Proposed Sessions

This session is a high-level look at the most common ways that modules can add additional functionality to, or alter the existing functionality of, Drupal 8 core.

Backdrop CMS is the Drupal fork. Based on the familiar APIs of Drupal 7, Backdrop provides a more compatible and affordable alternative to upgrading existing Drupal sites.

Style guide driven development and the intelligent re-use of design components can prevent quite a bit of heartache as the look and feel of your site evolves.

With configuration management in core, it is vastly easier to avoid schlepping a database around well into your project's lifecycle.

Views and Content Types are two simple site building tools that gives Drupal a serious competitive advantage.

In this session we’ll explore options using Zurb Foundation 6 to create a custom Drupal 8 theme.

This session will describe how B2B commerce poses unique challenges to most eCommerce platforms, and how the inherent "goodness" of Drupal can be leveraged to solve complex B2B eCommerce problems.

+ David Spira as co-presenter

If you're working on a project with more than 0 people (yourself included), version control is mandatory to preserve your sanity. In the Drupal world, git is the standard for source control.

And when is it time for a redesign?

Everyone that has ever spent anytime learning to use Drush knows that it can greatly streamline the Drupal workflow.

Drupal 8 has changed a lot and the process for building a Drupal site is not the exception.

During this session, you will learn how to use composer to improve your development workflow.

Will a blind person be able to use your website without seeing the screen? Can someone who can’t use a mouse use your navigation?

Have you ever edited the appearance settings of a theme like Omega, and wondered how it provides its own custom options?

Drupal 8 has opened up new possibilities for existing modules. In this session, I will walk through new architectural concepts for Drupal 8.

Are you sick of the headaches of trying to provide ongoing services to your clients after they go live, when your primary focus is on finding more client projects and executing them?

Be a developer in Drupal 8 could be a daunting project, due all the new features and advantages Drupal 8 bring itself, but all these new features and good things came with a long process to learn n

Don't let getting the content over stop you from moving to Drupal 8— whether from another version of Drupal or some other something else entirely.

We have heard Dries’ call upon the community: Drupal’s user experience needs to embrace the concept of outside-in, which is about making user's experience of Drupal more fit they way they naturally

Dev Desktop, WAMP, and MAMP are trusty tools in your Drupal toolkit.

Much as we all love Drupal, we also all know that at times the performance of our Drupal sites can be --- disappointing.

What has lots of opinions and trouble accepting change? Campus constituencies.

Drupal's core taxonomy system is substantially more powerful and flexible than those offered by most competing CMSes. Most site builders only scratch the surface of what it can do.

"The future is already here— it’s just not very evenly distributed." —William Gibson

Over the last two years, the University of Minnesota has implemented Drupal 7 as the system-wide CMS for web services, across hundreds of sites and dozens of units.

You’ve probably heard it, “Your Web site must be accessible.” And you’ve probably thought to yourself… What does accessible mean… Why does it need to be accessible and who does it benefit… and When

What could Accessibility and Security possibly have in common?

Accessibility is about helping people with disabilities, while security is about keeping out the bad guys, right?

Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/MarcDrummond/