Drupal Nights

Scott Lozier: Foundation with D8: Theme and Load Responsively

September 2015

Getting ready to start your Drupal 8 site? How do you start theming it? Should you use SASS? How does Drupal’s new theming system integrate with a framework? Are you thinking about using media queries to load responsive content? 

In this session, Scott Lozier will show you how to start you Drupal 8 site using the Zurb Foundation theme.

Micky Metts: Cooperative Development - Thinking Outside the Boss!

August 2015

Bringing democracy and social equality to your projects through cooperation. Joining, forming, and running worker-owned businesses in web development.

Worker-owned cooperatives are businesses owned and controlled by the people who work in them. They are a time-tested way to create quality jobs, and are gaining momentum as a strategy to build and anchor wealth in communities.

Justice is a big part of the worker cooperative movement.

Ask The Experts - Two Year Anniversary Event

July 2015

How often do you get the opportunity to ask experts in your field any question you want? How about the chance to revisit tremendous presentations given by experienced professionals active in the Drupal community? I know... right?

Drupal Nights invites you to our two-year anniversary celebration, Ask-The-Experts. Our esteemed Drupal presenters return for a one-night-only event where the audience decides the agenda by asking this prestigious panel questions.

Dharmesh Mistry: "Customer Experience As A Strategic Differentiator"

June 2015

As competition gets fierce and technologies get more sophisticated, it is predicted that by 2020 customer experience will overtake price and product as the key brand differentiator. But what are the key attributes to a robust experience? And how does that feed into organization's business and user experience strategy?

In this session, Dharmesh Mistry will share the fundamentals of building a robust customer experience (CX) and its symbiotic relationship with usability and user experience (UX).

David Tarrant: Integrating CiviCRM with Drupal to Drive Non-profit Websites

May 2015

CiviCRM is designed for use by non-profit organizations. As a CRM solution it is very competitive with proprietary commercial CRMs such as Sales Force. When combined with Drupal, it offers extraordinary "out of the box" functionality. Dave will present an overview of CiviCRM with special attention on how it integrates with Drupal.

Stéphane Corlosquet: "Using schema.org to Improve SEO"

April 2015

Launched in 2011 by Google, Yahoo! and Bing, Schema.org is a universal collection of schemas to describe the content in HTML. It helps search engines to better understand what the pages of your sites are about (e.g.

Renato Castillo: "It's moving day! Why not make moving data easier?"

March 2015

Already have a site but want to move to Drupal? No problem! Drupal feeds importer is here to help you.

This presentation will focus on:

  • How to import or aggregate data as nodes, users, taxonomy terms or simple database records.
  • How to import into entities
  • How to import into commerce products

Alejandro Garza: "What's for dinner: Drupal + Apache Solr Search"

February 2015

You already know the bit about how Drupal + Solr is great. This time we will go over many of the topics, adding a dash of surprises and tips that can help you make your Drupal site's search great.

Dani Nordin: "UX Design for Content Management Systems"

January 2015

Knowing who you're designing for is a vital part of every UX project. But what happens when you're not just designing for end users, i.e. site visitors, but also:

  • Content creators?
  • Website maintainers?
  • Dozens, or even hundreds of people from multiple departments within an organization—each with different content needs, levels of computer literacy, and each of whom is responsible for a significant portion of your site's content?

This is what UX Designers have to deal with when we work with a

Dan Andrews & Rosalie Keane: "Supporting Drupal"

December 2014

I finished a Drupal site, now what? How do I handle supporting my user base? How should I handle rolling out new features or changes? Supporting a Drupal site or even a Drupal based SaaS (Software as a Service) environment can be a daunting task.

This presentation will focus on our approach to handling, supporting and continually updating our Drupal based application. We will cover the following:

  • Support timeline, everything from the issue occuring to the user being informed it has been

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