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Technical Writer's Workshop

Marjorie Freeman

AmyJune Hineline

Linux Foundation

This workshop explores overcoming the fears of publishing, getting started with an idea, and refining and crafting an article you can be proud of.

Finding Purpose and Alignment in Your Career

Chris McGrath

Esteemed

Dori Kelner

Esteemed

Community

In this session, Chris McGrath, CEO and Dori Kelner, V.P. of Culture + Well-being at Esteemed will share insights and reflections for mastering self-awareness and connecting with our authentic selves. They will discuss the themes and patterns encountered while working the past 25+ years with developers of all backgrounds

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Backdrop CMS as a viable Drupal 7 upgrade path: A case study featuring Stanford University

Eric Toupin

Aten Design Group

This session will discuss Backdrop CMS as a viable, secure, and innovative tool in the Drupal family of software solutions.

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Security in Drupal: what can go wrong?

Benji Fisher

Fruition

Let's "get off the island" and look at Drupal security from the point of view of an outsider. The OWASP Top Ten is an industry standard list of the most common vulnerabilities that can affect web sites. This session will start with an overview of the Top Ten, and then take a more detailed look at a few of these vulnerabilities. We will review some actual Drupal security advisories:

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I am Functional and So Can You

JD Flynn

Community

This session is geared towards individuals who are having difficulties dealing with mental illness diagnosis, people who are curious about getting past the stigma associated with mental illness, or people who are curious and would like to learn more about being a better friend to those who live with mental illness.

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Event Management with Drupal and Commerce

Rich Gerdes

Unleashed Technologies

Community

PHP / Symfony

Site Building

The event registration module is designed to handle not only individual attendees, but also speakers, sponsors, and supporting persons and organizations. Through the extensibility of Drupal Commerce and entities, these modules can provide a solution for almost any event situation.

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Magic Comes from Pain: 4 Ways that Embracing Grit Will Help you Achieve the Impossible

Tearyne Almendariz

Pantheon

Community

This talk will help attendees will learn four ways that they can embrace the principle of grit to achieve their goals. Tearyne will show you how you can master your inner magical strength and achieve your goals through perseverance - while preserving your peace of mind.

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You don't have to be a technical writer to write technically

Marjorie Freeman

Red Hat Inc.

Community

A technical writer is a professional who translates highly technical concepts into a digestible format for the end-user. A huge part of a technologist's role -- no matter an architect, developer, or sysadmin -- is communication. But everyone has different ways of doing so.

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Contributing with ease = moving Drupal issues faster

Irina Zaks

Fibonacci Web Studio

Drupal 9 has been happily released, and everyone is eager to move to the new version.

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Building a Mindset for Technical Leadership

Dori Kelner

Insightful Culture

Business Development

Community

The pandemic proved that anything can derail us in a moment. Last year, our plans were put on hold, our lives were changed. We all ended up with zoom fatigue trying to satisfy our human need for social contact and social change.