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Speaker Diversity Workshop

This workshop helps speakers from underrepresented groups prepare to speak at conferences.  This will in turn help local meetups, Drupal Camps, and even DrupalCons develop a more diverse speaker roster. The workshop helps folks bust through their impostor syndrome and develop a topic, title, pitch, bio, and outline.

Hosting Drupal on Kubernetes

Large scale Drupal sites have been difficult to deploy, due to the complexities of integrating multiple pieces of infrastructure. Many have resorted to using hosting companies that provide an out-of-the-box solution. However, this locks you in to one vendor. Kubernetes allows you to break that lock and host your entire site, at global scale, on pure open source software. This training will introduce you to Kubernetes, a container orchestrator, including how to deploy new object definitions, infrastructure, and security certificates.

Project Management for Drupal Projects

Open Source Drupal Development is a specialty and so is Drupal Project Management. What can you do to ensure your next Drupal project is a huge success for your organization or clients? Join senior FFW staff as they share their experience working with some of the largest and most complex projects ever built and help you understand and implement best practices at every stage of your project.  This training is designed to help organization project managers, product owners, decision-makers, and stakeholders understand Drupal, how it differs from other systems and what needs to be done differently to get the most out of Drupal. We discuss the various stages of Drupal project development from planning to maintenance and provide practical guidance on how you can support your team to deliver the best possible outcomes at each stage.

Intro to Backdrop CMS

Backdrop CMS is Drupal 7, but it includes many of the features you'll find in Drupal 8. It's been optimized for performance, and improved for usability. Backdrop is targeted towards companies and organizations who are delivering comprehensive websites on a budget. This introductory training will cover the basics of creating and administering a website with Backdrop CMS.

Composer Basics

The Composer dependency manager can sometimes be a little intimidating for new users - until you learn just a little bit about what is under the hood, then the full power of both this tool is fully revealed. In this half-day workshop, we'll learn the basics of Composer to manage a project's dependencies using hands-on examples. Once we know the basics, we'll take a look at a the "Drupal Composer Drupal Project" Composer template - a current best practice for managing Drupal 8 codebases. As time permits, additional Composer-related tips and tricks will be discussed and demonstrated.