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Mon, 28 June 2021
Talking Drupal #300 - Milestones

Today is a special episode of Talking Drupal, we look back over 300 episodes and pick out some of our favorite moments from Talking Drupal's past. We also bid farewell to Stephen the founder of Talking Drupal.

www.talkingdrupal.com/300

Topics

  • Stephen - Blink critter camera
  • John - Thank you Stephen!
  • Jason - Bike ride with the family
  • Nic - Rebuilding API
  • Dries - In Belgium
    • Drupal Community
    • End of Life for Drupal 8
  • John's Favorite episodes
    • The Night before DrupalCon (79)
    • Drupal 8 Cache System (233)
    • Dries' First Episode (38)
  • Nic's Favorite episodes
    • Jono Bacon (265)
    • First Episode (000)
    • Wade Wingler (49)
  • Stephen's Favorite episodes
    • Off the Cuff and This and That
    • Pre and Post Show discussion
    • Jeff and Jacob guest appearances
  • Jason's Favorite episodes
    • Site vs System (55)
    • Mobile Friendly Drupal (72)
  • Tim congratulations
  • Jacob congratulations
  • Favorite moments
    • Dinners / Game nights
    • First NEDCamp afterparty
    • Meeting Rob at NEDCamp
    • Seeing fans live

Resources

Stats

  • 299 episodes (one missing) 206
  • 5 hosts
  • 5 guest hosts
  • 120 guests
  • Only person to be guest, guest host, and host (Jason)
  • First Module of the week
  • Last Module of the week
    • Episode 154 Mailchimp
  • # module of the week 116
  • First OTC
    • Episode 19
    • 5 total
  • This and That 4 total
  • Longest break between appearances 201 (17, 218)
    • Jen Lampton
    • Oct 2 2013, Jul 9 2019
  • Most Frequent guests (5 appearances)
    • Kathy Beck
    • Kevin Thull
    • Jacob Rockowitz
    • Tim Lehnen
  • Recording
    • Google hangouts
    • Youtube over the air
    • Zoom
  • 2013 - 29
  • 2014 - 49
  • 2015 - 30
  • 2016 - 34
  • 2017 - 19
  • 2018 - 34
  • 2019 - 36
  • 2020 - 42
  • 2021 - 27 (so far)
  • 37 Average

Guests

Dries Buytaertdri.es @Dries

Hosts

Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Jason Pamental - rwt.io @jpamental

Direct download: td300_libsyn.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 9:36am EST
Fri, 18 June 2021
Talking Drupal #299 - Sustainability of the Webform Module

Today we chat with our friend Jacob Rockowitz about the sustainability of the webform module and module maintainership sustainability in general.

www.talkingdrupal.com/299

Topics

  • Jacob's 5th appearance
  • John got a new job!
  • Jason launching 6 sites this week
  • Nic went to the drive-in
  • Jacob no more bike rides, just walks in the park
  • Stephen finding Ansible useful


Story: Recording episode 300 - get your recordings into show@talkingdrupal.com

  • Elevator pitch for webform
  • When did Jacob begin maintaining Webform
  • What is sustainability?
  • Open collective
  • How to make Drupal more sustainable
  • Ways to contribute
  • Donations vs time contribution
  • Why open collective?
  • Is there an exit plan

Resources

https://www.jrockowitz.com/blog/webform-open-collective-funds-spent

Open Collective Promotion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtlFTwZLKpc&t=1s

jrockowitz.com

Guests

Jacob Rockowitz www.jrockowitz.com @jrockowitz

Hosts

Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Jason Pamental - rwt.io @jpamental

Direct download: TalkingDrupal299_libsyn.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 10:25am EST
Thu, 10 June 2021
Talking Drupal #298 - Solving and Sharing w/ Matthieu Scarset

Today we are chatting with Matthieu Scarset about two modules he created to solve common Drupal problems.

www.talkingdrupal.com/298

Topics

  • Stephen - Moonlander Keyboard
  • John - 300th Show call for videos
  • Nic - Seeing friends again
  • Jason - Launching 4 sites tomorrow for RI eCMS
  • Matthieu - Moving back to Spain from France
  • Menu Manipulator
  • Solves language issue in core
  • Hides non translated content
  • Entity Media Usage
  • No DB tables
  • Essentially a view to show media or other entities on content type
  • Can easily be disabled
  • Approach to creating small modules that overlap with larger modules
  • Prolific module creator
    • User Info Block
    • Twitter API Block
      Flag Rating
  • Drupal version tag

Resources

https://www.zsa.io/moonlander

https://drupal.org/project/menu_manipulator

https://drupal.org/project/entity_media_usage

https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/issues/2466553

https://www.drupal.org/project/entity_usage

Guests

Matthieu Scarset @MatthieuScarset

Hosts

Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Jason Pamental - rwt.io @jpamental

Direct download: TalkingDrupal298_libsyn.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:40pm EST
Thu, 3 June 2021
Talking Drupal #297 - Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Holding ourselves accountable

Today we are talking about Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the workplace.

www.talkingdrupal.com/297

Topics

  • Guest host Fatima Sarah Khalid
  • Guest Tara King
  • Tech Companies put extra focus on DEI this past year
  • Performative allyship
  • How can leaders build culture of transparency
  • Diversity in the workplace not just pipeline issue, but also retention issue
  • What do you look for in an organization
  • Drupal Diversity & Inclusion Working Group
  • Learning from mistakes
  • Holding employees and managers accountable
  • Agency requirements when responding to proposals
  • Your actions as a leader matter. If we hold ourselves and others accountable, our team will too.

Resources

Tech Leavers Study

"The Only" Study

https://talkingdrupal.com/217

https://www.drupaldiversity.com

https://www.diversifytech.co

 

Guests

Tara King @sparklingrobots

Hosts

Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Fatima Sarah Khalid - @sugaroverflow

Direct download: TalkingDrupal297_libsyn.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 4:11pm EST