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California Perinatal Quality Care Collaborative Takes a Leap with Backdrop CMS

August 27, 2024

With D7 end-of-life coming on Jan 5, 2025, we were migrating all our sites off Drupal 7 starting Jan 1, 2024, carefully selecting platforms that were best fit for the needs of each organization.  CPQCC, one of the sites we have supported since 2018, faced a challenge familiar to many organizations: modernizing on a tight budget.

Presenting at DrupalGovCon: Budgeting for Drupal 7 End of Life

August 13, 2024

It was great to see you old friends and meet new friends - thank you, DrupalGovCon, for accepting my talk.  In the session we talked about the options currently available for the 300,000 sites still on Drupal 7. We covered upgrading to Drupal 10, upgrading to BackdropCMS, using the Retrofit module, and exploring various options for Drupal Long Term Support (LTS).

Here are some key takeaways for those who attended the session

  • Checklist of migration tasks
  • Modules for auditing current site and for making migration smoother
    • Site audit
    • D10/11 Upgrade Status (upgrade_status)
    • Backdrop CMS upgrade status (backdrop_upgrade_status)

Budgeting for Drupal 7 End of Life: presentation at GovCon

August 10, 2024

 

 

Aug 13 2024

 

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1F09-4dqQ9cGkl0BnqyVBOKIzXzffcpawu4s9RQCPa8I/edit#slide=id.p1

 

In this session, we will review the options currently available for the 300,000 sites still on Drupal 7. We will cover upgrading to Drupal 10, upgrading to BackdropCMS, using the Retrofit module, and exploring various options for Drupal Long Term Support (LTS).

IEEE magazine publication Improving Velocity of Code Contributions in Open Source

June 4, 2024

It is very exciting to see our research on improving Open Source Contributions published in IEEE magazine  

Improving Velocity of Code Contributions in Open Source

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10547075
Computer
2024-06 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1109/MC.2023.3327893
CONTRIBUTORS: Irina Zaks; Timothy Lehnen; Aaron Zaks