Breakout Room 1

If you're new to Backdrop, come in for a discussion on how Backdrop can be the best option for creating your new website. As we all know, WordPress has been the goto for new sites and it has a large user base. But if you plan to do anything other than a basic site of a few pages and a blog, WordPress can require custom code for most things that are even a little bit off the beaten path.

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

Stanford has launched two sites on Backdrop CMS this year:

• https://seedfunding.stanford.edu/
• https://solo.stanford.edu

In this session we will cover the very basics for anyone that is new to Backdrop CMS. 

• What is Backdrop CMS?
• How is it the same and/or different from Drupal?
• How to get started with Backdrop?

Tools for working on your Backdrop site locally. This is an opportunity to share what tools you use or ask others about the tools that they use. 

Examples of tools that MIGHT get discussed"

• Lando
• DDev
• MAMP / WAMP
• OS Provided Tools
• Other...

We'll discuss what a migration is and is not, various ways of migrating data, and whatever anyone wants to talk about up related to migrating.

I do not plan on going through an actual migration, as showing a migration UI in progress tells no one anything, and creating the migration that would be done in the UI would take more than the allotted time to do.

Feel free to leave comments stating what specific migration related questions you have and/or topics you want to discuss.

Testing is an important part of the development process for Backdrop. Every new feature added to core needs to have a test to make sure that it does not get accidentally broken by changes in the future.

In this session, I will be going over the basics of how Backdrop's testing framework, Simpletest, operates and how to make a basic test for your own code. After that, we can go over any questions you may have or discuss problems people have run into in the past.

Let's talk about the trials and tribulations of running a freelance business building websites with Open Source CMS's.

Possible discussion points could include pricing methods, personal development, and specialisation vs generalisation; though it is up to you.

For the last 12-18 months, some of us in the core issue queue have been debating the best way to make changes/improvements to the Basis theme without breaking existing sites. There are several ideas out there, but we have yet to reach consensus on any of them. 

One idea that is being currently discussed would be to add a new theme to core. 

In this session, we'll have an open discussion about the future of Basis for Backdrop and whether or not it's time to add a new theme to Backdrop Core. 

Due to a recent change in Backdrop, it has become much easier to create config only modules that can be used as recipes to add functionality to Backdrop CMS. The two existing config recipes available in the contrib space are:

• FAQ Recipe
• Testimonial Recipe

In this session we'll: