Accepted Sessions

Accessibility 101 - What's It All About?

This session will discuss what accessibility is, why it is important, and who it benefits.

CiviCRM secrets for Drupalers

CiviCRM is an Constituent Relationship Management (CRM) system, primarily for nonprofit or civic organizations,

Configuration Management for Humans

This session aims to unravel the mysteries of the Drupal 8 configuration system, and to outline an evolving set of best practices explained in human terms.

Data4Drupal - What data is important for successful site redesigns?

Developers, designers, and clients alike should be data advocates. In today’s age, data is plentiful and an important precursor to successful website redesigns.

Just like stereotypes can misrepresent reality, best practices can misrepresent what actually works for *your* particular site redesign. Be an advocate for archetypes (data-backed) over stereotypes (your own opinion). Whenever possible, favor data-informed decision making over “best practices”, egos, and the latest idea your boss dreamed up. Of course data is only as useful as the insights you draw from it, but why not look at it rather than ignore it, before spending your client’s dollars and putting your relationship with them on the line. Perfection does not exist in web design, but practicing data analysis can sure make things better.

Drupal is a highly customizable, data-friendly platform, so let’s take a look at how we can use data for a better redesign, a better experience, and better KPIs and end results!

Dr. Upal is In: Healthcheck your site

Every site is "healthy" until it isn't. Don't leave things to chance by doing a site health check!

Drupal and the Music Industry: Learning from Our Success

The music industry is one of those areas where Drupal does well.

Easy, Flexible and Accurate Drupal 8 Search with Dr. Seuss and Search API

Who has ever been frustrated by complex, inaccurate, or otherwise painful Drupal 8 search setups.

The Whos have—that’s who!

Hello [user:name]: Personalization for Everyone

Today, people have access to more information than ever before and they can access that information across many different devices.

Keeping Drupal 8 Up-to-Date

Between Drupal 8's regularly scheduled updates and its security releases, it's more important than ever to understand how to keep your Drupal 8 site up-to-date.

Maximum PhpStorm

Together we'll go beyond learning how tools like PhpStorm can level up your developer-y super powers and demonstrate how your developer life can change if you maximize your use of these tools.

Overcoming Imposter Syndrome: How Weightlifting Helped Me Accept My Place in Tech

Weightlifting and tech.

Predictive Analytics using R with Drupal

I have gotten a lot of interest recently on my use of R, google analytics and Drupal to create a website that has dynamic content that is predictive based on a users previous browsing history of th

Ready? Set. Contribute!

Sharing is at the root of our community.

Scaling Community Decision-making

Any Free/Libre Open Source Software project will have elements of do-ocracy (rule of those who do the work) but this approach does not work for all decisions a software community must make.

Steering the Open Web

To varying degrees, each one of us are responsible for steering the open web.

The GDPR is here. Are you ready? (You need to be!)

The GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) just went into effect May 25, 2018. So, 1) What is it? And 2) Do you have to care about it? The short answer is: 1) It’s complicated. And 2) Almost certainly, yes. You are probably legally obligated to care about it.

Understanding Drupal

Drupal is an extremely flexible system. To achieve this, various layers of abstractions were built into it. A lot of concepts were created to explain these abstractions.