Idea to Action - How to turn your passion into a Drupal Community Project
AmyJune Hineline
Kanopi Studios
Discover how to use your strengths and passions to give back to Drupal through a community project.
Community
Drupal Camp Asheville 2024 - July 12th-14th
Anyone Can Help Upgrade Drupal Projects to Be Drupal 9 Compatible!
Mark Shropshire
Mediacurrent
This session will demonstrate how anyone, who wants to be involved, can help the Drupal Community upgrade the ~8800 Drupal 8 modules to be compatible with Drupal 9. Session attendees can expect the session to dive straight into a live demonstration of working through a Drupal 8 module, showing it working with Drupal 9.
Topics discussed
Energizing the Seated
Avi Schwab
Avi will be sharing some advice on staying active while working remotely. The session is based on 4+ years of remote work, 2 years of work with a personal trainer, and the book Deskbound by Dr. Kelly Starrett. Avi will share some tips on how to stay active and moving when you're in front of a monitor for 40+ hours a week.
Speaker Diversity Workshop (Morning)
Qymana Botts
Nerdery
This workshop helps speakers from underrepresented groups prepare to speak at conferences. This will, in turn, help local meetups, Drupal Camps, and even DrupalCons develop a more diverse speaker roster. The workshop helps folks bust through their impostor syndrome and develop a topic, title, pitch, bio, and outline.
The workshop covers:
First Time Contributor Workshop (Morning)
AmyJune Hineline
Kanopi Studios
Come for the code, stay for the community.
Drupal thrives on community contributions in the form of patches and documentation to both contributed modules and core. This helps the project move forward and stay relevant.
Working Effectively in a Distributed Team
Thomas Lattimore
Platform.sh
A growing number agencies and development teams today work remotely or at least co-located. In fact, the Drupal Project itself is almost entirely developed by individuals in different locations.
Contributing Back to Drupal
AmyJune Hineline
Kanopi Studios
Come for the code, stay for the community.
Drupal thrives on community contributions in the form of patches and documentation to both contributed modules and core. This helps the project move forward and stay relevant.
Learn the basics of data analytics by visualizing the Drupal ecosystem
Leul W Shewangizaw
In this session we'll learn how to gather, clean, and visualize Drupals usage statistics using essential data science tools.
Participants will leave the session with a host of ideas on how they can use these tools to analyze their own data; both for client work and within their organization.
We'll cover:
