Drupal’s Event Platform is a community-built, open source solution for organizing and promoting a Drupal camp or similar community event. In this session we’ll discuss what inspired its creation, how it got started, and most importantly how it can help with your event. We will cover recent additions like:
- A configurable theme that will let your site reflect your camp’s personality within minutes of installing your site
- A dedicated, built-in system to score and bulk moderate sessions
- Tools to bulk generate time slots and drag-and-drop to schedule accepted sessions
- A template on Drupal Forge you can use to spin up an Event Platform site in seconds
- An updated content architecture designed to let a single site host content for multiple events (e.g. many years of an annual camp)
We will also explore the roadmap for the Event Platform, and how the next major version will embrace recent Drupal features like recipes and site templates to be even more flexible.
We will cover the modular architecture, and how you could use specific parts of the Event Platform if that would better suit your needs. We will demo the initial setup, session selection and scheduling, and more.
You’ll learn about the current technical approach, and most important of all, how you can help!