A week of beignets, beer and learning Drupal! FFW let the good times roll at DrupalCon 2016 New Orleans. In case you missed out, here are four must watch presentations to jazz up your week.

Is size just a number?: Reflecting on community growth, mentoring, and where we spend our efforts

FFW’s David Hernandez discusses the challenges our Drupal community faces as one of the largest open source communities in the world. From capacity to growing pains, David tackles potential problems such as the limited number of high-end contributors and burnout.

He also discusses ways we might shift our focus, like supporting smaller, more productive events, one-on-one mentoring programs to help nurture existing contributors, and other ways to make sure we get the most out of our limited volunteer hours and efforts.

GE Energy Connections & FFW: Delivering Business Results Beyond Clicks and Conversions 

GE Energy Connections Digital Strategy Leader, Holly Bounds and FFW’s Brent Bice share stories about how Drupal not only generates traffic, conversion and increased revenue, but provides significant intrinsic value to organizations through:

• Reduced support and maintenance
• Improved internal collaboration
• Increased productivity
• And significant cost savings.

​Looking for ways to reduce support costs by 22% and save millions of dollars per year? Watch this presentation!

Writing Command Line Tools for Drupal 8 Modules

FFW’s Jesus Olivas, maintainer of Drupal Console, and other panelists discuss a new collaborative effort to unify the way that command line tools should be written for Drupal 8 modules. Jesus provides a great walk through of writing a scripting interface for your Drupal 8 modules code using an object-oriented API built on top of Symfony Console components.

Going beyond the implementation of the CLI tool, they also provide guidance on best practices for decoupled module development and the latest progress and future plans for collaborative efforts between the teams to use common implementations for some of the more complex common functions, such as site installation, configuration management, and bootstrapping, and what you can do to help make the future of command line tools easier for everyone to manage.

Web Personalization for Drupal: Your Roadmap to Get Started

Dave Sawyer, FFW’s leading personalization expert, and Acquia’s John Money deliver a fantastic presentation for getting started with personalizing user experiences in Drupal. In this presentation, Dave covers use cases, prerequisites and much more as he explains why Drupal is the best CMS to execute a personalization strategy.