Last month at DrupalCon Portland, I was honoured to receive the Aaron Winborn Award, named after one of Drupal’s most kindhearted and prolific contributors, who we lost far too soon to ALS back in 2015. (If you were not lucky enough to know Aaron, you can read more about him through many others’ words in his Community Spotlight) I am tremendously grateful to so, SO many people who have mentored
One of the best parts about an open-source project is the community and the ability to get actively involved in it, working on things you’re either interested in, use for your job and/or would like to lend a hand in moving forward. But, since open-source projects have open-source software at their core, you can only contribute to it by contributing software – i.e. writing code, correct? You probably can’t really
Here’s a braindump to a question I answered on Slack today about choosing an e-commerce solution for Drupal. In terms of a Drupal-native solution, there really isn’t any other option than Drupal Commerce. You could use another platform like Shopify and use the Drupal Shopify module to import your products to Drupal for display. It looks like a decent approach but the module is only in an alpha state and
“It’s great to be back together with so many familiar faces and individuals who are so passionate about Drupal. It’s a one-of-a-kind community that lets us have a chance to be a part of something bigger than ourselves.” — Glenn Hilton, CEO & Founder The largest Drupal event of 2022, DrupalCon Portland, is over. But we know for sure that DrupalCon never ends! It continues in reminiscences, recaps, discussions, and ambitious plans for
In the coming weeks, you will see changes to how the Drupal Association processes and manages individual memberships and donations. We decided to make a change to a new payment processing platform called Classy that integrates well with Salesforce, which will help us have a better engagement long term with our members. In addition, Classy provides a more user-friendly “back-end” management interface that will enable less technical staff to run
And that’s a wrap on DrupalCon! The first IRL DrupalCon since the start of the pandemic was a busy blast of seeing old friends and colleagues, making new friends along the way, talking to prospects, and being around all things Drupal. While overall attendance was lower than the last in-person 2019 Con, those who did attend this year wanted to be there. The expo floor was full of the leading
Today we are talking about Open Source Compensation with Tim Lehnen. www.talkingDrupal.com/346 Topics How was DrupalCon? Suggestion from listener Open Source like cURL and OpenSSL Developer burnout and frustration Question about boosting other contribution to C-Level Great ways to compensate What are you working on now? Resources Open source developers, who work for free, are discovering they have power Preshow DrupalCon Portland 2022 YouTube Playlist on DA channel Driesnote John’s
Stepping away from the specific goals of the project browser, automated updates, and starter templates, I am starting to realize the broader goals: Empowering ambitious site builders means standardizing, simplifying, and accelerating the process of building a website. Happily, standardization, simplification, and acceleration became the key benefits of the Schema.org Blueprints module, which I am looking forward to doing a show-n-tell about it for you below. Source link
Mike Anello (lead instructor), AmyJune Hineline (DCO Graduate), Yang Turner (DCO Graduate), Ian Finlay (DCO Graduate), Lee Walker (DCO mentor), Ryan Price (DCO mentor). Photo credit: Ryan Price. About 1,300 people attended DrupalCon Portland, the first in-person DrupalCon since 2019, including a healthy smattering of Drupal Career Online current students, alumni, staff, and mentors. As we made our way through the week, it was not only the sessions and
Share your case studies at the DrupalCon Europe 2022 Client & Industry track Business Summit, DrupalCon Amsterdam 2014. Photo by pdjohnson More and more organizations are seeking to embrace digital transformation and provide meaningful and captivating user experiences at a much faster pace. It has compelled enterprises to create new possibilities for their businesses through innovative services and products, improved ways of working, and agile business models. However, there are only
