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

Avoiding agency nightmares when relaunching your website

by Richard Chiriboga

We recently launched our new website, having re-built our Drupal 7 site on Drupal 8 without migrating content. There were some great moments and some that could have been avoided. Find out what those were in this Q&A based talk.

Bio

Richard is a combination of multi-disciplines – including strategy, project management, and web development. In a career that spans more than 20 years, Richard has worked across global corporate, non-profit, and boutique agency environments. He brings expertise in leading website restructuring, development projects, corporate intranet builds, and content management plans through the complete lifecycle. Known for being a trusted partner across global matrixed organizations and having the ability to communicate complex information to both technical and non-technical users, including information pertaining to change management, stakeholder engagement, and governance. Hispanic marketing and social media expertise: Created award-winning website CorrienteLatina.com and has worked with companies like Smile train, Avon, Avon Breast Cancer Crusade, American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, Lupus Research Alliance, Tzu Chi USA, and the Wutang Clan. Richard is fluent in English, with intermediate Spanish fluency.

10 minute Drupal web performance makeover

by David Jeyachandran

We'll take a Drupal site and try and make it one of the fastest websites on the Internet - thanks to a few Drupal modules. We will use WebPageTest and Google's Lighthouse score to benchmark our frontend performance and then identify how we can make the site faster. Improving performance can be complicated and time consuming but with the stopwatch running we'll see what difference we can make in just 10 minutes. At the end of this talk you'll know how to identify potential performance improvements for your site and which modules to install. Using benchmarking you'll be able to demonstrate the before and after results of your changes.

Bio

David is a software engineer from Australia. He worked for PwC and then at an Australian bank where he first learned the power of Drupal. Currently he lives with his wife and three kids in a beautiful city nestled in the Andes mountains of Perú. One of his passions is building sites that open rapidly, even with poor bandwidth and on old devices. He loves code, cycling and coffee but not necessarily in that order.

Building a high availability environment for Drupal with Azure

by Diego Tejera

Microsoft Azure has grown in the last few years and it has proven that it is a solid platform to deploy and scale web applications. In this talk we are going to show how to easily build an HA environment using the different Azure Services and setup automatic deployments using CI tools.

Bio

Diego, CTO & Co-Founder at Rootstack, holds a Computer Science degree and has extensive know-how in the software development industry. With more than 12 years of experience working on challenging projects, Diego works with teams and organizations to strategize amazing software solutions that can grow and adapt over time.

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.