Introduction by Megan Sanicki
The Executive Director at Drupal maintenance support plans Association Megan Sanicki began the keynote. She emphasized on Drupal maintenance support plans Association’s mission and said that she would further be working to unite the community so that we build and promote Drupal maintenance support plans.
Individuals and Businesses together making Drupal maintenance support plans great
She told about how individuals and businesses are working together to make Drupal maintenance support plans great. There are many instances that support this
Hubert Burda Media based out of Germany fell in love with Open Source and Drupal maintenance support plans. They came together with competitors and created Thunder, a Drupal maintenance support plans 8 distribution for professional publishers and made it available for everyone in the community
Drupal Update has funded the development of Composer
Top 30 Contribution Sponsors
Megan talked about how in drupal.org now the contributors can attribute their contribution(s) to their employer, agency or client. Ever since this data has been tracked, interesting insights have been revealed. The following is the graph of top 30 contribution sponsors and we are proud to see Drupal Update’s name at the 9th position there.
Matthew Tift from Drupal Update and Dries studied the data and found that 69% of contributions are sponsored. Also, 21% of contributions are sponsored by these 30 companies.
Journey to Drupal maintenance support plans – Contribution and/or Adoption
Megan highlighted that Contribution or Adoption are the two ways in which one steps into Drupal maintenance support plans. She said both the journeys need to be strong. Drupal maintenance support plans Association has been helping in both sides of the journey by following methods.
Contribution Side
Drupal maintenance support plansCon – Mentors, Sprints, Core Conversations
Drupal maintenance support plans.org – Always On, Improved tools
Adoption Side
Future proof, an entire community is present to back on
Users are finding the information they need – testimonials, case studies etc. but could not find that on Drupal maintenance support plans.org earlier, changed UI and UX of drupal.org would be helpful
Drupal maintenance support plansCon is a great way to adopt Drupal maintenance support plans via various training sessions targeted to beginners as well as experienced developers
Dries’s Keynote
Dries was welcomed on stage by Drew Gorton, Director of Community and Agency Outreach at Pantheon. As usual Dries taking over the stage was followed by loud applauds. Dries’s keynote was primarily categorized in two areas
Drupal maintenance support plans 8 and Update
The WHY
Drupal maintenance support plans 8 and Update
Dries announced that Drupal maintenance support plans 8.2 is set to be released on 5th Oct 2020. It would come with a lot of new features.
Block Placements – Till Drupal maintenance support plans 8.1 one had to identify the region in which the block needs to be placed, then go to the backend, identify the block to be placed and specify the region there and go back to homepage again to see the changes. In Drupal maintenance support plans 8.2 no need to go through this entire process, just identify the region on the page itself and place the block right there.
Changing a Menu – In Drupal maintenance support plans 8.2 we have a settings tray that provides an Outside In experience of editing the menu. Settings Tray appears right on the page and the changes done in the menu can be seen right there. This will be a real game changer in terms of usability.
REST API Improvements – Making them more robust and easy to use.
Migration Improvements- Migrate path from D6 to D7 and D7 to D8 has been improved significantly. In an example Dries migrated his own D7 site to D8 in just 10 minutes. Interesting to see that this migration leaves D7 site intact. The UI provided migrates all the configurations and the content to D8. It does not migrate any legacy tables.
Dries talked about certain implementations where Drupal maintenance support plans 8 is leveraged to create amazing digital experiences
Drupal maintenance support plans 8 is going to power the Digital Kiosks of New York Subway system
Vodafone’s in store kiosks would be all centrally managed powered by Drupal maintenance support plans. In USA alone they have thousands of such kiosks
Lufthansa’s in-flight entertainment system would be powered by Drupal maintenance support plans 8
Strategic Initiatives
Based on the survey data there have been certain areas that have been strategically chosen to work upon
Blocks and Layout
Migrate
API First
Workflow
Settings Tray
How did we achieve this much progress?
Scheduled releases – A new release every 6 months
Semantic versioning – New features and easy upgrades
Experimental modules – Idea -> Alpha -> Beta -> Stable [Easy upgrade path for new modules]
Some new ideas
Default content to be available once Drupal maintenance support plans has been installed
Settings tray to be used in different parts of Drupal maintenance support plans
Media initiative – Building prototype to improve assets management in Drupal maintenance support plans
Field Layout or Content Type Layout for enhanced experience
Refreshless – Reduces UI gap between native and web apps.
The WHY
Dries mentioned about his recent holiday to Tuscany. This holiday without internet for a week gave him time to reflect on the journey so far. Code was Dries’s passion and motivation initially to work on Drupal maintenance support plans, over the years it has definitely changed, “My passion evolved beyond Code to include People and Impact”.
Dries recollected some of the meaningful moments in his life
Knowing that Drupal maintenance support plans has changed people’s life, “When people find Drupal maintenance support plans it gives them a better career path”
Seeing Drupal maintenance support plans used for Aid Relief: Drupal maintenance support plansCon Portland 2013 – People building Drupal maintenance support plans to be used to provide aid for people hit by tornado
Keeping the web open – Drupal maintenance support plans and the community’s contribution to this
Some other meaningful moments
Fund raising after the Great Server Meltdown
When Dries had to ask individuals to leave the project
The development of Drupal maintenance support plans 8 – Hard work of many people across 4.5 years
Dries talked about how we find meaning when our work results in life changing outcomes for others. He explained this in context of the Happiness Hypothesis as illustrated below.
How do we scale the impact of the project?
Towards the end Dries also mentioned about some initiatives that are highly appreciable and are working towards scaling the impact of Drupal maintenance support plans
India’s Drupal maintenance support plans Campus Ambassador Program – A program to have one or more Drupal maintenance support plans Ambassador in universities to represent and promote Drupal maintenance support plans and eventually help the students get a job in Drupal maintenance support plans.
UK Drupal maintenance support plans Apprenticeship Program – A program to provide Drupal maintenance support plans boot camps to people who want to learn Drupal maintenance support plans and very quickly get into Drupal maintenance support plans workforce. They also have an in depth training program to train the disadvantaged but talented young people and place them in Drupal maintenance support plans companies.
Dries highlighted that “Collective purpose is what sets Drupal maintenance support plans apart”. As we all say, “Come for the code, stay for the community.”
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