Sessions

Who is Danielle Jacobs?

Danielle Jacobs is General Manager of Beltug, the largest Belgian association of Digital Technology Leaders, and Computable IT person of the year. She brings together IT decision makers from different sectors to share knowledge.

Danielle will share her point of view on open source communities like Drupal and will try to give her perspective in how this is different from the world that she is representing as General Manager of Beltug.

As a community we constantly talk of giveback, at Cons we even have a track called 'being human'...but do we empathise enough with our fellow human beings? are we engaged enough beyond our bubble? 

The session is an exploratory one. Exploring how we may take strengths and learnings that make us a successful Open Source community to wider audiences with a view of facilitating social transformation that addresses the needs of our societies globally. 

Why would you want a chatbot, why wouldn't you? How does that even work? Male, Female? How to add in your api? How to organise all that architecturally?
Find some of your answers here.

This talk is for you if you don't know how to start developing a chatbot. Both from a development or a management point of view.

Not much Drupal, Very much chatbot. Most examples from dialogflow, few from watson. 

Slides

Websites, web applications and APIs, they all speak HTTP. As a developer most of us are familiar with HTTP, but when it actually comes to creating cacheable web content, there is still a lot to be learned.

In this presentation I will show you how to leverage specific headers to achieve a maximum hit rate without losing touch with some of the challenges of real-life web projects.

The following topics will be covered:

Like many other web-based frameworks, Drupal is increasingly relying on JavaScript libraries (such as React, Node.JS, Angular and many more) for improving its user experience. However, relying on such JavaScript libraries implies a significant risk of breaking or compromising your applications.

Slides can be found at https://slides.com/legovaer/noops-lando

In a fast evolving digital world, your teams need evolve together with you. Is your development team still using XAMP for setting up a local environment? At the beginning of a project; do you still spend hours in order to get your DevOps flow ready? It's time for a change.

During this session I will cover following topics:

When you post something on the web, it should belong to you, not a corporation. Too many companies have gone out of business and lost all of their users’ data. By joining the IndieWeb, your content stays yours and in your control.

Description

Slides

You can watch the slides gain by navigating to http://presentations.robiningelbrecht.be/drupalcamp-ghent-2018/. The slides also contain a link to download the commerce demo module.

Session info

This session will give you an in-depth understanding of how Commerce 2.x gives you the possibility to completely customize your web shop. 

It will cover following topics:

In this talk we will demonstrate tips and tricks based on configuration and code examples to make your website (more) accessible.

The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) specify which requirements a website should meet to be accessible for everyone regardless of device, location or disability. Since September 2018 they’re not “just” guidelines anymore, they are obligated rules for (public) websites of EU state members. So there’s no excuse left to ignore the requirements.

You have the knowledge, and you have the skills, but how to teach Drupal to your colleagues or your customer? What subjects to cover and what exercises to give them? Now there is the Open Drupal curriculum, a collection of training materials for learning Drupal. It is fully open source and based on the materials from the Drupal Apprentice program and the Wizzlern training materials.