Three presenations in 10 days
- Working with Layouts at BackDrop Live
- DevOps Summit at NYC Camp
- Migrations on budget at NYC Camp


Three presenations in 10 days

As we move many sites off of Drupal 7, we are doing some deep dives into other technical solutions. Today, a Backdrop project! Here's how we did it:
My goal: Add a block to an existing node defined by a path using Layouts
Go to Structure > Layouts
Click Add Layout
Give the new layout a descriptive title.

On October 4 Irina presented https://assignmentcalculator.com/ - a time management tool for use with assignments. The Assignment Calculator is an online tool that breaks down various projects into a series of manageable steps (each with a separate due date) and builds your personalized schedule based on due dates that you enter. Each step includes hints and "how-to" links and can be added to Google calendar.
Here is experiment of this week
Getting ready for D7 end of life brings lots of new tools to play with, such as

My journey for bulding best web tools for research and academia is taking new turn - I am presenting at DevOps summit at DrupalCamp Colorado. How did I get here? I found that CloudIDE is doing for coders what CMS did for content managers. Now I can invest time that I had to spend on setting local IDE for D9 (OS versions, PHP versions, db versions, composer, other tools) into testing new features for modules that I need for site building.

Since 2010 Stanford WebCamp is a three-day event for community and by community to discuss the ins and outs of building websites and research tools.
Here are links to some great sessions that I attended at DrupalCon
Open Source License was introduced in 1998. At that time software was either proprietary (EULA) or free (GNU). New type of licensing based on Open Source definition (OSD) enabled development of the tech world the way we know it now - most successful operating systems and applications are based on open source software. We all know that Open Source is great, but we rarely look into the underlying principles of OSD and how they impact the economics of tech industry. Since 1998 world has changed drastically - do these principles still work two decades later?

Thanks you, Kevin Porras, for putting together these great articles!