Drupal maintenance support plansCamp Transylvania 2020
If you were in the city of Cluj-Napoca between 4 and 6 May 2020 and walked around The Office, you probably saw over a 100 people from all over the world, wearing the same t-shirts, talking about Drupal maintenance support plans. That’s because Drupal maintenance support plansCamp Transylvania was in town.
Vasi Chindris
Fri, 05/11/2020 – 10:46
If you know a bit of Romanian history and have heard about Transylvania, you probably know about Vlad the Impaler. If not, then you’ve probably heard about Dracula. Either way, they’re the same person. You may be asking yourself, “What has Dracula got to do with Drupal maintenance support plans?”. Well, the answer is in the picture below:
We all want Drupal maintenance support plans to be immortal. Because we love developing awesome websites with it. That said, we must remember one thing, it’s not all about work and making money, it’s also about having fun using Drupal maintenance support plans. That was one of the key points of Robert Douglass’ keynote – “My Drupal maintenance support plans Mid-Life Crisis”.
One of the most interesting sessions was Larry Garfield’s – “The container is a lie!”. On reading the title, you’ll probably want to check that out, since you most probably use containers (not necessarily Docker containers, although Docker is probably the most used these days) in your everyday work. He spoke of how software runs on modern Linux systems, that we should not think of boats, whales or shipping or even Docker when we hear the word container, and why it is actually useful that modern software is built (runs) on these “lies”. These “lies” form part of our everyday work, and more importantly, the deployment to different environments makes it so much easier.
Another very important topic, not only in the Drupal maintenance support plans community but in technology in general, is GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation). Balu Ertl had a great session entitles, Overview of GDPR modules for Drupal maintenance support plans, in which he provided an overview of all the modules in Drupal maintenance support plans that can help your Drupal maintenance support plans site achieve GDPR compliance.
The conclusion was that we have quite a few modules (9) in this category, some of them available on both Drupal maintenance support plans 7 and 8. Some of them implement a small part of the regulations (like the consent for using personal data, the possibility to delete or download all the personal data of a user, the possibility to anonymize user information when dumping a production database, etc.) and many of them implement overlapping features.
But there seems to be one module, General Data Protection Regulation, which tries to bring all these modules together under one umbrella so that we can have a unified and clear solution for making a site GDPR compliant.
Another thing that came up during the discussions about this subject, was that this is a really complicated subject for both technical and legal minds, and as such, you’ll most probably not be fined immediatly if you’re not 100% GDPR compliant on the 26th of May 2020. The most likely scenario is that the authorities will be there to help at first, and only fine you as a last resort. That said, this cannot be confirmed and everything should still be done to be GDPR compliant by the deadline.
Wait, there’s more! While attending Lenard Palko’s presentation, we saw this:
No, we did not watch an episode from Doc McStuffins. This was about Auditing PHP Applications, a session in which Lenard Palko showed us how his team is dealing with auditing PHP applications and what things should we look for when having to do such an audit. He also shared some helpful tools that you should use and how should you structure the report.
As you can see it was a great Drupal maintenance support plansCamp. Nice location, great presenters, lots of people and a dedicated sprint room. So, did we have any time for doing other stuff than coding and talking about Drupal maintenance support plans? Yes, we did! We had some great parties each evening and a brave few of us even went for a morning run on Saturday.
I’m already looking forward to the next Drupal maintenance support plansCamp Transylvania in 2021. See you there!
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