Sessions

Drupal Camp Asheville 2022 - IN PERSON - July 8th-10th

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How to win in arguments

Jordana Fung
of
Drupal CWG

Jordana is a longtime Drupal community member and mentor, developer, and member of the Drupal Community Working Group. She has a passion for communication, personal development & growth, and community health.

Community

In these especially tense and stressful times, we are often in situations that can make traversing difficult conversations even harder.

There are moments when we need to discuss, argue and defend ideas and issues, and, at times, we even need to defend ourselves.

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5 risk mitigation tips for deploying Drupal at scale

John A Richards
of
Pantheon
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John is the Manager of Developer Advocacy at Pantheon and lives in the greater St. Louis area with his wife and clowder of cats. He is a connector of people and an evangelist for the Open Web.
Business Development
DevOps
Site Building
As the visibility of a website scales up, so does the amount of risk so we are going to talk about mitigating that risk.  The right workflows can reduce or mitigate the risk that comes with managing Drupal sites at scale.

Accessibility is a moving target - What's new in 2022?

AmyJune Hineline
of
Opensource.com at Red Hat
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AmyJune Hineline is the Senior Community Manager at Opensource.com, a project supported by Red Hat.
User Interface & Design
User Experience & Accessibility
Despite our best efforts, it’s difficult to future proof a website for accessibility standards. Your code and design may follow current standards, but will your careful compliance become obsolete when new guidelines are released? 

App-like web capabilities for your, coupled, decoupled, or hybrid Drupal project

Alex Borsody
of
Moonraft Innovation Labs
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Alex has been a software developer for around 15 years. He tries to bridge the gap between reliable, established, and cutting-edge technologies.
Wilfred Arambhan
of
Moonraft Innovation Labs
Wilfred Arambhan

Wilfred works as a Drupal tech lead for Moonraft Innovation Labs. His areas of expertise and interest lie in open source technologies and content management systems. He has spent his free time mostly with his furry friends and traveling.

Business Development
User Interface & Design
Site Building
Front End
Drupal can be used as a pluggable backend using just about any API you can think of. By integrating with these APIs you can build just about any business apps you would find on the App Store or Google Play.
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Backdrop CMS as a viable Drupal 7 upgrade path: A case study featuring Stanford University

Eric Toupin
of
Aten Design Group
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Eric is a senior developer at Aten Design Group, headquartered in Denver, Colorado. He's been working with Drupal for more than a decade, has built a handful of sites in Backdrop CMS, and recently completed two major Drupal 7 to Backdrop CMS upgrades.

Community
Case Study
Project Management
Drupal Core
This session will discuss Backdrop CMS as a viable, secure, and innovative tool in the Drupal family of software solutions.
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Creating a Custom Packagist

Allan Chappell
of
Four Kitchens
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Allan enjoys working on technically challenging, heavily integrated projects. His range of expertise spans DevOps, automated testing, automated code delivery, continuous integration, and API-driven content.
DevOps
PHP / Symfony
The goal of this article is to give you some ideas on how to host a solid packagist for a team, organization, or client while describing how the Four Kitchens team came up with a fun and creative solution to provide this functionality using the tools our client had on hand

Creating a Custom Rasa Conversational AI Chatbot for Drupal Websites

Rick Torzynski
of
Esteemed
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With over 12 years of Drupal experience, Rick Torzynski is a Senior Drupal Developer at ECS, and has worked for companies like SpinSpire, Florida Blue, Scribe Fusion, and APR Energy.
Business Development
User Interface & Design
User Experience & Accessibility
PHP / Symfony
You will learn how to create a custom conversational AI chatbot knowledge base using Rasa, an open source chatbot framework and how to integrate this chatbot into a Drupal website using the Component module and JavaScript.

Demystifying Git - Version Control From First Principles

Dwayne McDaniel
of
GitKraken
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Dwayne has been working as a Developer Relations professional since 2016 and has been involved in the wider tech community since 2005. He loves sharing his knowledge by giving talks and he has done so at over a hundred events all over the world. Dwayne currently lives in Chicago and outside of te

DevOps
This session will peel back the shroud of mystery that envelops Git, showing that there is nothing overly complex or terrifying about the inner workings of the world's most popular version control system. This talk is for everyone, from the complete Git novice to folks who have been pushing code for years but maybe have never stopped to look at how Git does its thing.

Drupal 9 Multisite: Lessons Learned from 67 Sites and Counting

Mac Clark
of
NC Dept. of Information Technology
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Mac works on a Drupal 9 multisite platform supporting 67 state government websites. They are migrating the last of their Drupal 7 sites to this platform in summer 2022, and they couldn't be happier to finally be finishing that up. Ha is also a part-time history teacher.

Case Study
DevOps
Drupal Core
Site Building

The Digital Solutions team at the NC Dept. of Information Technology has developed a custom distribution of Drupal 9 that supports 67 state government websites, including Governor Cooper's official site, the COVID-19 Response Portal, and the NC Citizen Portal.

Everything You Wanted to Know about CKEditor 5 and Drupal, But Were Afraid to Ask

Kevin Pittman
of
Georgia Institute of Technology
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Kevin is a Web Services Architect for the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts at Georgia Tech, supporting all of the websites in a college made up of six schools and more than a dozen project centers.

User Interface & Design
PHP / Symfony
Front End
This session will provide an overview of the changes on both the CKEditor side and the Drupal side, and a look at what you'll need to do to get your custom modules updated to work with CKEditor 5.

Finding Purpose and Alignment in Your Career

Chris McGrath
of
Esteemed
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Chris McGrath is the CEO of Esteemed, a company focused on people, workforce management, and human workplace solutions. He is a longtime tech leader, web developer, digital strategist, and solutions architect. He has been an active member, speaker, organizer, and sponsor of the Drupal community since 2011.
Dori Kelner
of
Esteemed
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Dori has a passion for building organizational culture with a strong orientation towards valuing people. At Esteemed, she serves as the VP of Culture + Well-Being, helping to create a compassionate, human-centric workplaces for Esteemed's many knowledge workers and business partners
Community
In this session, Chris McGrath, CEO and Dori Kelner, V.P. of Culture + Well-being at Esteemed will share insights and reflections for mastering self-awareness and connecting with our authentic selves. They will discuss the themes and patterns encountered while working the past 25+ years with developers of all backgrounds

Google Analytics 4: Upgrade Before It's Too Late!

Stephen Pashby
of
DesignHammer
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As Account Manager at DesignHammer, Stephen focuses on sales, account services, website strategy, analytics, and project management.
Site Building
Google has announced the end of support for Universal Analytics in July 2023. Don't wait until your Google Analytics stops working to implement Google Analytics 4! We will review the differences between Universal Analytics and Google Analytics 4, how to best plan your transition and configure equivalent (or better) tracking in Google Analytics 4, and common ways to easily implement Google Analytics 4 in Drupal.

I am Functional and So Can You

JD Flynn
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Community
This session is geared towards individuals who are having difficulties dealing with mental illness diagnosis, people who are curious about getting past the stigma associated with mental illness, or people who are curious and would like to learn more about being a better friend to those who live with mental illness.

Improving Data Access and Editorial Experience for the Center for American Women and Politics

Sean Walsh
of
CrowdCG
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Sean is a co-founder of CrowdCG and works with higher ed and non-profit clients primarily using Drupal, since 2012. Sean works as a full stack developer and provides design oversight for projects.

Jessica Bladon
of
CrowdCG

Jessica is a co-founder of CrowdCG and work with higher ed and non-profit clients primarily using Drupal, since 2012. Jessica manages accounts and projects and works on content strategy and site building.

User Interface & Design
Case Study
Site Building
Front End
The Center for American Women and Politics recently launched 2 Drupal websites that fulfill a long held goal of providing greater access to their data on women officeholders. This presentation will talk about these 2 projects, including the challenges and successes of each.