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Say Goodbye to Drupal 7 and Hello to Other Opportunities

By Anya Mykhailova, February 10, 2021
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“Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.”
― Peter F. Drucker 

Whether you love it, hate it, or feel nothing about it. Whether you use it every day or only sporadically, it’s become part of your work environment. Whatever your relationship to it is, you must surely feel something as it approaches the end of its life, and you need to decide what to do about it. It’s your Drupal 7 site, and it sunsets next year.

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Topics: Drupal Wordpress

Securing WordPress and Building Trust While You Do It

By Sean Lehane, January 7, 2021
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As someone who has worked professionally with WordPress websites for 15 or so years, the most common question I have heard from clients, coworkers, and even other colleagues in digital is some variant of: “Is WordPress secure?” 

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Topics: Strategy Wordpress

Kalamuna 2020: Year in Review

By Andrew Mallis, January 1, 2021
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Are we done yet?

2020 is a hard year to put behind us. Political division, a deadly global outbreak, economic roller coasters, and racial unrest remain top of mind as we round out January 2021. 

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Topics: Community Drupal

Mic Check! How life as an activist prepared me to be a Drupal PM

By Lily Berman, November 18, 2020
Headshot of Lily featuring Kalamuna and BADCamp logos with a handshake and speech bubble graphics

BADCamp 2020 gave me a virtual stage to share stories and insights from my life as an activist, along with insights I think could benefit anyone working in a team. I dedicated years of my life to causes that matter to me. When I transitioned into working for a Drupal web development agency as a project manager, I thought I would be starting from scratch. I was wrong. 

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Topics: Community Conferences Drupal Nonprofits Project Management

The Kalamuna Team has Something Random to Share

By The Kalamuna Team, November 18, 2020
mash up image taken from the embedded video of our team doing things they love

Occasionally, you meet people in life that you just can’t wait to show off to your friends.  Not to brag (too much), but that’s our team.  Work relationships can feel like a random puzzle of personalities locking away chemistry and collective intelligence. But when you have quality people,  the randomness is a feature not a bug. We’re privileged to share our work lives with folks so varied and inviting. We’re bonded by an expertise and love for our craft and by a desire for that craft to be in service to others.

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Topics: Community Conferences

Building Websites That Protect User Privacy

By Squiggy Rubio, November 18, 2020
A headshot of Squiggy Rubio with a lock and people icons in the background featuring logos for Kalamuna @ BADCamp

Drupal is known for being secure and a good tool for building websites with high privacy standards. However, many websites load third party scripts, which can gather a lot of data about your website visitors with one or more third parties.

We review a browser plugin that disables third-party scripts in the following BADCamp presentation: 

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Topics: Drupal Security

Lessons From the Trenches of a Veteran PM Who Went Remote

By Kristin Sartain, November 18, 2020
A headshot of Kristin Sartain with a checklist and a calendar icon, featuring the Kalamuna @ BADCamp logos

Many people are newly working remotely during the pandemic and have had to drastically change how they work in the past several months. It has been stressful, but there are some silver linings in our current situation.

For instance, three years ago I made the transition to remote project management because I was drowning in a daily commute. It really changed my life to get nearly two hours a day back. Also, the flexibility was a real bonus for me, so I could walk my dog Max or take a yoga class.

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Topics: Apps Project Management

How to Move Beyond WCAG and Towards Authentic Digital Inclusion

By Andrew Mallis, November 17, 2020
Headshots of Andrew Mallis, Crispin Bailey and William Reuschel ahead of their talk at BADCamp

Do you feel distracted by a suite of automated tools, pages of report data, and feedback on work that was designed and developed weeks and weeks ago? If your antidote achieves #WCAG 2.1 AA conformance, you may be leaving more people behind than you think.

Accessibility and digital inclusion can be easier.

Authentic digital inclusion means ensuring that every end-user can actually use a digital asset as designed and intended. Let’s start there. 

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Topics: Accessibility Community Nonprofits User Experience

Back-end developer essential guide to front-end browser testing and debugging

By Anya Mykhailova, October 15, 2020
Web browser illustration featuring coding element and backend code

Flexbox, CSS grid, accessibility, device testing, and JavaScript performance metrics are just a few elements that are part of day-to-day front-end developer life. Front-end development is definitely more complex today than it was a few years ago. There are new frameworks, preprocessors and fast-pacing changes to the CSS specification. This means that it's harder for back-end developers to jump in and assist without knowing the tools of the trade.

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Topics: Accessibility Drupal

How to throw a successful virtual fundraising event

By Lily Berman, October 5, 2020
Gateway public school collage of their successful virtual fundraiser event

For one of our wonderful clients transforming education, this moment was the stuff of nightmares. Gateway Public Schools scheduled their annual community-building family fundraiser for Saturday, March 14, two days before the Bay Area officially began sheltering in place due to the spread of COVID. So, theirs became one of the first of many nonprofit galas and fundraising events that would need to move online. 

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Topics: Community Nonprofits

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February 2021

  • Say Goodbye to Drupal 7 and Hello to Other Opportunities

January 2021

  • Securing WordPress and Building Trust While You Do It
  • Kalamuna 2020: Year in Review

November 2020

  • Mic Check! How life as an activist prepared me to be a Drupal PM
  • The Kalamuna Team has Something Random to Share
  • Building Websites That Protect User Privacy
  • Lessons From the Trenches of a Veteran PM Who Went Remote
  • How to Move Beyond WCAG and Towards Authentic Digital Inclusion

October 2020

  • Back-end developer essential guide to front-end browser testing and debugging
  • How to throw a successful virtual fundraising event

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