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October 26

11:15 AM-12:00 AM

Design for Non-designers

design / ux / being human
Beginner

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Great design helps you reach your audience, increase credibility and achieve organizational goals. Unfortunately, sometimes it’s impractical to hire a designer for every visual task—whether it’s editing an image for social media, creating a flyer or an entire website. You may be left to your own devices when it comes to visual decisions.

1:30 PM-2:15 PM

Site Building 2.0: How Layout Builder will change everything

drupal core / editor experience / site building
Beginner

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Come get an all access preview of how your next generation Drupal sites are going to work with Layout Builder.

Description

Layout Builder is a new experimental module for Drupal 8 and its implications are vast. In this session we're going to dig into the site builder implications of this new tool and how it's going to change your builds for the better.

 

2:30 PM-3:15 PM

Drupal 8 Configuration System Basics

backend development / process / drupal core
Beginner

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The Drupal 8 configuration system can provide great advantages to managing the configuration of a site, but it can also cause massive headaches if used improperly. This presentation will provide an overview of how the Drupal 8 configuration system works, best practices on basic workflows to utilize it effectively, and a small sampling of some of the contributed modules available to enhance it.

3:45 PM-4:30 PM

4:45 PM-5:30 PM

Configuration Workflow Automation

site building / process / devops
Intermediate

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Configuration management has only gotten more complex as Drupal 8 has matured. With Config 2.0 going full speed ahead, some improvements are coming. Unfortunately, our dream of being able to save configuration directly to files won't happen, and the community has created complex workflows to work around the problem of storing configuration in the database.

But, the workflow has been automated for you in Contrib.

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

Which Accessibility Tools are Right for You?

front end development / process
Beginner

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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.

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.

2:30 PM-3:15 PM

Do you rebuild in Drupal 8, or Wait? Going from Drupal 7 to 8 or 9

ux / architecture / drupal core
Beginner

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The average lifespan of a website is 3 years.  Drupal 7 will be end-of-life in 3 years. 

If your site is in Drupal 7 you are likely asking yourself what to do. Is it time to start from scratch and rebuild, or can you maximize what you have?

There are lots of options and in this session, we will cover how to: