[dundee] Drupal Camp Scotland - 20 April, Glasgow

[Rob Carr]

I'm still scratching the surface on Drupal 8, but the biggest change is that elements of Symfony 2 are being used for this new release. This is partly because the Drupal codebase has become quite large, so use of library was inevitable; but also there is a massive shortage of Drupal devs, so this may allow a lot of Symfony developers to take on Drupal jobs too.

The main theming engine is changing to Twig, but you can still use the old PHPTemplate themes too. No doubt there will be lack of backwards compatibility - one of the massive Drupal pain points (especially for themes) - but plenty of guidance on upgrading will probably start appearing on the web.

Rob  

On Thursday, 4 April 2013 at 08:30, Stuart McCulloch Anderson wrote:

> This sounds really good. I've been doing done reading about Drupal 8 but its all still a bit of a blank. Just hope I don't have to rewrite my theme as much as I did for drupal 7!  
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> As always yours Stu
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> On 3 April 2013 20:11:53 Rob Carr wrote:@carr.me>
> > I came along last year to talk about the virtues of using Drupal to build websites (and plug the upcoming Camp)… well we have another Drupal Camp in Scotland to be held in just over 2 weeks.  
> >  
> > This year it will be held in the IET Teacher Building, in St Enoch Square, Glasgow on Saturday 20th April. There's a new release of Drupal this year, which is taking it more into the league of frameworks, rather than 'just' a CMS, and the keynote is by Shannon Vettes, the Drupal 8 Project Manager; hopefully, all will come clear.  
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> > We got a bit tight with the finances last year, so there's a small charge to attend, but that does include lunch and refreshments - early bird (£15) registration closes on 5th April (this Saturday). There will be a social after the main 'Camp' in Sloans too, for those that want to geek out over beer.
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> > Registration and more info at http://camp.drupalscotland.org/
> >  
> > I'll be getting the train over from Perth, and hoping to catch one home too. 80 minutes from Dundee… Hope to see a few of you there.  
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