Instead, she explained the complexity of the problem and gave us some practical approaches to helping solve it. I'm sure I wasn't the only audience member hoping Ashe would give us a silver bullet for diversity problems in our industry. My favorite part of DrupalCon was probably Ashe Dryden's "Programming Diversity" session. I think we all appreciated being able to thank Aaron for the years he spent contributing to the Drupal Community and to give a token of our appreciation back to him and his family. A couple rooms full of people were able to enjoy some food and drink, and talk with Aaron and his family via Google Hangout. It was good to see so many people turn out for the "Drupal DoGooders Happy Hour" that went to benefit Aaron Winborn. They're now full projects on and we're planning on having a release for each in the coming weeks. Jen Lampton has done a fantastic job leading the initiative and it was great to see so many people working on Twig at the code sprints on Friday.įinally, John, Garrett and I spent a lot of time discussing the future of Center and Prototype, the base and starter themes Aten uses internally to kickstart projects. This change will be one of the greatest boons to front-end development for Drupal in years. I'm extremely excited that Twig is going to make it into Drupal 8. Jared Ponchot's talk, "Designing on Purpose: Design Process & Deliverables in the Responsive Age", dove into the UX side of designing for a responsive web while Sam Richards and Mason Wendell gave front-end developers lots to think about in their session "Managing Responsive Web Design with Sass and Breakpoint". Responsive web design has had a huge impact on how we design and develop websites. KenĪ recurring theme that surfaced in a number of sessions was that of changing processes. As always, there were plenty of incredible sessions, so many people to catch up with, and no shortage of after-parties. Our team was privileged to be sponsors, speakers, and co-organizers for the event. With more that 3,300 registrations, this was the largest DrupalCon yet. Ryan Szrama - Drupal Commerce module author.Last week 9 of us from Aten attended DrupalCon Portland, 2013. So if you didn't have a chance to attend the conference I do recommend watching videos on youtube channel.Īnd of course DrupalCon is a great opportunity to meet amazing people! Here are few photos of famous Drupal-people :)ĭries Buytaert - Drupal founder. ![]() But most of the sessions were recorded and we can watch them online. Everyone could find at least few sessions he wanted to attend, from beginner level and to advanced stuff. ![]() ![]() There was a lot of sessions, up to 10 threads in the same time and we had hard times deciding where to go. All these changes make Drupal even more powerful tool for businesses of any size, from small to enterprise. Drupal 8 becomes more object oriented and robust, it incorporates components from Symfony framework and thanks to community efforts and code sprint, Drupal 8 will use Twig as a theming engine. Great changes are coming and community is really excited about it. Friendly atmosphere, lots of great sessions and BoFs, networking, new friends, code sprint, parties and beer - that's how it was! :) It was my first time at DrupalCon and I enjoyed it a lot.
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