Welcome

Welcome to the DrupalNYC monthly meetup! All are welcome to attend.

This meetup (on Zoom) will be recorded and published publicly.

We look forward to seeing you!

Agenda

The agenda is always subject to change. All times EST.

• 6:00 pm - Join the call, get your camera plugged in, and hop on #meetup in DrupalNYC Slack to introduce yourself to other attendees. While we wait for everyone to join, if you have a question about anything Drupal, ask the audience!
• 6:15 pm - Announcements (inc. hiring or looking to be hired)
• 6:30 pm - Presentations
• 8:15 pm - Closing remarks, virtual happy hour :)

Presentations

Drupal fast development with Lightning

by Gerson Mejia

Lightning is an open source Drupal distribution that addresses the differences between the capabilities Drupal core provides and the needs we commonly see working with thousands of customers to build, launch, and maintain Drupal sites every day.

Bio

Gerson is an independent consultant and maker. He's been using Drupal for five years and programming custom Drupal solutions for about four years.

OpenCart - easy open-source e-commerce

by Scott Wolpow

Ever need a real simple, easy to deploy e-commerce platform? You just have simple items to sell. Magneto, Drupal Commerce, even WooCommerce all seem like overkill. OpenCart may be your answer. I will show you its ease of use, benefits, and deficiencies.

Bio

Scott started working on sites in 1995, went from horrid HTML sites to Joomla to Drupal and have added Magneto, WordPress and once forced to use Umbraco (painfully bad .NET CMS). Currently finishing a data management tool that uses Drupal to manage MongoDB, but can also handle API calls to Shopify, OpenCart, Magento, WooCommerce, and others.

Cracking Drupal

by Peter Wolanin

Security is paramount for almost any web application. Do you know which vulnerabilities are most common across the web and how that compares to the most frequent vulnerabilities in Drupal and contributed modules and Drupal core?

I will use the OWASP top 10 (as updated in 2017) as a resource and framework to take a look at security best practices to keep your site safe and take the perspective of an attacker to understand exploits. I will show you common mistakes that Drupal Developers make when they write code and how they can be avoided. As a member of the Drupal security team I have seen a lot of code and what can go wrong with it.

The talk will also touch on some security improvements in Drupal 8/9 such as using auto-escaping in the Twig template engine (XSS prevention) and built-in CSRF token support in the routing system.

Bio

In 2004, Peter Wolanin, then a full-time scientist, was introduced to Drupal after volunteering on a political campaign and starting to build a new website for the Democratic club. The road to becoming a full-time software engineer at Acquia started when Peter discovered that, pretty soon, he got more interested in fixing bugs than building the site! A Drupal core contributor since 2005 and member of the Drupal Security team since 2008, Peter now works for BioRAFT as a software architect enhancing and rebuilding a laboratory safety and compliance web application on Drupal 8.

Joining the video conference

We will send the link to join the Zoom meeting on or before the day of the meetup to the email address you use when you RSVP. If you need help joining the meetup, please find support on DrupalNYC Slack.

Announcements

Join the new DrupalNYC mailing lists

DrupalNYC is changing how we communicate about upcoming events. We invite you to choose which emails you wish to receive from DrupalNYC. We will prioritize communicating via these mailing lists and Slack so we encourage you to make the switch from Meetup.com and groups.drupal.org if that's how you currently get notified of our events.

Speakers needed

We can't host meetups without willing speakers! Volunteer to speak or request a topic for a future meetup and we'll find a speaker for it: speak@drupalnyc.org

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 website!

Email jdleonard@drupalnyc.org or join #website-improve on DrupalNYC Slack.

Get in touch

Have feedback for your volunteer organizers? We want to hear it: feedback@drupalnyc.org

Interested in sponsoring a future meetup? We'd love to hear from you: sponsor@drupalnyc.org

We *always* need more speakers! Volunteer to speak or request a topic: speak@drupalnyc.org

Join us on DrupalNYC Slack, our online community and be sure to join our mailing lists.