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Working in a decentralized organization can be a challenge as collaboration and communication channels need to be set up between multiple groups. Often it can be difficult to get everyone in the same meeting to discuss a project, decisions can go undocumented or not shared with those that were unable to attend, and meetings can often be the wrong format for someone to fully understand and think through what is being presented. 

The Stanford Humanities Center and Arcade, a digital salon, was looking to revolutionize their online presence. Through collaboration with a longstanding digital partner, Kalamuna, they were able to launch a new digital platform that allows users to encounter humanities research and reflection, unmediated. As such they are serving a broad community of fellows and former fellows, students, alumni, and the public.

The Site Audit module is a classic. It will reach 10 years old this June. It gives you a detailed report of your Drupal site in the web admin, providing a nice pass-fail display for review. It has a drush command that renders the report in HTML, text, or vulcan.

The next version of Site Audit can now not only display reports, but can save them over time, and send them to remote servers. A "Site Audit Server" module is now available to receive the reports via simple REST API.

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Can we deploy our Drupal site as a SaaS for enterprise customers? In this session, we will explore how to design a multi-tenant architecture that enables Drupal to accommodate multiple tenants.

Yes, they’re coming for your job, but in the meantime, use AI to become more productive, efficient, and creative. This talk will demonstrate how tools such as Midjourney and ChatGPT can help to design, code, test, debug, and document your website.

Information session on Stanford University IT's minimum UX requirements for the service release process.

Backdrop CMS is essentially Drupal 7 plus a Configuration Management System (and a few hundred other improvements).

Configuration Management is done differently in Backdrop CMS than it is in modern versions of Drupal. Come learn about Configuration Management in Backdrop, including:

Drupal 7 was released in 2011. It is a landmark version of the powerful CMS that has helped build the digital presence of hundreds of thousands of organizations. While this legacy version still serves the needs of many, the next generation of the Drupal CMS (8->9->10) fundamentally changed the technology.  The Drupal project has extended support until at least 2023 and may extend it further. But the Drupal project cannot continue to maintain both legacy and modern Drupal indefinitely. 

“Think before you act,” is an age-old piece of advice given to prevent impulsive thought-to-action. How humans observe, process, and respond to interpersonal events is complicated.

The Ladder of Inference (LOI), created by organizational psychologist Chris Argyris, explains the unconscious steps an individual gets from a fact to an action.

For many sites, internal search is critical functionality and heavily relied upon by visitors. But often, there's little consensus about how and when to test the quality of results, or the best ways to optimize the results on an ongoing results. I have specific example to share that relate to Drupal and Solr, but intend to discuss principles that should apply more broadly to a variety of technologies.