Breakout Room 1

This will be a discussion about strategies and tools that are available to identify where your performance problems are coming from and what options are available to fix them.

We are looking at the idea of creating a structured marketing committee for Backdrop CMS that will operate in a more structured and organized fashion than our current Outreach meetings.

The purpose of this session will be to talk about how this new marketing committee will operate and to help set some goals or objectives for this committee to focus on. 

In this session we'll:

1. Outline the current marketing committee proposal.
2. Solicit feedback and ideas.
3. Brainstorm goals and objectives for this committees consideration.

The layout system in Backdrop CMS is a powerful system for building custom pages. In this session, we'll walk through the process of creating custom layouts. 

Some topics we will include:

• How layouts work
  • Visibility conditions
• Blocks
  • Custom blocks
• Flexible layout templates
• Field blocks
• Tips for managing your header and footer across many layouts
  • Mini Layouts
  • Copy Blocks module

This session is intended for the absolute Backdrop beginner. We'll introduce you to one of the fundamental building blocks of Backdrop CMS, custom content types and fields. 

• What are Content Types and Fields
• How to create custom Content Types
• How to create custom Fields
• Types of fields
  • Text
  • Number
  • Reference
  • Boolean
  • Date
  • Image
  • Link
  • File

The views module is a powerful tool that allows site administrators to create complicated and dynamic displays of their content without writing any code or knowledge of database queries. 

• Create a basic view
• Filter your data with views
• Sort your data with views
• Rewriting your data in views
• What happens if there is no data in your view (no results)
• Contextual Filters
• Relationships
• Views header and footer
• View pagers

Backdrop is a content management system -- it gives you lots of tools that help you manage content.  But where does that content come from?  How do you get it into the system?  How do you get it out?

An introduction to Backdrop CMS and the community that builds it

• What is Backdrop CMS?
• Why fork Drupal?
• Who is Backdrop CMS for?
• How is Backdrop CMS project structured?

The Triplo team has been experimenting with a headless Backdrop site, just for fun. 

We'd like to show folks what we've done and why we did it. We're interested in chatting with anyone else that might be interested in headless Backdrop, to exchange ideas. 

We would like to discuss possible use cases for headless Backdrop? We'll talk about available tools for a headless BackdropCMS site and why we decided to roll our own.

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.