090 Why Headscape Chose Drupal with Ian Luckraft - Modules Unraveled Podcast

Published: Wed, 01/01/14
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Headscape

  • Before we jump into it, I want to get a little background on Headscape, so that people know where you’re coming from. What kind of sites do Headscape typically work on?
  • How big is Headscape?
  • What other technologies do you guys build with?
  • What was the driving factor behind going open source?
  • What’s your role at Headscape? What do you do day-to-day?

Why Drupal

  • Paul and Marcus mentioned on the Boagworld Podcast that Headscape has put out a couple of Drupal sites recently. Which ones are those?
  • Since you guys aren’t a Drupal-only shop, why was Drupal the right choice for these projects?
  • Are you contributing anything back to Drupal.org?
  • What problems have you encountered using Drupal?
  • How did using Drupal make the development process easier or harder?
  • Where do you guys host your sites?

Questions from Twitter

  • Ted Bowman
    What type of projects or project aspects will make you choose another system besides Drupal? What make you choose WP? Custom Coded?
  • nickthorley
    Could you ask if Ian sees wordpress as inferior / used for different types of projects than drupal.
  • nickthorley
    Why not use drupal for all projects and drop wordpress / custom builds
  • nickthorley
    Would be interested to know what drupal version they use and when they will consider 8 - 12 months or longer
  • nickthorley
    Would be interested to know about their development process from dev to live

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089 Migrate in Core with Moshe, Melissa, Mike and Chx - Modules Unraveled Podcast

Published: Wed, 12/25/13
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Migrate in Core!

  • Why was the Migrate module chosen to get into core?
  • How did this get into core even though Drupal is “frozen”?
  • What was the process involved?

Use Cases

  • What does the migrate process look like for sites on D6, D7, and older?

History of Migrate Module.

  • Who has used Migrate to upgrade a site already?

Questions from Twitter

  • Damien McKenna
    How much configuration will be migrated (variables, blocks table, etc), or is it going to be data-only?
  • socketwench
    How different will the migrate framework be for developers in 8 compared to 7? Will there be a configuration migration path?
  • Cathy YesCT
    What would make it easier for the team? What do they need (aside from eventual people to do small bits of migration/tests).
  • Cathy YesCT
    For each person, what is their proudest moment so far in working on migrate in D8?
  • Damien McKenna
    While working on the D8 codebase is there any consideration for backporting changes to the D7 Migrate module?

  • Cathy YesCT
    yay! as @1z411 said "post partial work" Great way to get quick good feedback that will help people learn.

  • Where can people go to get involved?

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088 Tour Module Scrums with Nick Schuch - Modules Unraveled Podcast

Published: Wed, 12/18/13

Tour Module Scrums

  • First off, what is a Scrum?
  • You’re putting on a Scrum to work on D8’s Tour module. Tell me a little bit about that.
  • What’s your role in regards to this Scrum?
  • When is this happening?
  • Where is it happening?
  • What can people do if they can’t make the hangout? Jump into IRC - #drupal-tour
  • Do you have any goals for this Scrum?
  • Who should come? (Developers/Site Builders/Novices)
  • Where can people find out more about this Scrum and future events?

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087 WFTools with Dave Hall - Modules Unraveled Podcast

Published: Wed, 12/11/13

WFTools

  • What is WFTools?
  • What does the WF stand for?
  • How is this different from the workflow that hosts like Pantheon and #AberdeenCloud offer?
  • What’s the history of WFTools? Why does it exist?
  • What is the target audience?
  • What modules does WFTools contain?
    • WF
      • The base configuration feature for WF.
    • WF Environment
      • Entity module for managing the individual environments for the site. The wf_environment_generic module is a feature which contains the recommended configuration for WF Environment.
    • WF Job
      • Each change for the site is handled in a job which tracks the content, code and config (in code as features). wf_job_generic is a feature with a working configuration.
    • WF Site
    • WF Storage
      • Simple persistent key/value storage system.
    • WF User
      • Contains the roles and basic permissions required for a functioning WF management node.
    • WF Jenkins
    • WF Git
    • WF SSH
  • There’s an installation profile for this. Do I need to start with that? Or can I add this to an existing site?
  • Can I use this today?

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086 Pantheon One with Matt Cheney - Modules Unraveled Podcast

Published: Wed, 11/27/13
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Pantheon One

*First off, what is Pantheon One? Give us the elevator pitch.
* Product Overview: Pantheon One - What does it do, why it is good, who is it good for
* You guys have built custom distributions into this? How does that work?
* Custom Distributions: How it is easy to make your own custom distribution and use it with Pantheon One
* What’s the reason for Pantheon One?
* Industry Trend: Organizations don't just need one website, they need many websites.
* Why not just use Multisite?
* Technical Discussion: Drupal Multisite vs Git Upstreams
* Who is the target audience for this?
* Universities and other organizations with many sites

Pantheon One in the Wild

  • Is anyone already using Pantheon One?
    • Case Examples: UC Berkeley, ASU, Cornell - How these universities use Pantheon One to manage their custom distributions which power campus wide websites.

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085 What's New with #AberdeenCloud with Aaron Porter - Modules Unraveled Podcast

Published: Wed, 11/20/13
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#AberdeenCloud

  • For those who missed the last time you were on the show, can you give us the run-down of what AberdeenCloud is?
  • What’s the company philosophy.
  • How long have you guys been around?
  • What’s the pricing look like?
  • In your original pricing structure you had a reseller plan kind of built in. Do you still have something available to resellers?
  • What technology are you using?
  • Why do you think #AC provides superior value?
  • So, in your video you guys say that you are the most reliable Drupal platform ever built… What in the world does that mean?
  • Command line tools
  • Hosted repositories
  • What kind of support is available?
  • Why don’t you guys showcase your client sites?

Future Plans

  • What’s in the future for AberdeenCloud?

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084 Global Sprint Weekend 2014 with Cathy Theys - Modules Unraveled Podcast

Published: Wed, 11/13/13
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Drupal Global Sprint Weekend

  • What is the Global Sprint Weekend all about?
  • When is it? Where is it?
    • January 25, 2014 and January 26, 2014: groups.drupal.org/node/332998
    • Oak Park Sunday Jan 26
    • Manchester, UK, January 25th, 2014, added by mikebell_
  • We’ve had these before, so how did 2013 go?
    • March 2013 groups.drupal.org/node/277768
    • more than 33 locations around the world.
    • gabor held one in budepest hungary
    • jenlampton, steveoliver, joelpittet did multiple locations for twig in CA
    • at Promet in Chicago
    • stevepurkiss in brighton England
    • comm-press had a two day sprint in Hamburg Germany, Wunderkraut in Munich
    • Australia with Adam Malone, PreviousNext in Sydney
    • Shyamala really made an impression on me, organized one in India
      soo many!
    • Oak Park where I met Will Long from Fox Valley, David Snopek, and Crell came! We had 12 people in total, and ranging in age from 10 years old to 60, almost half female. Manning Pete came, and is now a reliable regular at our monthly sprint.
  • How do new locations for Jan 2014 become official?
  • What qualifications does someone need to decide to hold a local sprint?
  • What are the most important things to plan for?
  • What resources are available to help? money, support…?
  • What is it like at a in-person sprint?
  • What are the long-term benefits?
  • What can people do if there isn’t an in-person sprint near them?

Other Sprints

  • Are there any other global sprint days going on that you’re not organizing?
    • Friday Nov 15, not a sprint, but it is the next Global Training Day. Drupal Global Training Days is an initiative by the Drupal Association to introduce new and beginning users to Drupal. Trainings on Global Training day are free or low cost training events around the world with one of two curriculums: "Introduction to Drupal," and "What is Drupal?"
    • There is another global community day coming up Nov 19 2013 that I read about on the Top Shelf Modules blog

Questions from Twitter

  • Damien McKenna
    With so many of the community leads pulled into D8, and so much community emphasis on D8, do you feel the community is failing D7?
  • further detail - there are lots of D7 modules/core issues that need work but aren't getting it because of effort on D8. Thoughts?

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083 ELMS with Bryan Ollendyke - Modules Unraveled Podcast

Published: Wed, 11/06/13
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ELMS

  • What is ELMS?
  • So why Drupal or more importantly, why not Moodle?
  • Is there a Paas option to use ELMS?
  • How long has this been around?
  • Is it a project? or a distribution?
  • Before we started recording, you mentioned the ELMS style guide. What is that?
  • What was the D6 functionality?
  • How has the functionality changed in D7?
  • Why go the route of 10 different distributions instead of one?
    • How do they all work together? Can they share content or functionality?
  • What are the D7 distributions?
    • ELMS: Course Information System
    • ELMS: Massively Open Online Course (MOOC)
    • ELMS: Collaborative learning
    • ELMS: Media
    • Ulmus Distribution (base distribution)
    • Planned for the future
      • ELMS: ICOR Distribution
      • ELMS: LAR Distribution
      • ELMS: CIS Compliance
      • ELMS: CIS Helpdesk
      • ELMS: Case based learning distro
  • How did you get it to be accepted by the university? Especially with the GPL license?
  • You mentioned that your are able to contribute back to Drupal in a way that is a bit different from most universities. Do you want to explain that a little bit?
  • Why work directly in Education?

Use Cases

  • Is this targeted primarily at Universities or K-12 districts?
  • Do you know of any, or have a list of schools using it now?
  • What’s in the pipeline for future development/functionality?

Questions from Twitter

  • Eric Aitala
    What are your thoughts about MOOCs and their relevance in HigherEd?
  • Rachel Lawson
    Interested in plans. Just about to migrate a site to d7 for Cardiff University Hospital that has CPD work on it... (Continuing Professional Development)

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081 Backdrop and Drupal8 discussion with Jen Lampton Nate Haug John Albin Wilkins and Alex Bronstein - Modules Unraveled Podcast

Published: Fri, 10/11/13
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Backdrop

  • What is a fork?
    • It’s open source, folks! Forks happen!
  • Why are you forking Drupal?
  • My initial reaction was that you were starting it because you didn’t want to have to learn all of the new technology being used in D8, and therefore were cornering yourselves in the past... and I thought that eventually, you’d be so far behind, that learning “current technology” would be so cumbersome that you’d just stop learning and improving. I’m sure others are thinking the same thing, so how would you respond to that?
  • Is the Backdrop fork solely to enable developers comfortable with the current Drupal coding practices to be able to continue working with tools they already know?
  • What is D8 doing wrong, in your opinion?
  • What is D8 doing right, in your opinion?
  • Why are you personally going to use Backdrop instead of D8? Or, will you use both?

Drupal 8

  • I’ve heard a lot about performance. Some say it’s faster than D7, some say it’s slower... What’s the deal? Are some parts faster, and some slower?
  • Some people are saying that since we are incorporating existing external technologies we’ll gain experienced developers from outside the community. Others are saying we’ll lose current developers because of the new, steep, learning curve. Both scenarios have already started playing out. Do you think a year from now there will be a net gain or loss of Drupal contributors?
  • What is Backdrop doing wrong, in your opinion?
  • What is Backdrop doing right, in your opinion?
  • Why are you personally going to use D8 instead of Backdrop? Or, will you use both?

Other questions

  • From what I understand, D8 is working on the sitebuilder experience. As far as I know, backdrop will incorporate a lot of that work. Will sitebuilders really be able to tell the difference between the two?
  • Jen, what’s the deal with you and TWIG
  • Which CMS makes more sense for
    • Developers
      • Self-taught Drupal devs
      • CS degrees
      • people who spend a lot of time programming
      • “weekend warriors”
    • Themers
    • Sitebuilders
    • Clients
    • Drupal shops

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