Why fork Drupal?
The philosophy behind Backdrop CMS
The free and Open Source CMS
that helps you build websites.
For business, non-profit, & education.
Backdrop CMS
The Drupal fork
Backdrop CMS
Another tool for web developers
Backdrop CMS Co-founders
Jen
Backdrop Project Lead
@jenlampton
Nate
Backdrop Technical Lead
@quicksketch
Backdrop was founded by
Drupal Website Builders
- Habitat for Humanity
- The Grammys
- Oxfam International
- Harvard
- Bay Area Rapid Transit
- Tesla Motors
Backdrop was founded 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"
Backdrop was founded 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 core initiative lead
Drupal 8 (2011 - 2013)
Backdrop was founded by
Drupal Community Advocates
- Spoken @ 155+ Drupal events
- Organizer, DrupalCon San Francisco 2010
- Organizer, Bay Area Drupal Camp 2007 onward
Backdrop CMS was founded by
People who Drupal
The Project Management Committee
A leadership model proven successful by many Apache projects.
PMC Members
Tim Erickson
small agency constituent
Olaf Grabienski multilingual constituent
Gregory Netsas site-builder constituent
Jen Lampton
UX priority constituent
The PMC's Responsibilities
- Handle conflict resolution.
- Set the overall direction of the project.
- Ensure each change follows the project's philosophy.
- Change the project philosophy (if necessary).
The PMC's Decisions
- What's best for the project?
- Based on different experiences of PMC members.
- Weigh options agains the project philosophy.
In order to guide the project, the philosophy must be defined.
Backdrop CMS Principles
- Easier updates: Backwards compatibility is important.
- Simplicity: Write code that the majority can understand.
- Focus: Only include features that benefit the majority.
- Extensibility: Ensure Backdrop can be customized.
- Security: Keep sites and people safe.
- Performance: Meet low system requirements.
- Release on-time: Plan and schedule releases.
- Freedom: Remain both Free and Open Source.
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.
- Improve the user experience.
- Improve the developer experience.
- Decrease server & resource usage.
- Make updates take less effort (automatic).
- Make upgrades both faster and easier.
- More!
Release Schedule
January 15th
May 15th
September 15th
Backdrop has seen
25 on-time releases
since Jan 15, 2015
Next release
Backdrop 1.25 - May 15, 2023
What about Security?
We work with the Drupal Security Team.
- We collaborate on security issues.
- We coordinate security releases.
(this goes for both core + contrib)
We have our own Security Team, too.
- We have a process for handling security issues.
- We have a private security issue queue.
- We issue CVEs, and release on wednesdays.
- We are becoming a CVE Numbering Authority.
We also help our maintainers (more).
- We watch the Drupal security releases.
- We notify Backdrop maintainers of updates.
- We can assist maintainers with changes + releases.
- We have authority to make releases for all projects.
Backdrop Add-Ons
Modules. Themes. Layouts.
Top 100 Drupal 7 modules
- Ctools
- Views
- Token
- Libraries API
- Entity API
- Pathauto
- Jquery Update
- Date
- Admin Menu
- Webform
- CKeditor
- IMCE
- Module Filter
- Link
- Metatag
- Google Analytics
- Entity Reference
- Transliteration
- Field Group
- Rules
- Views Bulk Ops
- CAPTCHA
- Wysiwyg
- Features
- XML Sitemap
- Colorbox
- Variable
- File Entity
- Media
- Backup & Migrate
- Menu Block
- Redirect
- Localization update
- i18n
- Field collection
- Views Slideshow
- Panels
- Global Redirect
- Context
- Devel
- Strongarm
- Email Field
- Mail System
- Block Class
- Menu Attributes
- ReCAPTCHA
- Display Suite
- SMTP
- IMCE Wysiwyg Br
- Job Scheduler
- Admin Views
- Views Data Export
- Adressfield
- Honeypot
- UUID
- Special Menu Items
- Better Exp Filters
- Calendar
- Feeds
- Superfish
- Multiupload File widget
- Flexslider
- MimeMail
- Node Clone
- References
- Multiupload Image widget
- Plupload integration
- ImageCache Actions
- Views PHP
- Filefield Sources
- Field Permissions
- Diff
- Site Map
- Search API
- Inline Entity Form
- Media: Youtube
- Adminimal...Menu
- EU cookie compliance
- Pathologic
- Facet API
- Module Missing...Fixer
- Quicktabs
- Video embed field
- Taxonomy Menu
- CKEditor Link
- Title
- Masquerade
- IMCE Mkdir
- Voting API
- Conditional Fields
- Lightbox 2
- Insert
- Advanced Help
- Image URL Formatter
- Scheduler
- Linkit
- Feeds Tamper
- Content Access
- Views Bootstrap
- DraggableViews
-
Included In core: 19
Ready In contrib: 58 -
Underway in core: 3
Underway in contrib: 3 -
Alternative in core: 16
Nolognger necessary: 3 - Not started: 4
75+ modules included in Backdrop core
- Admin menu
- Admin views
- Auto Menu*
- Block class
- Blockify*
- Boolean formatter
- Btester...Block Content*
- Caption Filter
- CKeditor*
- CKEditor Link
- CKEditor Media Browser*
- CKEditor Upload
- Comment Closer
- Comment Hide Subject
- Contact Block*
- Date*
- Date popup authored
- Default config
- Direct Upload*
- Elements
- Email Registration
- Entity API*
- Entity Cache
- Entity Reference
- Entity view mode
- Extra Columns*
- Field as Block
- Field formatter settings
- File entity*
- Float filter
- HTML5 Tools
- Image Mobile Camera*
- IMCE Wysiwyg bridge*
- Insert*
- Instant Filter
- jQuery Update*
- Link
- Live preview*
- Media*
- Menu block
- Menu translation (i18n)
- Nodeblock
- Options Element
- Panels*
- Panels Everywhere*
- Pathauto
- Placeholder
- Project Browser
- Rabbit Hole
- Radix Layouts*
- Redirect
- Role Assign
- Role Help
- Scheduler*
- Smartmenus
- Token
- Transliteration
- UUID*
- Variable*
- Vertical Tabs Responsive
- Views
- Views Bulk Operations
- Views Responsive Grid*
* Some features may not be included in Backdrop core.
Contributed Add-Ons
- 1,012 total projects (modules, themes, or layouts)
https://github.com/backdrop-contrib - 807 projects with official releases
https://backdropcms.org/modules
last updated Jan 9, 2023
Backdrop community
People
- Members on backdropcms.org: 2,764
Accounts on https://backdropcms.org - Active core contributors: 135
https://github.com/orgs/backdrop/teams/documentation-and-organization - Backdrop Contrib group members: 110
https://github.com/orgs/backdrop-contrib/people
last updated Jan 9, 2023
Support providers
- Supporting Agencies and Organizations: 144
https://backdropcms.org/support/supporters - Backdrop service providers: 58
https://backdropcms.org/support/services - Backdrop contractors for hire: 61
https://backdropcms.org/support/services/contractors
last updated Jan 9, 2023
Adoption
- Downloads of Backdrop CMS: 15,293
https://backdropcms.org/project/backdrop - Reporting LIVE Backdrop sites: 2,317
https://backdropcms.org/project/usage/backdrop
last updated Jan 9, 2023
Where to find us
Backdrop events
- Drupal Camps like this one!
- Backdrop MiniCamps Next: Oct 2 - Berkeley, CA
- Virtual User Groups 1st Tues ea month
- Weekly video meetings Thurs 1pm PT
Where to find the community
Code: github.com/backdrop/backdrop
Chat: backdrop.zulipchat.com
Forum: forum.backdropcms.org
Site: backdropcms.org
Docs: docs.docsbackdropcms.org
Tweets: @backdropcms
video meetings - Thurs 1pm PT
Questions?
The free and Open Source CMS
that helps you build websites.
For business, non-profit, & education.
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