accounts. Failure to meet these requirements is expects to result in email not being delivered.

This sessions is about three ways to move your development environments and production hosting to your own cloud provider (like AWS or Digital Ocean). High-level overview of what it takes to migrate from managed hosting to your own cloud providers. We address setup, dev tools, cloud dev and staging environments, scalability, security and release management.

Imagine starting your week with the discovery that all your AWS-hosted photos have vanished. This unsettling scenario became our reality when AWS S3 bucket keys were compromised, leading to the unexpected deletion of essential digital assets.

Processing large volumes of data in a long-running task is neither performant nor scalable.  If you've ever had to bulk update entities with an update hook and Batch API, or with a script run via drush, you know what I'm talking about.  If you've ever had to send thousands of emails with Drupal and a hook_cron() implementation, you know how tricky that can be to process them all in a

Are you committed to using the Paragraphs module and have thousands of paragraphs in use? Are your content creators wanting a better authoring page building experience?

We all know we should be doing more automation of our software development lifecycle, but getting started can be challenging. Even if you have experience in continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) automation, learning a specific platform's terminology and idiosyncrasies can be frustrating.   

DDEV provides a powerful suite of commands and tools that often go underutilized. You may have read about some of them, but have you seen them in action?

This session provides a quick overview of DDEV architecture and how it can empower you and developers of all levels to get up and running in minutes.

An empowering and engaging program tailored for professionals within the Drupal community who are passionate about fostering diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). In this session, Mariah will guide participants through actionable strategies to become agents of cultural change and champions of inclusivity within the Drupal ecosystem.

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.

Drupal Commerce is an ideal platform for associations and other non-profits who use their websites to educate, engage, and market products, services, and fundraising campaigns to their constituents. Centarro has worked with numerous such organizations who:

I can't wait for Starshot (Drupal CMS)! Literally - it's going to be awesome - but I can't wait. I have sites to build right now.

DoD developed the After Action Review (AAR) as a way to to learn quickly from soldiers' experiences in the field.

Today, AARs have been adapted to allow software developers and security professionals to address issues as they come up with the focus being what can be learned and then put into practice.