Schedule

Register for the camp, buy a DCCO 2019 t-shirt and mingle with the Colorado Drupal community. The main registration will be located through the South entrance to the King Center, up the stairs to KC201 on the second floor.

You need to make your website ADA compliant, whether it is WCAG or 508, but what does that actually mean? We'll go over the basics of accessibility and how it relates to you, your users, and your website. We'll dive into best practices for testing, recommended automated tools to use and demo a site ...

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. Learn more and register for this summit here ...

In this training, we will put into practice one of the latest trends in development: components. Building a website using a component-based approach can help make code more reusable, dramatically improve collaboration among teams, while improving flexibility and long-term maintenance of your project ...

The DCCO Library Summit is aimed at everyone from librarians and library directors to project managers, content editors, vendors, and developers. Anyone and everyone is welcome to contribute, regardless of their technical knowledge or Drupal experience. We aim to let our library attendees lead the ...

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 ...

Register for the camp, buy a DCCO 2019 t-shirt and mingle with the Colorado Drupal community. The main registration will be located at the South entrance to the King Center.

Kick the day off with the DrupalCamp Colorado organizers.

With tech still struggling to achieve its diversity and inclusion goals and average job tenure down to less than 3 years, we need to transform how we think about our organizational cultures. How do we create environments that succeed because of the teams, but where that success is not dependent on ...

Stick around for the camp group photo after Tiffany's keynote!

Come and hear the story of great success with Drupal and React, of various pains, and of personal growth. Your story-tellers are Kelly Molumby and Greg Knaddison. Kelly, with Wordpress and React experience. Greg, with Drupal 7 experience. Neither with experience in building headless Drupal 8 sites. ...

We'll show how quickly you can get a project going in DDEV, and then show some great new tricks, like sharing your project with somebody on the other side of the world (or at the next desk) with "ddev share", adding packages to your web container, making your environment your own with post-start ...

"What's next?" is a question you may hear from your parents, peers, employers an ice breaker for interviews, one-on-ones, and learning / growth plan discussions You may be asking the question to yourself as you ponder professional or community growth. It is always a challenging topic to approach - ...

Have you ever joined a team and had a hard time adjusting to and groking their codebases? That's probably, in large part, because they didn’t do a very good job documenting the development of their applications as they went. When I talk about documentation, I don’t just mean a wiki or a collection ...

As Dries Buytaert discussed in the DrupalCon Seattle keynote, open source has a serious diversity problem - and that includes our own Drupal community. We are people who care about fairness for all, and yet inequality persists. What can we do? Without understanding a problem, we can’t develop ...

For many Drupal 8 users, image display begins and ends with Drupal core's image styles. In this session we will look at a recipe of core and contributed modules that can push this further to support better performance across devices and browsers. We will start with a brief overview of image styles ...

Lunch will be provided by Cosmo's Pizza! All dietary restrictions will have options available. Please update the dietary restrictions field on your user profile to ensure our count is accurate. If you have any questions or concerns, please email info@drupalcampcolorado.org.

Have you ever stared at your backlog and gone cross-eyed? You have a hundred well-defined tickets, all placed in their sprints or waiting for their chance to be slated for work. Your team is resourced. You have an idea of the feature you’re cranking out next. But does it ever feel like your backlog ...

Like many in our community, I came to opensource though a non-traditional path. In this session I will share my journey to open source technology professional from a beginning where my parents were told, while I was bright, I would never learn to read or write - my learning disabilities were ...

This year we celebrate 4 years since Drupal 8 was released. 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 for importing content. This module does have a UI ...

I can say with almost certainty that in 9 out of 10 interviews, the interviewee states that one of their strengths is that they are “good” at multitasking. It’s become a buzz word only used in the positive sense. Multitasking is simply defined as ‘dealing with more than one task at the same time.’ ...

You may not realize it, but your drupal.org profile is a form of resume. Your profile likely needs a major remodeling. Imagine competing for a job, or as a team competing for business, and the person hiring you decides to check out your profile. Will it look the same as the day your registered your ...

The perpetual cliche of marketing and IT not working well together doesn’t have to be your reality. When this situation occurs it is often rooted in a lack of cross-department communication and an inability for team leaders to recognize how each contribute to their organization’s success. The fact ...

When architecting a Drupal application to support a progressively decoupled approach, there is one question that always comes up, "How do you expose Drupal related data to the Javascript application?". Most developers solve this by enabling the REST API or JSON API module. Then configure the JS ...

Come for the code, stay for the community. Drupal thrives on community contributions in the form of patches and documentation to both contributed modules and core. This helps the project move forward and stay relevant. Not everyone who works on open source projects is a senior developer. Smaller ...

In this session we will explore the new Recurring Events module core functionality, it's data modeling concepts, and developer extensibility. I invite anyone and everyone to contribute by helping test the module, submitting bugs or patches, or by requesting new functionality.

Please. Don't come to this talk if you: Hate easily extendable theme structures Can't stand clear, consice communication between your team Love inconsistencies in your designs (Just kidding, you should totally come to this talk) You may have heard of atomic design or design systems. They are all the ...

There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.” - Phil Karlton Everyone’s heard the adage, but when people share this bit of wisdom the aim is to usually exemplify the difficulty in the latter. Naming things is hard. But as the things we build continue to ...

Backdrop CMS is the Drupal fork. Since its first release over 4 years ago, what has changed? Is Backdrop substantially easier to use than the Drupal it was forked from? Is it more affordable to support? Are the APIs you know and love still stable and functioning as they were? Is the community ...

If you're new to Drupal development sometimes writing and debugging code is incredibly tricky, especially with the layered approach to D8 module development. I'm going to show a few of my debugging techniques. and figure out how to make things work the way you expect them to work. The presentation ...

You've attended all the Kubernetes, Docker, virtualization and cloud-y sessions at camps and DrupalCons, and everyone's talking about the latest cloud-native hotness. But... what about actually DOING any of this? This is not another one of those talks. Assuming you're interested in moving your ...

Layout Builder is a finally a fully released module for Drupal 8 and its implications are vast. In this session we're going to dig into site building with this new tool and how it's going to change your builds for the better. In this session we'll cover: Entity default layouts Controlling multiple ...

Close out the day with some stats about this year's camp and, most importantly, the drawing to find out who wins the DrupalCamp Colorado king-size t-shirt quilt!

We're doing it again! Join the Aten team for Happy Hour at 5:30 following Saturday's sessions. We'll be hosting with drinks and food on the patio of the Thirsty Lion (1605 Wynkoop St, Denver, CO 80202), walkable from the King Center and just next door to Union Station. We're looking forward to ...

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! Learn more about Contribution Day at DrupalCamp Colorado 2019 here .