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October 26

9:00 AM-9:45 AM

Erasing the Stigma: Mental Illness in Tech

mental health / being human
Beginner

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Many developers, including myself, deal with mental health issues, yet mental health in the developer community is often overlooked, hidden, or swept under the rug. Too many of us suffer in silence and end up hurting our professional and personal relationships, or even worse, ourselves.

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.

Burnout: Community problem, community solutions

mental health / community / being human
Beginner

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It’s the middle of the night and you’re awakened by a phone call. What could it be? You’re not on-call this week. You glance at the caller-ID and see that it’s a teammate who has been struggling at work. Maybe it’s a serious outage and they’re escalating it to you? You answer the call to discover your teammate is having a mental health crisis. What do you do?

1:30 PM-2:15 PM

Building websites with React & Gatsby

site building / decoupled
Intermediate

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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.

2:30 PM-3:15 PM

Introduction to Pragmatic Functional PHP

php / performance / testing
Beginner

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Functional programming is a paradigm with origins in lambda calculus and the 1930's. Stack Overflow's developer surveys from both 2017 and 2018 show that the languages optimized for functional programming are low in popularity. However, the same survey recognizes that developers actually working in Elixir, Clojure, F#, and Haskell, actually love their languages much more than PHP or C developers.

So functional programming is unpopular but fun!

3:45 PM-4:30 PM

Module & Architecture Development + Drupal Composer, Custom Entities, and Plugins

architecture / backend development
Intermediate

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We'll review some of my findings while learning and building web applications in Drupal 8.

We'll go over architecture options for web applications built in Drupal 8. Modern PHP dependency management with Composer, Content Entities vs Nodes and when each is appropriate. We'll look at some excellent combinations of contrib modules and glue code to create flexible architectures.

Who is this for?

4:45 PM-5:30 PM

Meta and Schema: Defining the Content about your Content

content strategy / site building / editor experience
Intermediate

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You know how your content looks on your own website, on desktops, laptops and phones, but how does it look when it leaves your site? Using open source protocols like Schema.org, Open Graph, and W3C specified meta data to markup your structured data, you can help boost your content’s chances of outperforming its competition in search engines, and shared on social media sites.

October 27

10:15 AM-11:00 AM

Hot Dog/Not Hot Dog: Artificial Intelligence with Drupal

backend development / beyond drupal / apis
Intermediate

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In a world where everyone has the ability to post anything online, it becomes critical for site owners wanting to maintain their brand reputation to curate what is published. How can content editors keep up with reviews when there's a steady stream of content submissions? Enter the robots.

11:15 AM-12:00 PM

Feeds UI + Migrate Engine = Dream Migrations and Imports

backend development / process / community
Intermediate

Feeds and Migrate were two primary contrib modules used for data import since early versions of Drupal.  Quick comparison of two modules: Feeds module has great friendly UI that allows site builders configure and import data, Migrate is built for developers with power to perform complex backend data processing but UI for this module was less than ideal.

In D8 migrate module is in core to support one-click upgrades from earlier Drupal versions – great news. In the hallway of Baltimore DrupalCon maintainers of Feeds and Migrate started conversation about using migrate engine to power Feeds UI – seems to be a win-win solution for everyone – developers, site builders, content managers, end users. 

Gitlab Has come to Drupal.org

culture / devops / big ideas
Intermediate

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Come learn about the 3 phases   we will be using to deploying gitlab on Drupal.org  

Phase 1: Replacing Drupal.org's Git backend

The first phase of the Drupal.org migration

1:30 PM-2:15 PM

Building Effective Drupal Teams within Larger Organizations

people management / process / being human
Beginner

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A significant segment of the Drupal community is made up of web/digital agencies, freelance developers, and others focused on delivering value to clients.  A small-but-growing segment of Drupalistas find themselves on the other side: embedded within departments and organizations who would traditionally be clients of these groups.

Four Brain Hacks to Manage Clients and Win

leadership / people management / being human
Intermediate

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(ALL skill levels – *Not* a technical talk.)

That heart-attack-moment. Your client is freaking-out, right now; right in your face with a full-blown meltdown! At the end of it all they always ask that same question, "So what are you going to do about this!?..."

2:30 PM-3:15 PM