Just attended (and presented) at my first Drupal South! Source

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2title: 'Just attended (and presented) at my first Drupal South!'
3date: '2015-03-07'
4published_at: '2015-03-07T17:31:00.002+11:00'
5tags: ['conferences', 'development', 'drupal', 'drupalsouth', 'Melbourne', 'php']
6author: 'Gavin Jackson'
7excerpt: 'Just finished at Drupal South in Melbourne. I did a presentation on integrating Drupal with other web platforms using Shibboleth SSO (slides are here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1H6qI2oyNt...'
8updated_at: '2015-03-07T17:45:12.782+11:00'
9legacy_url: 'http://www.gavinj.net/2015/03/just-attended-and-presented-at-my-first.html'
10---
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12Just finished at Drupal South in Melbourne. I did a presentation on integrating Drupal with other web platforms using Shibboleth SSO (slides are here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1H6qI2oyNthV_wjrttpVmHilRelRnFEobmcGfdxj69Rs/edit?usp=sharing).
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14The conference itself was an amazing event, really well organised, great venue, great food and world class presentations. Attendance was around 300 delegates (with a really good gender mix).
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16Drupal is ramping up for a major release (Drupal 8), and many things are changing - some of the most impressive features include:
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18- built-in config management in core, allowing you to easily migrate config updates between different environments
19- I8N built-in (traditionally it's been a bit of a pig to set up)
20- All themes are responsive
21- New templating engine (Twig), designed to better separate business logic and presentation
22- Views is now in core (and is used everywhere)
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24Really friendly community and lots of expertise in the Australia/New Zealand region - Drupal is being used extensively by the Australian Government resulting is a large growth of Drupal expertise in the Canberra region (including previousnext, acquia, technocrat and Komosion).
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26The code sprints on Saturday were done very well - making it accessible to newbies as well as the more experienced developer crowd - with a very well planned tutorial roadmap (and achievement system) and an awesome environment called Acquia Devtools that makes getting started with Drupal development easy.
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28Although I am not a PHP developer or Drupal module contributor - I left feeling that I could actually do it.
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30Special thanks to Christopher Skene, Donna Benjamin, Jessica Taylor and Ben Dechrai for allowing me to present and organising such a great conference!
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---
title: 'Just attended (and presented) at my first Drupal South!'
date: '2015-03-07'
published_at: '2015-03-07T17:31:00.002+11:00'
tags: ['conferences', 'development', 'drupal', 'drupalsouth', 'Melbourne', 'php']
author: 'Gavin Jackson'
excerpt: 'Just finished at Drupal South in Melbourne. I did a presentation on integrating Drupal with other web platforms using Shibboleth SSO (slides are here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1H6qI2oyNt...'
updated_at: '2015-03-07T17:45:12.782+11:00'
legacy_url: 'http://www.gavinj.net/2015/03/just-attended-and-presented-at-my-first.html'
---

Just finished at Drupal South in Melbourne. I did a presentation on integrating Drupal with other web platforms using Shibboleth SSO (slides are here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1H6qI2oyNthV_wjrttpVmHilRelRnFEobmcGfdxj69Rs/edit?usp=sharing).

The conference itself was an amazing event, really well organised, great venue, great food and world class presentations. Attendance was around 300 delegates (with a really good gender mix).

Drupal is ramping up for a major release (Drupal 8), and many things are changing - some of the most impressive features include:

- built-in config management in core, allowing you to easily migrate config updates between different environments
- I8N built-in (traditionally it's been a bit of a pig to set up)
- All themes are responsive
- New templating engine (Twig), designed to better separate business logic and presentation
- Views is now in core (and is used everywhere)

Really friendly community and lots of expertise in the Australia/New Zealand region - Drupal is being used extensively by the Australian Government resulting is a large growth of Drupal expertise in the Canberra region (including previousnext, acquia, technocrat and Komosion).

The code sprints on Saturday were done very well - making it accessible to newbies as well as the more experienced developer crowd - with a very well planned tutorial roadmap (and achievement system) and an awesome environment called Acquia Devtools that makes getting started with Drupal development easy.

Although I am not a PHP developer or Drupal module contributor - I left feeling that I could actually do it.

Special thanks to Christopher Skene, Donna Benjamin, Jessica Taylor and Ben Dechrai for allowing me to present and organising such a great conference!