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Jun 27 2018
Jun 27
Drupal Europe3 min read

Jun 27, 2018

Community. Sharing. Helping. This is the spirit of Drupal. These things bind us all together. Be a part of it by joining us during Drupal Europe between 10–14 September 2018 in Darmstadt, Germany.

photo credit Susanne Coates @flickr

The track dedicated to Social + Non-Profit will gather ambitious life stories about helping others and projects whose purpose is to invest everything in making the world a better place. You will have the opportunity to meet colleagues from your field of interest and join forces, learn how to use pre-configured Drupal distributions and get inspired by ambitious social impact projects built with Drupal. Also learn how Drupal can be used to ensure accountability, trustworthiness, honesty, and openness to every person who has invested time, money, and faith into a non-profit organization. Talk and share ideas, learn from each other, improve, innovate … and take a leap forward. There are a lot of things you will learn, no matter your technical skill level. From developers to people with a big heart, you will for sure find something that inspires you.

Interested in attending? Buy your ticket now at https://www.drupaleurope.org/tickets.

We are looking for submissions in various topics. Here are some ideas to share your experience on with the rest of the world.

  1. Every nonprofit organization must apply the 3 E’s: Economy, Efficiency, Effectiveness. Economy forces you to handle your project with low budgets, that is almost always the case with non-profit organizations. Efficiency is required also due to low resources available to most non-profit organizations. Effectiveness ensures you get the job done and complete your targets. How are you doing that? What tools and practices ensure this?
  2. We live in a world that is changing every day and technology is a big part of it. What are the new technologies you integrate in social projects? What do you need and what do you find on the market? How drupal is helping you achieve your goals?
  3. Transparency, accountability and full disclosure on operations is a must for all non-profit organizations. People will donate to and support campaigns only if they know exactly where the money goes and how are things handled. This way, they ensure their credibility in front of the world. How do you technically implement this?
  4. A lot of people talk about making the world a better place. But talking is not enough. You have to take action! How do you plan to do it? How do social activities raise the level of engagement in your community? How are people’s lives improved by your actions?
  5. Non-profit is done mainly from the heart. Volunteering is the key word. What are your life stories about helping others, inspirational first hand experiences? Why, what and how did you do it? What drives you? What are your goals?

We look forward to your submission sharing you experience with the other attendees.

See you in Darmstadt!

As you’ve probably read in one of our previous blog posts, industry verticals are a new concept being introduced at Drupal Europe and replace the summits, which typically took place on Monday. At Drupal Europe these industry verticals are integrated with the rest of the conference — same location, same ticket and provide more opportunities to learn and exchange within the industry verticals throughout three days.

Now is the perfect time to buy your ticket for Drupal Europe. Session submission is only open for a few more days so please submit your sessions and encourage others who have great ideas.

Please help us to spread the word about this awesome conference. Our hashtag is #drupaleurope.

To recommend speakers or topics please get in touch at [email protected].

Drupal is one of the leading open source technologies empowering digital solutions in the government space around the world.

Drupal Europe 2018 brings over 2,000 creators, innovators, and users of digital technologies from all over Europe and the rest of the world together for three days of intense and inspiring interaction.

Drupal Europe will be held in Darmstadtium in Darmstadt, Germany — which has a direct connection to Frankfurt International Airport. Drupal Europe will take place 10–14 September 2018 with Drupal contribution opportunities every day. Keynotes, sessions, workshops and BoFs will be from Tuesday to Thursday.

Jun 27 2018
Jun 27
Drupal Europe3 min read

Jun 27, 2018
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It is 2018 and we are still talking about digital transformation? Wasn’t that finished and done ten or fifteen years ago? Not completely. Based on the study from Grand View Research the global digital transformation market size was valued at $177.27 billion in 2017 and is expected to reach $798.44 billion by 2025. It seems like we have just started and a business that does not join the movement will be left behind.

But what is digital transformation? We see it as the integration of digital technology into all areas of a business, resulting in fundamental changes to how businesses operate and how they deliver value to customers. This new approach to customer experience through digital experience is where a platform like Drupal fits in perfectly.

To build connected, omnichannel customer experiences, the technology must have a built in way to support communication between channels, such as physical locations, ecommerce, mobile applications, and social media. Drupal 8 provides APIs for creating solutions and is definitely not limited to being a website platform. With this approach, the ability to engage customers through multiple channels at the same time has become a reality. Enterprises like Bayer, who evaluated and chose Drupal as their preferred platform in November 2017, have embraced the idea of embarking on the digitalization journey with an open source software that has been around for almost two decades and has a clear vision to become the world’s leading omnichannel customer experience solution.

Drupal Europe will be the largest conference in Europe happening in 2018. Drupal Europe organizes the program and session selection process around industry verticals. These focus on usage of Drupal in real life scenarios, in specific target industries, alongside space to cover cutting edge technologies. Digital transformation has become an important movement and the Drupal community has recognized that and dedicated a track to it.

The track provides unique networking opportunities with — and expert advice by — award-winning vendors, with sessions and break out groups focusing on digital strategies, digital transformation, innovation management, hybrid systems and ambitious digital experiences, showcasing large-scale implementations of Drupal platforms and solutions integrating Drupal for global corporations.

Join us on September 10–14, 2018 in Darmstadt, Germany to learn first hand how Drupal enables digital transformation. You can register for the event at https://drupaleurope.org/tickets.

Drupal Europe is organized for the community by the community. This means everyone is invited to participate in the program and share their ideas with us. We are currently looking for submissions for sessions, panels, and workshops. To create an excellent submission, you should write a good abstract that helps track chairs and conference visitors to understand how and why you approach your topic, what will be the benefits and learnings gained by attending your session, and what is the expected experience level of the audience.

Main topics we are looking for:

  • Digital transformation with Drupal (case studies)
    What was your process of digital transformation, what were the business goals, what part Drupal plays in the solution and how did you measure success?
  • Enterprise products made for or made with Drupal

What can enterprise use to complement Drupal to support their requirements? Are there reusable solutions out there that can serve as enterprise platform?

  • Technical solutions provided with Drupal
    Having Drupal as the chosen technology for digitalization, what does Drupal offer out of the box or what did your organization develop on top of the framework?

You will speak in front of digital leaders like CTOs, CIOs and CMOs of businesses who will be there to evaluate Drupal on a strategic level. Sessions will attract people looking to gain tactical advice on how to tackle the challenges of digitalization of their organizations or their clients.

We are looking to provide value to our track’s attendees, to empower them with insights and give them information that will enable them to make better decisions when choosing Drupal as their platform of choice.

We are looking forward to great content submitted, please go to https://drupaleurope.org/speakers and propose a session at Drupal Europe before 30 June 2018.

Jun 26 2018
Jun 26
Drupal Europe4 min read

Jun 26, 2018
photo: Paul Johnson @ flickr

Drupal is our business.

Regardless of being a freelancer, a two person shop or a hundred plus agency, Drupal is vital to our success in growing and supporting our business.

The business ecosystem is changing rapidly, thereby making it a necessity for agency leaders, managers and advisors to focus on a multitude of challenges and opportunities.

Understanding how the marketplace is evolving, driving innovation, fostering the right company culture, and adopting efficient project management methodologies, are all challenges faced by businesses today.

We all want to transform our business by working with the smartest team, create and deliver amazing projects, and have ideal customers lining up to work with us.

Any Drupal conference cannot be complete without in-depth discussions and debates about these challenges and more.

The Agency Business track will provide insight, support and real stories from people running businesses and managing projects. Learn about other people’s experiences, and get tips and ideas on how to tackle the challenges faced in your business or project.

Photo: Michael Cannon @ Flickr

Growing and scaling your business can be a tricky and daunting task. We need to consider strategies for how to grow our businesses, and how to do so sustainably.

With increased competition from both other agencies and other platforms, we need to look at not only how we generate new leads for our businesses, but how do we convince potential clients that Drupal is the best, that we are the best?

What is the right company culture for my business? How can I better lead my agency through the challenges ahead? How can I provide good leadership to my team? How can we grow and scale our business, without losing our company culture along the way? These are just some of the questions we will look to answer in the Agency Business track.

Project management is a bit of a juggling act, with many different needs and tasks that need to be taken care of simultaneously. We’re always on the look-out for ways to increase a project’s effectiveness and efficiency, while reducing the risk of it getting out of control. Let’s share our experiences and ideas on how we can improve project planning, better manage timelines & budgets, and keep staff motivated, while all the time keeping clients happy and engaged in the process.

Markets change faster and faster, so does our market. We need to adapt our products and offering to stay competitive and minimize our business risks. Perhaps it means diversifying your service offerings, perhaps it means developing a product, perhaps it means extending into new markets or verticals. However, we also need to consider how to keep clients happy and how to continue to meet their changing needs through innovation and/or diversification.

At Drupal Europe, we want to ensure that attendees get the most from this track through highly valuable and insightful sessions. We are looking for speakers to openly and honestly share stories about their challenges and how they solved it. We want to hear about your experiments, successes and failures, process discoveries, strategies, and tactics. We want real-life learnings, supported by facts and figures — prove to us that your way is best.

Session submissions are open and will close on 30 June 2018.

Whatever your experience is, whether it be running a small 2 person operation or scaling to 30 and beyond, or managing projects and project teams, we want to hear from you. Your experience and insight is invaluable and we know others will think so too.

Come to Drupal Europe and share your experiences with us — submit a session to the Agency Business track today!

Do you know someone who could be a great speaker? Or perhaps you know someone who has an interesting story to share? If so, please get in touch with the program team at [email protected].

And don’t forget to help us to spread the word about this awesome conference. Our hashtag is #drupaleurope.

We look forward seeing you in Darmstadt!

Drupal is one of the leading open source technologies empowering digital solutions in the government space around the world.

Drupal Europe 2018 brings over 2,000 creators, innovators, and users of digital technologies from all over Europe and the rest of the world together for three days of intense and inspiring interaction.

Drupal Europe will be held in Darmstadtium in Darmstadt, Germany — with a direct connection to Frankfurt International Airport. Drupal Europe will take place 10–14 September 2018 with Drupal contribution opportunities every day. Keynotes, sessions, workshops and BoFs will be from Tuesday to Thursday.

Jun 25 2018
Jun 25
Drupal Europe3 min read

Jun 25, 2018

Drupal Europe is both a technology conference and a family reunion for the Drupal community. Bringing together 1600+ attendees, it is the largest community driven Drupal event taking place on the European continent this year. For anyone connected with Drupal this is a unique opportunity to share your experience, learn, discuss, connect and contribute back to the community.

Being a community driven conference, we wanted to focus on real life case studies and not the usual technology driven structure. So we’ve introduced industry tracks which focus on specific industry sectors.

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The Higher Education track is for anyone using Drupal or thinking of migrating to Drupal at a college or university who is looking to connect with other Higher-Ed Drupal users.

If you have experience of delivering Drupal solutions in the higher education sector or are looking for inspiration on how you continue to develop your CMS further, this is the right track for you.

Drupal is a popular choice in higher education, and many of us are using it in creative and inventive ways. With Drupal 8, the opportunities for exploration and experimentation expand even further — from headless Drupal to top-tier configuration management. Let’s showcase our successes and best-practices with Drupal 8!

We know many universities are still on Drupal 7 and are keen to migrate to Drupal 8, so come to share what works for you and see wins from your peers.

Photo with CCO licence via Pexels.com from StatusStockphoto

Have you launched a Drupal 8 project recently that you are proud of? Started a campus Drupal users group and have tips for others looking to create their own? Developed a great user support model for your content editors? Conquered decoupled Drupal with your frontend stack? Share your awesome projects and lessons learned with your peers.

  • Education sector
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  • Drupal in a Day (how Global Training Days got to be a localized event)
  • From CMS to LMS
  • Web accessibility in higher education
  • GDPR and childrens information
  • Javascript for higher education
  • Migration from Drupal 7 to 8
  • How Drupal 8 API-first helps to
    integrate with existing IT-Infrastructure
  • Build your own Drupal Community

Session submission is open and we ask you to submit interesting session proposals to create an awesome conference. Session proposals are not limited to Drupal and all topics in relationship with Higher Education are welcome.

Please also help us to spread the word about this awesome conference. Our hashtag is #drupaleurope.

If you want to participate in the organisation or want to recommend speakers or topics please get in touch at [email protected].

Drupal is one of the leading open source technologies empowering digital solutions around the world.

Drupal Europe 2018 brings over 2,000 creators, innovators, and users of digital technologies from all over Europe and the rest of the world together for three days of intense and inspiring interaction.

Drupal Europe will be held in Darmstadtium in Darmstadt, Germany — with a direct connection to Frankfurt International Airport. Drupal Europe will take place 10–14 September 2018 with Drupal contribution opportunities every day. Keynotes, sessions, workshops and BoFs will be from Tuesday to Thursday.

About Drupal Sun

Drupal Sun is an Evolving Web project. It allows you to:

  • Do full-text search on all the articles in Drupal Planet (thanks to Apache Solr)
  • Facet based on tags, author, or feed
  • Flip through articles quickly (with j/k or arrow keys) to find what you're interested in
  • View the entire article text inline, or in the context of the site where it was created

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