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3 things to know about Drupal in 2022 Shefali Shetty Fri, 04/22/2022 - 03:00 Up Register or Login to like.

A broad range of enterprises, including nonprofits, media and publishing, government agencies, education, and more, rely heavily on Drupal. But while Drupal is widely recognized as one of the most robust and flexible content management systems (CMS), it also has a reputation for being difficult to work with.

Research conducted at a 2019 DrupalCon suggested that while experienced developers felt empowered and loved working with Drupal, novice users found it challenging to learn and work with. The Drupal community recognized that there was a serious need to improve the ease of use right from the moment you install Drupal.

Since then, several strategic initiatives have been rolled out to make Drupal easier to use and to empower amateur users to build beautiful digital experiences.

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Editorial teams, content creators, marketers, publishers, and tech advisors often use Drupal as an editorial platform. Many of them are beginner to intermediate users. Prioritizing their experience is one of the Drupal community’s top missions.

To get this ball rolling, Dries Buytaert, founder of Drupal, launched the "Easy-out-of-the-box" initiative at DrupalCon 2020. From the onset, the initiative aimed to provide an easy, intuitive, and modern out-of-the-box user experience.

It offers three benefits in one package:

• Media library: A flexible and robust digital asset management tool that is easy to work with, even for novice users. Finding, adding, using, deleting, and reusing media files has never been easier. It offers an intuitive interface that is customizable and robust. Media has been a part of Drupal core since the release of Drupal 8.4. The goal now is to have it enabled by default. Work is currently in progress on enhancing Media's usability, design, and accessibility.

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• Layout Builder: A WYSIWYG-like experience for editors with easy-to-use page building capabilities. It offers powerful UI tools with intuitive drag-and-drop features that require little or no code to create and customize modern page layouts. Layout Builder has been a stable Drupal core module since Drupal 8.7. Like Media, Layout Builder is not enabled on installation of Drupal. Currently, the initiative team is working towards enabling site builders to layout the headers, footers, and sidebars of the pages as well.

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• Claro admin theme: This is a fresh, powerful, and accessible administration theme with a modern look and feel. Not only is it easy on the eyes—Claro also offers powerful and advanced visual elements and is compliant with the latest accessibility standards. Currently, Claro is in an experimental phase in Drupal core and is not stable. Before enabling Claro as the default admin theme, more work is needed to enhance its usability, accessibility, and design.

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A new front-end theme: Olivero

Bartik, Drupal’s default front-end theme, has been around for more than 10 years. Drupal 8 saw a new release of Bartik that was responsive out of the box and had significant improvements in its structure, extensibility, and design. But ever-evolving web design trends called for a more advanced, modern, and impressive theme. Bartik's design, layout, and functionality feel outdated compared to Drupal's sophisticated backend.

The new front-end theme, Olivero, was named after Rachel Olivero (1982-2019), a Drupal community member and head of the National Federation of the Blind. Olivero is now a stable theme in Drupal 9.3 and will become the default front-end theme with the Drupal 10 release.

Some of the fantastic features of Olivero:

• Modern design: The design elements have been built to stay relevant for years to come. The color palette gives the theme a shiny, light, and modern look. Elements like drop shadows and heavy colors are very minimally used. The typography used for body, header, and other UI elements are proportionate and resizable with the device. Buttons are intuitive and come in highly contrasting colors that are easy on the eyes. Collapsible first-level menus make it easy to access even through a lengthy page or on wider screens. Olivero offers tons of customizations in the theme settings to suit every user's needs.

• Futuristic functionality: Olivero backs Drupal's out-of-the-box multilingual functionality and supports displaying right-to-left (RTL) languages such as Urdu, Arabic, or Hebrew. It is compatible with all the latest browsers without the need to customize code for each of them. The theme will support some of the most useful modules, including Media, Layout Builder, and more. It will also offer and support customizations to secondary navigation. Olivero uses PostCSS to compile CSS and for improved browser support, which also helps a lot when you need further theme customizations.

• Accessibility: Accessibility has been one of the highest priorities while proposing this theme. Much work has gone into making Olivero compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Level AA. The team is continuously working on enhancing the design to get through Drupal's rigorous accessibility gate. The color contrast ratio in Olivero's color palette used in the theme design, typography, forms, messages, and buttons enhances its accessibility.

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Project Browser: A module marketplace

Browsing through over 40,000 Drupal modules is not an easy task. In its current setup, if you need to find and install a contributed module, you will need to step out of your Drupal site, head over to Drupal.org, search for the module, and then install it. Often, site builders require more advanced tech skills to install a module via the Composer (a dependency manager for PHP) on a command-line interface.

The Project Browser initiative, proposed by Dries during DrupalCon 2021, seeks to make it easier for site builders new to Drupal to browse and install modules with the click of a button. It will empower developers and site builders to discover and experiment with modules of their choice instantly. To ensure real-time data access, the component will connect to the Drupal.org API using a decoupled approach. The team is actively engaged in:

• Building a marketplace-like browser within Drupal, so you don't have to leave your site looking for modules
• Creating a powerful UI enabling a streamlined view of projects that is easy to filter and sort
• Preparing a minimum viable product (MVP) to be shipped as a contributed feature for users to try out, eventually moving it to Drupal core

The initiative is in its early stages now, but a lot of work has happened already. The team aims to have a contributed module Project Browser ready in Drupal 10.

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Final thoughts

I have penned my thoughts earlier on how Drupal has been adopting continuous innovation and implementing planned strategic initiatives, as promised. With ease of use and beginner-friendliness as some of Drupal's top priorities, the community is briskly marching towards building an easier, more beautiful, and more modern digital experience platform.

By the way, DrupalCons are a great place to meet, learn, and collaborate with Drupal community members and contribute to advancing the open source platform. If you're looking to connect, DrupalCon Portland 2022 is coming up soon (April 25-28) in Portland, OR, USA.

Several changes have made Drupal more accessible and easier to use.

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The Linux Foundation Announces Conference Schedule for Open Source Summit North America 2022  PR Newswire

The leading vendor-neutral open source event for technical and community contributors continues to focus on covering the most critical topics, innovative technologies and pivotal open source projects through its 14 sub-conferences.

SAN FRANCISCO, April 21, 2022 —  The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, today announced the full schedule for Open Source Summit North America, the leading conference for open source developers and community leaders, taking place June 21-24 in Austin, Texas and virtually. The schedule can be viewed here and the previously announced keynote speakers can be viewed here.

Comprised of 14 events, including LinuxCon, Embedded Linux Conference, SupplyChainSecurityCon, CloudOpen, OSPOCon, Emerging OS Forum, ContainerCon and more, Open Source Summit North America 2022 will cover the most important and cutting edge topics and technologies touching open source today.  The schedule features 300 talks (keynote presentations, conference sessions, tutorials, and BoFs) and includes something for everyone, across a range of topics and skill levels.

“The 14 events that make up Open Source Summit North America’s conference umbrella cover the open source projects and technologies that are fundamental across software and other industries, while also highlighting those that are poised for growth and widespread use. The event provides the collaborative environment and knowledge sharing needed to drive innovation across the fold,” says Angela Brown, SVP & General Manager of Events at The Linux Foundation.

2022 Conference Session Highlights Include:

• LinuxCon: Memory Folios – Matthew Wilcox, Oracle
  
• CloudOpen: Peta Scale Telemetry Backend With Opentelemetry – Kranti Vikram Anugola & Weain Deng, Walmart Global Tech
  
• Embedded Linux Conference: V4L2 M2M as the Driver Framework for Video Processing IP – Karthik Poduval, Amazon Lab126
  
• OSPOCon: F5’s Open Source Journey – Christine Abernathy, F5, Inc.
  
• Open AI + Data Forum: Delta Lake: Diving into Data Lakes Without the Downsides – Kelly O’Malley, Databricks
  
• SupplyChainSecurityCon: Authenticating Supply-Chain Metadata: Building Remote Code Attestations on GitHub – Asra Ali & Laurent Simon, Google
  
• Embedded IoT Summit: AI/ML at the Extreme Edge with WebAssembly: A Path Forward – Michael Tanenbaum, Mycelial
  
• Global Security Vulnerability Summit: Scalable Management of Vulnerabilities in Open Source – Oliver Chang, Google & Kate Catlin, GitHub
  
• Emerging OS Forum: OpenCost: An Open Source Tool for Your K8s Cost Management Problem – Webb Brown & Ajay Tripathy, Stackwatch
  
• Diversity Empowerment Summit: “Did You Miss My Comment or What?” Understanding Toxicity in Open Source Discussions – Courtney Miller, Carnegie Mellon University
  
• ContainerCon: Sustainability the Container Native Way – Huamin Chen, Red Hat & Chen Wang, IBM
  
• Community Leadership Conference: Scaling Your Community From a Few Hundred to Tens of Thousands – Anna Filippova, dbt Labs
  
• Open Source On-Ramp: Peeling Back the Layers of Storage – John Hawley, VMware
  
• Critical Software Summit: Using FOSS as Part of a System Safety Mechanism – Paul Albertella, Codethink
  

2022 Keynote Speakers Include:

• Alena Analeigh, Founder, Brown STEM Girl
• Jennings Aske, Senior Vice President & Chief Information Security Officer, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital
• Aeva Black, Open Source Hacker, Ethical Agitator, and Consent Advocate
• Eric Brewer, Vice President of Infrastructure, Google
• Matt Butcher, Chief Executive Officer, Fermyon Technologies
• Taylor Dolezal, Head of Ecosystem, Cloud Native Computing Foundation
• Melissa Evers, Vice President & General Manager, Strategy to Execution, Software and Advanced Technology Group, Intel Corporation
• Amy Gilliland, President, General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT)
• Orion Jean, TIME 2021 Kid of the Year, Author and Kindness Activist
• Todd Moore, Vice President – Open Technology and Developer Advocacy, CTO DEG, IBM
• Melissa Smolensky, Vice President, Corporate Marketing, GitLab
• Linus Torvalds, Creator of Linux & Git in conversation with Dirk Hohndel, Founder, DH Consulting
• Chris Wright, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Red Hat

Additional keynote speakers will be announced in the coming weeks. 

Registration (in-person) is offered at the early price of $850 through April 26. Registration to attend virtually is $25. Members of The Linux Foundation receive a 20 percent discount off registration and can contact events@linuxfoundation.org to request a member discount code. 

Applications for diversity and need-based scholarships are currently being accepted. For information on eligibility and how to apply, please click here. The Linux Foundation’s Travel Fund is also accepting applications, with the goal of enabling open source developers and community members to attend events that they would otherwise be unable to attend due to a lack of funding. To learn more and apply, please click here.

Health and Safety
In-person attendees will be required to be fully vaccinated against the COVID-19 virus and will need to comply with all on-site health measures, in accordance with The Linux Foundation Code of Conduct. To learn more, visit the Health & Safety webpage.

Event Sponsors
Open Source Summit North America 2022 is made possible thanks to our sponsors, including Diamond Sponsors: Google and IBM, Platinum Sponsors: Cloud Native Computing Foundation, Databricks, Intel and Red Hat, and Gold Sponsors: Camunda, Checkmarx, Coder, Dell Technologies, GitLab, InfluxData, Kubecost, Styra and Whitesource. For information on becoming an event sponsor, click here or email us.

Press
Members of the press who would like to request a press pass to attend should contact Kristin O’Connell.

About the Linux Foundation
Founded in 2000, the Linux Foundation is supported by more than 2,000 members and is the world’s leading home for collaboration on open source software, open standards, open data, and open hardware. Linux Foundation’s projects are critical to the world’s infrastructure including Linux, Kubernetes, Node.js, and more. The Linux Foundation’s methodology focuses on leveraging best practices and addressing the needs of contributors, users and solution providers to create sustainable models for open collaboration. For more information, please visit linuxfoundation.org.

The Linux Foundation Events are where the world’s leading technologists meet, collaborate, learn and network in order to advance innovations that support the world’s largest shared technologies.

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