Breakout Room 1

We have no official facilitators for this session. 

Office hours are a place where you can bring your questions to other Backdrop CMS site architects, developers, and designers for discussion and support. 

In this session, let's focus on the basics of getting started with Backdrop CMS. This might include questions about content types and fields, but might also include any other questions you have about getting started with Backdrop CMS. 

If you have questions about any of the following, this would be a good time to ask:

We are looking for 5 people to give a short demo of a module or theme. Either a module they maintain or just one they like to use. Could be an obscure module that site architechts should know about or a more popular module that you love to use.

We have five slots during this session:

Welcome to Backdrop LIVE.

We will ask (but don't require) that everyone introduce themselves and tell us a little about their experience with or interest in Backdrop CMS. Other agenda items for this opening session:

1. How Backdrop LIVE works
2. Welcome message from Nate Lampton
3. Opportunity to add topics to the schedule

We'll explore the situation PSU was in with multiple Drupal 7 sites, the decision and process of moving to Backdrop, and some of the efficiencies we found along the way to move these sites. 

In our final wrap-up session for this iteration of Backdrop LIVE, we'll summarize what we've learned and make plans for the future.

We've been grappling with this problem for years, lacking any consensus on the best way forward. With discussions of Backdrop CMS 2.x underway, now seems like a good time to figure this out and make a decision. 

In this discussion, I'd like to review the options available and see where the current consensus is at. Much time has passed since this was discussed in detail and some folks may have changed their opinions. Can we build towards a consensus solution?

This is one of those issues that might require a real-time discussion to break the log jam.

This discussion builds on conversations at various user groups and Midcamp session .  I will do a quick demo and then open Q and A session. 

Drawing from real-world case studies we will dive into the technical intricacies of migrating from Drupal 7 to Backdrop CMS, offering practical tips, best practices, and common pitfalls to avoid. We will demo modules developed in 2023 that automate and simplify migrations 

At Midcamp I did a presentation that did a detailed comparison of how Layout Builder in modern Drupal compares to the layout system in Backdrop CMS. From this I learned some interesting lessons that I hope can be applied to the Backdrop CMS layout system.  I'll use this session to briefly review the lessons I learned and share my proposals. Looking for a discussion about how to improve the Layout system in Backdrop, based upon what we can learn from Drupal Layout Builder.

Do you have questions about Backdrop CMS? Come along and we will try to answer them.