Closing session

This is a time for reflection on what we have learned at Backdrop LIVE, what we plan to do with our new found knowledge/experiences, and where we are headed as an opensource community. 

We welcome everyone to participate and share your Backdrop LIVE experiences.

Bee settings

Bee is the command line tool for Backdrop.

One relatively recent request that I have been thinking a lot about recently is having the ability to define settings for Bee and I have been thinking about what that might look like. I will share my thoughts so far and hopefully get ideas for what regular users of bee would find useful.

Lessons learned porting Drupal Media and CKE5 ecosystems

I'd to facilitate a discussion around the lessons I learned through porting the Drupal Media and CKEditor 5 Ecosystems to Backdrop. This will mainly focus on developers and includes topics such as configuration management (converting ctools plugins to config, config performance, return values), changes to entity information, nested modal dialogs, file display fallback support, non-writeable stream wrappers and more. We'll discuss each topic, including what was learned, what was done about it and what improvements can and have already been made to Backdrop core as a result.

Dashboards for Editors

One of our community members shared an article (link below) about Dashboards and using them to help give editors actionable, real time (mostly) insights on their site content.

Backdrop has quite a flexible Dashboard system but there is a module to provide advanced options (link below).

This is an opportunity to explore what people in the community are doing with dashboards, and what modules or Views can help.

Backdrop AI

I want to talk about developments since the last Backdrop LIVE.  

Multiple provider modules have been released and I am also working on ai automators.

Component-based theming in Backdrop

I've previously ported Gin to provide a modern admin theme to Backdrop -- and have been working behind the scenes to provide a new base theme for front end development, which I'm aiming to unveil at Backdrop Live. I'd like to get feedback and demonstrate:

  • how it makes component-based theming simpler in Backdrop
  • use of CSS custom properties
  • how to sub-theme it simply

Opening Session

Welcome and introductions. We will ask everyone to introduce themselves and share a something about their experience with Backdrop CMS or what they hope to learn at Backdrop LIVE.

Project lead, Nate Lampton, will share a short summary of where the project stands and what we have accomplished since our last Backdrop LIVE.

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