Coordinator of Drupal Decoupled Menus Initiative and a Senior Technology Consultant at Pantheon, Brian Perry, see framework-agnostic web components as a good fit for Drupal. In this email interview, Brian talks to the Drop Times about his first brush with the community and the Generic Drupal Web Components project.

MidCamp returns in-person in April, 2023!

How about that pandemic, eh? It sure sucks.

Not only did it cause us to stop meeting in public for a while, it also brought on the very real phenomenon of ‘virtual event’ burnout. While it’s always good to see people over Zoom or talk in Slack, there is nothing as awesome as being in the same place and having face to face conversations.

So, we are bringing MidCamp back in person for 2023 and we hope you can join us. (And don’t worry, we’ll have options for joining remotely too!)

Mark Your Calendar

Make plans to be in Chicago, at the DePaul University Student Center, for April 26-28, 2023.

Here’s our tentative timeline:

• Today: You read this Save the Date
• Nov 28, 2022: Call for Speakers starts
• Dec 5, 2022: Call for Sponsors officially kicks off (no need to wait, if you want to sponsor, reach out)
• Jan 18, 2023: Call for Speakers closes
• April 26, 2023: MidCamp starts!

Stay In The Loop

Join the MidCamp Slack and some hang out with the community online. We will be making announcements there from time to time. We’re also on Twitter and Mastodon.

Keep an eye on this space, we will be releasing more blog posts with venue details, hotel and travel options, fun social events, speaker announcements and more!

We can’t wait to see you soon! Don’t forget, cancel all those other plans and make MidCamp the only thing happening on your calendar from April 26-28, 2023. 😀

Manager of Developer Advocacy at Pantheon, John Richards II, talks to the Drop Times about why D7 is no more an option and how while differences fade away between WordPress and Drupal, capabilities emerge demarcating the two.

Given there are so many sites still running on Drupal 7 and the upgrade process is more rebuild than upgrade, with Drupal 7's end-of-life past due, it's hard to know the path forward.

What if your site is already decoupled, and you are beginning to wonder if it was the right choice? The question becomes, does the higher effort required to maintain and iterate on a decoupled site still match your product or business goals?

We had to reshape the structure and vision for [DrupalCon Portland] to better meet community needs in a COVID-conscious world, recalls Von Eaton as he speaks about the importance of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. The Director of Programs, DA, was replying to TDT over an email correspondence as a curtain raiser to the New England Drupal Camp 2022.

As long as the Drupal community is willing to experiment with new methods, frameworks, and technologies and openly share that knowledge, then I see a long future for Drupal, predicts Michael Miles as he replies to our email interview prior to the New England Drupal Camp 2022.

Talking Drupal co-host and one of the organizers of NEDCamp, Nic Laflin talks to the Drop Times.

Whether it’s an eCommerce site with a little bit of content or a content site with a little bit of eCommerce Drupal Commerce allows you to get up and running quickly with standard eCommerce functionality, vouches Kyle Einecker, a Senior Technical Architect at Perficient. TDT talked to him at the onset of the New England Drupal Camp 2022.