DrupalCon Portland Overview

Presented at the Central CT Drupal Meetup.

Transcript

1. DrupalCon Portland: Review of Drupalcon for CT Matthew Wetmore | @mwetmore Central CT Drupal Group | @ctdrupal June 2013
2. Drupalcon Portland: May 20‐25 in Portland Oregon 3300 Drupal People Sessions, Code Sprints, BOFs, etc. Everyone know what Drupalcon is?
3. Group Photo
4. Dries Note: Current State of Drupal 8: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCLx4fRHmCk Highlights: Driving Drupal to be Context Aware, Personalization Feature Freeze Feb 18 Code Freeze July 1, 2013 Alpha May 20, 2013 (Avail now) Drupal 8 released 2014 (sometime) Keynotes ‐ Dries
5. Karen McGrane: Content Strategy and Drupal: http://karenmcgrane.com/2013/05/23/drupalcon‐keynote‐video‐ and‐talk‐notes/ Highlights: Content Chunks not Blobs Structured Content Separate Content from Form Keynotes – Karen McGrane
6. Michael Lopp: https://portland2013.drupal.org/keynote/michael‐lopp Highlights: Productive battle between art, science and execution Keynotes – Michael Lopp
7. Attended the following sessions: The Future of Views : https://portland2013.drupal.org/node/1058 ‐ Views in Drupal 8 Core ‐ No exports, all stored in files (config) ‐ VBO Included ‐ Entity Reference Integration ‐ REST Outputs (Json, xml, etc) Is Drupal a CMS? https://portland2013.drupal.org/node/1058 Building for a post Mobile World https://portland2013.drupal.org/node/1353 Content Strategy – The RPG https://portland2013.drupal.org/node/828 Sessions – Day 1
8. Attended the following sessions: Theming for Site Builders: https://portland2013.drupal.org/node/843 Making Drupal Meetups and Events Rock: https://portland2013.drupal.org/node/3918 Using Twig : The new template engine in Drupal 8 https://portland2013.drupal.org/node/878 The Zen of HTML Prototyping: https://portland2013.drupal.org/node/2008 Sessions – Day 2
9. Attended the following sessions: Managing Responsive Web Design with SASS and Breakpoint https://portland2013.drupal.org/node/1248 Using the Drupal 8 Configuration System https://portland2013.drupal.org/node/743 Sessions – Day 3
10. The other stuff at Drupal Con: ‐ Some Connecticut/New England people in Attendance: * Yale, LeftClick ‐ http://www.help4ok.org/ (Built overnight) * Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeqo5PrO3OM ‐ Drupal Face to Face: http://www.drupalfacetoface.org/ ‐ All Sessions recorded, check them out here: https://portland2013.drupal.org/program/schedule/wednesday The Other Stuff
11. Drupalcon : June 2nd – 6th Next Year!
12. Any questions? Questions