Talking Drupal #429 - The Drupal Association Board

Today we are talking about the Drupal Association Board, Its
Strategic Initiatives, and The Future of Drupal with guest Baddý
Sonja Breidert. We’ll also cover Advent Calendar as our module of
the week.


For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/429
Topics

Former member of Board of Drupal Association

What does the board do

How does the board operate

Are there term limits

How does someone get on the board

Strategic Initiatives

Innovation

Marketing

Fundraising



Now that you are no longer on the board what’s next

CEO of 1xInternet

How did you get started with Drupal

Resources

Try Drupal

Guests

Baddý Sonja Breidert - 1xinternet.de/en baddysonja
Hosts

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan
John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi
Ron Northcutt - community.appsmith.com rlnorthcutt
MOTW Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu
Advent Calendar


Brief description:

Have you ever wanted to reveal content a day-at-a-time,
in an interactive advent calendar? There’s a module for that.



Brief history

How old: created less than month ago in Nov 2023 by
listener James Shields, whose drupal.org username is
lostcarpark

Versions available: 1.0.0-beta3 release, which works with
Drupal 10.1 and newer



Maintainership

Actively maintained, latest release made earlier today

Test coverage

Number of open issues: 5, 3 of which are bugs, but all
but one are now marked as fixed



Usage stats:

6 sites



Module features and usage

James actually created a Drupal advent calendar a year
ago, on his website lostcarpark.com. The idea was to showcase
a new module every day, similar to advent calendars that
provide a chocolate or a toy each day, hidden behind a
cardboard door

James’ initial version displayed the content in a
traditional calendar format, using the Calendar View module.
What he really wanted, however, was a way to present the
content using clickable doors to reveal new entries

The new Advent Calendar module provides a new view
display, so you can configure what content type or other
filters to apply, and use fields to specify what information
to show

The module uses a Single Directory Component for display,
hence the 10.1 requirement

There is also an “Advent Calendar Quickstart” submodule
that sets up everything for you, including a content type,
view, and 24 nodes to populate it for you

Each site visitor gets to “open” the door to new content
as it is published each day. For authenticated users, which
doors have been opened is stored as user data, and for
anonymous users it’s kept in local storage via Javascript

In addition to this being an interesting module in its
own right, the advent calendar James has created this year is
also a community effort. He’s managed to enlist a wide
variety of contributors to write about modules or aspects of
the Drupal community that they’re passionate about, so it’s a
great way to up your Drupal game. You can open a new door
yourself every day at
https://lostcarpark.com/advent-calendar-2023