Breakout Room 1

A discussion on measures available in core, contrib and in hosting to secure Backdrop websites.

During a discussion on bee during the last Backdrop Live, there was discussion around the site alias functionality that drush has, which would enable bee to perform actions on remote installs of Backdrop.  Given that drush support for Backdrop is likely to end with the Drupal 7 End of Life I think that ensuring this functionality is available for bee going forward is becoming more and more important. I would like to explore with people who used the functionality

There  are over 900 contributed projects in the Backdrop CMS contrib space on Github, not all of which have official releases on BackdropCMS.org. 

Please, post a comment if you have a contrib project you would like to share. Either a project you maintain or just one that you love to use and want to share with others. 

Each person will have 5-10 minutes per project. 

This is very informal. You can demo a module on a live site, a demo site, or just describe the module. Anything goes. 

I'd like to have a discussion about we can improve our recruitment and retention of contributors, but in the core and contrib spaces. 

• How to better recongize and reward contributors?
• Do we need to do a better job of crediting contribution of all types?
• How do we better support contribution

"This discussion would cover what issues devs have run into so far and if we solved them, how we did it. Special attention will be paid to examples of modules that can be referenced for solutions. Suggested issues include CTools dependencies, Entity issues, User Roles, and others."

Come prepared to share the contrib module porting problems that most frustrate you and ideas or resources that you found helpful is solving them. The goal of this sessions is to come up with a document, blog post, or list of resources to help with the porting of future modules. 

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