Backdrop CMS Outreach, 26 Jan 2017

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From YouTube: Backdrop Outreach 1/26 (Review newsletter draft!)

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Today’s outreach agenda: http://bit.ly/2jcKdPR

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Alright, we are on air, ah it is January 26th, so um apparently get er is having some problems today. So we're starting a little bit late, but we're thinking. Maybe people um might not come so they might not know we're having a meeting. Oh, but today's meeting this meeting is to talk about backdrop, outreach community outreach for backdrop, and we are primary agenda item for today's to review the newsletter. That's going to be sent out about backdrop 1.6 our release that came out on a january fifteenth, so I am going to do a screen share.

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And if we did this last time open that document in this browser, I'll learn eventually your screen.

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Hey there, we go all.

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Right and then ah here is the document, we're revealing, and you guys see that one to you still looking at the other one yep.

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It's like good, this is uh this is the one who Tom put together except who wrote this no.

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This is a facet: interactive wrote this Oh awesome.

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Now you're married asking for it I.

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Was afraid of that seems that our Astraeus leader has logged out of her account? Hang on.

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I totally saw that one coming right as it was happening, hey.

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Her do you say Oh crash and I was like yep. That's right. Oh, it's definitely correct yeah I'm to.

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They have all these different Google accounts and I. Can't edit document view doesn't at the same time so me you're gonna, have to document here we go.

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Again, okay, sure all.

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Right I'm going to share um this tab, which is this window start?

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Ok, then I click this link and you can see this new one right, yep.

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All right, so this is the newsletters going out for backdrop, 1.6 we're making some changes. We had a marketing team fast, interactive, write it up for us. It reads a little bit like a marketing, a team wrote it, but I think that we can fix it up pretty quickly, so I'm pretty excited about it.

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Alright, so we decided we like all the headings we think it looks good. Is there a view.

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Well, Google Docs has some way that you can view the outline, but I don't know how to do it in this anyway, um we like all the headlines. We like the button style they created for us, looks pretty cute um we're going through the newsletter right now trying to figure out if I mean there's some stuff in here. That's like technically not accurate, but we can update that pretty soon. I think the general idea of reviewing this is just to make sure that the intent and the voice is correct.

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Do you think the order of these things that, like things, are in the right order, I actually kind of think that they're fine? Because it's like start with something important like file management, you.

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Then and then finish strong as well, and so the stuff in the middle here is kind of like full-bleed heroes like was that really the second best thing? Well, no, but you know at least a kind of finishes and kind of a more exciting way. Yeah.

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I feel like maybe we should swap the hamburger menu, which is really important. Yeah.

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The full bleed hero layout that isn't really important yeah.

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Just so that we don't more people right away, yeah.

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Okay, I also, it shows around right now, actually.

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Okay, yeah and then finishing custom view modes.

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Entity view mode module to court.

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I kind of think yeah, like just saying we added the module decor kind of under the.

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You have the ability.

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Let's see should should rewrite this sentence. Do you think I should just get a helmet? No.

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You should rewrite cuz they're, not gonna, know, okay,.

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Really wants it all entities, you know.

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Types of energies.

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And then this looks really good.

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How do you feel about putting the books available from a press in there? You think that is a good addition.

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I think so I think it it still helps some. It adds a legitimacy. You know, okay,.

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Yeah that's I was like that seems a little bit.

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Okay, so just to go over this out loud, um the call like the interest says: we've added a new file management interface, a new interface for managing different displays of content. Different content displays a mobile-friendly hamburger. My new browser-based spell check and an updated full bleed hero block and more.

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I, try it released out, so the two calls to action check out. What's neelam backdrop file management system, we added a completely new way to find and manage any file uploaded to your site, find all the places of files can use in seconds now. Editors can manage uploaded files easily can.

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Archive classroom, yeah.

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That was not a word they put in there, but I don't think I. They just didn't know what that meant.

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Okay ya: mind: if we just not sure about this great power line, I'm, just thinking about deleting it yeah.

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I want them to see the note, though, that we don't like that, so that when they write the next newsletter, they know not to do it again. I'm kind of.

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Allah Mia, you know. If we just stick to the facts, it can get a little dry. I totally see what they're right.

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What they're, after it it's um making it read a little bit more personal makes it, although I'm not sure that actually is a personal touch, but you know it.

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Just makes it nerdier it's not too.

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With that, though, no I'm not sure that's the target audience for after this isn't the Drupal community. This is the vector of community. We want people that are less than Ernie to be involved here too, and I don't want them to be turned off by that.

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Pretty sure, quoting up spider-man or any number of hahaha comics won't actually lose this audience, but.

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It's fine, I, totally agree tides. It's it's a little.

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A little bit much okay, then we have a picture of the file management system, a local friendly hamburger menu. We got excited about the new menu drop-down since used to 1.5 and took them a step. Further menus now have the option to automatically collapsed onto something a little warm up a little more mobile-friendly, so that menus now have the option.

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How about menus can just to make it a little less verbose and you can automatically collapse to something a little more mobile-friendly sure, okay fold lead here, l lay out a full bleed hero block.

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You can now make your big fancy. Splash images, bigger and splash here with new template files. I, don't think that's important.

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I with a hero block that spans the entire width of the page sure.

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You note extra fine, so we fix this 1.5, but it came out. The same time is 1.6, so you know.

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Custom view modes, you're no longer limited to out of the box. You know it's like teaser in full page Rock, Shop 1.6, now lets you create your VMO. It's whenever you want them on view, mugs, your own few modes or you need them. It's okay, buddy split that into sentences. Sure.

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Should we list examples that or just know, I think most.

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People aren't gonna care about the knots yeah.

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Okay, that's a good point rather than trying to explain it further, just like just like state it and then move on.

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We got fair enough browser spellcheck.

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Browser-Based actually.

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My bouche is nicks the whole browser-based thing just say you know spellcheck returns or something like that. I guess spell check was never really gone or well. I don't know, I guess it was gone. Cuz like it from the time that we added see can endure to now write like is previously prior to see can endure. The spell check was there. So I guess saying it's back. Is fine I'll check your puppets? It seems a little bit silly.

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Also, don't want to say ck editor anywhere. We don't have to oh yeah yeah cuz. Most people aren't gonna care. What editor it is like. That's not gonna have any meaning we could say in the editor yeah.

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Editor spell check your bows. Oh.

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Good, let's read Netflix, that's a add it my turn to, and that sounds a little bit silly. Okay, I.

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Thinking a misspelled word in the editor used to give you only cup crappy spaced options. Now your browser will drive, spell check options to offer the correct spelling.

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About now, your browser can offer the correct spelling.

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I, don't know used to give you cut copy paste options, though it's thinking about saying about something that the editor at hijacked, the right click or something like that or something but I'm, not sure we should say.

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We should highlight what was wrong: yeah.

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Just say right clicking a misspelled word and editor now offers spelling suggestions or something I.

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Like the no more spelling anxiety, few part do that that's cute.

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Oops, oh I, see I'd, say yeah. We but I browser.

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Okay, check and.

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More yep in 1.6 we've also included the latest versions of CT editor and normalize more than a dozen user experience improvements. Oh.

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Yeah kind of India lots.

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Of bug fixes and some API improvements for developers to, if you'd like to see the full list of updates, check out release notes, they think our release, notes yep.

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That dobry, these nuts is better to actually pretty change that back and forth several times. Alright,.

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Books for further reading there are two books available on backdrop: CMS written by todd thompson, the author of faux dribble development, beginning backdrop of migraine, triplet backdrop also available from a press.

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Ok at ease amazon, janna, amazon links, ok,.

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Ok, cool, it's good. I think it's in yep, Charlie, gig, alright, um anything else for today's I reach meeting um so.

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We are working on a couple of other things. This is the most pressing. um We have a new blog post that just came out about our latest release. I, don't want to publish another blog post until the newsletter goes out just so that it looks like all of our current news is on the same topic: yeah.

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We don't have any events until sand. Camp website is the next big action item we have um we're trying to design a new homepage. Neil homepage also is going to include a new responsive, drop-down navigation bit, which kind of affects a whole bunch of other parts of the site.

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Some other pages need to be reworked to handle that and so West started building a site out with a new theme, that's as something with basis, but too much of the branding firm basis got mixed in instead of retaining the branding from backdrop itself and so I didn't some work on that last week to kind of clean it up a little bit. um Wes is now busy on a bunch of other projects, so he's not going to have a lot of time to commit to working on backdrop over the next month. So we should.

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We should try and figure out our path forward on that, but I think we're unblocked. On the design front. We got a new um homepage hero image from nica last week that Wes and I both looked at really likes um so I think we just need like implementing we're kind of ready to go, but I know that that can't be on wes is plate. So I don't know. I think we should talk about in them in the main meeting today and see if we have anyone else who wants to dive in on that.

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And then um that's all I have. I know I have a to-do item to order new hoodies for a backdrop. um Maybe I can make that call today and get those moving. Cuz that's been a while under get out here. Spag, ok,.

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Yeah, that would be fantastic. I know that at least wrong persons been waiting for a hoodie for quite a while. Ok.

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Well, today, great well, it sounds sounds good, not a whole lot um new this week as far as outreach goes but yeah. Let's, um let's give this nice and short and we'll meet up again here in 20 minutes for the regular developer, Megan great.

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Well, thanks are ready for watching sorry about all the technical problems come play, our chat will be restored today and hangouts will give us no further issues and everything will be wonderful in the world.

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