Dries Buytaert - The State of Drupal 8 - Keynote #1 - DrupalCon Prague 2013

Some more talk of online training, platforms, Drupal academy for younger people to get involved really early on in their education.
End of the conversation, big round of applause for Dries.
Time for the BIG GROUP PHOTO!
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Now the conversation has moved to focus on the growth of Drupal in new areas of the globe.

Dries: It's about the people and the leaders of those people in these regions. Sometimes it is surprising that tiny communities have had a surge in adoption of Drupal, but larger regions with less forward-thinking leaders have had no adoption whatsoever.
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Dries is now talking about how Drupal 8 may make the move to Github. This appears to be one of the areas of disagreement that may have crept up as one of the issues that resulted in the Drupal Backdrop fork.
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Dries is now talking about how to make migrations from Drupal x to Drupal 8. There is talk of upgrade paths and attempting to simplify this process.
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Backdrop: Dries doesn't want to fork or split the community. Working out how to pull people back in to the mainstream.
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Phew! It's touch keeping up with all this!
Klaus Purer - Alex Bronstein - Ryan Frederick...
Lee Rowlands (AU) - Assistance with UX patterns in Drupal 8.
Dries: Can't thank everyone, but really proud of all of you. Easy to show slides... we're changing the world... but thank you everyone for your code contributions and support. Really lucky to work with so many passionate and talented people.
"I want to give all of you a high-five!"

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Dries showing a slide detailing nearly 1700 developers have contributed to Drupal 8 alpha 3. Nearly double the contributors to Drupal 7.0 (applause)

Alex Pott (UK) is shown on screen, and has been contributing around 50 patches per week to Drupal 8. It's his birthday today! (Cheering! and applause).
Jesse Beach (US) now highlighted - her major contributions have been to accessibility on the frontend.
Jeremy Thorson - (CA) - been helping with the testing infrasctructure.
Shannon Vettes (France) - helped with Project management, and managing project managers!
Scott Reeves (CA) - Theming and mentoring. Been a great help.
Tim Plunkett (US) - 'The Machine' - Core generalist. Dries: "Awesome guy, buy him a beer!"
Vijay Mani (India) - Joined 7 years ago, he's been helping with the low-hanging fruit ;)
Sascha Grossenbacher (Switzerland) - Contributions to entities and fields.
Daniel Wehner (Germany) - He knows all the views - apparently the only person on the planet.
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Drupal 6 launched from one blog article (!) - (some laughter)
Launch plan for Drupal 8 is much more planned out with video, presentation an other media being produced for the community so that it is easier to help explain the benefits to the people that need to know, especially non-technical clients!
Contributions are encouraged from the community in order to help improve the quality of these tools for marketing Drupal 8, including translation into local languages.

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Dries is now showing where we are with the Drupal 8 roadmap. RC1 is being predicted in the early 2014 release window. This is when he thinks everyone should definitely start upgrading their contributed modules.

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There's still time to get involved!

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Dries:

There are still 3 major to-dos.
1) Make it faster. Performance optimisations needed, but happening.
2) Fix the developer experience. Simplify the API, make code less verbose.
3) Fix, then simplify the upgrade paths.

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Six Drupal 8 initiative leaders are on screen introducing themselves and articulating their underiding ethos.

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Dries:

What does Drupal 8 mean for you? Here are a few personas which we've identified.

Small businesses - better help system, better toolbar, big usability improvements for CMS editors and all backend users. It's now much easier to install multilingual features.
Site owners - Modern theming, better libraries, better markup, responsive out of the box, adopted TWIG. User experience is a key focus for many of the improments.
Marketing managers - optimised for running an enterprise site with a multilingual team. Much more integrated third-party support, responsive preview, really easy, effortless authoring.
Engineering Director - Improvements such as configuration in files, more versatile framework, object oriented modern code, more scalable.

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New fields added to Drupal 8 - lots of tweaks to improve usability on mobile devices too.

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Many of the features are being articulated on screen with various screen captures of the backend interface in Drupal 8.

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New theming system announced for Drupal 8, comparisons being made to Drupal 7.  More secure, no more PHP (designers breathe a sigh of relief), HTML5 and all the expected improvements (clapping).

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Short video now playing, founder of schema.org talking about his enthusiasm for Drupal 8.

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Drupal 8 - better schema, better SEO, better, more informative search engine results displayed for your Drupal website.

Dries: Search engines will become answer engines.

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Many improvements to the entirety of Drupal 8. Config management, wy more mobile-friendly for content authors, blocks++, better multilingual support, etc. 6 initiatives.

Over 200 new features in Drupal 8. First one highlighted by Dries is Accessibility improvements. Drupal 8 screen reader video explainer demo-ing the new API included in Drupal 8 for interfacing with screenreaders.

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There are over 200 new features in Drupal 8 - including some great new accessibility features - API added to core to handle this.

6 New initiatives for Drupal 8

1. Configuration Management
2. Mobile
3. Blocks++
4. Multilingual
5. Views in core
6. Web Services

Dries:

Giving small organisations a big voice, giving enterprises new ideas.
Inspiring wonder and delight. We admit no boundaries.
Drupal is not just a technology - it's way bigger than that. It's an idea.

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Drupal 8 - we'll do it again.
It's a major revolution.

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Dries' is currently discussing the various sized of companies / organisations that use Drupal - Drupal is incredibly scalable and used by companies / individuals both large and small

A fresh, crunchy new introduction for Dries and welcome speech. Biggest one ever in Europe.

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Dries:
Drupal: Why do we do what we do? What is our purpose as Drupal? Is there more?
The answer is yes. We are changing the world.
Helping governments run better, yes, but also helping individuals build a dream.

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and Dries' keynote begins!

.... and the Wunderkraut choir is out! lol

Big group photo directions and a guy with a megaphone to help those that aren't great at orienteering. Looking forward to that after the keynote.

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Shots of several screens of around 50 logos to show all the supporters and partners.

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A group of singing carrots have just walked on! They're actually pretty good! HA.

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A lovely bubbly lady is prepping the crowd prior to Dries coming on for the keynote. She's talking Sprints. There's clapping and a few w00ts. Now she's talking Drupal8 - seems that there are a good few people here specifically for that.

Housekeeping announcements... wifi passwords etc - apparently there's an average of 3-4 connected devices per person here. Shock, horror.

All set up and ready for a bit of live blogging at DrupalCon Prague! This is my first DrupalCon, so be prepared for some noob comments :)

Keynote: The State of Drupal 8 - live stream to appear shortly.