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Informal gatherings (BoF)

Birds of a Feather sessions (or BoFs) are informal gatherings of like-minded individuals who wish to discuss a certain topic without a pre-planned agenda. For example, BoFs allow groups to meet and discuss issues relating to regular conference sessions and talk out common problems facing the community. But BoFs don't need to be about the community or even Drupal, they may also be held to share your local favourite chocolate or coffee with each other or discuss knitting patterns.

Have fun and learn! BoFs exist to provide attendees with an inclusive, informal environment in which to share ideas freely. BoFs can be serious, and a great way to gather the people you’ve been working with remotely on a project in a space to deep dive on a topic, but they can also be fun as well.

Drupal Europe was born in a series of BoF sessions so we of course provide several BoF spaces to schedule gatherings. Scheduled BoF sessions show up as part of the general daily schedule.

Submit your BoF now

How to run a successful BoF

  • Be respectful of scheduled BoFs

  • Meet in the hallway or at lunch tables if all BoF spaces are reserved

  • Encourage participation from attendees and get everyone's input

  • Split the group if your BoF gets too big so everyone can be heard

  • Collaborate with BoF owners if you want to propose similar topics

  • Ask a speaker to mention your BoF if the topics are complementary to raise awareness

 

These kinds of BoFs will be moderated and removed

  • Lecture-like presentations, sales pitches, product demos, or marketing meetings

  • BoFs which violate the Code of conduct

Photo by Paul Johnson (CC BY-NC 2.0)

All BoFs

A next generation UI for Paragraphs

BoF
Industry track

This BoF is a call to all speakers, maintainers, developers to unite the efforts and build together a next generation UI for Paragraphs.

Let's start discussing with what's available and what could be a solution that fits Core direction. Maybe one day in Core as well?

2.05 palladium

Auto-updates BoF

BoF

Join this BoF to get a chance to help the initiative team to understand your use case for auto-updates.

3.04 europium

Better world Drupal projects and business models

BoF
Industry track

There is a growing number of us that are challenging the status quo of the world, both in the ways we are working and with the projects that we are creating.

We want to get together in this BOF to hear from you, exchange our experiences and simply connect and talk about the idea that the world could maybe get a little bit better with every new Drupal project, while we are thriving ourselves.

No matter if you're not satisfied with the way things are and want to change how you work and what you work for, if you're already trying to make the way you work and live as sustainable as the projects you are working on or if you found the holy grail of work-life-bliss already, come join us and share your story.

3.10 hydrogenium

Contribution Mentor Orientation I

BoF
Industry track

"There's only one better Drupal-feeling than seeing things you have worked on being committed into Drupal; helping and assisting someone else to do the same!"

Friday is mentored contribution day and you can be a key part of it!

The Friday mentored contribution days are one of the most amazing parts of a big Drupal event - so many people working together to make Drupal even more wonderful.

Sign-up for Contribution Days or to be a mentor here: https://www.drupaleurope.org/program/contribution.

2.05 palladium

Contribution Mentor Orientation II

BoF
Industry track

"There's only one better Drupal-feeling than seeing things you have worked on being committed into Drupal; helping and assisting someone else to do the same!"

Friday is mentored contribution day and you can be a key part of it!

The Friday mentored contribution days are one of the most amazing parts of a big Drupal event - so many people working together to make Drupal even more wonderful.

Sign-up for Contribution Days or to be a mentor here: https://www.drupaleurope.org/program/contribution.

2.05 palladium

Drupal e. V. Annual General Meeting

BoF

Members of Drupal e. V. - German Drupal Association are invited by email to join the general meeting. If you don't mind German language, you are welcome to listen. You might consider to quickly become a member. Watch out for the community booth, you'll find an application form there.

2.04 titanium

Drupal Ethereum Q&A

BoF
Industry track

Following up my session on the Drupal Ethereum Module I's be happy to discuss use cases and answer any questions you might have about the module, semi decentralized applications or the Ethereum Blockchain. 
 

2.08 platinum
Expertise topics

Drupal GDPR Exchange

BoF

As a continuation of what already happened at DrupalHackCamp in Buckrest this BoF is meant as get together of all people being involved in Drupal's GDPR efforts and especially the modules. Scope is about exchanging on the current status of the GDPR efforts and modules, discussing current limitations and ToDos, looking into collaboration for further progress and empowering communications between all stakeholders and contributors.

2.06 argentum
Expertise topics

Drupal in Government BoF

BoF
Industry track

Drupal is now being widely used in digital government projects around the world. But often the same things are being invented multiple times in multiple places.

Let's gather to share notes on what is being built where, what has been (or could be) open sourced — and see how we can better leverage the benefits of open source and open standards for the public good.

3.10 hydrogenium

Drupal Infrastructure Exchange

BoF
Industry track

Following up on what happened with BoFs at DrupalCon Vienna here is another round of infrastructure exchange between our engineering team from the DA and other folks being involved in providing infrastructure for the Drupal community. While this exchange is open in general the target group are clearly people with an engineering record on serving infrastructure either within the community or it's companies.

Scope is about sharing experience with certain technologies, integrating present central and decentralized infrastructures, envisioning future landscape of community services, understanding different privacy and law contexts, finding synergy effects and lean ways of contribution/collaboration and most important establishing further meetups and communications. An actual agenda should be defined once sitting together ...

3.07 argon

Drupal UX Study

BoF
Industry track

Help us design a better UX for content editors! Get involved with the ongoing UX study, give your inpu on the wireframes and help us develop our user testing plan. Content editors, marketing folks, designers, and anyone else welcome!

2.06 argentum
Expertise topics

DrupalCamp Germany 2019

BoF

Let's get together with the local usergroups in Germany and discuss whether and - if so - where to have a DrupalCamp in Germany in 2019.

2.06 argentum

Handling Agency Team Capacity Challenges

BoF
Industry track

We're all in Drupal business. And no matter what the agency size is, either it's a one-man shop or 100+ company, sales ups and downs happen everywhere. Have you faced the issue, when you can't handle the brand new client request because of the lack of your in-house team? 

If that's typical for you at this stage or you see the potential risks in the upcoming future, let's discuss the ways how to find a balance between new sales opportunities and the team workload.

3.04 europium

Hosting Drupal on Kubernetes

BoF
Industry track

Following up on https://www.drupaleurope.org/session/professional-drupal-hosting-and-development-kubernetes-and-helm, I would like to dive into more details and also share experiences with others that already use kubernetes or that are considering setting something up. We can also have a look of what is coming up and arrange collaboration opportunities.

3.04 europium
Expertise topics

I Love Diagrams - Visualising Entity Structures and Processes

BoF
Industry track

I love diagrams for designing, redesigning and documenting Drupal sites and training end users. Mostly I think about entity relationship -style diagrams and diagrams for workflows. What do you use diagrams for in Drupal? When not to use diagrams? What is the best software to draw Drupal-diagrams with? Can you automate it?

2.08 platinum

Large scale Drupal

BoF
Industry track

Are you doing Drupal with millions of entities? Huge traffic? Dramatically more entity operations than normal?

Let's talk about the different problems we face when doing Drupal in a scale that not everyone does, and a scale some parts of Drupal was not meant to handle. What are our solutions to these problems? How can we make Drupal handle this better out of the box?

2.06 argentum

Layout Builder: feedback, uses, offers to help

BoF
Industry track

The Layout Builder in Drupal 8 is currently a Beta experimental module but should be stable in the next year.  It has the potential to greatly improve Drupal site building.

Have you started to use the Layout Builder? How has your experience been?

This will be a chance for people testing and using the Layout Builder to get together with those developing it. Let's get together and talk about the potential and problems of the Layout Builder. 

2.05 palladium
Expertise topics

Learn about DrupalCon 2019 & Kuoni Partnership

BoF

Kuoni, an international event organization with deep roots in Europe licensed DrupalCon. Through a strong partnership with the Drupal Association and the European community, Kuoni will produce DrupalCon 2019. Join this BOF to learn about the partnership and about the our next DrupalCon.

Kuoni and the Drupal Association will be in attendance to share details, answer questions, and hear your needs.

 

 

2.06 argentum

Native Drupal CRM in D8

BoF
Industry track

A general discussion on native Drupal CRM and how it compares to integrating with other CRM system, with particular focus on the Contacts module in Drupal 8

2.08 platinum
Expertise topics

Novice Issue Triage

BoF
Industry track

Friday is mentored contribution day and you can be a key part of it!

The Friday mentored contribution days are one of the most amazing parts of big Drupal events - so many people working together to make Drupal even more wonderful. 

As part of creating the right environment for new people to become involved in our Drupal contributor community, we want to ensure that we have proper tasks for them to work on during the day.

2.08 platinum

Rocket.Chat + Drupal = Open Source

BoF
Industry track

Remote communications are essentials to Open Source communities and have been traditionally the strongholds of free implementations of solutions like mailling lists, IRC and XMPP. But with the rise of HTTP based chat protocols we seen the proprietary empire striking back and for the sake of ease of use and accessibility we gave up the freedom of our communication backbones. For convenient upbringing we even hooked up our beloved Open Source communities with freemium plans from SaaS providers that don't support our communities and rather do bar gaining on basic features like chat history.

With Rocket.Chat there is an actual Open Source implementation of a HTTP chat solution that keeps the convenience while still empowering the freedom. In collaboration with the Debian/Ubuntu community they even made upbringing of self hosted instances a breeze and reconquered some abandoned strongholds back in companies and communities. Within the Drupal galaxy we started loving Rocket.Chat as an upstream that accepts changes and patches and also let us built DrupalChat as central Rocket.Chat instance for our community.

Let's continue this Open Source romance here with a BoF including our dear Rocket.Chat folks joining this conference <3

3.10 hydrogenium
Expertise topics

The Drupal Business Manifesto

BoF
Industry track

How can we get past the goldrush period of Drupal agencies, to create long term sustainable businesses that are successful, good community citizens, supported by the community, and actually delivering amazing service to clients while being healthy places to work? What would a business run in line with Drupal community values be like?

3.10 hydrogenium
Expertise topics

Tunisian fine pastry tasting

BoF

Come and taste some traditional Tunisian pastry. Those delicious sweets are based on almond, hazelnuts and a LOT LOT of sugar :)

2.06 argentum

🌶Out of the BoF! Umami, Out of the Box and all that Jazz 🌶

BoF
Industry track

The Umami demo profile from the Out of the Box initiative is available in Drupal 8.6.0! However there, is much to do, including deciding going forward what there is to do. Come and join the initiative leads as we discuss 

  • existing core functionality we are not yet demoing
  • upcoming core functionality we can begin to prototype
  • how we can better involve people in the Out of the Box initiative 
  • sprint priorities for the week
2.05 palladium

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