The Drop Times: Introducing Drupal Starshot and Charting a New Course for the Future
Specbee: Using Drupal 10’s Asset Library to Streamline Asset Handling
The Drop Times: Women in Drupal Luncheon at DrupalCon Portland 2024: A Convergence for Change
LostCarPark Drupal Blog: Drupal Advent Calendar 2024 - Call for Ideas
DrupalCon Portland starts today, so it seems a good time to start thinking about the 2024 Advent Calendar!
Advent Calendar? In May?
If there’s one thing I learned last year, it’s start early! We had a few hairy moments last year, and a couple of later nights than I would have liked, so this year I want to get the ball moving early.
Why a Drupal Advent Calendar?
For fun, mostly!
But also to promote the great Drupal projects and the people working on them.
It started on a whim in 2022, when I had the idea at the last possible moment, as I was falling asleep on the last day of November. As there wasn’t…
Drupal Association blog: Drupal lead Dries Buytaert announces a completely new Drupal CMS 23 years after its creation
PORTLAND, Ore., 6 May 2024—Twenty-three years after creating Drupal as a university student and hundreds of thousands of websites later, Dries Buytaert announced today that a new version of Drupal will launch at the end of 2024. Drupal is an Open Source CMS that is foundational to a great digital experience platform. Its reliable, highly secure, and flexible tools build the versatile, structured content needed to create dynamic web experiences.
This new version of Drupal will incorporate the best of the 50,000+ modules created over the past decade into a curated, out-of-the-box experience for organizations wishing to build powerful websites quickly.
“We built this amazing platform to power the most robust digital experiences. And now we will make it more accessible to non-developers,” said Dries. “Drupal Starshot is an initiative that will deliver this new version of Drupal within eight months.”
“The Drupal Association is excited to support the Drupal Starshot initiative and to begin marketing the new version of Drupal as the first, best stop for those interested in understanding what Drupal can do,” said Owen Lansbury, Chair of the Drupal Association’s board of directors.
On 6 May, founder and project lead Dries Buytaert gave an inspiring keynote—also known as the Driesnote—introducing this completely new version of Drupal: Drupal Starshot.
Dries described how, much like the race to space in the 1960s, Drupal is also in a race. The web is moving forward, with or without Drupal. Drupal has a long history of being a leader in the Open Web, but it needs its “Moonshot” moment. Dries reiterated how the future of Drupal’s success will come from broadening its usability to a wider audience. The way to do this, Dries said, is to open Drupal’s powerful tools to non-developers.
What is Drupal Starshot, and how does it differ from the traditional version of Drupal? Drupal Starshot will leverage Drupal Core but have a different governance model to move fast, allowing for more innovation more quickly.
After Drupal Starshot is introduced, when someone visits the Drupal.org download page, both traditional Drupal Core and Drupal Starshot will be available (under a different name, still to be determined). When Drupal Starshot is selected, it will automatically download the features that the user wants for their use case, making it easier for new users to try and test out Drupal, all from right in their browser. Drupal Core will still be the fundamental building block of Drupal Starshot and can still be used independently from Drupal Starshot for custom builds.
How will this new Drupal be different?
The Drupal that exists today, known as “Drupal Core,” will continue to exist and will be maintained by core maintainers. The Drupal Starshot initiative will introduce a new version of Drupal with a fully featured out-of-box experience.
Features that Drupal Starshot will include are:
- Next generation page builder
- Project Browser + Recipes
- Automatic updates
- Key contributed modules
- Easy configuration
- Default content
- And possibly more!
Drupal community members who are interested in contributing to the development of Drupal Starshot can submit their interest via this interest form or join Dries at several Birds of a Feather sessions happening during DrupalCon Portland.
Watch the full Driesnote on the Drupal Association YouTube Channel.
About DrupalCon
This year, DrupalCon North America is a four-day conference held in Portland, Oregon, from 6-9 May. Over 1,300 professionals and Drupal users collaborate on the project for a week. The Drupal Association is a non-profit organization that caters to the needs of Drupal and its worldwide community. It focuses on the growth of the Drupal community and supports the project’s vision to create a safe, secure, and Open Web for everyone.
About Drupal and the Drupal Association
Drupal is a powerful open-source content management system for everyone, from small nonprofits to enterprises. It is used by millions of people and organizations worldwide, made possible by a community of 100,000-plus contributors and enabling more than 1.3 million users on Drupal.org. The Drupal Association is a non-profit organization dedicated to accelerating the Drupal software project, fostering the community, and supporting its growth.
Talking Drupal: Talking Drupal #449 - Agile Methodologies
Today we are talking about Agile Methodologies, How to pick the best one, and why they matter with guest Chris Wells. We’ll also cover CKEditor Text Transformation / AutoCorrect as our module of the week.
For show notes visit: www.talkingDrupal.com/449
Topics- Drupal FL Camp talk
- Fundamentals of Agile
- How do you square long term planning
- What is Redfin Solutions's preferred methodology
- What is Crystal Agile Methodology
- Do other methodologies have web specific versions
- Would you agree that large companies can use different agile methodologies
- Have you ever used Scrumban
- Listener Question: Shivan xamount:: Story points are usually equated to fibonacci numbers. These are not supposed to correlate to hours, what do you think about that?
- Drupal Camp FL - Letting Agile Emergeupal Camp FL - Letting Agile Emerge
- Scrum vs Kanban vs Scrumban
- Pirate module
- Alfred auto expansion
- 4 Kitchen’s talk - Consultancy scrum
- Sam Ryan project management methodologies
Chris Wells - chrisfromredfin.dev chrisfromredfin
HostsNic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi Matthew Grasmick - grasmash
MOTW CorrespondentMartin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu
- Brief description:
- Have you ever wanted CKEditor to autocorrect symbols like the copyright mark, the “not equals” sign, and fractions, from their text equivalents? There’s a module for that
- Module name/project name:
- Brief history
- How old: created in Mar 2024 by Gedvan Dias of Redfin Solutions
- Versions available: 1.0.0-alpha1, which works with CKeditor 4 on Drupal 8, and 2.0.0-alpha1, which works with CKEditor 5 on Drupal 9 and 10
- Maintainership
- Actively maintained, was released just a few weeks ago
- Not much documentation of its own, but the module leverages CKEditor’s Automatic text transformation, which has a fair bit of documentation on CKEditor.com
- Number of open issues: only 1 open issues, which is the Project Update Bot’s automatically-created Drupal 11 compatibility issue
- Usage stats:
- 8 sites
- Module features and usage
- By default the module enables four categories of transformations: 'symbols', 'mathematical', 'typography', and 'quotes'
- You can override the module’s plugin if you want a different set enabled, but the module also provides a hook you can use to alter the active sets or define custom transformations, similar to using emojis in Slack, for example
Drupalize.Me: DrupalCon Portland 2024: Issue Queue Initiatives
This Wednesday, May 8, I'm speaking at DrupalCon Portland 2024 as part of the Drupal Project Initiatives Keynote. The keynote is kicking off Contribution Day on Wednesday first thing in the morning. I'll be highlighting initiatives and programs that are helping people contribute in a strategic way, and as a result, increasing throughput in the core issue queue. Throughput is the rate that a project’s issues are resolved and committed. And it’s one way to gauge the health of an open source project like Drupal.
Check out these resources to learn more about the initiative and programs I highlight in this presentation.
Amber Matz Mon, 05/06/2024 - 11:00The Drop Times: Embracing the Community Spirit: DrupalCon Portland 2024
Today is an exciting day as DrupalCon Portland kicks off. The Drupal community eagerly awaits this event for its wealth of sessions, interactions, and updates. From the highly anticipated Driesnote, where Dries Buytaert shares his latest thoughts and plans, to various featured sessions that delve into specific topics, there's much to look forward to.
At this year’s conference, we're seeing updates on various initiatives and a host of workshops and trainings from different organizations. We also have the Healthcare Summit and the Return of the Nonprofit Summit, a great opportunity for Drupal users working in the nonprofit sector to connect and learn from one another.
Recognizing the need to continuously attract new talents to the Drupal community, DrupalCon 2024 has made significant efforts to reach out to students. This includes targeted advertising to local student communities and focusing on the career-enhancing opportunities at the DrupalCon job fair. Mentorship programs, resume help, and a special student discount ticket priced at only $50 are also included.
Another exciting addition this year is the community-designed DrupalCon T-shirt. The Drupal Association ran a contest for the official T-shirt design, receiving many creative entries. The winning design will be announced at the event and featured on the free attendee T-shirt.
Now, let’s look back at what we covered last week:
Alka Elizabeth, sub-editor, TDT, sat down with Thor Andre Gretland, the dynamic Head of Sales and Business Advisor at Frontkom. They discussed the exciting synergies between Gutenberg and Drupal. Thor shared his extensive knowledge about the groundbreaking Drupal Gutenberg project. During this discussion, it was revealed that the Frontkom team has four updates for the community, including major enhancements that will be part of the Drupal Gutenberg 4.0 release, set to be unveiled here at DrupalCon Portland 2024.
Additionally, Alka Elizabeth talked with Angie Byron, the Community Director at Aiven and a highly respected figure in the open-source community. Throughout their conversation, Angie shared her experiences and the pivotal decisions that have shaped her career. She discussed her challenges and transformations, such as introducing automated testing in Drupal, her leadership roles in various community projects, and her advocacy for diversity and inclusion within tech communities. Dive into the interview here.
Last week, I had the opportunity to share insights directly from the Drupal Initiative Lead keynote speakers at DrupalCon Portland. Among the speakers were Cristina Chumillas, Janez Urevc, Ted Bowman, Fran Garcia-Linares, Jürgen Haas, and Mateu Aguiló Bosch, who were all set to provide valuable updates and insights on various aspects of Drupal and its ecosystem.
LagoonCon Portland 2024 is set to take place on May 6, 2024. Following its successful debut in Pittsburgh last year, this free event hosted by amazee.io is designed for developers and tech leaders to dive into discussions about Lagoon. Alka Elizabeth, sub-editor at The Drop Times, has penned an article featuring detailed discussions with the speakers of Lagoon Portland, Toby Bellwood, the Lagoon Product Lead at amazee.io, Christoph Weber, Solutions Architect at Pronovix, and Bryan Gruneberg, CEO and CTO at Workshop Orange.
Norah Medlin brings over two decades of software development immersion to Stanford WebCamp, offering a strategic blueprint for maximizing project success. In her session on forging high-value partnerships and driving transformative change, she unveils essential insights for navigating the complexities of modern project management.
Linux Foundation has launched the 2024 World of Open Source: Global Spotlight Survey, designed to examine the nuances of open-source technology in different regions and industries.
DrupalCon Barcelona 2024 is calling for submissions of case studies highlighting exceptional Drupal website projects developed between October 2023 and September 2024. The Drupal Camp Pune 2024 organisers seek talented individuals passionate about technology and community building to volunteer and add a unique touch to the array of planned activities.
DevOps professionals on the making can take the Pantheon WebOps certification exam onsite at the DrupalCon Portland venue. The exam registration is free of charge.
Additionally, Carlos O. launched the IXP Fellowship initiative to help aspiring Drupal developers bridge the skills gap. The program sought community feedback through a survey to define competencies for inexperienced developers aiming to become junior professionals.
Other generic updates are here: Maotic, for the first time, has become a mentor organization for the coveted Google Summer of Code project for 2024. Learn about their winning projects here. Drupal is introducing an experimental navigation module in version 10.3 prior to introducing it officially in Drupal 11. Selwyn Polit's online reference book, "Drupal at your fingertips" is now officially listed in Drupal.org. Last year's Drupal Pitch-burgh contest-winning project, Drupal API Client, has released version 1.0. A new Drupal podcast has begun. Platform.sh DevRel Team has started a new podcast series called 'ChangeMode'. Marine Gandy hosts the show.
We acknowledge that there are more stories to share. However, due to selection constraints, we must pause further exploration for now.
Stay tuned with The Drop Times. We are here to ensure you don't miss out on anything happening at the event. Our volunteers are on the ground to keep you updated with interviews, featured articles, coverage of sessions, and short video interviews with attendees and speakers.
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Thank you,
Sincerely
Kazima Abbas
Sub-editor, The DropTimes.