Registration
Every day, registration will be held in the Kerr Lobby at the MLK Student Union.
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October 25
9:00 AM–5:00 PM
9:00 AM–4:30 PM
Frontend Summit
Frontend development has evolved more rapidly than any other web discipline over the past several years. We flex and grow to absorb an ever-changing variety of workflows, toolsets, best practices, and technologies. We've got a full day of informal presentations and breakout sessions planned to cover a wide variety of cutting-edge frontend technologies and challenges.
October 24
9:00 AM–4:30 PM
Nonprofit Summit
Come with a challenge, leave with a solution. The BADCamp Nonprofit Summit (NPS) is back in Berkeley for 2018 with even more opportunities for nonprofits and developers to collaborate, learn, and grow!
We’ve got a full day of small-group breakout sessions, all led by nonprofit tech experts. Come to discover new tools and strategies, learn how to use them, and make contacts with other members of the Drupal nonprofit community.
One of the key features of the nonprofit summit is that we take an “unconference” approach followed up with an interactive workshop.
October 26
10:15 AM-11:00 AM
Case Study: Massive performance wins at Mass.gov
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:
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How we used Blackfire and New Relic to identify issues
1:30 PM-2:15 PM
Building websites with React & Gatsby
site building / decoupled
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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
Component Based Theming With UI Patterns and Pattern Lab
front end development / site building
Since the release of Drupal 8, great strides have been made to develop a component based theming workflow that takes advantage of the best that Twig has to offer and also plays nice with living style guides and pattern libraries. Gone are the days of redundant styles and markup, making way for the efficiencies found when Drupal and tools like Pattern Lab can share the exact same code. That said, handling the mapping of data between Drupal and your component library can still be quite complicated and difficult to coordinate on larger cross-functional teams.
3:45 PM-4:30 PM
Pivoting in a Project: Strategies for adjusting to scope changes
project management / process / big ideas
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October 27
10:15 AM-11:00 AM
Why fork Drupal? The philosophy behind Backdrop CMS
beyond drupal / site building / editor experience
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Backdrop CMS is the Drupal fork. It is a faster and less-complex version of Drupal 7 with more features you want, and fewer you don't.
This session will highlight the Backdrop Mission, it's intended audience, and it's guiding principles.
We'll explain the decision making process, introduce the Project Management Committee, and expand on how the project's direction is set by the needs of the whole community.
1:30 PM-2:15 PM
Using Machine Learning to Augment your Content
beyond drupal / big ideas / backend development
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This session is about giving a practical example of how the CMS and Drupal community can put machine learning into practice by using a Drupal module, the taxonomy system, and Google's Natural Language Processing API.
We will begin with an overview of what natural language processing is and some natural language processing concepts, including:
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
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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: