Issue 231 - March, 17th 2016

News

Drupal Association Board Elections Close March 18th

Make sure you cast your vote. Oh, and if you haven't become a Drupal Association member, what are you waiting for?

Drupal Association - Election Time! or Do You Know What the DA Does?

Update: PHP Dependencies Removed from Git (8.1.x and 8.2.x Branches)

"The Composer-managed vendor directory has been removed from the Drupal core git repository for the 8.1.x and 8.2.x branches. (This change was previously committed, but rolled back due to rate limits on Github affecting composer installation. Those limits have since been lifted, so we have recommitted the change.)" This is great news for Drupal and another step in the modernization of our processes.

White House Deepens Its Commitment to Open Source

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DrupalCon

Community Keynote Votes Are In

The votes have been counted and Schnitzel's talk titled "Your Brain Health is More Important Than Your Standing Desk" was selected as the community keynote. Sounds like an interesting talk.

Want More Reasons to Come to DrupalCon New Orleans?

My pal at Mediacurrent Jason Want(a New Orleans resident) shares some great tips for making the most of your time in the Big Easy.

Articles

A "MAP" for Accelerating Drupal 8 Adoption

Dries discusses the successes of the Drupal 8 Module Acceleration Program.

Accelerating Drupal 8 Through Adoption

Great to see agencies like Chapter Three pushing Drupal 8 contrib forward. Mark Ferree talks about what they have been up to in this post.

Developing with VirtualBox and Vagrant on Windows

If you do Drupal on a Windows machine be sure and check out this post from Jeff Geerling. Among other things Jeff is the developer behind the DrupalVM project.

Drupal 8 Theming Foundations: Using Stable vs. Classy as a Base Theme

A short post that explains why you might want to use different core themes as a base for your custom theme.

How We Migrated Data Into Drupal from Four Different Sources Using the Migrate Module

Measuring Drupal's Health

Drupal Association Director Holly Ross talks about measuring the health of the Drupal project and community. It's an interesting read and there are some thoughtful comments as well.