DrupalCon Prague

• When is it?
• Where is it?
• Who are the keynote speakers, and what will they talk about?
• What tracks are available?
• Are there any featured sessions you’d like to point out?

Global team

• What is the DrupalCon global team?
  • Historians, consultants, volunteers who get no credit
• Who are the globals?
  • Standing tracks, North American and European leaders,
• What are the qualifications to be a global?
  • Previously a local track chair, content expert
• What do you do?
  • Herd cats, deal with problems

DrupalCon Austin

• Where is the DrupalCon going to be?
• Why Austin?
• When is it? (June 2-6)
  • With extended sprints before and after
• What does the tech community look like there?
• What does the Drupal community look like?
  • DrupalCamp Austin (June 21st 2013)
• What’s the Drupal adoption look like in Austin?
  • It’s strongly linked with adoption of other front and back end technologies. (node.js etc)
• Who’s going to be the “boots on the ground” in Austin playing “host”?
  • Probably the same people that did it for Portland. Sponsors etc.
  • Four Kitchens, Astonish, Whole Foods, City of Austin, Volacci, etc.

Kraftwagen

• On the kraftwagen.org it says that Kraftwagen is “Drupal for large (distributed) development teams and staged deployments.” Can you elaborate on what exactly that means?
  • (Rolf) pain of configuration in DB. Everything in code is essential. Standardized workflow
• What do you mean when you say “Drupal for developers”?
• It states that everything is in code. Does that include info from the database, like configuration?
• How does this compare to the configuration management initiative in Drupal 8?
• How does it integrate with multiple deployment targets like local, staging and live environments?
• It mentions skeletons, what are those?
  • (Rolf) start points. mention scaffolding
• So, how does this all work? What are the components of Kraftwagen?
  • (Rolf) kraftwagen (drush extension) and 2 important modules (kw-manifests and kw-itemnames). explain the workflow of Kraftwagen (setup, build, init db, update)
• On the site is says something about Environment awareness, and mentions that the Devel module shouldn’t be enabled on a live server, but should on a development environment. I get around this by using a global git ignore file on my local machine that ignores the devel module. So, when I spin up a new site on my local machine, part of that process is to install the Devel module, but my system prevents it from ever being pushed anywhere automatically. How does Kraftwagen deal with that?
  • (Rolf) builds are not environment aware, but dependencies and manifests are.

Use Cases

• Are you familiar with Aegir? How would you compare the two?

Walkthrough.it

• What is walkthrough.it?
• I heard that this works with Selenium in the background
  • What is Selenium?
  • How does Selenium make this awesome?
• How is this related to the Tour module in Drupal 8 core?
• How do you record walkthroughs?
• How do you play walkthroughs?
• You recently finished a crowdfunding campaign on IndieGoGo, can you tell a bit more about
  that?
• What things did you promised as part of the campaign?
  • WalkHub: walkthrough server distribution,
  • Walkthrough module for Drupal
  • really awesome t-shirts
  • WalkHub.net: GitHub for interactive tutorials
  • An iPad application with introductory tutorials for Drupal distributions

App

• What is this iPad app for?

Drupal Module

• Can you tell me a bit more about the Drupal module?
• Will there be versions for both Drupal 7 and Drupal 8?

Grand prize: documentation of a distribution

• You promised that you would document 1 distribution with walkthroughs if your IndieGoGo
  campaign would be a success. Do you already know which one will win?

More about Holly

• Now that we know a little bit about your background and where you’re from, tell us a little bit about what you do now.
• What is your position in the association? What do you do there?
• How long have you been in this position?

DrupalCon

• Exactly four weeks from today, we’ll be finishing up the conference!
• If you’re planning on attending, but haven’t got your tickets yet, the price goes up from $500 to $550 on Friday at midnight!
• Free transit pass!

• iOS app - http://saforian.com/CaseStudies/Drupalcon/ (Download here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/atdrupalcon/id636398190?mt=8)

• What was your experience like at DrupalCon Sydney?

• What are you excited about most for DrupalCon Portland?
• Other events - Where can people find out about the events
  • Trivia night
  • Photo scavenger hunt

Portland

• Where is the best place to eat?
  • pinterest.com/drupalcon
• Where is the best place to drink?
  • Coffee - Stumptown
  • Alibi - Alcohol (Also Karaoke)
  • Upright? - Breweries
• What should those of us who haven’t been before, make sure to do?

Module Off

• What is the Module Off?
• Why did you start the Module Off?
  • Are you doing this to get free work?
• What kind of feedback have you received from previous contenders?
• Who can participate in the challenges?
• How does someone go about submitting a module? and What does their submission need to include?
• How is the winner selected?
• What does the winner receive?
• How can someone become a sponsor?
• What are some of the past challenges?
• Do you have any idea about what some future challenges might be?

Scald

• What is Scald?
• Can you give us some of the history behind the module?
• Mention about the codesprint (rc3)
• Why did you decide to go with Scald over Media?
• What sets it apart from the Media module?
  • The library that comes with Scald is real clean and easy to use, can you talk a little bit about how that came about?
• What types of digital assets can you use with Scald?
  • Images
  • Videos
  • Audio
  • Tweets, Facebook statuses etc.
• How does Scald work with on-site, and off-site digital assets?
• What is an Atom?
• What Atoms are available out of the box?
  • Flash Files
  • Audio : FIle Upload, Soundcloud
  • Videos: Dailymotion, Youtube, Vimeo, EMbed.ly; Viddler
  • PDF Files
  • Tweets
  • Images : Files Uploads, Flickr, Instagram
  • Slides : Slideshare
• How can developers extend Scald?
  • they can build their own provider module to extend =add atom types
  • contribute to the issue queue

Use Cases

• What are some existing sites that are using Scald?
  • Big French Media Companies : Radio France, France Television, ARTE (French/German TV), Le Figaro (one of France’s big newspaper), Radio Nova, Santé Magazine
  • More big users : Commerce Guyz, British Council, Web Agencies
• I understand there’s a distribution built around Scald. How can people try that out?

Roadmap

• What’s in the future for Scald?
  • 1.1 : UX redesign, responsive design, more spark integration, plupload (multi-upload), private file system, more providers

Questions from Twitter

• Antti Tuppurainen@wroxbox
  @ModsUnraveled Thank you for Scald. Happy to contribute. Any toughts about responsive image solutions like picturefill #MUP058
• David H. @FromWayDowntown
  @ModsUnraveled @slybud A comparison to Media module (2x) would be awesome.
• Damien McKenna @DamienMcKenna
  @ModsUnraveled In the interest of improving its adoption on existing sites, any plans to integrate with field_entity?
• Damien McKenna @DamienMcKenna
  @wroxbox @ModsUnraveled Discussing http://drupal.org/node/1874994 would be good. (Identify the features missing from File_Entity that would allow Scald to run on top of it rather than using a separate entity.)
• Antti Tuppurainen@wroxbox
  @ModsUnraveled Can you compare scald and bit.lyAsset asset module. #MUP058 @slybud

• What do you see as the benefit of using an external service like CiviCRM as compared to a “Drupal” specific setup like using Simplenews or Message notify?
• And for the sake of argument, what would you see as a benefit of using a “Drupal” setup over an external service?

CiviCRM

• How much integration is there between Drupal and CiviCRM?
• Can you create new lists from the Drupal interface?
• Can you create the newsletters in the Drupal interface?
• How does it deal with images in a newsletter?
• How can you add site content into a newsletter?
• Can you setup autoresponders?
• Can you setup split tests?
• Are there any analytics included?
• How do users subscribe and unsubscribe from a newsletter?

Alright, before we get into the modules themselves, I’m going to be asking all of the guests in this series the same two questions about newsletters in Drupal.

• What do you see as a benefit of using a “Drupal” setup like the Message stack over an external service like MailChimp?
• And for the sake of argument, what might you see as the benefit of using an external service as opposed to a “Drupal” specific setup?

Message

• What is the Message module?
• What are some of the features?
• Can users subscribe/unsubscribe?
• What is the documentation like? Are there screencasts?

Message Notify

• What is the Message Notify module and how does it integrate into the message stack?
• What are some of the features?
  • SMS - how do you use this?
• Can users subscribe/unsubscribe?
• What is the documentation like? Are there screencasts?

Message-Subscribe

• What is the Message-Subscribe module and how does it integrate into the message stack?
• What are some of the features?
  • Messages sent on the fly/batches
  • Can you setup daily/weekly digests?
• How does it scale?
• How custom can each message be?
• Can you setup autoresponders?
• How do you include site content?
• How does it deal with images in a newsletter?
• Are there analytics?
• Can users subscribe/unsubscribe?
• What is the documentation like? Are there screencasts?

Use Cases

• What are the appropriate use cases for each module?

Mass Contact

• When I asked you to come on the show, you replied by saying that Mass Contact was never meant to be a newsletter module. So, can you explain exactly what Mass Contact is, how does it works, and how it should be used?
• What are some of the features?
  • You can send a message to one or more categories of users, which are specified by role.
  • Large recipient lists may be broken up into smaller chunks.
  • The site administrator can control how many messages are allowed to be sent by a single person in an hour.
  • The message may be sent such that the recipients' e-mail addresses are hidden from each other.
  • The message may be sent as plain text or HTML, even specifying the input format filter to use. (The Drupal 7 version requires the Mime Mail module.)
  • The message may include one or more binary file attachments. (The Drupal 7 version requires the Mime Mail module.)
  • The site administrator may specify different texts to be placed at the beginning and/or the end of every message that is sent out.
  • A copy of the message may be saved as a node.
  • Users may opt-out, by category, of receiving mass mailings on their account settings page.
• Can users subscribe/unsubscribe?
• What is the documentation like? Are there screencasts?

Use Cases

• What is an appropriate use for this module?