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Description

Today we are talking about Backdrop with Jen Lampton.

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Topics

• Nic - Vacation
• April - need new shelves for Lego Harry Potter
• Jen - Heirloom tomatoes and too much rain
• John - Personal website / blog
• Backdrop CMS Elevator pitch
• Difference between Drupal and Backdrop
• Why choose Backdrop over Drupal
• Matt Glaman on twitter
  • General challenges of growing a fork’s identity
  • Challenges in being thrifty
• Biggest milestones in the last two years
  • New core committers
  • 7 releases with new features
    • Layouts
    • File browser
    • Lazy loading images
    • Config overrides
    • Telemetry
  • Backdrop Live events
• More listener questions (Matt Glaman)
  • Contributor community
  • Companies specializing in Backdrop
• Wider adoption as D7 approaches EoL
• Wider adoption as D9 approaches EoL
• Ease of migration from D7
  • Easier than migrating D7 to D9
• More listener questions (Matt Glaman)
  • Marketing challenges
• Anything that you would do differently after 6 years
• Philosophy
• Biggest upcoming features
• Telemetry

Resources

• Twitter Questions
• Backdrop CMS
  • Twitter
  • Main site
  • Documentation
  • Forum
  • Live Chat
  • Contributed projects

Guests

Jen Lampton - Jeneration Web Development @jenlampton

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan
John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi
April Sides - @weekbeforenext

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