Module Showcase

Have you ported or created a module that you want to share? Perhaps you are excited about a module that you've recently discovered and think it deserves a bit of a celebration?

This event is open for anyone to share about a module.  I'll be sharing a few that I've done; hopefully others will too.

A hive of activity?

During a discussion on bee during the last Backdrop Live, there was discussion around the site alias functionality that drush has, which would enable bee to perform actions on remote installs of Backdrop.  Given that drush support for Backdrop is likely to end with the Drupal 7 End of Life I think that ensuring this functionality is available for bee going forward is becoming more and more important. I would like to explore with people who used the functionality

Contrib Lightning Talks

There  are over 900 contributed projects in the Backdrop CMS contrib space on Github, not all of which have official releases on BackdropCMS.org. 

Please, post a comment if you have a contrib project you would like to share. Either a project you maintain or just one that you love to use and want to share with others. 

Each person will have 5-10 minutes per project. 

This is very informal. You can demo a module on a live site, a demo site, or just describe the module. Anything goes. 

Top 10 Module Porting Challenges

"This discussion would cover what issues devs have run into so far and if we solved them, how we did it. Special attention will be paid to examples of modules that can be referenced for solutions. Suggested issues include CTools dependencies, Entity issues, User Roles, and others."

Come prepared to share the contrib module porting problems that most frustrate you and ideas or resources that you found helpful is solving them. The goal of this sessions is to come up with a document, blog post, or list of resources to help with the porting of future modules. 

Promoting Backdrop CMS

We are looking at the idea of creating a structured marketing committee for Backdrop CMS that will operate in a more structured and organized fashion than our current Outreach meetings.

The purpose of this session will be to talk about how this new marketing committee will operate and to help set some goals or objectives for this committee to focus on. 

In this session we'll:

  1. Outline the current marketing committee proposal.
  2. Solicit feedback and ideas.
  3. Brainstorm goals and objectives for this committees consideration.

Backdrop for Beginners - Layouts

The layout system in Backdrop CMS is a powerful system for building custom pages. In this session, we'll walk through the process of creating custom layouts. 

Some topics we will include:

  • How layouts work
    • Visibility conditions
  • Blocks
    • Custom blocks
  • Flexible layout templates
  • Field blocks
  • Tips for managing your header and footer across many layouts
    • Mini Layouts
    • Copy Blocks module

 

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