Today we are talking about DDev with Randy Fay

TalkingDrupal.com/318

Topics

• John - TD youtube and linkedin
• AmyJune - Getting ready for winter and music shows
• Randy - managing hospice for mother
• Nic - House cleanouts and lego
• DDEV elevator pitch
• Beginning of DDEV
• Development Process
• Team
• Docker use cases
• Listener Marc van Gend “I’d love to hear about the current state of the project, given the change of ownership. Is it healthy financially?”
• Listener Josh Miller “Randy has a long history with Drupal, outdating most. https://drupal.org/u/rfay a little over 16 years. How did his contribution start, and how has it changed? Does he still build with Drupal?”
• Roadmap
• Listener Stephen Cross “I easily got DDEV running on Raspberry Pi, while other tools do not run simply. How has ARM adoption been?”
• Josh on Twitter “Will docker work on new processors?”

Resources

Compu-Home Systems TomorrowHouse (1980’s Home Automation run by an Apple II
Randy and Nancy’s 2.5-year bike trip through the Americas
Ddev docs
DDEV Github

What’s So Different about DDEV?
#ddev for tweets
Talking Drupal on YouTube

Guests

Randy Fay- http://randyfay.com @randyfay

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan
John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi
AmyJune - @volkswagenchick

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Today we are talking about Non-Code Contribution

TalkingDrupal.com/317

Topics

• What is Talking Drupal
  • Podcast with audio and video
• We recorded our 300th episode in June, over 175 guests, 700K audio downloads
• Weekly episodes covering a variety of topics
• Most recent 315 with Tara King, Director of Developer Relations at automatic, Comparing Drupal and Wordpress Communities
• Visit www.talkingdrupal.com
• This may be a different keynote than you are accustomed to. Talking Drupal is a discussion, and that’s what we are having today.
• Today we are talking about Non-Code Contribution: Using your passion and skills to power open source.
• What is contribution in an open-source project?
• Providing your time, skills or resources to benefit the project
• Today we’re talking about non code contributions
• Early on contribution was considered writing code
• Over time we have learned to value non-code contributions just as much as code contrib
• Rather than defining non-code contribution by what it is not, we need a term to define it by what it is
• Community is built in meetups, camps, and cons
• Majority of contribution has nothing to do with coding at a camp
  • Attending
  • Speaking
  • Training
  • Organizing
• Organizing a camp (NEDCamp.org / Nov 19th)
• Volunteering at a camp
  • Stephen - Sponsorship, lead for many years
  • Nic - Website & Signage
  • John - Current Lead, Day of Logistics, Venue coordination
• Some other examples of contribution
  • Mentorship
  • Documentation
  • Training
  • Summits
  • Being on a committee/Board
  • Answering questions in issue queue
  • Answering questions in slack
• Who is a contributor?
• Is it a self designation or a community designation?
• Why would you contribute?
  • Contribution is a relationship
  • Give and receive
  • Makes you feel good
  • Benefit Skills
    • Technical
    • Communication
    • Project Management
  • Benefit Career
    • Skills
    • Visibility
    • Building Personal Network
    • Networking at Events
  • Financial Compensation
• Contribute does not always mean nights and weekends
  • Usually starts that way
• Contribute as part of your job
  • Employers are open supporting open source, there are benefits got both company and employee
  • Contribute to external project or contribute internal project to open source
• Will your company support your time to make NCC
  • 315 we learned about Wordpress’ contribution goals
  • Launched in 2014, Five for the Future encourages organizations to contribute five percent of their resources to WordPress development.
• Government
  • 2016 Federal Source Code Policy
  • Support for open source usage, encourage sharing across agencies
  • 20 percent created code should be open source
• Start the Dialog with your company
• Why do we contribute - Contribution can be personal like donating to your favorite charity or playing your favorite game.
  • Nic
    • I was asked
    • I enjoy giving back
    • Helps my career
  • Stephen
    • Sharing and Learning
  • John
    • To help people and solve technical challenges for people
    • Education and knowledge sharing
    • To support something larger than myself / make the world a better place
• How did TD Start
  • Long before Joe Rogans podcast deal with Spotify of 100 million
  • 2008 - With Liberty and Justice for All - 5th grader
  • Obama McCain
  • 7 episodes
  • Mechanics of podcasting,work involved with pre and post record production
  • Virtual book club with Jason Pamental - pick a web design book, assign weekly chapters, Google Hangout
  • Like to learn - similar Drupal journeys - makings of an interesting podcast… great reason to talk every week
• When did we start considering it a contribution? When did we start giving contribution credits on Drupal.org
• How did Talking Drupal come to be a non-code contribution?
  • It always was a non-code contribution, we didn’t consider it at first because the Drupal community was code focused.
  • Drupal.org Credit for TD started 20 November 2020
• Community Projects
  • When did the drupal community start supporting NCC
• Why is this important
• How has the show & other non-code contribution impacted our lives / careers
  • Stephen
    • Friendships
    • Have helped others
  • Nic
    • Friendships
    • Clients
  • John
    • Connections - Hey you are that guy
    • Given me a sense of value
    • Gives me a sense of supporting the community
• Why are non-code contributions important
  • As valuable to the health of a project as code contributions.
  • There are non-code requirements for all projects
  • Not everyone is a developer/coder
  • Get’s more people with a variety of skills involved in the community
  • Moves open source forward
• Challenges of Contributing
  • Contribution Imposter Syndrome
  • My Contribution isn’t valuable
  • Dealing with concerns that it’s not helpful
• Focus on your skills and passions
• Work, life, contribution balance
  • Work it into your work
  • Build a career based on contribution
  • Contrib doesn’t have to be Nights and Weekends
  • Add 30 min to the start or end of your day
  • If you do tackle one thing a night
  • Provide contrib during your workday
• Sustainability
• Projects are easy to do short time,
  • Energy is high
  • Newness interesting
• Most podcast don’t make it past 8 episodes
  • Long term is a challenge
  • Pre-show guest scheduling, content planning, shownotes
  • Post Production audio and video
  • Release and marketing
  • 1 hour show = 6 - 8 hours
• Priorities and interests change over time
• NCC easier to transition in and out
  • Had to make transition out of my primary roles and I did that, projects have thrived in those transitions
• Be honest with yourself
• How to get involved / How to contribute
  • Just get started
  • Look at your skill set
  • Look at your interests
  • Ask in the issue queue or drupal slack for a starting point
  • You can also reach out to most camp organizers for recommendations
• Takeaways
  • John
    • Anyone can and everyone should contribute
  • Stephen
    • Your contribution is valuable
  • Nic
    • Code and non code are equal to the long term health of the project

Resources

• www.talkingdrupal.com
• www.talkingdrupal.com/315
• www.nedcamp.org

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan
John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi
Stephen Cross - @stephencross

Today we are talking about Accessibility with Rain Breaw Michaels.

TalkingDrupal.com/316

Topics

• We are talking about Accessibility today, but specifically gearing the conversation towards developers. Why?
• So many people when coding for accessibility simply provide workarounds. Why can this be dangerous?
• What is ARIA?
• What is meant by the term Landmarks?
• How does this apply to dev’s working with Drupal?
• What modules do you recommend?
• How can you help content editors maintain accessibility while adding content?
• What are common pitfalls you see devs make
• How can Javascript help or hurt Accessibility?
• In closing, is there anything you would like to add?

Module of the Week

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Resources

Clean Talk - Geerling’s Post
Anti-spam by Clean Talk
Acquia Engage
Time Timer
Driven to Distraction
Design of everyday things (Book)
ColorCube - Color Testing Tool
ARIA
WAI-ARIA
HTML 5 Landmarks
Module for decorative images
Editoria11y
Layout Builder
Content Strategy for the Web
PDF Accessibility course on Deque
VPAT
Hanlon’s Razor: “never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity”

Guest

Rain Breaw Michaels - @rainbreaw

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan
John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi
Chad Hester - www.chadkhester.com @chadkhester

Today we are talking about What The Drupal & WordPress communities could learn from one another with Tara King.

TalkingDrupal.com/315

Topics

• What makes the WP community different?
• Automattic influence on the community.
• What could the Drupal community learn from the WP community?
• Is there a lot of crossover in people in each community?
• Do you think there is anything the WP community could learn from Drupal?
• What are some struggles shared across the two communities?
• How does platform sustainability differ between the two communities?
• Why do you think so many more people gravitate towards WP?

Module of the Week

• Gutenberg

Resources

• Sedo Domain Transfer Service
• Talking Drupal 016 - Drupal Vs WordPress
• WP Issue Queue
• Japanese translation of wordpress.org and Spanish

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan
John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi
Tara King - @sparklingrobots

Welcome to Talking Drupal. Today we are talking about Transitioning from a Developer to an Owner with Nathan Dentzau.

TalkingDrupal.com/314

Topics

• Nic - Lenient
• Tara - Music league
• Nate - Landscaping
• John - Govcon keynote
• Career timeline
• Considering ownership
• Motivation
• Is this for everyone?
• What to consider
• Biggest challenges
• Fear of finding work
• Type of work Mythic Digital does
• Growth
• Where to find clients

Resources

• Drupal GovCon Webinar
• Simple Employee Pension
• Mythic Digital

Guests

Nate Dentzau - Mythic Digital @NathanDentzau

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan
John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi
Tara King - @sparklingrobots

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