Drupal Smorgasbord: Drupal 8 Features in Drupal 7, Drupal 8 Migration & Docker

Join us at our March 2015 meetup for the Toronto Drupal User Group (http://groups.drupal.org/toronto) on Monday, March 16th at 6:00pm.

LOCATION: BrightLane Inc. ( 545 King St. W. (https://goo.gl/maps/PrUA9))
DOORS OPEN: 6:00-9:00pm (presentations start at 7:00pm)

SPONSORS
Huge thanks to our sponsorship partners BrightLane Inc. (http://brightlane.ca) and Digital Echidna (http://echidna.ca).

Drupal Updates: Drupal North, @DrupalTO & News
We'll kick off the evening with a round of updates about the Drupal North Regional Summit (https://twitter.com/drupalnorth), housekeeping news for the Toronto Drupal User Group (https://twitter.com/DrupalTO) and significant news from the past month in the Drupal community. Presented by Chris Luckhardt (https://www.drupal.org/u/chris-luckhardt).

#DrupalElections
Cast your vote in the 2015 At-Large Board position (https://assoc.drupal.org/blog/holly.ross.drupal/voting-open-2015-large-board-elections) for the Drupal Association! Check out the candidate profiles (https://assoc.drupal.org/election/8/candidates) and view the Meet the Candidate sessions (https://assoc.drupal.org/election/8/candidates) on YouTube.Disclaimer: I am a candidate (https://assoc.drupal.org/election/2015-drupal-association-director-large/candidate/chris-luckhardt) and would greatly appreciate your vote, but please check out all of the awesome candidates (https://assoc.drupal.org/election/8/candidates) and VOTE! Thanks! - Chris

Vote here: https://assoc.drupal.org/2015-voting-open
Supercharge Your Drupal 7 Admin Interface - Backporting the Best of Drupal 8's Admin Improvements
Philip Kiff (https://www.drupal.org/user/232733) will demonstrate a variety of awesome modules from the upcoming release of Drupal 8 that you can already begin using in Drupal 7.

Migrating Into Drupal 8
Ryan Weal (https://www.drupal.org/u/ryan-weal) will demonstrate Drupal 8's new built-in features for migrating from your Drupal 6 and Drupal 7 websites.

Dockerizing Drupal for Project Development and Testing
David Numan (https://www.drupal.org/u/daven) will demonstrate how he's using Docker at CivicActions as a slick virtualization tool facilitating Drupal development processes.

General Q&A
Depending on our remaining time, we'll open up the floor for a general question and answer session. All questions are welcome!

The formal part of the meetup ends at 9:00pm, then we head out for drinks and more Drupal conversation at a local pub.
If you have any comments or questions, please let us know in the comment section below.

These events are hosted by the non-profit Toronto Drupal User Group (https://twitter.com/DrupalTO) organization, representing Toronto's Drupal community since 2006.