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RSVP: bit.ly/dnyc0520
Welcome to the Drupal NYC monthly meetup!
Please join us on Wednesday, May 6th for our monthly Meetup for an evening of knowledge and friendship, this month online. BYO food and drinks :)
All are welcome to attend the Drupal NYC Meetup. At each meetup there will be one or more lightning talks and presentations as well as opportunities for new and old Drupalers to network, socialize, and get their Drupal questions answered.
You must RSVP by 5:30pm with your Google/GSuite email address (strongly preferred) or another email address as part of your RSVP to receive the video conference details. If you already RSVP’d, please double check that you provided an email address as your response to the RSVP question.
We look forward to seeing you!
Agenda (subject to change)
6:00 - Join the call, get your camera plugged in, and hop on #meetup in DrupalNYC Slack to introduce yourself to other attendees ( www.drupalnyc.org/slack ). While we wait for everyone to join, if you have a question about anything Drupal, ask the audience! Please don't use Google Meet's text chat.
6:15 - Announcements (inc. hiring or looking to be hired)
6:30 - Presentations
8:15 - Closing remarks, virtual happy hour :)
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Lightning Talk 1
"Quite Busy" by Rachel Lawson
With such a small team and a global community of hundreds of thousands, the Drupal Association is always "quite busy" but never more so than right now. Rachel will bring us up to date on a whole series of programs, ranging from DrupalConNA to local associations, event listings, and a whole new Contributor Guide. She will also try to answer questions about the Drupal Association.
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Lightning Talk 2
"Introducing Drupal Views UI" by Eleanor Wai
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Presentation 1
"Expanding JSON:API support in Drupal Commerce" by Matt Glaman
Centarro powers eCommerce innovation through every stage of growth. We’ve helped many growing businesses evolve and scale by embracing decoupled architectures to improve performance, create unique customer experiences, and more tightly integrate external business systems to improve their operations.
As a result of this work, we were recently able to release the Commerce API module to the Drupal community at large. It expands Drupal’s JSON:API capabilities to work with the Commerce framework for decoupled eCommerce applications. In this presentation, I’ll walk you through the why, what, and how of the new Commerce API.
Bio:
Matt joined the Drupal community in 2012 after discovering it through a client using Drupal Commerce. He became an active contributor to the project even before joining Centarro in 2015 (then Commerce Guys) as a senior Drupal developer.
Matt co-maintains Commerce 2.x for Drupal 8 and leads Centarro’s product development. He’s a force multiplier for teams implementing Drupal Commerce, helping them get the most out of the framework, and for Centarro’s own team of developers responsible for maintaining the company’s open source software.
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Presentation 2
"Debugging with HTTP Toolkit" by Elijah Lynn
In this talk, Elijah will cover how to use a new must-have debugging tool, HTTP Toolkit, for Drupal development. HTTP Toolkit allows for intercepting HTTP traffic to inspect and alter the requests and responses in-flight, including encrypted HTTPS traffic. HTTP Toolkit is a bit like the tools Wireshark, tshark, and tcpdump, but far more powerful and also very developer oriented (zero config HTTPS setup, pause and alter request and responses). HTTP Toolkit allows developers to easily “mock” changes to applications for rapid testing or prototyping.
Bio:
Elijah is currently a DevOps engineer for the www.VA.gov Drupal 8 CMS via Agile Six Applications. Elijah was previously a DevOps engineer for Red Hat (Drupal 7 www.redhat.com CMS) and D7 application engineer for NBCUniversal. Elijah self-taught himself with online courses (Build a Module, Lynda.com, Drupalize.me) how to program (PHP/Drupal) in 2012 and has been site building in Drupal since 2009.
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DrupalCampNYC 2020
Save the dates! DrupalCampNYC 2020 will be either October 30-31 or November 13-14 (we're just working on a few details with our generous venue sponsor, Microsoft Reactor). Visit drupalcamp.nyc for more info.
Interested in volunteering? Email camp@drupalnyc.org or join #drupalcampnyc-discuss on Slack.
Interested in sponsoring the conference? camp-sponsor@drupalnyc.org
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DrupalNYC.org
Interested in helping to improve our website, drupalnyc.org? No experience necessary. We will mentor you as you get your hands dirty on a real Drupal 8 website! Email jdleonard@drupalnyc.org or join #website-improve on Slack (see links below).
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If your company is interested in sponsoring a future meetup, please get in touch: sponsor@drupalnyc.org
Have feedback for your volunteer organizers? We want to hear it: feedback@drupalnyc.org
Meanwhile, we are always looking for speakers! Volunteer to speak or request a topic: speak@drupalnyc.org.
Join us on DrupalNYC Slack, our online community: https://www.drupalnyc.org/slack