Some of us love Drupal and the Drupal Community so much we are sure there will be plenty of free-form time for hands-on Drupal activities and mentoring. However, the objective of the day is for people to enjoy some human-time together with fun activities.
Some of us love Drupal and the Drupal Community so much we are sure there will be plenty of free-form time for hands-on Drupal activities and mentoring. However, the objective of the day is for people to enjoy some human-time together with fun activities.
Thursday morning, Bluehorn Digital’s Matt Glaman will be leading a class on getting up and running with NightwatchJS. The goal of this class is to get Nightwatch tests running locally – with DDEV, Lando, or a regular local environment. We will walk through configuring Nightwatch for your environment, running Chromedriver, and executing an existing test within Drupal core.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
That afternoon, we’ll be writing our first tests for Olivero. Matt will once again be mentoring. We’ll be concentrating on writing the Nightwatch install scriptand an initial test. When the Nightwatch test suite executes a test, it runs an installation script to set up the test Drupal site. We’ll need to write a script that enables Olivero and sets up some content. Once we have the install script created, we will test the Olivero menu collapse when a user begins scrolling on the page.
If you are interested in learning, or playing the game of chess, Chess.com is a great resource.
Setup a free account there and join the Drupal Chess Club maybe we can play a bit and host a tournament at some point during MidCamp.
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.
So you got accepted to do a talk. As you prepare your slides, you'll want to be mindful of accessibility. We'll discuss some tips and tricks to make sure everyone is able to understand your session.
Over the years there have been many approaches to menus in Drupal. We'll discuss a few different approaches and their individual caveats with regard to manageability, usability, accessibility, and implementation. This is a topical discussion that I hope will spur more conversations to follow.
Join us for virtual gaming on Thursday, March 25 from 4PM-7PM CT.
During game night, we'll be coordinating on the MidCamp Discord server, which you can join at https://discord.gg/AkUzvWa4. Chat in the #looking-for-game channel or go to the Concierge voice channel for assistance.
