Drupal AC Monthly Meetup

Our First Meetup is scheduled for August 17th at the Venn Centre in Moncton NB.

We are proud to announce our first guest as well as the topic lineup:

Create Ambitious Digital Experiences with Drupal

Why should you use Drupal 8 (https://link.nylas.com/link/3gq5a0kxqpag6gragpbmrbjj3/local-e137ea33-7a01/0?redirect=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.drupal.com%2F&r=bWlrZS5vaGFyYUBnbWFpbC5jb20=)? It's the most advanced version of the industry-leading content management system. Drupal 8 includes 200+ new features and improvements that empower editors, developers, and customers.
You want to create user-friendly interfaces and workflows on top of complex requirements and architecture? Drupal 8 is the platform for you. Learn about real-world scenarios and how Drupal 8 provides the solution.

Attendees will learn about these core Drupal 8 features:

• improved authoring experience

• migration tools

• multilingual capabilities

• accessibility standards

• increased performance

• new theming system

• mobile optimizations

• modern PHP standards

• configuration management

• web services APIs

• decoupling options (with React or Angular)

Learn why Drupal 8 is becoming the leading platform for assembling the world's best digital experiences and how you can leverage its powerful features.

Presenter

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Chris Luckhardt is a Full Stack Drupal Developer (https://link.nylas.com/link/3gq5a0kxqpag6gragpbmrbjj3/local-e137ea33-7a01/1?redirect=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fin%2Fchrisluckhardt&r=bWlrZS5vaGFyYUBnbWFpbC5jb20=) based in Toronto, Canada. He has worked with Drupal for over 8 years and with other open source technologies during a 17-year technology career.

He has lead the Toronto Drupal community (DrupalTO (https://link.nylas.com/link/3gq5a0kxqpag6gragpbmrbjj3/local-e137ea33-7a01/2?redirect=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2FDrupalTO&r=bWlrZS5vaGFyYUBnbWFpbC5jb20=)) for 5 years and founded the Drupal North Regional Summit (https://link.nylas.com/link/3gq5a0kxqpag6gragpbmrbjj3/local-e137ea33-7a01/3?redirect=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2FDrupalNorth&r=bWlrZS5vaGFyYUBnbWFpbC5jb20=). For over 2 years, Chris has met with developers and business leaders around the world to give presentations and training about Drupal 8.

Chris was featured on Drupal.org as the Drupal Association’s “Drupal Master (https://link.nylas.com/link/3gq5a0kxqpag6gragpbmrbjj3/local-e137ea33-7a01/4?redirect=https%3A%2F%2Fassoc.drupal.org%2Fblog%2Fleighc%2Fmeeting-personas-drupal-master&r=bWlrZS5vaGFyYUBnbWFpbC5jb20=)” persona and on the home page as the emcee of DrupalCon New Orleans.

In addition to Drupal, Chris is an adventure photographer (https://link.nylas.com/link/3gq5a0kxqpag6gragpbmrbjj3/local-e137ea33-7a01/5?redirect=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Fname%2Fnm6203378%2F&r=bWlrZS5vaGFyYUBnbWFpbC5jb20=) exploring abandoned places and empty spaces around the world, published worldwide in film, print, television, and online.

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BoF - Deploying Drupal

An unstructured meeting of the minds to discuss Deploying drupal on production environments and best practices/methods.

A BoF session is an informal meeting at events, where the attendees group together based on a shared interest and carry out discussions without any pre-planned agenda.

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Can't make it to this month's meetup? We'll be streaming it live, and then making it available to watch later! Be sure to subscribe to our Twitter (http://www.twitter.com/DrupalAC), Drupal Group (https://groups.drupal.org/atlantic-canada) and Meetup (https://www.meetup.com/DrupalAC) for information on our next meetup and interesting Drupal related fun!