living drupal

living drupal

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surviving drupalSaturday, 17 November, 12

hi, i’m james

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walkah .net@

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why am i here?

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how did i get here?

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a little story...

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2002

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terminus1525http://www.flickr.com/photos/emenel/2975947713/in/

photostream/

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terminus1525.ca

• > 10,000 lines of custom code (theme and modules)

• entirely custom media handling

• built and launched ~ 3 months

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2004

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drupal-world-domination.com

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i'm pretty excited. i've really enjoyed getting involved in the

drupal community, there are some outstanding folks

involved, and the future is very bright. yay

http://walkah.net/blog/walkah/drupal-world-domination-com/

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fun

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exciting

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invincible

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took drupal to new places

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bryght

• 1st commercial entity focused on drupal

• presented at the 1st ever drupalcon (2005)

• founding member of the security team and drupal association

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hosted drupal

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on-boarding

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UX

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drupal training

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on-boarding

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2009

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why i hate drupal.com

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and now?

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/esther-/1427629397/Saturday, 17 November, 12

i have...• written code for core

(thankfully most of it has been removed)

• written and “maintained” dozens of modules

• hosted thousands of drupal websites

• given presentations around the world

• trained thousands of new drupal users and developers

• co-authored a book

• made DVDs

• worked on sites with millions of nodes, pageviews/month

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there is a place for you

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find your niche

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survival guide

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(1)let go of what it was

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drupal is different now

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... and that’s okay

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always changing

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(2)accept what it’s not

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lightweight

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simple

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a development framework

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(3)embrace what it is

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the best open source cms

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huge, active, passionate community

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capable of change

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capable of change

• D8 Initiatives

• Symfony 2 component adoption

• Drupal governance sprint

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mantrasredefined

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don’t hack core

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please, hack core

• understand how it works

• learn how to use it better

• help the core team

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there’s a module for that

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...but it probably sucks

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be careful

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developers: don’t be afraid to

write code

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come for the software, stay for the community

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come for the community.

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thank you@walkah

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