Accepted Sessions
Site Building
michael.black
DC.Gov is the District of Columbia's government web portal. The portal consists of over 100 websites, including over 80 agency websites. In 2014, it had 29 million visits from 14 million visitors.
mbyrnes, shmeeden
Building a successful Drupal website or Platform is often all about a lot of configuration & modeling of the needs of the folks who will be using the site & how the content they are producing...
Beginner
daniel
Now that Drupal 7 has reach full maturity and perhaps entering into it's Autumn years we're able to take full stock of Drupal 7 features that have taken off and a few that fell flat.
Beginner
mpotter
The Features module has played in important role in deploying site configuration for Drupal 7. Now that Drupal 8 has configuration management (CMI) built into core, what's the role of the Features...
Beginner
matthew
Come learn how to create a website for a conference or other event! We will talk about registrations, paid tickets, sponsors, and more! How can I create such awesome websites? Using COD of course!
Beginner
pkoroma
This presentation will be about the importance of keeping your modules up-to-date and highlight how the lack of proper modules maintenance will not only affect your site performance but also expose...
Beginner
jcastedoh
Many users prefer WordPress because of its simplicity and usability, but when looking for something more powerful or versatile, Drupal can easily become the better option.
Intermediate
Venn, mdandelion
A common Drupal site building recipe is how to set up an image gallery.
This session will guide site builders through the setting up a gallery in Drupal 8.
Beginner
dan
Building on the data standards session given at Drupal Gov Days half-day conference in Marhc, this data standards session will provide a brief overview of data standards work being done at the...
Intermediate
John Brandenburg
Taking over support for Drupal site you didn’t build can be scary business. Make it less scary by conducting a comprehensive audit.
Intermediate
Venn, mdandelion
The Rules module is often used as a site building tool to create Drupal websites. The Views Rules module extends Rules and allows you to loop through and process lists of data.
Intermediate
chris.desautels, adil.faisal
This session will focus on the technical process of a phased migration using the Migrate module. We’ll examine a recent federal project involving a site of 20,000+ nodes, and 9 different content...
Intermediate
webbykat, claymarshall
Drupal’s content editing experience is key for content administrators who use it to publish information daily.
Advanced
greg.schnippel
Your organization just launched a new site on Drupal 7 but you keep hearing that Drupal 8 is around the corner. What will this mean for the future of Drupal 7? How can you take advantage of the new...
Intermediate
btopro
The LMS market is one of stagnation. Innovation in this space is often the application of web practices implemented 5-8 years previously. Take as a simple example, responsive design. None of the...
Beginner
Business and Strategy
Danielle
Intermediate
ssone, mspyker, winternett, dhouse, heatherchoi, jrobertson, quentin.carissimo, hdbaines
Your company is so lucky and just won a Drupal project. After the celebration, what is the next thing you have to do? You are going to build a brand new Drupal site.
Intermediate
dmkelner
On how many projects have you spun your wheels trying to reach consensus among a large group of stakeholders with diverging needs and wants?
Beginner
jhirsch
Gathering requirements is equal parts art and science, and the success of your entire project depends on doing it right. No matter what project methodology you're using, there are some simple rules...
Intermediate
snangle
This talk will use a case study overview of the FedRAMP authorization process for BlackMesh to illustrate portions of the authorization process that worked well, as well as challenges and lessons...
Beginner
joshua.smith, gail.d.solomon
Some websites are too vast, decentralized, or resource constrained to migrate content in one step. This session presents practical ideas for managing a program of incremental migrations, one bite at...
Beginner
bjmac
What happens when you lead developer pings you with an “Uh oh, something is amiss with this site” or when you hear from a client that Google is reporting their site as malicious?
Intermediate
larry_gillick
Once upon a time (2009), a consulting group estimated that producing a new (awesome) DOI.gov web presence would cost a bit more than $11 million.
Beginner
cchumley, jesss, andrewjcohen
Drupal 8 is coming. When we reach “Issue Queue Zero,” your business or organization needs a sensible strategy for upgrading your sites to D8. There are variety of questions to consider including...
Beginner
robert.wood
In the past 3 years, Drupal has firmly established itself as the preferred CMS of the Australian Government.
Beginner
rickard
Drupal 8 is here. People are using it to replace existing systems and to launch new projects. How does Drupal 8 fit into your long-term strategy?
Beginner
AaronPava
Culture is the most essential element in building healthy and high-performing teams.
Beginner
stephen
Learn how you can use Drupal, Alfresco, and other open source platforms to build online government services that will not blow your budget and timelines.
bryan.hirsch
Successful innovators steal most of their best ideas from someone else. Innovation isn’t about figuring out everything yourself.
cchumley
Drupal 8 is right around the corner and unless you have either been involved in Code Sprints or even know what a Code Sprint is then this session is for you.
Beginner
Jason Wasser, lvilleneuve
Whether your site consists of relatively few evergreen pages or a large database of evergreen pages and serial content (e.g.
Beginner
cathleen.tracy
Manage or support a website? This session is for you!
Beginner
webermn, metasebia.gizaw2
If you're thinking of implementing Drupal within a *.gov, you may feel lost like we did when it comes to the various numbers (800-53), acroynms (ATO), and requirements around information security.
Beginner
jlieb
Understanding the reasons why government has taken interest in Drupal is key to understanding how and where it is best used. How do you make sure your architecture is sound, your project plan is...
joe
Websites are never done; and the longer we keep a site relevant, the more we get out of the huge investment initial in designing and building a new one. We present strategies for site owners and...
andy, rory
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. - Albert Einstein, Physicist
Intermediate
YesCT, kgoel
Summary
Intermediate
webbykat, samantha.elliott
Beginner
Sara.cope
In this session we'll do a walk-through of the Agile life cycle to get your deliverables out the door quicker and more efficiently.
Beginner
Code and DevOps
dstol, grasmash
Production is on fire. You tested yesterday's release, and it was fine. How did this happen?
Intermediate
daniel
We can spend hundreds of hours designing and building a Drupal. But when launch time comes there's still plenty of work to be done.
Beginner
gchaix, ben.hosmer
The Features module is a great way to package up features and configuration when developing a Drupal site, but did you know it has superpowers that will make your devops team and sysadmins give you a...
Intermediate
ben.hosmer, Ron Williams
You may have heard about Docker and some of the hype surrounding it. There is a reason it has caught on so quickly.
Intermediate
spatel, James.king
Intermediate
pgrujic
In this hands on session, attendees will learn how to setup and integrate Drupal with the Apache Solr search engine. We’ll discuss advanced Solr setup, inclusion of advanced facets, and other...
Intermediate
rallen
We'll introduce drush as a required tool for modern drupal development.
Beginner
holloway.keenan
There's no escaping the fact that data visualization is hot right now. Everyone wants to tell their data's story visually, whether it be through a map, chart, or more detailed presentation.
Intermediate
fen, greg.elin
All three branches of the Federal Government and many state and local governments are turning to Drupal to provide a cost-effective and secure internet presence.
Intermediate
Matt Cheney
The ability to put your Drupal configuration in code is a straight up game changer for managing Drupal projects.
Intermediate
whurley
Call it the "appification" of the web. Users' expectations are being pushed in the direction of being able to interact with sites and content not by clicking a link or refreshing the page but by...
Intermediate
bill
This will be a demonstration of a Minimal Viable Prototype (MVP) that uses the MEAN stack to combine R/Shiny with Headless Drupal to build an analytics platform ("Rowsdower"). The speaker will walk...
Advanced
whurley
That moment when new code makes it way out into the world is the most fragile part of the process. We take for granted all the steps that need to happen to make sure it goes correctly. Things like:
Intermediate
oscar
Drupal is a powerful content management framework and among the most succesful PHP projects out there. Working with Drupal's modules and theme layer means that for any problem there's more than one...
Intermediate
adam.bergstein
Drupal 8 has opened up new possibilities for existing modules. In this session, I will walk through the completely new Password Policy module for Drupal 8. The module was completely re-written to...
Intermediate
oscar
Struggling with getting Apache, MySQL, PHP and everything else you need to start working on your next project? In this talk, we'll look at how to use Vagrant to setup a reusable development...
Beginner
peter.sawczynec
Presenting the essentials a developer should understand to dive into a Drupal 8 site and see where and how to integrate their custom module in Drupal 8.
Intermediate
chakrapani
There is an amazing set of new features in Drupal 8. In this session we will be discussing the new features and improvements in Multilingual Drupal 8.
Intermediate
matt.mendonca
Embrace the “Drupal Way”. It won’t give you abs or make you a millionaire (well…), but it can make writing custom Drupal code a reasonable endeavor. Drupal provides you, the developer, tools to solve...
Intermediate
Front-end, User Experience and Design
Karine.Bailly
In the world of Web 1.0, it was considered a perk for a government agency to have a workable, public-facing website where citizens could access information or even potentially complete various tasks.
Beginner
kkaufmann
User experience (UX) is the basis for all Web activity, and thus underpins everything we do in Web design and development. Successful projects bake UX in from the ground up, from discovery through...
nickgrace
Web analytics can provide Drupal end users and admins with a wealth of insight and data into the performance of your site and its content. Most sites have Google Analytics set up but configured only...
Beginner
dferro
Learn how to use styleguide/prototyping tools like Pattern Lab to increase collaboration between designers, themers, developers, and your organization on Drupal projects. A focus on atomic...
Intermediate
helen.chamberlain
This session will be an overview of Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act and Usability. How does Section 508 affect your environment? How does Usability fit into the Section 508 environment?
lhridley
Have you ever spent hours poring over a web application when making changes to the theme, looking for the consequences of CSS style rules that are too broad?
Intermediate
jjones, cneigh
Federal websites are trending towards more open and user-oriented models thanks to the work of the Federal CIO office and its release of the Digital Services Playbook (https://playbook.cio.gov/
Intermediate
freshyill
The journal Science is undergoing a digital transition. As a previously print-focused publication, its web sites were historically implemented by contractors and vendors, without consistent design...
Intermediate
krystee.dryer
The process of website redesign is more than just giving your website a fresh coat of paint.
Beginner
stephen, david
“If you want a great site, you’ve got to test.” - Steve Krug, Usability Expert
Beginner
mtaylor, jfukuda
The goal for this session is to introduce a process and tools that can help any team capture requirements and understand user priorities in ways that will help the team maintain focus on the user and...
Intermediate
stephen, david
Are you currently using, or considering Drupal?
Beginner
sally.dadjou, bonnie.strong, natalya.minkovsky, arash.farazdaghi
As many organizations migrate to Drupal as their Content Management System, it is imperative that they revisit their content strategy to fully take advantage of Drupal’s capabilities with a simple...
Beginner
mtaylor, jfukuda
We’ve all had the experience of being lost in the weeds when developing and designing products.
cchumley
Drupal 8 provides us as developers and desginers with a unique opportunity to change the landscape of content on the web.
Beginner
dcmouyard
Learn how to design and theme Drupal sites using Atomic Design and the Drupal 8 CSS architecture guidelines.
Advanced
