MAKING DRUPAL COOL AGAIN
Making Drupal Cool Again
Jul 08, 2015
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.
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
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New York, NY 10036
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Boston Office
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Boston, MA 02110
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Philadelphia Office1650 Market Street
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THANK YOUMatthew Dorman
@matthewdorman
@northps
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