Drupal 8

Coming Together

Two Stories

This is a story about Drupal's quarter-life crisis

Two Stories

This is a story about you

The Biggest Change To Drupal

Larry Garfield

“PHP 4 and PHP 5.3 are different languages: conceptually, structurally; they happen to be mostly backward-compatible, but that's about it. Drupal 8's biggest shift is that it is a PHP 5.3 system. We have ported Drupal to a new language.”

About me

"The guy who doesn't
shut up about Drupal"

First Contact

Back to 2005

You may now Drupal From

(whitehouse.gov)

(dev.twitter.com)

(grammy.com)

(msnb.com)

(ubuntu.com)

There's a module for that

Drupal's community

> 1 million members

~ 1 million sites

Drupal, Growing up

Drupal is Magic?

Drupal 8's Dramatic change

a Problem to solve

"The Web Services and Context Core Initiative (WSCCI) aims to transform Drupal from a first-class CMS to a first-class REST server with a first-class CMS on top of it. To do that, we must give Drupal a unified, powerful context system that will support smarter, context- sensitive, easily cacheable block-centric layouts and non-page responses using a robust unified plugin mechanism."