Backdrop LIVE: Oct 22-23, 2021
It’s been just over a year since our first Backdrop LIVE event, since then we’ve hosted one every 4 months and October 22-23rd will be our 4th.
Here you'll find posts about both the software and the Backdrop community.
Config Recipes - A Possible Path Forward
We are very close to merging (this PR has now been merged) a pull request into the 1.20 branch of Backdrop CMS that will make it possible to create simple recipes in the form of modules with nothing but a .info file and a batch of config files. While not trivial to create, these "recipe" modules could in theory be downloaded from BackdropCMS.org, installed through the UI, and enabled just like any other module.
Backdrop LIVE - 3rd Edition
Please, join us for the next Backdrop LIVE - taking place on July 9-10 (or 11th, depending upon your time zone). This is a great chance to learn about Backdrop CMS, meet the Backdrop community, ask questions, and help plan for the future.
Change in Meeting Schedule
We've made a change in how we schedule our weekly development, outreach, and design/ux meetings to better accommodate our international participants. Participants in the southern hemisphere were experiencing 4 time changes per year due to daylight savings with a total swing of 2 hours, while participants in the USA experienced consistent start times all year.
AltaGrade Donates backdrop.org to Community
The Backdrop community is thrilled to announce that it has secured the domain name "backdrop.org". The community is receiving the domain name through the generous donation by AltaGrade hosting, whose owner, Alan Mels, negotiated the purchase.
Life as a Backdrop CMS core committer
When I was first approached about being a Backdrop CMS core committer, I was both humbled and more than a little scared. I'm extremely grateful to the PMC for having the confidence in me to offer me this role in the community, but the amount of responsibility they were handing over made me a bit hesitant. Could I do this? What if I made mistakes? What did they expect of me time-wise? This article aims to pull back the curtain and show how easy (and rewarding) it is to be a Backdrop core committer.
An engaging and interactive Backdrop LIVE
We have been experimenting with the use of a Mural Board for the upcoming Backdrop LIVE.
MURAL is a digital workspace for visual collaboration, where everyone can do their best work together.
In other words, a Mural Board is a fancy virtual white board that can be used for collaboration and facilitating virtual meetings.
Backdrop LIVE is March 12-13 (or 14th in some places)
How to use Mural at Backdrop LIVE
We just published a blog post about our goals for experimenting with a Mural Board for our upcoming Backdrop LIVE. This is a companion post on the mechanics of what Mural is and how to use it.
A Beginners Guide to Engaging with the Backdrop CMS Community
If you are just getting started with Backdrop CMS and are looking for a quick overview of how to engage with the community, consider this your primer.
Where to start?
Backdrop CMS version 2 will not be released before January 2025
Drupal 7 extended its end-of-life date until November 2022. This change has prompted questions from the community about the intended release date for Backdrop 2.0.
Initially, we had scheduled the 2.0 release date for "not before" Jan 2024, intending to give everyone at least 2 years to get from Drupal 7 to Backdrop 1.x before potentially removing the Drupal compatibility layer.