Overall SummaryOur November monthly meeting showcased significant progress across the UI Suite ecosystem as we edge closer to major milestones. The star of the show was Display Builder, with beta 1 finally ready for release after strategic delays to align with Drupal 11.3 alpha 1. We demonstrated exciting real-time collaboration features that allow multiple users to build displays simultaneously. The meeting also covered our ongoing migration from UI Patterns 1 to 2, with a new automated conversion tool now available.
This year, DrupalCamp Scotland was held on the 7th November, at the University of Edinburgh.
On the morning of the conference I made the quick walk from by bed and breakfast and arrived at 50 George Square to join in with around 60 attendees to a day of talks and chatting.
The morning coffee and a selection of pastries was set out in the corridor outside the main room of the conference. I'm sure a few of the tasty pastries were lost to passing students.
After getting settled in we had a quick introduction session by Stratos Filalthis before we started the day.
The first talk of the day was with Paul McCrodden and Laura Waldoch, with their talk Less Is More: Streamlining 500+ Diverse University Sites into One Central Platform. Paul and Laura both work at the University of Cambridge and the talk was a look at how the university is taking the 500+ websites that are dotted around and consolodating them into a single resource. That single resource is powered by Drupal 11 and the talk looked at how they were building a Drupal install profile that could handle the requirements that these different sites had.
