Breakout Room 1

Are you a business making some or all your income from Backdrop related services?

Are you an organisation wanting to know how you can contribute to funding the development of Backdrop modules?

Then this discussion may be for you?

Introduction

Many within the Backdrop Community are businesses making their money from developing Backdrop websites.

This discussion topic is based upon a conversation that has been happening in the Drupal issue queues:
https://www.drupal.org/project/ideas/issues/3238659

There are calls in the Drupal community to provide long term support for Drupal 7. Some folks in the Backdrop CMS community believe that in a way, Backdrop CMS could already be a long term option for Drupal 7 sites that are not able or willing to move to more recent versions of Drupal.

I recently began trying to learn more about Solr search.  I found old instructions on getting Solr to work with Drupal 8 locally using Lando.  After getting that working I wanted to see if I could do the same thing with Backdrop.  It turns out that it isn't that different.  Come learn how to setup Solr search to begin experimenting and learning more.

Recipes are a type of module that primarily adds configuration and content without necessarily adding features that your site does not already have. Examples of recipes are:

• User Guide Recipe
• Welcome Recipe
• FAQ Recipe

Some issues we will talk about:

Wrap up session. 

1. How did this version of Backdrop LIVE go for you?
2. What did you learn?
3. What should we do differently next time?

Let's discuss marketing strategies for Backdrop CMS! While a Backdrop upgrade from Drupal 7 represents a potentially dramatic cost savings for countless organizations, pitching the idea successfully can be tricky. Whether due to Drupal brand allegiance, opinions around supportability and longevity, popularity among developers, or a simple feature comparison with other options like Drupal 9 — some potential clients express concerns about Backdrop versus other platforms with greater market share.

This is our opening session when we'll talk about:

1. How Backdrop LIVE works
2. Our plans for the event
3. Introduce participants
4. Opportunity to add topics to the schedule

Let's talk about the health of the contrib community in Backdrop CMS. 

1. How healthy is contrib space?
2. How can be better support contrib developers?
3. How can we grow our contrib community?

... that is the question!

This is an intermediate discussion for those who have some experience of managing Backdrop or Drupal with command line tools such as bee, brush and/or drush. It is NOT about command line tools for beginners.

There are three command line tools to support the installation and management of Backdrop websites:

• bee
• brush
• drush (backdrop extension)

Bee, formerly knows as Backdrop Console is inspired by drush and is under active development

Brush, is no longer being maintained in favour of bee