Talking Drupal #562 - Acquia Fair Trade Initiative
Talking Drupal
Today we are talking about Supporting Open Source, Acquia, and The Acquia Fair Trade Initiative with guest James Sims. We’ll also cover Image Effects as our module of the week. For show notes visit: Topics Fair Trade Initiative Explained How the Program Started Why Fair Trade Matters Adoption and Open Framework Agency and Freelancer Benefits Partner Funded Giving Who Can Be Makers Tracking Participation Tax Deduction Questions Community Shaped Program Money Counts Too Early Challenges Timeline And Launch Sustainability Built In How To Get Involved Defining Success Origins Of Fair Trade ...
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TD Cafe #019 - From Drupal to FIRST Robotics
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Michael Kinnunen and Steve Wirt share how they each got started with Drupal through higher-ed jobs and stayed for the communit. They compare those community values to FIRST Robotics, explaining FIRST’s K–12 programs (FRC, FTC, and FIRST LEGO League), kickoff-style challenges, and the “coopertition” culture where teams help competitors with parts and repairs. Both mentor highschool robotics teams in the US. For show notes visit: Topics Cafe Catch Up Drupal Origin Stories Why Drupal Community What Is FIRST Mentoring Journeys Team Names Numbers Kickoff Build Sprint Coopertition In...
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Talking Drupal #561 - The Aaron Winborn Award
Talking Drupal
Today we are talking about Aaron Winborn, The award named after him, and what winning is like with guests George DeMet & April Sides. We’ll also cover Summit as our module of the week. For show notes visit: Topics Who Was Aaron Winborn Award Origin Story How Winners Are Chosen Why Community Matters What Winners Share April Learns She Won Handcrafted Award Stories On Stage Emotions After Winning Reflections How To Contribute Nominations And Makers Surprise Award Ideas Wrap Up And Contacts Resources Guests April Sides - George DeMet - Hosts Nic Laflin - John Picozzi - Ashraf...
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Talking Drupal #560 - Content Sync
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Today we are talking about Content, syndication, and Synchronization between Drupal Sites with guest Thiemo Müller. We’ll also cover Drupal core 11.4 as our module of the week. For show notes visit: Topics Origins and Use Cases Hub Model and Flexibility Media Sync and Governance Composable Pages Challenge Governance With Blocks Canvas And Recipes Real Time Syndication Scaling To Thousands GEO And AEO Explained GEO Audits And Loops ContentSync Recommendations Permissions And Drupal 11 AIM Assess Improve Monitor Boosting Drupal AI Presence Ecosystem Alignment Signals Recency And Messaging...
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TD Cafe #018 - Drupal Site Templates
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Join Martin, Andy and Mike as they discuss what Drupal site templates are and how they differ from Drupal’s traditionally bare-bones starting point, aiming to reduce setup effort and total cost of ownership while making Drupal competitive again for small nonprofits and smaller sites. They compare building templates versus client sites, covering the evolution from early Layout Builder/Recipes work to today’s simpler packaging via a Drush site:export workflow, plus tooling like DripYard Recipe Builder for extracting reusable “recipe” parts. For show notes visit: Topics Martin...
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Talking Drupal #559 - Marketing Drupal
Talking Drupal
Today we are talking about Marketing, AI, and Drupal with guest Paul Johnson. We’ll also cover Curated Colors as our module of the week. For show notes visit: Topics Paul's Current Projects Enterprise AI Summit Details Marketing the AI Initiative Partnering on Event Booths Drupal's Outside Perception What's Working Now Growing the Marketing Team How to Contribute Outside In Storytelling Case Study Examples AI Initiative Impact Roadmap and Launch Planning Finding New Adopters Where Pros Research Conference Pitch Story Local Event Playbook Funnel and Webinars Industry Guides and Demos SEO...
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Talking Drupal #558 - Agent Management System
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Today we are talking about AI, Agents, and A System to manage them with guest Luke McCormick. We’ll also cover AI Auto-reference as our module of the week. For show notes visit: Topics Introducing Agent Management Origin Story Claude Credits Scrum Meets AI Retention Handoff Protocol Filesystem Why Handoffs Work So Well Examples and Human Loop Agent Roles and Model Costs Choosing Models by Task Not Drupal Specific Works With Any Model Scrum Sprints For Agents Human Cognitive Overload Tuning Autonomy Levels Setup And Handoff File Updating Customized AMS Persistent Memory Artifacts Demand...
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Talking Drupal #557 - Test-Driven Drupal eBook
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Today we are talking about Test Driven Development, ebooks, and Drupal with guest Oliver Davies. We’ll also cover Juicer Social Feed as our module of the week. For show notes visit: Topics What Is Test Driven Drupal Why Automated Tests Matter How TDD Works AI and Test Quality Balancing Test Coverage When to Write Tests Why Write the Book Why Write an Ebook From Email Course to Ebook Ebook vs Print Tradeoffs Who the Book Helps What You Will Learn Keeping Content Updated Publishing Tools Workflow Lessons and Drupal Changes Podcast and Future Books Mob Programming Explained Free Ebook and...
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Talking Drupal #556 - A Chat with Moshe
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Today we are talking about Drush, Core Contributions, and Drupal’s Past with guest Moshe Weitzman. We’ll also cover Cache Metrics as our module of the week. For show notes visit: Topics Moshe Updates and Clients Maintaining Drush Long Term Locale Performance Overhaul CLI in Core Initiative Which Commands Make the Cut Roadmap Contrib Commands Moving Commands Technical Hurdles How to Help From AI Initiative DDEV Add-ons for Local CI MySQL Toolkit Database Images Testing With Real Databases Devel Module Status Organic Groups Origins Where Ideas Come From Finding Drupal Early Days Release...
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TD Cafe #017 - Drupal Beginners with Mike and Rod
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Mike Anello and Rod Martin discuss the sharp decline in demand for beginner Drupal training. Drawing on data from their businesses, events, and other training providers, they explore factors including AI-driven self-service learning, Drupal’s growing complexity for newcomers, and limited community-wide marketing. They also discuss how initiatives like Drupal AI and broader promotion efforts could help attract and support the next generation of Drupal users. For show notes visit: Topics Mike Anello Mike, widely recognized by his Drupal.org username "ultimike," is a prominent figure in the...
info_outlineToday we are talking about Violinist.io, Managing Composer Dependencies, and automation with guest Eirik Morland. We’ll also cover Composer Patches as our module of the week.
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www.talkingDrupal.com/443
Topics
- What is Violinist.io
- How does it work
- How much technical knowledge do you need
- Is this a security risk
- How much does it cost
- Patron question: Peter: Difference between violinist and dependabot
- What are the major differences in plans
- Who is the ideal user
- Can you self host
- Can this help with Drupal 11 readiness
- Complementary tools
- Notable users
- Why did you start this
- What is it like using Drupal for a SAAS
- Is it open source
- Pros and cons of open source for a SAAS
- How can the community support
- What is on the roadmap
Resources
Guests
Eirik Morland - violinist.io eiriksm
Hosts
Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan
Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu
Anna Mykhailova - kalamuna.com amykhailova
MOTW
Correspondent
Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu
- Brief description:
- Have you ever wanted a simple way to manage patches to Drupal core and your contrib projects? There’s a composer plugin for that
- Module name/project name:
- https://github.com/cweagans/composer-patches
- Composer Patches
- Brief history
- How old:created in Apr 2015 by Cameron Weagans
- Versions available: 1.7.3 and 2.0.0-beta2
- Maintainership
- Actively maintained, beta2 release was a little over a month ago
- Test coverage
- Has a documentation site, as well as a COMMANDS markdown file in the repo to help you get started
- Number of open issues: 10, 2 of which are bugs
- Usage stats:
- It’s been installed over 42 million times and it’s approaching 43 thousand installs per day, according to a recent blog post
- Module features and usage
- Using the plugin is simple, you require cweagans/composer-patches the same way you would a Drupal contrib project. The important difference is that composer will ask you if you trust composer-patches to make changes to your codebase. Once you grant that, the plugin is ready to start applying patches
- You can specify what patches you want applied by adding a patches section to the extra section of your project’s composer.json file, or by adding a patches.json file
- Each patch can be specified using a URL or a path relative to the JSON file
- In theory it’s possible to have composer patches pulled directly from the diff in a merge request, but this is a significant security risk and should always be avoided
- The first beta release for the 2.0 branch actually dropped support for dependency patch resolution, noting that it had become the source of most support requests. In the end the community made it clear that they would resist upgrading without this capability, so the most recent beta2 release adds it back in.
- Finally, on his website cweagans.net Cameron mentions that he’s currently looking for full-time employment. So if your organization relies heavily on composer in general or composer-patches specifically, consider reaching out to him