Frontend United

Piyush Poddar (Axelerant) and Michel Van Velde (One Shoe) are co-hosting a Drupal Agency Leaders Dinner at Drupalcamp London 2018. And you're invited to gather with other Drupal Agency peers.

The Dinner is at Union Tavern and will take place after CXO day of Drupalcamp London 2018. It’s a traditional pub with a central bar and an excellent seasonal menu of innovative gastropub dishes.

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Next @frontendunited 27-28 May in Ghent (Belgium). A city small enough to feel cosy but big enough to stay vibrant.

Building communities is an artsy science that is a strategic initiative for organizations of all kinds from nonprofit to for-profit. In this webinar, we will remove the mystery of building thriving online communities. We will look at community building best practices from leading community managers such as Jono Bacon of Ubuntu, and will understand how to use these pro-tips to grow and nurture global communities through a case study on Drupal.

Why Should You Attend This?

o To learn how the Drupal community grows and is nurtured
o To learn about the community management best practices

Drupal 8 will ship with a fancy new template engine (Twig) and a simpler theme layer. In this webinar, our speaker will show you some goodies from Twig and give you a walkthrough on how to get started with it.

He will also talk about the major problems that people were facing in working with Drupal 7 and what the community has done to make it better. This webinar will show - in both practical examples and on a broader scale - why Drupal 8 will make peace between backenders and frontenders.

Why Should You Attend This?

Happy Friday! I maintain the admin theme in Drupal 8 core: Seven. There have been many changes to Seven in Drupal 8 that affect the relationship between admin themes and modules, and how the admin UI is generated.

I've always thought that the strategy we've put in place are going to have a positive impact on maintainers of contrib admin themes, but I've never sought out feedback directly. I am now!

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At DrupalCamp Ghent, we held a very small frontend BOF, with myself, Laurii, Emma.maria, and guest frontender Xano.

It quickly became a retrospective on the Friday sprints that took place at DrupalCon Amsterdam. The collective thoughts were not positive. It felt like we fell way short of our goals and potential for the Friday sprint. Drupalcon Friday sprints are about introducing people to sprinting and it feels like we failed badly at that.

Here were some of the problems:

• Newbies did not get enough help
• The few people helping the newbies did not get enough support

We are starting a dedicated group to talk about everything frontend related. Called Frontend United

We've had a few groups in the past that are related to frontend but never a dedicated room to talk about

It's important to clarify why we think this group should exist and why we think supporting the frontend community within Drupal is important.