Matt Dorman presented at BADCamp 2014 in San Francisco on Making Drupal Cool Again. His session focused on addressing a growing trend of losing Drupal developers, or at least their interest, because of the cool factor of up and coming competing technologies. Why Drupal seems un-cool As technologists, we are always looking out for the “next big thing” partially because of perceived advancements, but often simply because it is different/new/exciting. While each major version release of Drupal has seen extensive advancements, it’s still PHP at its core. Theres a fairly large momentum around the MEAN stack, frameworks like Django or even languages like Go. While not necessarily “new,” in many ways, we find them to be different and exciting because of the additional challenges posed by uncertain big performance and scalability issues - keeping their interests piqued. Opportunities We have all made a large investment in Drupal, whether financial or personal time over the years. Continuing to ensure that our platform stays cool in the eyes of our development teams and colleagues can be done in a number of ways from evangelizing all the dev tools to embracing “Headless Drupal” initiatives. I will outline my ideas, many currently in practice at NorthPoint Digital, during the session.

1. MAKING
DRUPAL
COOL
AGAIN

2.  BUILDING ON DRUPAL
8?
 SUPPORTING DRUPAL
6?
 ANY NON-DEVELOPER?
AUDIENCE
QUESTIONS

3. https://www.flickr.com/photos/kk/5262078254

4. https://www.flickr.com/photos/kk/5262078254
I’VE GOT
THUMBDRIVE
S
QUESTIONS?

5. Matthew Dorman
Sr. Vice President - NorthPoint Digital
@matthewdorman
drupal.org: mdorman
northpointdigital.com
SPEAKER

6. NEW YORK BOSTON PHILADELPHIA
HQ
LEADING WITH
EXPERIENCE

7. 92%Employee
Retention
~$20M2013 Revenue
9
Yearsof Experience

8. “ WE ARE AN EXPERIENCE-
DRIVEN COMPANY THAT
DELIVERS SCALABLE
TECHNOLOGY AND DESIGN
SOLUTIONS IN A CONSTANTLY
EVOLVING DIGITAL
LANDSCAPE ”

9. OUR
EXPERIENCE
WITH
DRUPAL

11. LET’S GET
STARTED

12. KEY
PROBLEMS
IDENTIFIED

13. https://indeed.com
JOB TRENDS

14. https://jobs.drupal.org
REAL JOBS

15. http://www.slideshare.net/Dries/state-ofdrupalseptember2014
DRIESNOTE

16. BE A LEADER,
FOLLOW
THE
COMMUNIT

17. EXPAND THE
TEAM’S
KNOWLED
GE

18. BACKDROP
CMS
https://backdropcms.org

19. IMPROVE
TRAINING
PROGRAMS

20. USE TOOLS

21. https://www.ostraining.com/blog/drupal/what-is-headless-drupal/
DECOUPLED
HEADLE
SS
DRUPAL

22. DRUPAL WAY
OR
THE
HIGHWA
Y

23. BE MORE
INCLUSIVE

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25. https://www.flickr.com/photos/jjeff/5375579487
QUESTIONS?

26. New York Office
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Tel: 215-558-2700
info@northpointdigital.com / northpointdigital.com
THANK YOU
Matthew Dorman
mdorman@northpointdigital.com
@matthewdorman

27. @northps
bit.ly/NorthPointDigital
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