DrupalCon 2021, live or online? It's up to you!
DrupalCon, something we’re looking forward to every single year! Not a coincidence that we’re proud to be a Diamond Sponsor for the third time in a row. Again, a digital version of the event of course. But for everything, there’s a solution! That’s why we’re extremely enthusiastic to also support DrupalCamp Belgium this year. Together we’re organizing a physical Belgian version of DrupalCon. Because let’s face it, getting together in real life is just that little bit more exciting!
We’re already looking forward to listening about what’s going on in the community, learning a lot from our peers, and connecting with clients, partners, and other Drupal enthusiasts.
Just like other years, we’re sharing our knowledge in the marketing and tech tracks. Join us for a session? We’ve listed them below:
Paragraphs, Gutenberg, CKEditor, WYSIWYG or Layout Builder, or all of them?
- Who: Toon De Geest & Frederik Wouters
- What: To know where you are going you sometimes have to look into the past.
We look at the timeline, and how content editing evolved, and its pros and cons.
Then we have a look into the future and the role of Layout Builder.
We'll show demos on D9 with paragraphs (how it was done in the past) and a live demo with Layout builder, how it's done in the open source Rocketship distribution (see d.o.) - When: Monday, 4 October 2021 | 14:00 - 14:20 UTC
- Where: Hopin - Room 2
Open Personalization with Apache Unomi & Mautic workshop
- Who: Nick Veenhof
- What: Personalization is a hot topic, but in the era of consent, privacy, and GDPR it may seem it is no longer acceptable to do any form of personalization. Personalization doesn't necessarily have to be this evil non-transparent tracker without any advantage to you as an end-user.
Personalization is a proven easy of increasing engagement when done right. The user feels understood, it leads to higher conversion but it has to be done in all trust and consent. In recent years many software companies were created to deliver these highly contextualized experiences using personalization but none of them really delivered the necessary trust so that you could use the technology in the same way you are using Drupal.
In the landscape of personalization there is a new open source player in town and this is Apache Unomi & N8N as integration hub.
I will interactively explain, by means of exercises, how Drupal, Mautic, Apache Unomi & N8N can be seen as a Digital Experience Platform without lock-in, without handing over your data to a company with other interests in this data.
The workshop will delve technically deeper into what Apache Unomi is, how it can be used and how personalized experiences can be delivered in a way, compliant with the GDPR rulings and with respect to users' trust. - When: Tuesday, 5 October 2021 | 07:00- 07:45 UTC
- Where: Hopin - Room 6
Drupal Distributions - common challenges and solutions
- Who: Nick Veenhof
- What: This panel discussion will explore some of the common challenges that Drupal distributions face and how each Distribution addresses the same issue in different ways. Since DrupalCon Europe 2020 we have had a number of meet-ups where distribution maintainers have been sharing their progress on various issues as well as highlighting common challenges. We have all learned plenty from each other already but never run short on topics to explore, from managing configuration updates, front-end theme approaches, headless strategies to the governance of the contributor community. We will discuss some of the key learning from the year and look ahead to how Drupal core can better support Drupal distributions in the future.
- When: Thursday, 7 October 2021 | 07:00 - 07:45 UTC
- Where: Hopin - Room 6
A deep dive of the possibilities of layout builder for the site-builder & content editor
- Who: Wesley De Vrient & Frederik Wouters
- What: We'll show how we've built the content editing experience which is available in the Open Source Drupal 9 Rocketship Distribution. See the pictures at https://www.drupal.org/project/dropsolid_rocketship.
This distribution uses all kinds of Layout Builder contributed modules such as Layout Builder Asymmetric Translations, Layout Builder Extra Templates, Layout Builder Lock, Layout Builder Modal, Layout Builder Operation Link, Layout Builder Restrictions & Layout Builder Restrictions by role, and more.
All of these modules are combined together to create a wonderful but ambitious editing experience where paragraphs are no longer needed to support complex use cases while maintaining a certain control over the look and feel. This power of paragraphs is kept, but not using it simplifies quite a lot from an entity point of view.
We'll explain how we came to this mix of modules, the challenges we had and have, and how we tweaked the interface to what it is now.
Next to that, we'll explain where we still want to go and how you can use this distribution for your clients and address the ever-growing need for more "WYSIWYG" demand while keeping the structure in the content to power ambitious & future proof digital ecosystems. - When: Thursday, 7 October 2021 | 08:00 - 08:45 UTC
- Where: Hopin - Room 3
Don't be shy, come say hi!
We’re really looking forward to this event. Are you joining us? Pass by our virtual booth at DrupalCon, or follow a live session during the physical event of DrupalCamp Belgium. See you there!
Our sessions at DrupalCon in 2020
Europe
- Dominique De Cooman | Creating more value with Drupal by offering it as a DXP
- Anneleen Demasure & Frédéric De Vries | How Open Source & Return on Experience can be a driving force behind success for mid-market companies
- Valery Lourie | There is a reason for that (read the source and learn)
- Nick Veenhof | Open personalization with Apache Unomi in the GDPR era
- Mattias Michaux | Drupal and Ansible: a way of managing a 2000+ environment infrastructure
- Leen Penders | Building Frictionless Customer Journeys with Drupal, Mautic and Unomi
- Nick Veenhof & Daniël Smidt | Welcome to the era of data ownership
- Dropsolid Experience Cloud live sessions:
- Dropsolid DXP for business & agency owners
- Dropsolid DXP for marketers
- Dropsolid DXP for developers
Read our recap of DrupalCon 2020
Global
- Dominique De Cooman | Move from CMS to DXP to stay relevant
Our sessions at DrupalCon 2019
- Dominique De Cooman | Stop Buying Drupal Websites, Buy Open Digital Experiences to Increase Customer Lifetime Value
- Mattias Michaux | The Battle of the Local Development Tools [Panel Discussion]
- Nick Veenhof | Machine Learning: Creating More Relevant Search Results With “Learn To Rank”
- Wouter De Bruycker | Drupal SEO Pitfalls and How To Avoid Them
2190 minutes core contribution for Drupal
Klopt, 2190 minuten. Door deelnemers de kans te geven om een korte enquête in te vullen, in ruil voor 15 minuten core contribution time schonken we 37 uur aan development tijd aan Drupal core!