Media & News

An extremely productive Sprint organised by the Drupal Media Initative took place in Barcelona from 3.12.2018 to 8.12.2018. In addition to many improvements designed to increase the media module's stability within Drupal, the primary emphasis was on the further development of the media library and media integration for the CKEditor. With a total of nine participants, including Christian Fritsch and Alex Pott (Senior Developers in the Thunder team), very valuable results were achieved.

The future of Online Publishing was the central focus at Thunder Day 2018. Experts from media, IT and open source not only shared their experiences of the media world with Online Publishing but also provided food for thought regarding future trends, expectations and challenges. Particular attention was given to the question as to how income can be generated in the future from sources other than classic advertising.

Daniel Bosen, Lead Developer of the Thunder Core Team, shared knowledge about how Hubert Burda Media successfully adapted an Open Source solution and showed hands-on how Burda benefits from the contribution.

Tech4Good means improving human lives through the use of IT. Veronica Celis, Founder and CEO at EnlightAID, showed how blockchain technology can enable true transparency into aid.

Open Source is often associated with license free, although the real benefit comes with the community contributing their free time to evolve the product. Baddý Sonja Breidert, CEO at 1xINTERNET, presented the reasons to be open and how a web agency benefits by contributing to Open Source.