Session Agenda
The New England Drupal Camp will have opportunities for you to learn and engage with others, no matter your experience with web development and design or Drupal.
Registration in the Gaige Hall Lobby
Start your day off right with a little something to eat.
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Join us for some camp info and updates!
Training platforms that serve millions run on a Drupal module most developers have never heard of. Learning management systems (LMS) are necessary for organizations that deliver continuing education, employee onboarding, compliance training, or member education.
Have you been writing JavaScript to do things on the web and wondered if there was a better way? Fear not, CSS and HTML are here to ease your JavaScript woes! I'll go over a few new and upcoming CSS and HTML attributes, elements, and APIs that eliminate the need for JavaScript, such as:
Your site didn't go down. No one got breached. The accessibility audit didn't turn into a lawsuit. By every measure that matters, the year went well.
Now your board is asking why the web support line item costs what it costs.
Judgment. Taste. A human in the loop. "It's what we need right now," say the LinkedIn hot takes.
According to the Small Business Administration, 99.9% of businesses are small businesses. Since Drupal 8, our community has largely focused on the remaining 0.1% of businesses.
Components break when the content model underneath is rigid.
A developer accepts a task during a standup and says it looks straightforward. Two weeks later, there is no progress. The lead expected steady progress without check-ins, and the developer expected more guidance at the start. Neither person said their expectations out loud.
The session description below was entirely generated by AI, and I am okay with that. For the past year, I have been writing about AI in my own voice. What I saw AI generate felt like AI doing what it does best: reading, learning, and repeating knowledge.
Headless Drupal has often come with tradeoffs: editors lose flexibility, developers build duplicate systems, and deployments become increasingly complex.
Have you ever looked at the growing ecosystem of Drupal Recipes and Site Templates and wondered, "How hard is it to build and publish one of these myself?" The answer is: you can absolutely do it, and this session will show you how.
"Why should I spend my time in this session when there are so many other awesome sessions to go to?"
I get it. There's a ton of great, useful content at NEDCamp. AND.
A father-daughter presentation featuring Thomas Scola and his daughter, Olivia Scola.
The Drupal AI ecosystem has exploded over the past year, but most of the attention goes to a handful of headline modules. Meanwhile, a growing collection of smaller, focused AI modules is quietly solving real problems for site-builders and many people don't even know they exist.
Join us in the Faculty Center for our Lunch Buffet
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Something new is happening in tech. That’s a line we’ve been hearing quite a bit, isn’t it?
Stay after the keynote for our group photo and/or head to Gaige 200 for a coffee break.
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Many of us in the Drupal community enjoy coffee, and the Drupal Coffee Exchange is a way to celebrate the magic elixir many of us use to fuel our days. The Drupal Coffee Exchange allows community members to stay caffeinated and share their favorite coffees with other enthusiasts.
Web teams make decisions every day based on assumptions about users: what they need, what they'll understand, where they'll look, and what will help them succeed.
Remember when Drupal 8 came out and everything had to become a class, and we all said we'd get around to it? Hooks were the one thing that got to stay the same. That's ending.
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Your team is already using AI. You may have noticed it first in a code review, when a pull request came back looking nothing like how that developer writes.
Years ago, I was a frequent competitor in the overnight website challenge (OWC), where teams of 10 full-hearted developers joined with non-profits to build the best website they could within 24 hours. My team, Drupal Rocks, used Drupal as our tool of choice.
Addiction doesn't have a particular job title or work environment. It can affect someone working from home, sitting in an office, managing a team, or writing code, and it isn't always obvious to the people around them or even to the person experiencing it.
Ask developers for the first three words they associate with Drupal and you get a lovely picture of its legacy: open source, flexible, reliable, secure. Across 1,167 words volunteered by the 389 developers who knew Drupal, just five mentioned AI.
Code components let you build modern, React-compatible JavaScript components directly in Drupal Canvas. With help from an AI agent, you might be surprised by what’s already possible.
After a long day of Drupal come relax with a drink and some great eats.
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