1 | Timestamp | Your Name(s) | What do you want to talk about? | Tell us a little bit more... | Who is this activity for? | What's your first choice time? | What's your second choice time? | ||
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2 | 3/7/2021 20:51:58 | Avi Schwab | Let's go for a walk | Like it says... step away from your computer, but if you like, take your phone. Find a nice spot in your neighborhood, join Zoom, and point your camera out. We'll all take a few minutes to introduce each other to a different part of the world. | EVERYONE! | 2PM - 2:45PM CT, Thursday March 25 | 1PM - 1:45PM CT, Thursday March 25 | ||
3 | 3/8/2021 7:25:14 | Suzanne Dergacheva | Building a Compelling Search Interface with Drupal | One of the main reasons to redesign a website is that users can't easily find the content. And while designing a great navigation, clear calls to action and engaging landing pages is incredibly important, a great search experience can make or break your user experience strategy, and is essential for large content-heavy websites. But sometimes users give up on search because it doesn't immediately return the right results. In this session, we’ll walk through the process of designing a successful search experience with Drupal that delivers on user expectations. You'll learn how to: How to plan search experience pathways How to design at a high level your search results, filters, and facets according to user needs and your content How to select search features that will enhance to the user experience | EVERYONE! | 11AM - 11:45AM CT, Thursday March 25 | 2PM - 2:45PM CT, Thursday March 25 | ||
4 | 3/8/2021 7:26:57 | Suzanne Dergacheva | Get Off the Island: What We Can Learn From Other CMS's | Creating a great content editor experience is key to Drupal’s success and to the success of every Drupal website. But to build an intuitive interface for content editors, we need to understand content editors’ expectations and what experience other CMS's are offering. In this session, I’ll demo findings of a study of CMS user experience. We’ll look at Craft CMS, Contentful, SquareSpace, and WordPress. Learn what these platforms do right, and what we can learn as Drupal site builders, developers, and contributors. You'll learn how to: Strike the right balance between flexibility and ease-of-use for content editors Choose configuration options that make sense from the content editors' perspective Understand how users perceive content editing tools and what makes a good content editor experience | EVERYONE! | 11AM - 11:45AM CT, Thursday March 25 | 2PM - 2:45PM CT, Thursday March 25 | ||
5 | 3/8/2021 11:06:10 | AmyJune Hineline | Non-Code Contributions | Not a coder? That’s perfectly fine! There are many ways to give back to the Drupal Project. Join us for a contributions overview. We'll talk about the many ways to give back beyond code and documentation. Not everyone who works on open source projects is a developer. Smaller tasks help the less experienced gain confidence and experience, which, in turn, leads to more contributions. Code is very important, but so are all the other parts. Discover how to use your strengths to give back to the Drupal Project. | People new to the activity, EVERYONE! | 11AM - 11:45AM CT, Thursday March 25 | 1PM - 1:45PM CT, Thursday March 25 | ||
6 | 3/10/2021 10:10:19 | Matt Obert | Linux for Developers | Using Linux as a desktop environment for developers has great benefits. There are also issues. If you are considering a switch or have switched already, this BoF is for you. We will talk about using Linux as your daily driver. | People new to the activity, People with some experience, People with advanced experience, EVERYONE! | 3PM - 3:45PM CT, Thursday March 25 | 2PM - 2:45PM CT, Thursday March 25 | ||
7 | 3/10/2021 10:12:40 | Jeremy Grajales | Drupal Content Management Role Models | In this BoF, we want to discuss areas where Drupal can improve its Content Management experience by learning from other CMSs. Example areas of focus include: WYSIWYG, layout builder, taxonomy management, menu management and media management. It is great if you have experience with other CMSs to bring to the group, but not required. If you know of new projects propelling Drupal in these areas, be prepared to share URLs. | People new to the activity, People with some experience, People with advanced experience, EVERYONE! | 1PM - 1:45PM CT, Thursday March 25 | 3PM - 3:45PM CT, Thursday March 25 | ||
8 | 3/10/2021 12:45:02 | Albert Volkman | Mentorship in Drupal | If you are a junior Drupal developer, you might be looking to find a mentor. If you're a senior Drupal developer, you may be looking for a mentee. If you're neither, you might be wondering where mentorship fits in your career–if at all. It's no surprise, however, that a powerful mentor/mentee relationship can fast-track you toward rapid career/company growth. But if you went to find a mentor today, would you know what you need from the relationship? Let's take some time to dive into mentorship as it relates to Drupal and engineering, and how you can get started discovering your next mentor/mentee as soon as possible. Walk away learning more about: Why mentor/mentee relationships are so important Tips, tricks, and resources for improving your mentor/mentee relationships How to overcome common Drupal & engineering mentorship obstacles So, if you want to help bring out the best in people, let this talk support you in learning how to guide others–and yourself–to succeed. | People new to the activity, People with some experience, People with advanced experience, EVERYONE! | 11AM - 11:45AM CT, Thursday March 25 | 2PM - 2:45PM CT, Thursday March 25 | ||
9 | 3/10/2021 16:55:13 | Lee Quessenberry | Understanding MegaMenu Extras in Drupal 8 & 9 | In this BoF, let's discuss MegaMenus in Drupal 8 & 9, and how to implement a flexible design/dev methodologies for front-end developers and Twig developers! https://www.drupal.org/project/menu_item_extras | People with some experience, People with advanced experience | 3PM - 3:45PM CT, Thursday March 25 | 11AM - 11:45AM CT, Thursday March 25 | ||
10 | 3/11/2021 15:09:58 | Brian Perry | Drupal Core Testing With Nightwatch | To support Olivero testing efforts for contribution day, Matt Glaman will lead a training on writing JavaScript tests for Drupal Core using Nightwatch. Might break this up into two sections: 1.) Up and running and getting the tests to run on our local 2.) Writing our first Olivero test | People new to the activity | 11AM - 11:45AM CT, Thursday March 25, 1PM - 1:45PM CT, Thursday March 25 | 2PM - 2:45PM CT, Thursday March 25, 3PM - 3:45PM CT, Thursday March 25 | ||
11 | 3/12/2021 13:02:01 | Bob Snodgrass | Drupal Chess | Setup a Chess.com Drupal Chess Club and maybe host a tournament at some point during the day or evening during MidCamp. I really am really bad at chess, it would be nice to have some Drupal people (who play or want to) to improve our play. | EVERYONE! | Thursday, 2:00 pm CDT - Thursday, 2:45 pm CDT | |||
12 | 3/14/2021 21:18:52 | Tim Erickson | Planning your next project | BOF - You are a freelancer or small shop and just landed your next cms project. What are the tools and techniques you use to plan and prepare for the job? How do you coordinate with contractors, do discovery, collect client ideas, and manage client meetings/communication? Let's share experiences, ideas, lessons learned, and tools. | EVERYONE! | 1PM - 1:45PM CT, Thursday March 25 | 2PM - 2:45PM CT, Thursday March 25 | ||
13 | 3/14/2021 21:53:44 | Tim Erickson | Mural Boards - For Fun and Productivity | Let's play with a Mural whiteboard (a digital workspace for visual collaboration) to learn about this kind of tool, get to know one another, AND brainstorm ways to use visual tools like this one to virtually engage with clients and colleagues. This activity will include icebreakers and lots of interaction. Participants will engage via Zoom and a Mural Board. | EVERYONE! | 1PM - 1:45PM CT, Thursday March 25 | 2PM - 2:45PM CT, Thursday March 25 | ||
14 | 3/15/2021 15:41:29 | Randy Fay | Custom Commands and Third Party Services with DDEV-Local | There's much built into DDEV-Local, but people always want more! We'll explore how you can add your own commands to DDEV using simple shell scripts, and then explore all that you can do with adding extra services and configuration using docker-compose.*.yaml. We'll probably use ApacheSolr as our third-party service example. | People with some experience, People with advanced experience | 1PM - 1:45PM CT, Thursday March 25 | 2PM - 2:45PM CT, Thursday March 25 | Fri | |
15 | 3/15/2021 15:42:19 | Randy Fay | Advanced configuration for DDEV-Local, using a custom Dockerfile and webimage_extra_packages | It's easy to add new capabilities to DDEV-Local's web image, because it's built on the shoulders of giants, including Docker and Debian Linux. We'll look at how you can find and use Debian packages that extend DDEV's capabilities, and then how to create a custom Dockerfile that does things that you can't do even with extra packages. | People with some experience, People with advanced experience | 2PM - 2:45PM CT, Thursday March 25 | 3PM - 3:45PM CT, Thursday March 25 | Fri | |
16 | 3/15/2021 15:43:09 | Randy Fay | DDEV-Local Casual Webhosting | Did you know that DDEV-Local has a "Casual webhosting" feature that allows you to deploy it to actually serve websites on the internet? It's intended for smaller sites, and you have to get a VM yourself, but it's not hard, and it even features TLS certificates from Let's Encrypt. | People new to the activity, People with some experience, People with advanced experience, EVERYONE! | 3PM - 3:45PM CT, Thursday March 25 | 2PM - 2:45PM CT, Thursday March 25 | Fri | |
17 | 3/15/2021 15:44:04 | Randy Fay | Developing with DDEV-Local in a browser: ddev-gitpod | The very exciting ddev-gitpod project from @shaal lets you run and debug a Drupal project in vscode with DDEV-Local... in a browser. We'll demonstrate how this works and talk about the future of ddev-gitpod | People with some experience | 3PM - 3:45PM CT, Thursday March 25 | 2PM - 2:45PM CT, Thursday March 25 | Fri | |
18 | 3/15/2021 15:44:54 | Randy Fay | Local Development AMA | Have a question about local development in general, DDEV-Local, or Docker, or anything else I can feign competence in? Bring your questions. If you sneak them to me in advance I might be prepared. | People new to the activity, People with some experience, People with advanced experience, EVERYONE! | 1PM - 1:45PM CT, Thursday March 25 | 2PM - 2:45PM CT, Thursday March 25 | ||
19 | 3/20/2021 11:33:09 | AmyJune | DrupalCoffeeExchange BoF | Join The Drupal Coffee Exchange to talk about all things coffee! Many of us in the Drupal community enjoy coffee, let's get together and talk about the magic elixir that many of us use to fuel our days. This is also an excellent opportunity to have a retrospective for the traditional Drupal Coffee Exchange that is organized every quarter...Don't know about the exchange?? That's alright, come and get acquainted. Grab a cup of your favorite brew and chat among friends. To help facilitate any sort of coffee-related discussions, we created the #coffee-exchange channel on Drupal Slack. | EVERYONE! | Thursday March 25, 2PM - 2:45PM CT, Thursday March 25 | 1PM - 1:45PM CT, Thursday March 25, 2PM - 2:45PM CT, Thursday March 25, 3PM - 3:45PM CT, Thursday March 25 | ||
20 | 3/22/2021 15:20:32 | Tara King | Drupal Pets. | Pet cams! Show us your furry pals. | EVERYONE! | 11AM - 11:45AM CT, Thursday March 25 | 1PM - 1:45PM CT, Thursday March 25 | ||
21 | 3/23/2021 16:51:07 | Fatima Sarah Khalid | High Tea with Princess Sugaroverflow | You are cordially invited to high tea with Princess Sugaroverflow of the Virtual Realms. During this activity, attendees will embark on a live creation of a tea/coffee drink (inspired by sugaroverflow's brief tiktok aesthetic coffee adventures) and be invited to bring & share your favourite beverages. Attendees are encouraged to use this opportunity to dress up - including, but not limited to wearing a fancy hat, a new shade of lipstick, a sparkly shirt, or their party clothes. | EVERYONE! | 1PM - 1:45PM CT, Thursday March 25 | 11AM - 11:45AM CT, Thursday March 25 | ||
22 | 3/23/2021 16:56:06 | Fatima Sarah Khalid | Surviving Burnout - Sharing Strategies & Experiences | A moderated roundtable discussion on burnout to share experiences, lessons learned, and strategies for planning ahead to prevent burnout, but also what to do if you're already overwhelmed and struggling, and ways that we can better support our colleagues and teams. | EVERYONE! | 2PM - 2:45PM CT, Thursday March 25, 3PM - 3:45PM CT, Thursday March 25 | 2PM - 2:45PM CT, Thursday March 25, 3PM - 3:45PM CT, Thursday March 25 |