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Moving Beyond Drupal 7 - initiatives, webinars and showcases

March 23, 2023

Beyond Drupal 7 - initiatives, webinars and showcases

One of the biggest achievement of 2022 was launch of Drupal 7 Soft Landing Initiative . The primary goal of this initiative is to support owners of current D7 sites with guidance on what to do before Drupal 7's End-of-Life date.  This includes giving them documentation, resources, and tools to understand how to migrate to modern versions of Drupal, improving those tools and resources where we can, and maintaining an open dialog with this community of users.

Part of this initative is providing more examples of migrations.  For this year Backdrop Live showcase I created a list of sites that we built or migrated from other systems into Backdrop CMS.

The Mapping Militants Project

The Mapping Militants Project identifies patterns in the evolution of militant organizations in specified conflict theatres and provides visual representations of changing relationships among groups.  FSI Stanford project.  Integrated content from custom database and D9 and provides integrated information and data visualization.

 Stanford WebCamp

Stanford WebCamp 2023 is a multi-day event for community by community to discuss the ins and outs of building websites and research tools.  WebCamp has traditionally featured introductory sessions for beginners,  higher education, and various advanced technical topics.   Stanford Webcamp project. 

Team Formation Hub 

Cross-disciplinary team formation tools for Stanford students.  Stanford GSB project. 

Trial Advocacy Workshop

Registration and Evaluation system for the workshop at Stanford Law School, including scheduling tool and integrated evaluations system for workshop administrators.  Stanford Law School project. 

 

2022 in Review
December 14, 2022

The past couple years have been difficult for many. As we approach the end of 2022, we hold space in our hearts for all those around the world and in our own communities who are facing challenges.

Here at Fibonacci Web Studio, when we are facing difficulties, we try to turn to our values as our guiding lights. It’s not a perfect solution, but it grounds us in our work and helps us navigate choppy waters.

We find joy in community

This year, BADCamp was back in person for the first time since 2019. It was invigorating to see old friends in person and work together on making Drupal (and Backdrop) even better.

Why do we love camps so much? After another successful Stanford WebCamp this year, Irina, co-founder and chief technology officer (CTO), talked to Drupal Event Organizers group about why we keep doing it again and again! Read the interview on Drupal Blog.

And, of course, DrupalCon! Complete with sprints, dancing, and lots of community building :)

Drupal 7 end of life means looking for sustainable solutions

This was a year of migrations, and preparing for migrations, for Fibonacci Web Studio. This year, the announcement came that D7 EoL would be re-evaluated annually.

We wrote two blogs for Pantheon to explain our thinking around Drupal 7 migrations and provide resources for your own planning. The first blog addresses the major questions we hear over and over again in our work: where should I go and what will it cost? The second blog talks about the dream and realities of one-click migrations to BackDrop and Drupal 9.

We did lots of planning for many clients this year: audits, discovery, and technology reviews aplenty! With D7 EOL not quite as imminent as it once appeared, it gave us time to be thoughtful with the sites we have. For some, we adopted an interim solution: moving them off hosting that wouldn’t support D7 onto Pantheon while we worked through the planning. For others, we went ahead and migrated: many to BackDrop, and some to Drupal 9.

One of our big wins this year was getting SUNet Authentication working on BackDrop on Pantheon. This offers Stanford websites an easier path forward, should they choose BackDrop as their CMS.

Empowering researchers to do good work

We love working with researchers! One of our big projects this year was Mapping Militants, a research project that traces the evolution of militant organizations and the interactions that develop among them over time.

We think this research is so important. The amount of violent extremism in the world is truly heartbreaking. For us, working with these researchers is inspiring. They see a big problem, and instead of turning away, they work to learn more and to help others do research and make policy to make the world a safer place for all.

Happy Holidays!

To our clients, colleagues, friends, families, and communities, we wish you a happy holidays and a peaceful new year. We’ll see you in 2023.

Reposted from DrupalEasy - Cheatsheets!
September 8, 2022

Thank you, Michael Anello, for a great cheatsheet of cheetsheets! 

  • https://www.drupaleasy.com/blogs/ultimike/2022/08/are-cheatsheets-still-thing-drupal-developers
    • Flexbox https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/a-guide-to-flexbox/
    • Drupal 8 API https://www.metaltoad.com/blog/drupal-8-entity-api-cheat-sheet 
    • Form Element https://drupalize.me/tutorial/form-element-reference?p=2766
    • https://cheatography.com/programming/

Camping every year - why do we do it
June 16, 2022

I am honored to talk to Drupal Event Organizers group about why we keep doing Stanford WebCamp again and again - what is inspiration, what is motivation, what are challenges! Read the interview on Drupal Blog.