Drupal GovCon community is organizing its one of the largest events called Drupal Gov Con 2016. It is a three-day featured event held from 20th to 22nd July 2016. The main aim behind this effort is to learn, improve and encourage innovation in the field of this platform. In this camp, the participants can explore various networking and learning opportunities.
Location:
The Drupal Gov Con 2016 is supposed to be held at National Institutes of Health, at Natcher Conference Center, 9000 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, Maryland.
Registration:
If you wish to be a part of the Drupal Gov Con 2016, then book your tickets at:
https://www.drupalgovcon.org/drupal-govcon-2016/registration
Schedule:
A number of interesting sessions will take place in this camp. Let us have a look:
Day 1 – 20th July 2016 – Wednesday
Registration will begin at 8:00 AM. Followed by this will be an Opening session. In this time slot, campers will get information about the whole day event.
Next will be the Keynote session, headed by Allyson Kapin and Sibyl Edwards. They will look at language, recruiting developers and breaking away from the brogrammer culture.
Emily Massey will talk about the functionality available in Panels as well as best practices for organization and display.
In the next session, Adrian Rollett will teach the ways to build a completely independent PHP library with the express intent of then using it with Drupal 7 and Drupal 8 modules.
Next to this, Karl Kaufmann will cover an iterative workflow that includes strategic, technical and content components.
Followed by this, Will Vedder will cover some of the abstract concepts of the headless approach and illustrate with one simple demo and examples.
The next speaker, Sara Cope will cover flexbox basics as well as some real world use cases and patterns to make flexbox your new layout BFF.
Matt Cheney will discuss the ways to leverage the Drupal 8 core stack to build pretty awesome websites.
In the next session, Bill Barbot, Allison Soussi-Tanani, David Miller and Evan Parker will discuss the strategic, organizational, creative, operational, and technical challenges.
Post lunch break, Christopher Gervais will share some of the history and successes of NDI’s DemTools initiative.
Next to this, Mike Low will give an insight into the FedRAMP project landscape. Along with this, the speaker will tell the ways to prepare yourself as a Project Manager.
Further, Alison Nneka will briefly cover the way to Set up Behat on a Drupal site. Along with this, the speaker will talk about Behat.
In the next session, Mike Potter will discuss various best practices for using Features and CMI together for best results.
The next session will be jointly hosted by Stephen Pashby and David Minton. They will tell the ways to determine what the website needs to do.
In the next session by Alexis Findiesen, campers will learn good use cases for animation. Along with this, she will go through some code examples and key tools.
Post break, Nick Grace will tell the ways to use Google Analytics and read the metrics reports.
Next to this, Heidi Wasem, Mike Madison, Dan Skorski, Jenna Larson and Daniel Johnson will focus on how the PNNL Drupal team uses taxonomy and custom code to control microsite content display.
Further, Raymond Saltini will introduce campers to the basics of web personalization and present several simple ways for government agencies to get started with web personalization on Drupal.
Emily Massey will teach the way to create custom dashboards using views as well as configuring VBO.
Post break, Martín Franzini and Matt Burge will talk about the ability to manage interpersonal relations and technical projects alike.
In the next session, Daniel Schiavone will go through all the components that make up a theme and get acquainted with tools that get the job done.
Keenan Holloway will talk about D3 Data Visualization. Along with this, he will discuss D3 visualization techniques.
Day 2 – 21st July 2016 – Thursday
Registration will begin at 8:00 AM.
Followed by this, Flora Qian and Richard Barnes will talk about the web designing of the NIH.gov website within the OD Online Information Branch at the National Institutes of Health.
In the next session, Larry Garfield will provide the information that will help campers leverage Drupal’s strengths through leading edge Web design.
Next to this, Kevin McCulloch will talk about Drupal community has embraced automated testing tools like PHPUnit and Behat.
Further, Allie Jones will tell the alternative method to solve the problem such as Creating, Breaking and Fixing a Module.
Later, Matt Allen will show examples of accessible interactions using ARIA attributes along with, some additional tricks to build well-designed page.
Post lunch break, Marvin Oey, Sam Harper, Brent Lightner, Kristin Jolda, Richard Allen and Emeline Glynnn will teach the ways to gather and push data in remote locations, pull it all into Drupal.
Mike Gifford will highlight elements of the development of Drupal 8 and of the project lifecycle of web development.
In the next session, Ken Rickard will take campers through the state of the modules in Drupal 8 development.
Further, Daniel Schiavone will show campers the most valuable innovations in Drupal 8 and offer examples related to it.
Post break, Peter Weber will talk about the major changes to the theme layer in Drupal 8, including; new core base themes.
Later, William Hurley will discuss the various interfaces, the Plugin Manager and discovery.
John Venable and John Allen will cover the basics of the Migrate framework and go over some techniques they implemented.
In the next session, Michael Jovel will discuss front-end issues and tell the ways to use preprocessors, post processors, automation tools.
Day 3 – 22nd July 2016 – Friday
Registration will begin at 8:00 AM.
In the next session, Laura Bell will conduct a Closing Keynote session regarding Open Source Security Vulnerability Testing.
Later, Mike Gifford will highlight some best practices that have been incorporated in Drupal 8 and some future modules.
Next to this, Matthew Mendonca will introduce campers to the module development in Drupal 7 and Drupal 8.
Further, Barrett Smith and Janessa Worrell will cover the steps to establish an organizational open sourcing policy which provides a flexible framework.
The next speaker, Lindsey Kopacz will cover different topics including SEO, Administrative Interface Updates, Making Searching Easier for the End User.
Andre Van Klaveren will discuss additional processes and best practices that can be implemented to increase the security posture of your organization.
Post lunch break, Michael Anello will demonstrate the ways to create and run a simple custom content migration from Drupal 6 to Drupal 8.
In the next session, Kat Kuhl and Samantha Elliott will give the tips to improve vendor and client communication by increasing discovery at the proposal phase.
Next to this, Jeremy Proffitt will tell the ways to use other CiviCRM entities and a simple extension to managing payment transactions.
Later, Darryl Norris will discuss the tool that will help campers developing by taking advantage of the modern PHP practices.
Emily Massey will introduce campers to some practical methods which help deliver new and trendy content to users.
Post break, Carie Fisher will give an overview of website accessibility and guidelines to making a site accessible.
The next speakers, Adam Weingarten and Niels Van Mourik will explain how cache tags are fundamentally different from path based purging.
Further, John Shortess will discuss Drupal 8 development and the Event Subscriber Interface while developing the module.
Jesus Manuel Olivas will tell campers about how to use composer to improve your development workflow.
It is going to be a great event and, therefore, you should try to attend it. Such great line of sessions, panels and exciting workshops make this DrupalCamp a wonderful symposium.