I cronched some numbers this evening about hashtag#Drupal hashtag#AI Learners Club so far: * Since the initiative began on March 31, we now have 407 subscribers to our Drupal AI event calendar and 4.4K total views and 466.9 hours watched of the videos in the Drupal AI Learners Club Playlist. * We've held 7 sessions so far, averaging ~130 signups and ~70 attendees. * Our next session is on Friday,…
Coming out of DrupalCon Chicago , there was both fear and excitement around AI, a tension captured well in the Driesnote . One of the best ways to confront fear is through learning, and one of the best ways to learn is with friends! :D Come join the Drupal AI Learners Club (#ai-learners on Drupal Slack ) where we share tips and tricks and answer questions about how to use Drupal and AI together.…
Last month at DrupalCon Portland , I was honoured to receive the Aaron Winborn Award , named after one of Drupal’s most kindhearted and prolific contributors, who we lost far too soon to ALS back in 2015. (If you were not lucky enough to know Aaron, you can read more about him through many others’ words in his Community Spotlight ) I am tremendously grateful to so, SO many people who have mentored…
What the what?! Sad Drupal is Sad. :'( Well, might as well get right down to it... I've made the incredibly difficult decision to leave Acquia , and my employment there officially ended last week. :'( Some important notes about this: This is in no way a negative reflection on Acquia. I have worked with SO many amazing people there in the past 10 years(!), and have endless gratitude for all of the…
Background These days, my life is all migrations, all the time , which means I often need to run Drupal 7 and Drupal 9 sites side-by-side simultaneously to compare the results. The problem? The latest version of Drush , Drush 10, only works on Drupal versions 8.4+. To use Drush on Drupal 7 sites, you need an older version, Drush 8. And both of them use the command drush . Tricksy... There are…
Wow, it's been awhile since I blogged, apparently. :P This is not a proper blog, but rather a random smattering of notes I'd rather not lose. Maybe it's helpful to others as well! --- Today, my daughter's teacher sent around some resources to facilitate home schooling over the next while. Here are the steps I went through to take my iPad (which I won at gay bingo in a unicorn onesie back in the…
Helloooooooo #DrupalCon! If you're looking for something to work on at the contribution sprints tomorrow, come to the Drupal 9 readiness sprint! :D We'll be spending the day removing deprecated code from Drupal 8 contributed modules to get them ready for Drupal 9. For a great overview about how to prepare for Drupal 9 , along with helpful tutorial videos, see Dries's blog . Here's how you can…
For DrupalCamp Belarus in mid-May, I'll be giving a talk entitled "Tales of Drupal Past: Origin Stories of Drupal Contributors." My goal is to feature folks from the Drupal community and share their stories of coming into Drupal, with the goal to help inform and inspire others about our community, coming from a wide range of diverse perspectives/backgrounds. How about... YOU? What were you doing…
Greetings, folks! As we head into feature freeze for Drupal 8.6 (the week of July 18), here's a run-down of the various initiatives, and a hit-list of what they're trying to accomplish in the next two weeks. Patch reviews, testing, design, docs, and many more skills are very welcomed! A couple of caveats here: 1) This is my own personal best understanding of where this stuff is all at, based on…
In recent weeks, I've seen a whole lot of FUD regarding the Drupal Community Working Group , and what it is they do or don't do. While I no longer serve in the CWG (I stepped down from all "extra-curricular" Drupal activities back in 2015 to focus on my family), most of the portrayals I've read are misinformed at best and completely inaccurate at worst. So, as an ex-member, who was uninvolved in…