How To

Learn how to build beautiful sites using out-of-the-box Backdrop layouts and Bootstrap 5 features. 

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.

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.

This session is specifically for OpenForce 2022 participants to help you get started in the Backdrop CMS issue queue, but anyone interested in contributing to Backdrop CMS is welcome. 

We will discuss:

1. How to select an issue to work on.
2. How the Backdrop CMS issue queue works.
3. How to set up your local environment.
4. Where to get assistance if you need it.

The Color module is a powerful tool for making themes reusable across many sites, but it can often be very confusing.

I will be doing a short presentation where I will go over how the Color module works and showing how to integrate it with a theme and how to use it when making a subtheme. After that, we can answer questions and discuss ideas about how to improve it in the future.

Testing is an important part of the development process for Backdrop. Every new feature added to core needs to have a test to make sure that it does not get accidentally broken by changes in the future.

In this session, I will be going over the basics of how Backdrop's testing framework, Simpletest, operates and how to make a basic test for your own code. After that, we can go over any questions you may have or discuss problems people have run into in the past.

WGET is a command line tool for retrieving web content. It makes it easy for us to take site backups, or generate static site content from a URL.

In this hands-on session we will get familiar with using WGET to:

• generate a site backup
• create static site pages from a local website or a www hosted website

We encourage you to come to this session with your computer. All you will need is a terminal program so you can access the command line. If even that is too much, you can just attend and follow the discussion!

OBS Studio is a live streaming software solution that was originally aimed at streaming game sessions live to Twitch and Youtube etc...

OBS has come a long way in the prevailing years and is now an excellent Free solution for streaming live video, whether that is a webcam, live production or for recording a presentation before editing and upload to Youtube or other video platforms.

You can stream live to a plethora of platforms including Facebook, Twitch, Youtube, MixCloud, PlayDJ and any other platform where a webcam or an RTMP stream is ingestable.