Opening Keynote - DrupalCamp St. Louis 2014
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I presented this opening keynote "Drupal FTW" on April 26, 2014 at DrupalCamp St. Louis 2014 hosted by Washington University. The presentation was intended to address a broad audience from Drupal newcomers to current developers via a brief history of Drupal, a review of some key reasons people choose Drupal, and advice for achieving success with Drupal from the perspectives of strategy, design, and technology.
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Opening Keynote - DrupalCamp St. Louis 2014
- 1. Drupal FTW! ! Keynote: DrupalCamp St. Louis 2014
- 2. hi. Brad Nowak Business Development Manager
- 3. Brad Nowak Business Development Manager
- 7. •What is Drupal? •Why do people choose Drupal? •How can I be successful using Drupal? What is this session about?
- 8. •Dru-what? •I’m starting to work with Drupal •I’d like to convince my client or company to use Drupal •I need a place to sit and have coffee Is this session for me?
- 9. ?
- 10. You?
- 11. What is Drupal?
- 12. In the year 2000 http://buytaert.net/album/miscellaneous-2000/student-room
- 14. • Born of developers and “hackers” • Released into the wild and grew into an open-source community • Continued to be a developer-driven project for a number of years • Recent years have seen a greater inclusiveness in the community; Bring me your FEDs, your designers, your project managers, business owners, and content owners.. An evolving project
- 15. But What is It?
- 17. • To-date this is the primary use-case • We use it to develop sites • It is the public-facing front end that visitors use • And of course, it is the back-end (content management) system • Distributions may be the most straightforward examples of Drupal as a pre-packaged CMS A Content Management System
- 21. “A tool for building your own dream CMS” ! Larry Garfield
- 22. • Is this where Drupal is headed with version 8, or where it’s already at in version 7? Many would argue the latter. • BYO CMS using core and contributed modules and a sprinkle of custom code where you need it • A content management hub - integrated with various systems pushing content to some systems and ingesting it from others ! A Content Management Framework
- 23. 13 years!
- 24. Drupal 8
- 25. Why do people choose Drupal?
- 26. It’s Free
- 27. It’s Free
- 30. • Easily handle small to medium sized sites with CMS needs • Build large sites • Future-proof if you know (or think) your needs are going to grow in the future • Create multi-site installations • Support enterprise-level platforms ! So you can..
- 31. • Course management systems (colleges & universities) • Collections management systems (museums) • Digital Asset Management systems • CDN • CRM • HR systems • Social networks And Play Nice with Others
- 32. Drupal 8
- 33. • Symfony2/PHP • HTML 5 • Responsive • Web Services and Content Context Initiative (WISCCI) • Configuration management • Twig templating engine ! More Flexibility and Power
- 34. Oh and..
- 35. The Community
- 36. • Apr 26 2014 Western NY State Drupal MINI-CAMP (US) • Apr 26 2014 DrupalCamp St. Louis (US) • May 16 - May 18 2014 DrupalCamp Spain 2014 (Spain) • May 16 - May 18 2014 Drupal Camp Wrocław (Poland) • May 17 - May 18 2014 Drupal Camp Alpe-Adria (Slovenia) • May 31 - Jun 012014 DrupalCamp Yorkshire Leeds (UK) • Jun 02 - Jun 06 2014 DrupalCon Austin 2014 (US) We’re not Alone http://buildamodule.com/drupal-camps-calendar
- 37. • Jun 14 2014 DrupalCamp Singapore 2014 (Singapore) • Jul 03 - Jul 06 2014 DropCamp ’14 (Netherlands) • Jul 17 - Jul 20 2014 DrupalCorn Camp 2014 (US) • Jul 25 - Jul 27 2014 DrupalCamp North East (UK) • Jul 26 - Jul 27 2014 Drupalcamp Wisconsin (US) • Aug 02 - Aug 032014 Drupal Camp Pennsylvania (US) • Aug 07 - Aug 10 2014 DrupalCamp Twin Cities 2014 (US) We’re not Alone http://buildamodule.com/drupal-camps-calendar
- 38. • Sep 06 - Sep 07 2014 DrupalCamp LA 2014 (US) • Sep 29 - Oct 03 2014 DrupalCon Amsterdam (Netherlands) • Nov 14 - Nov 15 2014 DrupalDay Italy (Italy) • Nov 15 - Nov 16 2014 DrupalCamp Gothenburg (Germany) ! ! ! We’re not Alone http://buildamodule.com/drupal-camps-calendar
- 41. • DrupalCons • DrupalCamps • Meet Up Groups • Drupal.org • Blogs • Social Media • More.. Community Resources
- 42. • Developers • Themers • Designers • Content Strategists • Project Managers ! ! Multiple Communities • Business Owners • Product Owners • Site Administrators • Content Contributors • Editors and Publishers ! !
- 45. • Trust • Empathy and Understanding • Transparency & Communication • Partnership and Collaboration • Accountability • Remember it’s the code that’s free ! Client Relationships
- 47. • Understanding the organization/client • What does success look like? • What are the priorities of the project? • Budget and timeline considerations ! ! ! Strategy and Planning
- 48. Good Design
- 49. • It doesn’t matter what CMS you use if the user experience sucks • User centered design • Responsive design ! ! ! ! Good Design
- 50. Best Practices
- 51. • Think sustainability • Leverage core and contrib first • Well written and commented code • Make it a module (or a patch) and give back ! Best Practices-Driven Development
- 52. Drupal FTW!