Janez Urevc (@slashrsm)

• senior engineer and team lead at MD Systems
• Active member of Drupal community since 2009
• Lead of the D8 media initiative
• ex Examiner.com

Biggest company contributor

Remote: Office not required

I am always happy to help!

What is NP8

Enterprise Drupal 8 distribution aimed at the media/publishing companies.

Project goal

Build a reusable platform.

For a closed group - stable base, long life, continuous R&D.

Save money - max value, min cost.

Basic info about NP8

Installation profile.

Lots of default config.

Contrib + custom modules.

Behat tests.

Interesting, non-conventional open source model?

Closed group open source.

Partners commit to invest.

~Quarterly meetings, priorities identified.

Discussions about publicly releasing it.

Strong community involvement

A lot core and contrib contributions happened as a direct result of the NP8.

MD Systems way™

Contributions on a daily basis - part of our culture.

Focused initiatives and sprints: search, media, paragraphs, CRM, ...

Internship program.

Features

Pre-defined content types

• News
• Dossier
• Galleries
• Breaking news
• User-generated content
• Blog
• ...

Complete paywall solution

statuses, access control, auto-update, payments

Powerful search

Solr (Search API), More like this, manually overridable

AD provider integrations

Adition, AdTech

Webcodes

Geo tagged content

taxonomy based

Polls

(Scheduled) newsletters

Multi-media asset handling

re-usable media, embedding, ...

Marketplace

Accellerated mobile pages

Newstickets

Improved contact forms

Competitions

Auto (un)publishing

FAQ pages

Performance

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