Talking Drupal #319 - Backdrop CMS

Today we are talking about Backdrop with Jen Lampton.


TalkingDrupal.com/319
Topics

Nic - Vacation

April - need new shelves for Lego Harry Potter

Jen - Heirloom tomatoes and too much rain

John - Personal website / blog

Backdrop CMS Elevator pitch

Difference between Drupal and Backdrop

Why choose Backdrop over Drupal

Matt Glaman on twitter

General challenges of growing a fork’s identity

Challenges in being thrifty



Biggest milestones in the last two years

New core committers

7 releases with new features

Layouts

File browser

Lazy loading images

Config overrides

Telemetry



Backdrop Live events



More listener questions (Matt Glaman)

Contributor community

Companies specializing in Backdrop



Wider adoption as D7 approaches EoL

Wider adoption as D9 approaches EoL

Ease of migration from D7

Easier than migrating D7 to D9



More listener questions (Matt Glaman)

Marketing challenges



Anything that you would do differently after 6 years

Philosophy

Biggest upcoming features

Telemetry

Resources

Twitter Questions

Backdrop CMS

Twitter

Main site

Documentation

Forum

Live Chat

Contributed projects



Guests

Jen Lampton - Jeneration Web Development @jenlampton
Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan
John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi
April Sides - @weekbeforenext
MOTW

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