Why Drupal 8? Why now? PS - Drupal 7 is still awesome

• What can Drupal 8 do?
• What can't Drupal 8 do?
• What and when should I build with Drupal 8?
• Drupal 7 is still awesome technology and ready for every need right now.
• Product adoption curve and timelines.

Previously presented at the Large Scale Drupal leadership meetup, the Learning Drupal London meetup, and the Drupal Camp London CxO day.

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Build a better Drupal team

Based on ideas discussed at a 2014 DrupalACT session, and 15 years experience as a software development project manager and team coordinator in both government and private sector.

Aimed at Drupal developer shops and in-house Drupal dev teams, this session will show you who you need in your team (clue: it's not a code ninja/rockstar/unicorn), how to find them, how to get them into your team (more than just money), and how to get your team to produce its best work.

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The DrupalCI initiative

SLIDES CAN BE FOUND HERE: http://ds2015.nickschuch.com

This session is all about an adhoc initiative with the goal of improving the testing situation on Drupal.org.

This talk will outline:

• Drupal.org pain points.
• The components of DrupalCI (API, dispatcher, results, Drupal.org module and monitoring). Each of these components will be separate open source projects that you can leverage as well!
• How you can help.

You could say this talk is going to cover all the latest hotness in continuous integration.

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No CMS is an Island, Entire of Itself; What open source communities can teach each other

No CMS is an Island, Entire of Itself;
What open source communities can teach each other 

by Dee Teal

"Drupal Futures"
DrupalSouth Conference
March 5th - March 7th 2015

Every CMS is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if Drupal be washed away by the sea, WordPress is the less, as well as if Joomla were... (With the humblest of apologies to John Donne...)

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Site preview, the holy grail of Drupal

Historically this has been challenging for Drupal. In this session I aim to show you the existing methods this can be done, a comparision between them, and introduce an entirely different approach (Preview Sync) we have just created for a client.

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Google Summer of Code (GSoC) and Code-In (GCI)

• GCI (Google Code-In) - High School Students - The Google Code-In is a contest to introduce pre-university students (ages 13-17) to the many kinds of contributions that make open source software development possible. The contest's purpose is learning how to contribute to open-source software projects and offers students a chance to win a once in a life time grand prize of an all expense paid trip to Google HQ in California.

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Drupal Ecommerce

This session is all about ways that developers can monitise drupal powered websites using various ecommerce integrations from store based solutions to subscription based pay wall content. 

We look at how you can use exisiting plaform integrations to bespoke integrations using the likes of Braintree V.Zero to accept PayPal, Credit Card, Apple Pay and bitcoin in as little as 12 lines of code. 

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Drupal and IoT

In this session we will look at the IoT world and how it can be integrated with Drupal to create new and awesome ways for users to interface the digital world like never before and ways that developers can monitise new IoT opportunities. 

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