DrupalEasy Podcast 169 - Future President (John Kennedy, D8 Module Acceleration Program)

John Kennedy, Acquia's project manager for Lightning joins Ted Bowman, Ryan Price, and Mike Anello to talk about the Module Acceleration Program - an initiative by Acquia to help get important contributed modules finished for Drupal 8. Also discussed: DrupalCon session submissions, goodbye dependencies, new D8 committer, DA board nominations open, and 8.1!

Interview

• D8 Module Acceleration Program
• Drupal 8 Module of the Week

DrupalEasy News

• The next session of the 12-week Drupal Career Online course starts in March, 2016 - visit DrupalEasy.com/dco for all the details.

ThreeSix Stories

• DrupalCon Session Submissions - Site Building track.
• Where have all the dependencies gone? - blog post by Tim Millwood. Also,https://groups.drupal.org/node/508662.
• New provisional Drupal 8 committer, Scott Reeves - focused on front-end.
• Drupal Planet now in Spanish!.
• 2016 Nominations Open for Drupal Association At-Large Director - nominations close February 20.
• 8.1.0 will be released April 20; beta begins March 2. Work focusing on Migrate UI, front-end tests, usability improvements, and bug fixes.

Sponsors

• WebEnabled.com - devPanel

Picks of the Week

• Mike - Honeypot module for Drupal 8 - currently on version 8.1.22! Maintained by Jeff Geerling (geerlingguy).
• Ted - Star Wars Hour of Code Learn to code using Blockly drag and drop programming.
• John - Lightning distribution.

Upcoming Events

• DrupalCampNYC2016 - February 27th, 2016.
• Florida DrupalCamp 2016 - March 5-6, 2016.
• MidCamp - March 17-20, 2016.
• TexasCamp - April 1-2, 2016.
• DrupalDelphia - April 8, 2016.

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Five Questions (answers only)

1. West Coast Swing.
2. Snapchat.
3. Start an open-source movement.
4. Turtles!
5. Writing his first Drupal module.

Intro Music

"Agony (Coder vs Themer)" - from the DruaplCon Los Angeles pre-noteperformed by Campbell Vertesi and Adam Juran.

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