Schedule

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August 14, 2020

8:30am - 12:30pm

Nonprofit & Government Summit

The Nonprofit & Government Summit is a space for nonprofit, government and activist technologists to come together and learn how to make the most of their Drupal websites and online presence in general. Come network and expand your skill set through lightning talks, breakout discussions, panels and ...
dcco
Everyone
Community
Zoom

Training: Drupal Testing Crash Course

Writing tests is one of the best ways to guarantee quality software, prevent bugs, and produce clean and scalable code; yet many developers still don’t include tests with their code. Why? “I don’t know how.” "Writing tests is too hard." “I don’t have time.” “I don’t know what to test.” “This code is ...
dcco
Everyone
Devops
Hopin Sessions

Higher Ed Summit

The Higher Ed Summit is a space for university and college technologists to come together and learn how to make the most of their websites and online presence! Come network and expand your skill set through presentations, breakout discussions, and panels. While this is a Drupal-focused conference ...
dcco
Everyone
Community
Zoom

Training: Getting Started with Drupal 8

Date: Friday, August 14, 2020 Time: 8:30am - 12:30pm Location: Online Drupal, an open source content management system, is used to make many of the websites and applications you use every day. Drupal has great standard features, like easy content authoring, reliable performance, and excellent ...
dcco
Everyone
Site Building
Hopin Sessions

Library Summit

Following the success of the Library Summits in 2018 and 2019, DrupalCamp Colorado 2020 will be hosting another Library Summit at the King Center on Auraria Campus. The DCCO Library Summit is aimed at everyone from librarians and library directors to project managers, content editors, vendors, and ...
dcco
Everyone
Community
Zoom

Training: 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? Join us as we share our experience working with some of the largest and most complex projects ever built and help you ...
dcco
Everyone
Project Mgmt
Hopin Sessions
1:00pm - 1:45pm

Front-end testing and debugging for back-end developers

If you are a back-end developer who feels unsure about quickly changing landscape of front-end tools or beginner front-end developer looking to learn some new tricks this session is for you! We will dive deeply into debugging tools in different browsers, testing techniques for debugging on mobile ...
amykhailova
Beginner
Front End Development
Hopin Sessions

Building individual resolve and resiliency for the long run

Do you feel pulled in a hundred different directions, as if your to do list is never ending? Perhaps you’re being confronted with the unknown, uncertainty, or an overwhelmed feeling? It’s hard to know how to dig yourself out of that place and come up for a breath of fresh air. It is in these quiet ...
meghan_davis
Beginner
Mental Health
Hopin Sessions
2:00pm - 2:45pm

Be an Accessibility Anti-Hero

Getting it Done with Strategy Accessibility is more than code, it’s more than UX, it’s also a vital part of your marketing strategy. In this session, we’ll talk about ways to talk about accessibility that showcase it’s value to your stakeholders. We’ll touch on: ROI - metrics show accessibility is ...
dbungard
Intermediate
Accessibility
Hopin Sessions

Smart Date: Drupal's date handling made smarter

An exciting improvement in Drupal 8 is having a date field in core. That said, custom code is often needed to provide commonly-requested functionality. The Smart Date module allows you to upgrade your date fields, quickly and easily! You'll hear from the module's creator about the problems it is ...
mandclu
Intermediate
Admin Experience
Site Building
UX
Hopin Sessions
3:00pm - 5:00pm

Virtual Happy Hour

Join the camp organizers and other attendees for games and social time as we gear up for a great weekend.
dcco
Everyone
Community
Hopin Sessions

August 15, 2020

8:45am - 9:00am

Opening Session

Join us to kick off DrupalCamp Colorado 2020!
MatthewS
nswitzer
Everyone
Community
Hopin Stage
9:00am - 10:00am

Keynote: Given the Choices We Have with Fatima Khalid

In this Actions Speak Louder than Code interactive series, you will embark on choose-your-own-adventure making choices about where our stories lead and observe the impacts together. From being harassed in the streets, getting hit with eggs, pushed around in an airport security line to awkward ...
dcco
Everyone
Being Human
Community
Hopin Stage
10:15am - 11:00am

Successful Projects Start with Great RFPs

When you think of user-centered design, you might think of website and software design that largely focuses on the needs of your end user. As an institution of higher learning, you might be thinking specifically about your potential students and their parents, your current students, staff, and ...
jcrespo
Beginner
Being Human
People Mgmt
Project Mgmt
Hopin Sessions

Inclusive Content Strategy

Job postings, among so many other things, can be unintentionally exclusive. “We are currently looking for the next Rockstars to join our stellar team! All employees must have a killer work ethic and offer fanatical customer service.” Inclusivity is at the heart of an effective content strategy ...
volkswagenchick
Everyone
Accessibility
Content Strategy
Diversity & Inclusion
Hopin Sessions

Getting the Most From Webform

The Webform Module is a powerful set of tools for creating ad-hoc forms outside of Drupal fields. In this session we will look at interesting ways to add to the user experience, create workflows, change the way data is displayed, and have better access to the data once it is collected. Specific ...
skessler
Advanced
Back End Development
Hopin Sessions
11:15am - 12:00pm

2020 Edition - Dream Migrations and Imports: Feeds UI + Migrate Engine

This year we celebrate Drupal 9 release, and migrations from Drupal 7 are becoming more and more important. A one-click upgrade from older versions is one of its greatest features, thanks to the Migrate module being in core. While Migrate is powerful, it lacks a good UI. In contrib, we have Feeds ...
irinazaks
MegaChriz
Everyone
Back End Development
Community
Site Building
Hopin Sessions

Social media and Accessibility

Having a fully accessible website is extremely important when it comes to digital accessibility, but the easiest and most effective way to get your organization’s name out to the masses, is through social media. With over 3 billion people around the world using platforms like Twitter, Instagram ...
MBlackham
Beginner
Accessibility
Hopin Sessions
12:15pm - 1:00pm

Maintainer Interview: Kaleem Clarkson

With the move to an entirely virtual camp, we’re excited to welcome presenters from around the globe to DrupalCamp Colorado. We’ve taken this opportunity to add a new session format to the camp - Maintainer Interviews. Maintainer Interviews will be 45 minute sessions in which a Drupal community ...
dcco
Everyone
Being Human
Community
Leadership
Hopin Stage
1:15pm - 2:00pm

Media is now in Core: Let's use it!

Over the past two years, the media landscape in Drupal 8 has seen a significant evolution. Much of the contrib code that was previously needed to support media management and usage has been replaced by Drupal core functionality. This session will demonstrate how to take advantage of these new core ...
Chris Burge
Intermediate
Site Building
Hopin Sessions

Analytics 201

I was a self-taught Google Analytics user. I thought I was getting by OK. But, since working with professional analysts, I’ve seen how my data wasn’t as complete or accurate as I thought I was. And with bad data, it’s easy to tell the wrong story. I’m here to level you up, and share best practices ...
Andrew_Mallis
Intermediate
Business
Content Strategy
Process
Hopin Sessions

Moving from Drupal 7 to Backdrop CMS

You have a perfectly good Drupal 7 site that does everything you need it to do, but Drupal 7 is nearing its end-of life. If you haven't considered moving to Backdrop CMS, you may be surprised to learn that Backdrop could be your most affordable option -- especially if you've invested heavily in ...
jenlampton
Beginner
Admin Experience
Architecture
Case Study
Hopin Sessions

August 16, 2020

9:00am - 10:00am

Keynote: Eriol Fox

Eriol's slides from their keynote Other resources provided by Eriol: Human Rights Centered Design UX Design & Trauma article Join us for our sunday Keynote with Eriol Fox! About Eriol Eriol is a Design Lead who has worked in-house for 10+ years working primarily with NGO's, charities, non-profits ...
dcco
Everyone
Being Human
Community
Hopin Stage
10:00am - 10:45am

Accessibility update: a look at WCAG 2.2

You can view the slide deck from this presentation here. Learn what’s coming in WCAG 2.2 and how it might affect your Drupal websites. Later this year, the World Wide Web Consortium plans to release a 2.2 update to its Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. The Web Accessibility Initiative has ...
chicagomom
Intermediate
Accessibility
Hopin Sessions

Building Multilingual Sites - The Drupal Way!!

The ability to build and scale multilingual sites is Drupal’s core capability since the early days of Drupal. Nowadays, as multilingual sites are becoming mainstream to get a very diverse audience, there is a need to have a sound platform and implementation which can serve visitors in their language ...
mohit_aghera
Beginner
Back End Development
Site Building
Hopin Sessions

The Webform module's greatest hits with gems from the feature vault, combined by an AMA

For the past four years, dozens of new and cool features have been added to the Webform module for Drupal 8. This presentation will walk-thru the Webform module's greatest hits with some rare gems from the feature vault. You are guaranteed to learn something new about the Webform module, especially ...
jrockowitz
Beginner
Site Building
Hopin Sessions
11:00am - 11:45am

Maintainer Interview: Gábor Hojtsy

With the move to an entirely virtual camp, we’re excited to welcome presenters from around the globe to DrupalCamp Colorado. We’ve taken this opportunity to add a new session format to the camp - Maintainer Interviews. Maintainer Interviews will be 45 minute sessions in which a Drupal community ...
dcco
Everyone
Being Human
Community
Core
Hopin Stage
12:00pm - 12:45pm

Empowering Site Owners by Developing Custom Views Plugins

Views is an indispensable tool for Drupal site builders - allowing them to create complex queries and displays without writing a single line of code. But too often developers like myself avoid these interfaces. We feel constrained by the GUI and want to reinvent the wheel for the sake of efficiency ...
nJim
Intermediate
Admin Experience
Back End Development
Hopin Sessions

Operational definitions: put communicable meaning into a concept

The goal of an IT organization is to help the business show a profit through the delivery of valuable software. As we consider our process, instead of thinking in terms of projects, think in terms of capabilities needed to complete the work. The concept of capability implies measurability ...
mgodeck
50 minutes
Beginner
Business
Hopin Sessions

Advanced analytics processes for content migrations

Big data rules differ when it comes to web content because there is no slimming down the variables to achieve a higher point of accuracy in predictions or observations. Instead, we can look at the cross-industry standard process for data mining (CRISP-DM) process with the end goal of performing ...
omorrill
Advanced
Back End Development
Content Strategy
Process
Hopin Sessions
12:50pm - 1:15pm

Closing Session

Join us to close out DrupalCamp Colorado 2020!
MatthewS
nswitzer
Everyone
Community
Hopin Stage
1:15pm - 5:00pm

Contribution Day

What is a contribution day? Project contributions are historically known as sprints. A contribution day is an important part of Drupal's growth, and provides great opportunities to get involved in contributing to Drupal itself. Everyone is welcome! You don't need to be a developer to contribute. We ...
dcco
Everyone
Community
Zoom