The Backdrop community holds several recurring meetings

Anyone is welcome to join any Backdrop meeting, and every meeting will have an open Q&A section at the end. Any attendee can raise a question on any topic, even when the question is not a perfect fit for the meeting in progress. People in the meeting will almost always try to help direct others to answers and resources whenever possible. 

If you would prefer to watch the weekly meetings instead of actively participating, that's fine too! The meetings are live streamed on the Backdrop CMS YouTube account, and the videos are posted to YouTube immediately following each meeting.

Each meeting's agenda is drafted ahead of time and a link is posted in our Zulip chat channel about 30 minutes before the start time of each meeting. Our Meetings are held on Zoom, and a link to join the meeting is posted into the agenda as well as in chat.

Weekly Office Hours

Wednesdays 8-10pm UTC (11:00am – 1:00pm America/Los_Angeles)

This is a meeting for anyone to bring questions about Backdrop, or issues they need help with, to get assistance from caring members of our community.

  • Get started with Backdrop CMS.
  • Upgrade a Drupal 7 site or modules to Backdrop.
  • Contribute to Backdrop CMS.
  • Anything else that pertains to Backdrop CMS!

Office hours are held on meet.jit.si, and can be accessed at the following easy-to-remember URL: https://backdropcms.org/office-hours

Weekly developer meeting

Thursdays, 8pm UTC (11:00am – 12:00pm America/Los_Angeles).

This is a meeting where we discuss active development tasks for Backdrop the product, as well as all the Backdrop web properties (backdropcms.org, events.backdropcms.org, forum.backdropcms.org, docs.backdropcms.org, and localize.backdropcms.org). 

Fortnightly documentation meeting

Thursdays, 9pm UTC  (12:00pm – 1:00pm America/Los_Angeles).

This is a meeting where we discuss active design and user-experience related tasks for Backdrop the product, as well as all the Backdrop web properties (backdropcms.org, forum.backdropcms.org, docs.backdropcms.org, and localize.backdropcms.org). 

Fortnightly User Group meeting

Thursdays, 9pm UTC (12:00pm – 1:00pm America/Los_Angeles).

This meeting is a cross between a podcast and discussion at Backdrop LIVE. We use this time every two weeks to talk about or demonstrate things happening in the BackdropCMS community of interest to the people who use Backdrop CMS. Topics such as: Ubercart, Module Showcase, Organic Groups, or Theme development. 

Click on the time links to view the meeting times in your local timezone.

Google Calendar Available

See our Google calendar for the complete meeting schedule or download the ics file: [iCal feed]

Video archives: YouTube

All weekly meetings are recorded and published to our YouTube channel. This channel is also home to tutorial videos on contributing to and using Backdrop CMS. Here are a few playlists by category that may be useful: