Backdrop CMS
for small-medium sized business & non-profits
A fork of Drupal
Different tools for different jobs
Backdrop Co-Founders
Jen
Backdrop Project Lead
@jenlampton
Nate
Backdrop Technical Lead
@quicksketch
Created by
Drupal Developers
- Habitat for Humanity
- The Grammys
- Oxfam International
- Harvard
- Bay Area Rapid Transit
- Tesla Motors
Created by
Drupal Trainers
- Taught over 1,500 students
- Featured in online training videos
- Created materials for in-person training classes
- Nate: Lullabot trainer since 2005
- Jen: Director of training at Chapter Three, 2010-2012
- Nate: Co-author of the first O'Reilly book "Using Drupal"
Created by
Drupal Core Developers
Nate
- AJAX Framework & drag-and-drop
systems in Drupal 6 - File & Image modules
in Drupal 7 - Dialog system & CKEditor
in Drupal 8
Jen
- First core patch included
in Drupal 7.14 - Drupal core usability team
member, D7 & D8 - Twig initiative lead
Drupal 8 (2011 - 2013)
Created by
Drupal Community Advocates
- Spoken @ 130+ Drupal events
- Jen: Organizing Committee, DrupalCon SF 2010
- Jen: Lead Organizer, Bay Area Drupal Camp
created by
People who Drupal
- Major contributors to the project.
- Major contributors to the community.
- helped their clients.
- changed thier lives!
Why Fork Drupal?
Direction
Drupal for the Enterprize
Drupal 8 beta is the latest, greatest release of the world's most widely used enterprise web CMS.
Marketshare
Code
- Much larger codebase (3x more Drupal code by bytes)
- More dependencies (external libraries)
- Most code rewritten to be Object Oriented
- Symfony based HTTP Kernel
Cost
- Drupal is free! But...
- Specialized (expensive) developers
- Specialized (expensive) hosting
- Ongoing maintenance costs
- Migration from version to version (not upgrades)
Drupal's Direction:
Larger projects.
More complex/abstract/modern code.
Bigger budgets.
Backdrop's Direction:
More (smaller) projects.
More accessable code.
Decrease the cost.
Decision Making
Do-ocracy
Drupal Decision Making Process
Drupal is a do-ocracy, [...] things happen [...] because people are willing to do them.
- Andrea "zendoodles" Zoper
http://blog.nerdery.com/2013/02/do-ocracy-and-the-drupal-contrib-ecosystem
For example...
Twig
Rich-Text
Organic Growth!
The most motivated people can create change.
Project Management Committee
The PMC guides Backdrop's direction
Current PMC members:
Nate Haug
core committer constituent
Jen Lampton
UX priority constituent
Mike McCaffrey back-end constituent
Wes Ruvalcaba front-end constituent
Jack Aponte business-focus constituent
Gregory Netsas site-builder constituentThe PMC's Responsibilities
- Handle conflict resolution.
- Set the overall direction of the project.
- Ensure that each change follows the project's philosophy.
- Change the project philosophy when necessary.
In order to guide the project, the project philosophy must be defined.
Backdrop Principles
- Backwards compatibility is important
- Write code for the majority
- Include features for the majority
- Ensure Backdrop can be extended
- Meet low system requirements
- Plan and schedule releases
- Always remain Free & Open Source
Backdrop Mission
Backdrop CMS enables people to build highly customized websites, affordably, through collaboration and open source software.
Backdrop Mission
Backdrop CMS enables people to build highly customized websites, affordably, through collaboration and open source software.
How do we make web development more affordable?
- Increase the out-of-box functionality.
- Make maintenance easier.
- Make upgrades easier/faster.
- Make development easier/faster.
- More!
Consider the cost of each change.
Can I use Backdrop CMS today?
YES!
Release Schedule
Backdrop 1.0 released January 15, 2015
Backdrop 1.1 released May 15, 2015 Backdrop 1.2 released Sept 15, 2015 Backdrop 1.3 released January 15, 2016 Backdrop 1.4 released May 15, 2016 Backdrop 1.5 released Sept 15, 2016
Backdrop 1.6 scheduled Jan 1, 2017
But what about contrib?
Status of top Drupal modules
- Ctools
- Views
- Token
- Pathauto
- Libraries API
- Entity API
- Admin Menu
- Jquery Update
- Webform
- Date
- IMCE
- CKeditor
- Google Analytics
- Wysiwyg
- Link
- Module Filter
- Metatag
- Backup & Migrate
- Rules
- XML Sitemap
- Features
- Entity Reference
- Media
- Colorbox
- Field Group
- Views Slideshow
- CAPTCHA
- Transliteration
- Views Bulk Operations
- Panels
- Variable
- Devel
- Localization update
- Menu Block
- Context
- Global Redirect
- Internationalization
- IMCE Wysiwyg bridge
- Redirect
- In core
- In contrib
- Underway
- Not started
Total modules & themes & layouts
- 330 new (or ported) modules, themes, or layouts
https://github.com/backdrop-contrib - 244 projects with official releases
https://backdropcms.org/modules
But what about the community?
Community growth
- Downloads of Backdrop CMS: 7,206
- Members on backdropcms.org: 381
- Core contributors: ~80
- Backdrop Contrib group members: 58
- Organizations seeking Backdrop work: 28
Can I see it in action?
Demo Time!
Get involved
Google Hangouts every Thursday 4pm ET
mini-sprints every Thursday after the meeting
backdropcms.org
github.com/backdrop/backdrop
gitter.im/backdrop/backdrop-issues
@backdropcms
Questions?
backdropcms.org
github.com/backdrop/backdrop
gitter.im/backdrop/backdrop-issues
@backdropcms
Backdrop CMS
for small-medium sized business
& non-profits
Image Credits
SquareSpace: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Squarespace_Logo.png
Wordpress: https://wordpress.org/about/logos
Backdrop: https://backdropcms.org/about/logo
Drupal: https://www.drupal.org/node/9068
USS Enterprise: http://thescifichristian.com/2013/09/tng-theology-remember-me
Raised hands: http://frenchspin.com/en/site/everything/articles
Twig logo: http://twig.sensiolabs.org/
CKEditor logo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CKEditor