Making Drupal Cool Again

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Summary This session will focus on addressing a growing trend of losing Drupal developers, or at least their interest, because of the cool factor of up and coming competing technologies. Why Drupal seems un-cool As technologists, we are always looking out for the “next big thing” partially because of perceived advancements, but often simply because it is different/new/exciting. While each major version release of Drupal has seen extensive advancements, it’s still PHP at its core. Theres a fairly large momentum around the MEAN stack, frameworks like Django or even languages like Go. While not necessarily “new,” in many ways, we find them to be different and exciting because of the additional challenges posed by uncertain big performance and scalability issues - keeping their interests piqued. Opportunities We have all made a large investment in Drupal, whether financial or personal time over the years. Continuing to ensure that our platform stays cool in the eyes of our development teams and colleagues can be done in a number of ways from evangelizing all the dev tools to embracing “Headless Drupal” initiatives. I will outline my ideas, many currently in practice at NorthPoint Digital, during the session.

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MAKINGDRUPALCOOLAGAIN

BUILDING ON DRUPAL 8?

SUPPORTING DRUPAL 6?

ANY NON-DEVELOPER?

AUDIENCE QUESTIONS

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I’VE GOT

THUMBDRIVE

S

QUESTIONS?

Matthew Dorman

Sr. Vice President - NorthPoint Digital

@matthewdorman

drupal.org: mdorman

northpointdigital.com

SPEAKER

NEW YORK BOSTON PHILADELPHIA

HQ

LEADING WITH

EXPERIENCE

92% Employee Retention

~$20M2013 Revenue

9 Yearsof Experience

“ WE ARE AN EXPERIENCE-DRIVEN COMPANY THAT DELIVERS SCALABLE

TECHNOLOGY AND DESIGN SOLUTIONS IN A CONSTANTLY EVOLVING DIGITAL

LANDSCAPE ”

OUR EXPERIENCE

WITHDRUPAL

LET’S GET STARTED

KEY PROBLEMS

IDENTIFIED

https://indeed.com

JOB TRENDS

https://jobs.drupal.org

REAL JOBS

http://www.slideshare.net/Dries/state-ofdrupalseptember2014

DRIESNOTE

BE A LEADER,

FOLLOW THE

COMMUNITY!

EXPAND THE TEAM’S

KNOWLEDGE

BACKDROP CMS

https://backdropcms.org

IMPROVE TRAINING

PROGRAMS

USE TOOLS

https://www.ostraining.com/blog/drupal/what-is-headless-drupal/

DECOUPLED

HEADLESS

DRUPAL

DRUPAL WAY OR

THE HIGHWA

Y

BE MORE INCLUSIVE

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QUESTIONS?

New York Office

130 West 42nd Street

New York, NY 10036

Tel: 212-819-1700

Boston Office

470 Atlantic Avenue

Boston, MA 02110

Tel: 617-725-8888

Philadelphia Office1650 Market Street

Philadelphia, PA 19103

Tel: 215-558-2700

info@northpointdigital.com / northpointdigital.com

THANK YOUMatthew Dorman

mdorman@northpointdigital.com

@matthewdorman

@northps

bit.ly/NorthPointDigital

flickr.com/northpointdigital

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