Media & News

How to describe ThunderDay in one letter? Hans Fink knows the answer: An Attention Sign! “People will leave the congress and think of something new.” The CEO of BURDA Studios will join the panel “Revenue streams beyond advertising” and talk with other German Market Leaders about how the future may look like. ThunderDay 2018 – “Go thunder or under” be part of it: https://thunderday.org/

F***k digitalization! Just because it's a trend, it does not have to suit everyone. Brian Osborn, CEO of Linux New Media, talks about how the customer drives the company's success and how professional online publishing benefits from it at ThunderDay 2018. Be part of it! https://thunderday.org/

On 26th and 27th November the subject of online publishing will be the core focus. 23 experts and thought leaders from renowned companies such as Microsoft, Axel Springer, Gruner + Jahr or the Drupal Association will be gathering under one roof at Thunder Day 2018 together with over 300 participants from all over the world. From start-ups to established companies, CTOs and CTOs from the digital and publishing sectors will be giving presentations over two days covering their own business models and providing insights into their experiences. They will be discussing the trends, opportunities and challenges affecting online publishing currently and in the future. Among other things, the focus will be on trend topics of Open Source and Blockchain and how these are determining the future.

At the end of June, we as the Thunder Core Team, decided that we want to have a select2 widget as a drop-in replacement for Drupal's Autocomplete widget in Thunder. Furthermore, since we are currently working on a search integration, we also wanted to have a select2 widget that could be used as a facet. We started to look for Drupal 8 select2 implementations and found two existing modules.

Daniel Bosen has shaped Thunder since the very first minute of its existence. He was the first developer who Ingo Rübe (Thunder's initiator) took on 1st June 2015 and is Lead Developer in the Thunder Core Team. Anyone wishing to know about Daniel’s current mood ought to take a look at his choice of T-shirt. Because it tells us more or less everything.