Camp Schedule

Welcome to the first ever Kansas City Flyover Camp!

Ann and Jennifer will share life lessons and strategies on how to reach your goals of proficiency in your craft while being the teammate everyone wants to work with and learn from.

Creating a set of standards and encouraging thought leadership is a great way to make sure your organization is always delivering the best product possible.

Let's be honest. CSS is painful and tedious. Luckily we have CSS preprocessors, like Sass and Compass, to take the pain away. In this session, we'll cover the very basics and you'll learn about Sass variables, nesting, mixins, color functions and some popular frameworks built on Sass.

Your ready to make that new release. You've tested it all in Docker locally, so you hit that commit button and push it all to production, confident that your CI will deploy it perfectly every time. Then, disaster strikes: A minor difference between prod and your local brings your site down.

A quick overview of the most popular Drupal 8 modules.

In this session we will discuss and learn about build and deploy processes and workflow on Acquia using Jenkins.

Lessons learned from creating a standardized Drupal distribution.

Enjoy lunch on us and a raffle of three codes good for a free JetBrains product

In this talk we will review modules that leverage Artificial Intelligence, discuss relevant use cases for AI (tagging, photo recognition, personalization etc.) and talk about content as a service and it’s applications for powering AI.

How do you tell if a change you made to your website has unintended side effects? Security updates should rarely result in anything changing visually, but how can you be sure? The answer: visual regression testing.

Open time to assemble BoF groups

There are several contrib modules out there that can help you with Search Engine Optimization. We'll go over/live config a few and jump into some custom code where contrib doesn't do exactly what you need.

Logging is meaningless without alerts, and overzealous logging is inefficient. Learning to use Amazon CloudWatch for streamlined, meaningful, centralized logging and alerts can drastically reduce the time it takes to notice issues, find bugs, and fix them.

How to utilize Drupal’s powerful Library system to impact your sites performance.

Explore the world of accessibility, why we should care about it, and how to integrate it into our design thinking from the start.

Git is a great tool which enables teams to work together and deploy code. What if you need to deploy a single hotfix into your prod build, without pushing in any more code than needed, or how can you roll back to an older version of your code? With the right git flow this is a breeze.

This is a session on how to have meaningful technical interviews and really learn if a candidate will be good for your team, hard skills and soft skills.

In this session, I talk about how I live with mental illness and how it took me a long time to understand that I’m not damaged goods; I’m sick. More importantly, I’m not alone. I will go over some statistics, some resources, and some things that helped me get from where I was to where I am now.

There comes a point in every career when it's time to move on and take the next step with another employer. Even if that day isn't today you need to have a plan and calculate the numbers to determine when it's time to jump ship and which ship to climb aboard next.

Open time to assemble BoF groups

Meet us at the Pawn & Pint for an evening of gaming and socializing. Admission is free if you show your camp badge at the door!

In 2014, I built the first version of the Raspberry Pi Dramble—a cluster of Raspberry Pi single-board computers which ran Drupal 8. In 2017, I started migrating the cluster to use Kubernetes. Learn from my struggles about scaling Drupal 8 to the moon, and why you might not need to!

Learn how to retrieve needed variables and data using hook_preprocess functions to use this data in Twig templates.

Remote working has picked up & is here to stay/expand. I plan to share our experience and methodologies which helped us in delivering projects successfully sitting remotely in different geographies than our clients.

Every site is "healthy" until it isn't. Don't leave things to chance by doing a site health check!

OWASP provides a number of free and open source tools designed by security experts to help your secure your applications. Learn how to integrate these tools - from active penetration tests to project dependency checkers - into your DevOps pipeline and deliver on the promise of continuous security.

I will go over the challenges, pitfalls, and ultimate success of setting up Drupal 8 on Microsoft Azure hosting.

We'll assemble out front for an official group photo!

Lunch and raffle for two Drupalize.me memberships

Turn the "Content Editing Process Dial" up to 11 using Layout Builder, giving your Content Editor an experience that changes they way they look at Drupal.

What if I told you there’s a tool hidden within Git to quickly find when a bug was committed and then fix it? Git Bisect allows you to jump through dozens of commits at once and find the culprit within seconds - even when you don’t know exactly when it happened or even what file was edited.

Open time to assemble BoF groups

You may have heard about the new Configuration Management system in Drupal 8. In this session we'll explore what configuration management is, what problem it solves, and we'll learn the basics of how to use it.

If you need to import data into your Drupal 8 site, you will almost certainly need to write custom migrations. Here's what you need to know and how to avoid pitfalls along the way!

Open time to assemble BoF groups

Finding a new job isn't an easy task, especially when you're new to the field/industry and open positions require years of experience. Enter networking. A resume shows you in your best light, but you still might not get an interview! Learn networking tactics to get you on the radar and in the door.

Drupal 8 brings us config in yml files. This is great for deploying changes to your site without having to re-click all the button in production. What about when certain config things you only want in dev and not prod. What if you’re using a multisite and you want to share most of the config.

This talk challenges the Drupal community to look through a retrospective lens when guiding new developers into the Drupal practice. By breaking apart the learning curve, we can better understand how to combat the obstacles many beginners face.

Our bodies weren't made to be stagnant for 40+ hours a week. After over a year of work with a trainer and 3+ years at a standing desk, Avi will share some tips on how to stay active and moving when we're desk bound.

Every new project we start builds off the success and failures of our past experience. Utilize an architecture review and early planning to ensure your project success and no more after thought systems.

Open time to assemble BoF groups

Wrapping up two days of great Drupal sessions