The Australian and New Zealand Drupal community will be coming together for DrupalSouth Sydney 2024 this year from Wednesday 20 March - Friday 23 March 2024. This annual event is a great opportunity to share knowledge, innovations, latest developments and also catching up face to face with clients, colleagues and friends.
Gold sponsor
Morpht is continuing our support of DrupalSouth and is proud to be a Gold sponsor for the event this year. We will have a booth setup, so please come up and have a chat with our team!
Track chairs
Two Morpht staff members have volunteered as track chairs this year. They have reviewed all the papers that were submitted for their track and will also offer ongoing support and advice for the selected presenters. They will also be busy during the conference, running around and helping setup presenters and no doubt calming some nerves!
Andre Kakos our Head of Digital Experience is the track chair for User experience and content.
Christian Biggins who is one of our Technical Project Managers and Senior Developer is the track chair for Drupal development.
Presentations
We have four presentations this year at the conference covering topics from user experience design, developing using Twig, best approach for support queries and a retrospective of the good, bad and ugly side of projects.
You need this when?! Using design systems to achieve success
As site owners and builders, we have all experienced projects with a tight deadline and challenges to deliver the project on time. The challenge was to design and implement a new design and IA within three weeks before a national campaign launch.
Amber Henry and Matt Commons will be presenting on how Morpht utilised the Australian Government design system and other techniques to fast track the site uplift on a tight timeframe.
When: Wednesday 20 March
Time: 11.15am - 12noon
Room: Doric
Building Drupal with Twig
I am sure we all heard about Twig and some of us could be very familiar with it. For a while, I have been using it as another language to handle HTML and PHP. However, the more I delve into it, the more I discover its power and capabilities.
Twig as a modern template engine, enhancing the quality of frontend development. It helps to define templates cleanly and have them in structure.
Kelvin Wong will be presenting and sharing some useful tools for building sites with Twig. How templates can be structured to maintain consistency across content types while allowing rooms for customisation on individual needs.
When: Wednesday 20 March
Time: 2.30pm - 2.45pm
Room: Corinthian
(Support) people are people too. Learn how to increase the odds of getting your required outcome
Having been involved in support for years, from Level 1 through to being a Support manager through to the guy getting that call at 3:15am on a Sunday morning because everything has turned to poop. I often see the same mistakes happening again and again.
Jim Koutsouris will be presenting and covering the main points that increase the odds of a happy outcome with a minimum of fuss.
When: Wednesday 20 March
Time: 3.20pm - 3.50pm
Room: Doric
The good, the bad and the ugly: Project retrospectives
Each project brings its own challenges and learnings. Success comes from repeating the good, fixing the bad and avoiding the ugly. That's the theory anyway.
This presentation takes a lighthearted look back over hundreds of Drupal projects and will analyse them through the lense of the burn up chart. The jagged line tells a story of wins and losses, successes and failures, profit and loss.
I will be presenting some insights into some of the lowlights and highlights of delivering Drupal projects.
When: Thursday 21 March
Time: 2.30pm - 2.45pm
Room: Doric
Register now
Registrations are open and Dries Buytaert has just been announced as one of the keynote speakers.
