Marketing a Drupal SaaS product

admin — Thu, 19 Apr 2018 12:31:02 +0000

Marketing a Drupal SaaS product admin Thu, 04/19/2018 - 12:31

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In this business focused session Mieszko Czyzyk, co-CEO of GoalGorilla, explains how his company funds and markets Open Social, a Drupal 8 community distribution.

This talk is interesting for business owners, marketeers, product managers and anyone interested in the Drupal ecosystem in general.

We will discuss the following:

why as a company we chose to diversify from a model where we bill by the hour
funding a Drupal distribution
marketing a Drupal distribution, while selling the same code base as a SaaS
results from our funding experiment on Open Collective
a vision how Drupal is or isn't a good match for SaaS
a vision if and how products support a path for sustainable agency growth, with reduced risk

The last 10 minutes are reserved for discussion.

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Decoupling Drupal with GraphQL

admin — Wed, 18 Apr 2018 12:55:35 +0000

Decoupling Drupal with GraphQL admin Wed, 04/18/2018 - 12:55

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Peter Keppert

Website creation with open source technologies: JavaScript framework as front-end, GraphQL as API and Drupal as back-end. Main focus will be on how to configure Drupal CMS to serve content via GraphQL. Starting with the introduction of GraphQL, I would like to explain the basic concepts of the language with examples and explain the problems which GraphQL tries to solve, why the language exists, why was it developed.

I will show a real life implementation of a fully decoupled website using these technologies. I will briefly describe frontend solution, concentrating on most common tools to write GraphQL queries inside JavaScript framework. I will demonstrate how to extend the GraphQL schema with the use of Drupal content entities, how to create a powerful data hub without writing a single line or minimum of code in Drupal.

Technologies: Drupal 8, Angular 5, GraphQL 0.12