News Roundup

The 9th annual New England Drupal Camp 2022 will be held on November 18-19 from 9.00 am to 5.00 pm ET at Rhode Island College, Providence, Rhode Island, USA.

The event is held at The Westin in sunny Brisbane, Queensland for conference sessions on Wednesday 19 & Thursday 20 October and the code sprint on Friday October 21.

Digital accessibility is the inclusive practice of ensuring everyone has equal access to information, functionality, and experience on digital platforms.

DrupalCon Pittsburgh 2023 is scheduled for 5-8 June 2023 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. 

Annertech, a prominent open source digital agency from Ireland has been named a finalist in two categories for the nations coveted digital media awards.

It was a longstanding request for merchants using Drupal Commerce in physical retail environments to be able to accept payment via Venmo.

The role of the CEO is to lead the Drupal Association as a US-based 501c3 nonprofit which serves a global community. Dries Buytaert remains the Project lead for Drupal, and the Association and the project will continue to collaborate closely.

In a post-pandemic recession-prone era, when every digital-transient-companies frantically search for the Digital Transformation mantra to reinvent itself, Drupal companies are hotcakes. Digital Asset Management is a serious business that needs expertise in various fields, making capacity enhancements all the more critical. 

Today is the closing day of Bay Area Drupal Camp 2022. Here are the six 45-minute sessions you can catch up on from the Inspiration hall of Dharma College, where the event takes place in Berkeley, California. 

The first day of this year’s BADCamp is over. Here is the schedule for Friday from the ‘Joy of Being’ hall. 

The central part of the event is the 45-minute sessions covering 23 topics divided into two parallel streams. They are held in ‘Joy of Being’ and ‘Inspiration’ halls. 

The opening day sessions at the ‘Inspiration’ hall at Bay Area Drupal Camp 2022, which is held in Dharma College, Berkeley.

Bay Area Drupal Camp is hosting 23 sessions of 45-minute duration covering two days across two parallel streams. Here are the six back-to-back sessions at ‘Joy of Being’ for the opening day. 

This year, the BADCamp is hosting two training sessions. The first day will see 'Getting Started with Drupal' by Tearyne, and the next day will see Decoupling Drupal using GraphQL & Gatsby: A Crash Course by Jesus.

This year, BAD Camp is hosting five different summits, one being a virtual summit.

Multiple vulnerabilities are possible if an untrusted user has access to write Twig code, including potential unauthorized read access to private files, the contents of other files on the server, or database credentials.

A total of 126 issues were attempted. 10 mentors and 59 participants from 32 organizations participated.

Here are a few ways with which, you can contribute in Drupal testing.

The session recordings of the Drupal Diversity and Inclusion camp is live.

Tracker module is deprecated

ImageX is featured for the third consecutive year in The Globe and Mail's Report on Business ranking of Canada’s Top Growing Companies.

You will understand ins and outs of Drupal
You will be able to build your own Drupal site.
You will be able to manage your Drupal site.
You will be able to install Drupal Computer
You will be able to create content on your Drupal site
You will be able to layout your Drupal site
You will be able to install, update and use Drupal Modules
You will be able to install, update and use Drupal Themes

At the UX sessions, I heard the familiar talk about not using flickering images and unstoppable videos or sound. Only to be presented with just that during the keynote talks!

A couple of developers I spoke with during DrupalCon Prague expressed concern about the disappearance of the Source button. It will become impossible to use HTML editing because of this. In my experience, HTML editing is used primarily to find workarounds for editing problems. Hopefully, in CKEditor 5, we won’t need these workarounds anymore. 

The update to CKEditor 5 is a big deal, as one can tell by the number of sessions during DrupalCon Prague dedicated to this project. CKEditor 5 has been written from scratch. It is an entirely new editor with different architecture and APIs. The new architect makes browser-specific bugs a thing of the past.

Check out this book by Aavik Kumar to better understand basic to advance concepts like creating custom modules, how to create a website and Drupal site building.

You can now submit a session for DrupalCon Pittsburgh 2023 and use this opportunity for increased visibility and thought leadership.

The latest version of Drush 11.2.0 was released today, here are the changes.

The Drop Times will be a media partner for the New England DrupalCamp 2022 (NEDCamp). The 2022 edition of the camp will be held from November 18 to 19.

The winners for the first ever Women in Drupal Award were announced today at DrupalCon Prague 2022.

At the moment, you need to go to Drupal.org to find modules to add to your project. What if the modules were available within your Drupal project and could be installed with a simple push of a button in the user interface?

The current way the issue queue is organized can be pretty frustrating for module maintainers. There is little room for project management or prioritizing issues. To solve this, the community created ContribKanban. With GitLab, each project gets Kanban boards out of the box to help manage the issues.

Here are the highlights for the third day of DrupalCon Prague 2022

Dries talks about privacy, owning the data, how Drupal overcomes the problems, etc. Here are some mobile grabs send by Drupal developer Anish A from the venue. Thank you Anish, for sharing it with us. 

Drupal 10.0.0-beta1 is now available for site owners and module or theme authors to test compatibility and upgrade paths for Drupal 10.0.

The last day of DrupalCon Prague is focused on Contribution. If you want to contribute here is the schedule for the 4th day.

Here is the schedule for Day 3 at DrupalCon Prague 2022, plan your day in advance to not miss out on any important sessions.

Check out which sessions you would like to attend on the 2nd day of DrupalCon Prague.

Sword takes an alternative approach. Instead of being WordPress with extra features and a new file structure, it’s Symfony embedding WordPress. All WordPress pages and logic, including WP-CLI, run through Symfony.

This is the 23rd on-time feature release of Backdrop CMS.

Symphony3 is hosting a short community training session on 'Creating usable & accessible web pages with Drupal'.

Here is a list of sessions from the first day of DrupalCon Prague 2022. Decide which of these sessions you would not like to miss.

If you have any questions or are just curious about the candidates for this year then join the Board Election Open Forum meeting to get your answers.

The Drupal Web Development Course by Debug Academy is an online live instruction course for beginners or developers trying to improve their Drupal skills.

If you wish to help guide, assign tasks, and mentor students then DrupalEasy is looking for you.

Check out the recent Drupal Association blog to understand and vote for the candidates for the 1 open at-large board seat.

The beauty of Drupal is that the community went to extra lengths to encourage contributions and gave the organizations an incentive to sponsor upstream development. But certain companies have reportedly attempted to gaming the gamified credit system, generating unwanted heat. Now the community thinks aloud about which contribution they should construe as genuine and which as trivial. The author suggests some changes to the system while sharing a suppressed perspective. Views are personal.

NEDCamp 2022 to be held in-person on 18th and 19th November 2022 at Rhode Island College.

Here is the DrupalCamp Atlanta 2022 Schedule.

Code Engima announced on their blog, that they have been awarded a G-Cloud 13 framework contract.