Drupal Community + Being Human

This track includes talks about the human and community aspects of the Drupal as well as the overall Open Source world.  Learn about how to be happy and healthy at work, how to be a productive team and community member, how the community and project support each other, how you can contribute to the Drupal project no matter your expertise, and more. This track is also for everyone wanting to hear stories about how Drupal helped make dreams come true.

Jutta Horstmann

Entrepreneur, founder, leader, sparring partner and mentor - scaling organizations, driving change, nurturing culture. Feminist sustainability and free software advocate. Jutta has also been a very early Drupal user (17 years!)

Speaker(s)

drupal

Experience level

Beginner

Session track

Business & strategy

15 Tips for Streamlining Your Workflow

Unlock greater efficiency and productivity in your daily tasks with this presentation, learn 15 expert tips tailored to streamline your workflow. From time-saving shortcuts to innovative techniques, discover practical insights to optimize your daily routine and maximize your productivity.
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Speaker(s)

bramdriesen

Experience level

Intermediate

Session track

Code & Development

Defend FOSS: From innovation to positive change, we need to remind the world what we're about.

Right now, proprietary systems and vendors are winning pitches in government and elsewhere that should be no-brainers for Open Source solutions. What comes next, and what do we have to do to make sure we can continue to make a positive difference with Open Source in the future?

Open Source technology, practices, and thinking have revolutionized how we innovate, collaborate, and do business. The impact goes beyond our daily work and paying our rent. Open source is everywhere; we won! But there's a downside.

Speaker(s)

horncologne

Experience level

Beginner

Session track

Business & strategy

Working in the Drupal issue queue

Have you ever encountered an issue in Drupal or one of the many contributed projects? Do you know what to do next? When you would like to start contributing to the Drupal open source project, you will quickly run into the need to work in the Drupal issue queue. This talk aims to give you a soft landing in the issue queue. We will discuss:

Speaker(s)

eelkeblok

Experience level

Beginner

Session track

Code & Development

Keynote: Baddy Sonja

Co-Founder of 1xINTERNET, a growing Drupal company in Frankfurt, Germany and Conil, Spain. Baddy has been an active member to the Drupal Community since 2013 and is a member of the board, helped to organise Drupal Europe and is known to really understand both business and open source, she believes both are empowering each other and could even be a necessity. Baddy will talk about the importance of contributions within a business context and how it helps not only the broader community but also the financial baseline of a company, the net profits.

Session video:

Speaker(s)

baddysonja

Experience level

Beginner

Session track

Diversity

Being Open about Being Human

Mental health disorders affect millions of people around the world, and have a big impact both on employees and the companies they work for. Unfortunately, there is still a lot of stigma around the topic, and many people are not comfortable opening up about it.

Speaker(s)

d.costa

Experience level

Beginner

Contributing to Drupal - no experience needed!

In this session I will present the many ways that you can contribute to Drupal and the community. This will include code and non-code contributions.

In a nutshell, I will discuss:

Speaker(s)

jcnventura

Experience level

Beginner

Drupal.org GitLab Acceleration Update

The team behind Drupal.org began a study of developer tools in 2017, migrated our backend services to GitLab in 2019, and has ramped up to enable merge requests for the project in 2020. But we’re not taking the tools right off the shelf, we’re tuning them to the Drupal community’s collaboration style. Join us for this session to learn how we’re doing it.

Speaker(s)

drumm

Experience level

Beginner

Session track

Code & Development

Moving Drupal forward by breathing new life into local community

The session will cover the importance of local communities in promotion and development of Drupal. We will find out why leading or supporting domestic group has at least the same impact as direct code/documentation contribution. We will also have a look at vital hints for starting or reviving the community in your own city.
As a final step we will learn and be inspired from successful stories of user groups that are doing great and are really making the difference in Drupal world!

We go through following points:

Speaker(s)

zeuty

Experience level

Beginner

The future of Drupal Theming

What if you don't need to decouple, to have some fun?

What if you could make your CSS and JS over 90% more lean, with just a slice of opinion?

What if the theming layer, is actually in your way?

What if someone is going to tell you about a cutting-edge native Drupal frontend alternative?

Would you come?

 

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Speaker(s)

Mathieu Spillebeen

Experience level

Intermediate