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How Drupal 8 Enabled Us to Help Syrian Refugees Regain Their Freedom carsonblack Wed, 08/22/2018 - 16:11

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This case study will cover how the architecture of Drupal 8 enabled our web development team at UC Davis to quickly build a highly functional, customized web application that enabled the UC Davis Human Rights Studies Program to implement their Article 26 Backpack Tool for Universal Mobility (article26backpack.ucdavis.edu). 

Not-so-decoupled Drupal. A static React app case study asgorobets Wed, 08/22/2018 - 05:18

There's been a lot of talk around the community about decoupling Drupal and using it as headless CMS, or progressively decoupling it and embedding modern JS frameworks inside a Drupal page. But when do you consider just not introducing Drupal and working with a pure framework implementation?  And what if you still need to host it alongside Drupal?

Decouple Pattern Lab from your D8 theme (SF.gov) isramv Wed, 08/22/2018 - 04:24

How and why to decouple your Pattern lab from your theme. In this case study I will be talking about the decisions taken in the architecture of this solution for the City of San Francisco.

https://github.com/SFDigitalServices/sfgov-pattern-lab

 

Case Study: Coordinating a Prison Strike with Drupal cedewey Wed, 08/22/2018 - 03:33

It's not easy to form a union, let alone behind prison walls. Mailroom censorship, bogus gang affiliation charges, repression against union organizers, and government surveillance all get in the way. Despite these barriers, organizers persist.

Communication is the lifeblood of the Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee (IWOC). Learn how a Drupal helps IWOC keep channels of communication open, amplify voices usually marginalized and coordinated a nationwide strike that broke into the mainstream media and shook the foundations of the prison industrial complex.

No fear to Drupal 8: how content and IT managers became superheroes

It can sometimes feel overwhelming to keep up with evolving technology. If you’re worried that migrating your organization’s Drupal 6 or 7 site to the latest version, Drupal 8, is going to cause headaches, this session is for you. Major benefits of migrating your site to D8 include: built-in responsiveness for mobile and other platforms, faster page loads and optimized performance, and a more streamlined and intuitive content editing experience. But change can be scary, I know.

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Solutions for complexity: Inter-agency collaboration in local government menslow Wed, 08/22/2018 - 01:49

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Are you a stakeholder? Do you work for an agency as a designer, engineer, or product manager? Are you a citizen wondering how your government’s website can serve you better?

Case Study: Stanford Off-Campus Learning Opportunities (SOLO) jcrespo Wed, 08/22/2018 - 00:37

Stanford University offers a wide array of opportunities for its students to study abroad. Historically, these opportunities were administered by various departments from all corners of the university. In 2015, Stanford’s Office of International Affairs started work on Stanford Off-Campus Learning Opportunities (SOLO), an initiative to bring all of these opportunities under one roof.

Cleaning up their mess: How a franchise carpet cleaning service made their domain spotless and tidy sean_e_dietrich Tue, 08/21/2018 - 21:00

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COIT offers cleaning services and 24/7 emergency restoration services and their 100+ locations serve more than 12 million homes & businesses across the United States and Canada.

Conversational UX with Drupal Commerce piyuesh23 Tue, 08/21/2018 - 17:40

New ways of interacting with machines are taking over the traditional ways of communications. In the form of chatbots/ virtual assistants, the future of communication with machines seem to lie with screen-less experience.

According to a survey by Gartner, by 2020 30% of web browsing sessions will be without screens.

GovCMS on Lagoon, the Australian Government move to a 100% open source platform 8thom Tue, 08/21/2018 - 12:47

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As announced in July, the GovCMS team will be working with Salsa Digital and amazee.io to build the next generation of the GovCMS hosting platform.

GovCMS is program managed by the Australian Government and provides content management and website hosting for all government agencies - Federal, State and Local.