This track is all about the human and community aspects of Drupal and the Open Web. Join the sessions and learn how you can contribute to the Drupal Project as a whole no matter your expertise level.

"Taking A Project Public - The History of Lagoon” by Alanna Burke is on the first day, Monday October 4th from 12:00 to 12:45 UTC in Hopin-Room 4. Alanna Burke is the Trainer, Developer Advocate and Documentation Writer at Amazee.io. The talk is about Lagoon, Amazee.io’s open source build and deployment system.

“Thorny Problems in Community Management” by George DeMet is on the first day, Monday October 4th from 13:00 to 13:45 UTC in Hopin-Room 4. George DeMet is the founder and CEO of Palantir.net. The session will be a brief outline on the various issues community members face and how the group has worked to address and resolve it.

“Fostering Community Intentionally” by  Katie Richards is on the first day, Monday October 4th from 14:00 to 14:20 UTC in Hopin-Room 4. Katie Richards is the Community Coordinator for Pantheon. The talk will focus on how to translate the strong community aspect of Drupal to a digital one and what can be done for it.

“Prep for Drupal 10’s release in 2022” by Pradeep Venugopal & team is on Tuesday October 5th from 07:00 to 07:45 UTC in Hopin-Room 4. Pradeep Venugopal & Gopinath Manimayam are Architects at Moonraft., Wilfred Arambhan, a Drupal Developer, Divyam Bajaj a Software Engineer & Hari Prasad the Chief Solutions Officer at Moonraft Innovation Labs. The talk will be on the various preparations needed for Drupal10’s release in 2022.

“How Implicit Bias Affects Diversity and Inclusion in Open Source” by Anita Ihuman is on Tuesday October 5th from 08:00 to 08:45 UTC in Hopin-Room 4. Anita Ihuman is a Developer Advocate at Kyverno.

“Need for Web Accessibility during Pandemic” by Junaid Masodi is on Tuesday October 5th from 09:00 to 09:20 UTC in Hopin-Room 4. Junaid Masodi is a Front End Developer at Acquia.

Timothy Lehnen & Rachel Lawson’s talk “Drupal.org Update: Contribution Recognition, GitLab, and more” is on Tuesday October 5th from 09:00 to 09:45 UTC in Hopin-Room 6. Timothy Lehnen is the CTO  and Rachel Lawson is the Community Liaison at Drupal Association.

Drew Gorton’s talk “Websites as a Team Sport: Finding Alignment and Success” is on Wednesday October 6th from 14:30 to 14:50 UTC in Hopin-Room 4. Drew Gorton is the Director of Open Source and Industry Relations at Pantheon.

Bjorn Brala’s talk “Building a Trusted Web with blockchain Timestamps” is on Wednesday October 6th from 12:00 to 12:45 UTC in Hopin-Room 4. Bjorn Brala is the Technical Director at SWIS.

Timothy Lehnen, Heather Rocker & Audra Martin’s talk “Drupal Association Board and Staff Q&A” is on Wednesday October 6th from 13:00 to 13:45 UTC in Hopin-Room 4. Timothy Lehnen is the CTO, Heather Rocker, the Global Executive Director of Drupal Association and Audra Martin is a Board Member of the Drupal Association.

Diego Costa’s talk “How to use your anxiety to your advantage” is on Wednesday October 6th from 14:00 to 14:20 UTC in Hopin-Room 4. Diego Costa is the Director at Acquia/Drupal Digital Lead EPAM Systems.

Mohit Aghera & Piyuesh Kumar’s talk “A Sustainable Approach Drupal Contributions” is on Tuesday October 5th from 09:30 to 09:50 UTC in Hopin-Room 4. Mohit Aghera is a Drupal Technical Architect and Piyuesh Kumar, Practice Lead at QED42.

AmyJune Hineline’s talk “Idea to Action - How to turn your passion into a Drupal Community Project” is on the final day Thursday October 7th from 07:00 to 07:45 UTC in Hopin-Room 4. AmyJune Hineline is the Open Source Community Ambassador at Kanopi Studios.

Fatima Sarah Khalid & Tara King’s talk “What Building in the Open really looks like” is on the final day Thursday October 7th from 08:00 to 08:45 UTC in Hopin-Room 6. Fatima Sarah Khalid is a Developer Programs Engineer and Tara King, the Developer Outreach Manager at Pantheon.

Gary Hockin’s talk “Using Open Source for Fun and Profit” is on the final day Thursday October 7th from 08:00 to 08:45 UTC in Hopin-Room 4. Gary Hockin is the Senior Developer Evangelist at Twilio Inc.

Jose Fernando Hower Barbosa’s talk “From Working on a Production Line to Web Development” is on the final day Thursday October 7th from 09:00 to 09:20 UTC in Hopin-Room 4. Jose Fernando Hower Barbosa is a Teacher and Software Engineer at UpLeveled.

ALL THE ABOVE EVENTS WILL BE ONLINE USING THE HOPIN TECHNICAL EVENTS PLATFORM.