Drupal 8 is the latest release on the Drupal journey, and one that is substantially more powerful than previous versions.

1. Something for Everyone to Love

2. Hello!I am Mahesh Nattanmai
Regional Director - Drupal Geeks
You can find me at:
@njmahesh

4. What is Drupal 8?
Drupal 8 is the latest release on the Drupal
journey, and one that is substantially more
powerful than previous versions.
Drupal 8 provides new ways to tailor and
deploy content that looks great on any device.
However you work with Drupal, there is
something in Drupal 8 for you to love.

6. What’s New on Drupal 8
for end-users & clients

9. Authoring improvement:
WYSIWYG in Core

11. Authoring experience

12. Authoring improvement:
In-place editing

13. Authoring improvement:
In-place editing

14. Authoring improvement:
New content creation page

15. Authoring improvement:
Preview on the frontend

16. It’s mobile-first

17. Responsive themes, images,
breakpoints

18. Mobile-friendly administration

19. Represent this with a video. Maybe
from Dries’ Prague slides? :)
AB: Submitted to the DA via their
webform, since unfortunately it has
to be on YouTube in order to
reference from here. Bleh.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipOc1km2uEc
Improved accessibility

20. Mobile-first “overlay”

21. Improved Data Modeling Tools:
New field types like Entity Reference

22. …plus, Link, Phone, Email, Comments!
Improved Data Modeling Tools:
New field types
Date/Datetime

23. Restyled administration interface

24. Multilingual improvements in Drupal 8

26. HTML5 Form Elements

27. Killed support for IE 6 & 7
(and most of 8)

28. Configuration management
dev stage production

29. https://drupal.org/contribute
Where do we need help?
● Finding and fixing bugs
● Performance
● Migration path
● Port contributed projects
● DOCUMENTATION!
● EXAMPLES!
● TOOLS!
● TESTING, TESTING, TESTING!

30. Thanks!
Any questions?
You can find me at:
@njmahesh
mahesh.nattanmai@ameexusa.com
Visit website at, http://www.drupalgeeks.com/