Due to AI's ability to grind and find vulnerabilities, security updates are coming out faster than ever. How can the Backdrop CMS community adjust to this faster pace of vulnerability discoveries and security releases?
In this session we will look at different hosting options available for BackdropCMS, including installation and updates options via WebUI.
One special item is how to sync Pantheon upstream records with core updates made via WebUI
https://www.jenlampton.com/blog/choose-one-manual-updates-backdrop-cms-or-pantheon-upstream
Let's share AI lessons we have learned and tools we are using with each other.
Everyone will get a chance to talk about interesting things that they have tried or accomplished with AI, good or bad. Or share an AI tool you have recently added to your toolbox.
EDIT: I changed the name of this session to take the focus off of Drop Suite and focus instead on the idea of building a new CRM for Backdrop that is native to Backdrop CMS. I will give a demo of Drop Suite, but we may also talk about similar work being done by others and how to coordinate that work (if possible).
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This is a time for reflection on what we have learned at Backdrop LIVE, what we plan to do with our new found knowledge/experiences, and where we are headed as an opensource community.
We welcome everyone to participate and share your Backdrop LIVE experiences.
I built my first Progressive Web App, with help from Claude, for my personal website https://tvtim.simplo.site.
I will demo the phone app and talk about:
Backdrop supports importing content and other data using the Feeds module.
There are also other ways to import data from particular systems and ways to refine data before import.
This session will be a chance to learn and discuss the different methods available.
A tour of the new ai module family for Backdrop CMS, now in backdrop-contrib. The core ai module gives Backdrop one API for chat, embeddings, moderation and
structured decisions. Separate provider modules connect it to OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Mistral, AWS Bedrock, Ollama and others, so a site can switch models
without rewriting code. On top of that core sit modules for:
Managing API keys, credentials, and other secrets across multiple websites can quickly become a headache. What happens when a credential needs to be rotated? How do you securely share credentials across sites without duplicating them everywhere? And how can applications access external services without exposing the underlying keys?
Keymaster and Gatekeeper are two open-source projects I'm building to address these challenges.
How far can we really push Backdrop beyond being "just" a CMS? D10/11 is thought of as being "for enterprise users," but what about Backdrop?
For example, my company has built two commercial B2B SaaS applications on Backdrop: a higher-education CRM and a faculty activity reporting system. Both serve hundreds of users and manage thousands of records, with integrations for institutional single sign-on, email, SMS, and other external services; much more than just managing web pages.