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October 24

9:00 AM–4:30 PM

Higher Education Summit

Pauley East

The Higher Education Summit is a unique opportunity for site owners, IT managers, developers, content creators, and agencies dedicated to supporting and advancing the use of Drupal in academia to share, learn, and strengthen our community of practice. Through panels, talks, and ample breakout sessions, participants share and learn from one another’s victories and challenges, and build momentum in cross-institutional initiatives.

Pizza and salad will be provided for lunch.

October 25

9:00 AM–5:00 PM

October 26

9:00 AM-9:45 AM

Audit Your Theme

front end development / css
Intermediate

Watch the session video here.

Themes can become a beast. Over time, features get added and new patterns get introduced. Tight deadlines may also cause you to make inefficient decisions with the desire to one day go back and refactor. There are also times you will inherit a project built by another team and need to understand how to add on and reduce duplication. How do you size up a theme to ensure you are efficient and not growing out of proportion?

10:15 AM-11:00 AM

Accessibility 201: Tales from the Front End

front end development / ux / beyond drupal
Intermediate

Ready to take the next step on accessibility? Come hear cautionary tales of well-intentioned yet inaccessible products! Learn from the struggles of those who’ve gone before, change your mindset, and improve your code.

Case Study: Massive performance wins at Mass.gov

performance / front end development / automation
Intermediate

Watch the session video here.

Over the past year, Last Call Media has been working with the development team at Massachusetts Digital Services on improving the stability and performance of the mass.gov platform.  One phase of this journey was to realize some massive performance gains on both the front and the back end of the site.  In the first part of this session, we’ll talk about the backend performance, discussing:

  • How we used Blackfire and New Relic to identify issues

11:15 AM-12:00 AM

1:30 PM-2:15 PM

Building websites with React & Gatsby

site building / decoupled
Intermediate

Watch the session video here.

React started as a way to build apps. People soon discovered that React's ability to render to string meant that React could be used for building websites where shipping a fast HTML version of the site was necessary.

Gatsby is a very popular way to build websites with React and recently became a company with VC backing to take React deep into the world of CMSs.

October 27

11:15 AM-12:00 PM

Which Accessibility Tools are Right for You?

front end development / process
Beginner

Watch the session video here.

As an organization who needs to step up their accessibility compliance, accessibility testing and remediation is a big deal.

Accessibility testing has a lot of moving parts! There are so many tools. So many! Plugins, suites, crawlers, dashboards, CI tests, and more.