DrupalCon Barcelona 2015 from mtunay
DrupalCon Barcelona has finished. It was a really successful event again.
There have been more than 2030 people attended the Con.
You should take a look into the recorded sessions, that are already online. There are always interesting sessions for everyone.
Some small feedback about the sessions you can also find here.
After the registration process we tried to find the best for ourselves. Some of us joined the "First-Attendee Social Event", the "Business Summit" or the "Extended Sprints".
From Tuesday to Thursday there were sessions held.
I had a very interesting presentation about the Lingotek module, presented by Rob Bailey (robertdbailey), Christian Lopez Espinola (penyaskito), Matt Smith (smithworx). Lingotek is a powerfull Cloud Based Translation Management System (TSM) that helps you to make your application multilingual.
Sessions that i can recommend you:
Let's build it on Drupal 8:
In this session we could get a deep view to the Drupal 8 Administration backend for sitebuilders. With the live demo we put focus on the most important powerfull improvements like:
- New content administration
- Blocks and layouts.
- Configuration of content types and new fields.
- Form and view display.
- Multilingual.
- Configuration management.
Features for Drupal 8:
Features module get more interesting. In Drupal 8, Features will return to it's original mission of bundling functionality rather than just managing configuration. Now that Drupal 8 has configuration management (CMI) built into core, what's the role of the Features module in Drupal 8? Check out the video.
Behat+Mink+PhantomJS:
In this talk we got information how to use Behat+Mink+PhantomJS to accomplish screenshot comparison, testing the JavaScript implementations and the PHP code using the same human-readable language: Behat's Gherkin.
Tesing with monkeys:
Monkey testing (stochastic testing or Mark Testing) is an automated test that runs with no specific test in mind. We saw different tools for testing front-end, back-end and infrastructure which harness chaos and randomness to uncover unknown weakness in your Drupal projects.
I will not list the whole sessions here, so please take a look at the videos hosted on youtube.
The most important imformation, that Dries gave us is of course the release date for Drupal 8 (October 7th, 2015):
In the "Closing Session" we were proud to hear that the next DrupalConEurope will be in Dublin(26-30 Sep.2016). Drupal Con will be also in Mumbai (12-21 Feb. 2016) and New Orleans (09-13 May. 2016).
One of the best in the Con was of course the TriviaNight. We had to know 70 questions about Drupal. Our team reached a good score somewhere in the middle of the chart :).
Next Events/Camps in Europe:
DrupalCamp Essen 2015, 25-25 October
The DrupalCamp takes place for the 4th time in Essen in the Unperfekthaus. The location is really nice, so we expect a cool weekend with many nice people. There won’t be any English sessions, as it’s focused on the German community.
DrupalCamp Heidelberg 2016, 20-21 February
There are not a lot of details right now, but you will find some Cocomories there for sure!
DrupalCamp Granada 2016, 22-24 April
Granada will held the Spanish Drupalcamp in 2016. In Andalucia, south of Spain, and between the ski station of Sierra Nevada and the Mediterranean Sea, Granada is a beautiful city with an old history and profound Muslim roots, mostly known because of tapas and the compound of the Alhambra and the Generalife, a pleasure palace with great gardens, one of the most visited monuments of Spain and a must see. The event itself will welcome not only the enthusiastic Spanish community but also the growing number of visitors from other countries, that ensures a fair number of sessions held in English.
In the meanwhile we will apply all the new knowledge and gather some more, that we will be eager to share here or in the way of sessions in those events.
Thank you and see you soon!