Breakout Room 1

This presentation will discuss the Drupal 7 to Backdrop CMS upgrade process for two Stanford University web applications: Stanford On & Off-Campus Learning opportunities (solo.stanford.edu) and Stanford Seed Funding (seedfunding.stanford.edu). The presentation will cover the decision making process that led the product and developer teams to choose a Backdrop CMS upgrade over rebuild options, and will broadly outline the process for estimating and performing the ~550 hour upgrade.

How one nonprofit landed on Backdrop after several false starts (including a few with Backdrop), from specifications to launch. This session is for anyone who is still debating whether to use Drupal, Backdrop, or some other CMS, or for those new to Backdrop who want to know more about how to avoid the mistakes and frustrations we made getting to launch.

Who would like to share a 5-10 minute presentation on their favorite Backdrop CMS contrib project?

Please, post a note in the comments if you would like to participate or share a project. 

Matomo Analytics provides an opensource self-hosted alternative to Google Analytics. Matomo has some great integrations for Backdrop CMS and some active contributors to the Backdrop community are using Matomo on their personal and client sites. 

Wilbur recently set up a Matomo server on shared hosting for himself and Triplo/Simplo. We'll talk about how the process went and how it is working for us. We'd love to hear from others that are using Matomo on how it's working for them. 

Nate Lampton was the original founder of the Backdrop project and remains a core committer. Nate chairs our weekly developer meetings and will use this session to share some thoughts and facilitate a discussion on core development priorities for the next release and beyond. 

This will be our closing session where participants will have an opportunity to share lessons learned, highlights, and provide feedback on our 5th Backdrop LIVE. 

The Institute furthers these ends by holding its Annual Meeting in early January in Berkeley, California, to share and discuss research. Due to the global pandemic, this year's Annual Meeting was held entirely online. The new IAS website, built on Backdrop CMS, was fundamental in facilitating the online event.

In this discussion, we'll talk about:

1. How to create contrib themes
2. How to maintain contrib themes
3. How to encourage the development of more contrib themes

There is currently an effort being made to port the Organic Groups module from Drupal 7. This is a large and complex module, but important to many sites. In this session, we'll talk about:

• What the Organic Groups module does and why it's important to the community
• The progress of the port 
• If the work is ongoing, how we can work together to expedite completion
• If the work is complete, what we learned from the experience

ProboCI is an open source platform for the testing, debugging, and collaborating on web based projects for Backdrop CMS, Drupal, Wordpress and any PHP based project. It operates on pull requests and generates specific build environments that can be scripted and standardized to provide a uniform way to do both automated and manual testing of modules and interfaces.