Welcome

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

This meetup (on Zoom), including any audio or video that attendees share 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
• 7:45 pm - Closing remarks, virtual happy hour :)

Presentations

Drupal Engineer to Application Security Champion

by Nadir Hajiyani

Bio

Nadir works as a Senior Application Security Engineer with Wells Fargo Bank. In his past life he was a Drupal engineer before he successfully transitioned to Application Security. He enjoys innovation and automation. He has lived in 4 different time zones and feels like there are definitely more coming. His current past times are dueling with his Amazon Alexa to try to turn his kitchen bulbs on (Spoiler alert: It does not always work).

Why Making Your Website Accessible Should Be a Priority

by Kim Kubali

Ensuring a website can be used by people with disabilities doesn’t have to be an additional layer of work for your project. Many of the considerations involved in making your site more accessible will improve design and usability as well as SEO rankings. Drupal includes many tools out of the box for a more accessible website. However, understanding accessibility features can help your site be even more inclusive.

In this presentation, we will discuss:

• Who needs accessibility on a website.
• How to address the key challenges of creating an accessible website.
• How to create a workflow for an accessible website.
• How accessibility features can assist with a well designed website.
• Introduce tools in Drupal that will get you started.

Bio

Kim is a developer at the United Nations supporting a wide range of Drupal sites. She has developed websites using various technologies for 20 years and used Drupal for the last 10 years. She lives in NYC.

Faster by default

by Ben Morss

By now, we’ve all heard about the importance of web performance. But how can you tell whether your site is fast enough? And how can you get the most impact for the least work? We'll talk about the new Core Web Vitals metrics and show how to measure and monitor those for your site. Then we'll go through some ways to speed up your Drupal site, and we'll share ideas for how Drupal sites could be faster by default.

Bio

Ben is a Developer Advocate at Google, where he’s working to help the Web be faster and more beautiful. Prior to Google, he worked at the New York Times and AOL, and before that he was a full-time musician. He earned his BA in Computer Science at Harvard and a PhD in Music at the University of California. Rumor is that he still runs a band called Ancient Babies.

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

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Speakers needed

We can't host meetups or our upcoming lunch & learns 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.