The Lagoon team at DrupalCon Prague!
Tags: drupalcon, talks, conference
Published: 2022-09-09 19:00:53

Just a quick update to let everyone know that we'll be at DrupalCon Prague from September 19-22! There will be a Lagoon presence at the amazee.io booth (more info here: https://www.amazee.io/events/drupalcon-prague-2022).

**Note**: we are cancelling Sept 22's [scheduled Community Hour](https://dev.to/uselagoon/lagoon-community-hours-2022-4bd4), but the discussions continue in [Discord](https://discord.gg/te5hHe95JE)!


## Don't miss talks by:


### Toby Bellwood, Lagoon's product owner

**Building a Drupal hosting platform for all the users - how to ensure everyone has the information and tools they need to do their job**
Tuesday, 20 September, 2022 - 17:15 to 17:35
Room D3 

https://events.drupal.org/prague2022/sessions/building-drupal-hosting-platform-all-users-how-ensure-everyone-has-information

> At amazee.io we've been building Lagoon, our open source Drupal (and more!) hosting platform for over 5 years. Whilst we've always had a laser-like focus on developers and their needs, we've done a lot of work recently to ensure that all the non-developer users can also access the information and tools they need to be able to perform their role independently.

> In this talk, find out how we give product owners and project managers at-a-glance data about their complete site holdings, and how Site Reliability Engineers can have access to the metrics they need to be able to ensure uptime. We'll also cover how we collect and present essential information for your security team, and how your content editing teams can get ready access to perform everyday tasks. And if you're a smaller team, we can run through all the goodies you'll get to use yourself!

> We'll cover our experiences working with a number of our partners, and how we've extended and adapted our Lagoon platform to meet their needs, and how some surprising use cases 
have sprung up, helping us get a clearer idea of how people use our tools day-to-day.



### Alanna Burke, Lagoon's community manager
**The struggle of getting an open-source community off the ground**
Tuesday, 20 September, 2022 - 17:15 to 18:00
Room D12

https://events.drupal.org/prague2022/sessions/struggle-getting-open-source-community-ground

> Having an open-source project is great, but if no one is using it, there doesn’t seem to be much point in working on it, right? Lots of open-source projects are small and easy to integrate into your workflow, and so communities quickly form around them organically. But when you have a bigger project that requires some knowledge and buy-in, and a specific need, how do you get people enthusiastic and involved in your project?

> In this talk, we’ll discuss how to start an open-source community from the ground up, and how to leverage your existing users and spaces. Attendees will come away with ideas and plans for how to take their project to the next level and get people excited and involved.


### Michael Schmid, our CTO!
**Open Source Code is just the beginning, why we are an Open Source Business that goes far further than just Code.**
Wednesday, 21 September, 2022 - 10:30 to 11:15
Room C1 

https://events.drupal.org/prague2022/sessions/open-source-code-just-beginning-why-we-are-open-source-business-goes-far-further

> In the Drupal Community every business tries to be a good open source citizen. Some contribute and support the community more than others, but all business together have the greater good of the community in mind as without it we would all not exist.

> At amazee.io we believe that these open source values can not only be used within a community, but also within a business itself, we have been gradually implementing Open Source ideas within our company and are happy to share how we do this, what works so far, what maybe doesn't work and suggestions for companies that try to do something similar.
> Here a sneak peak of what we have been working so far:

> - A fully open handbook readable by everybody and the question: "why should something not be available" instead of "why should something be available"

> - A change process in the handbook where everybody of the company has visibility of what is going on, plus the possibility for anybody to raise objections that could possibly block the implementation of a change
> - Splitting up the company in individual teams that have as high of autonomy as possible

> This session is for any business leader, owner, manager that is looking to improve the working of their business. Plus any employee of any company that is interested in business workings and workflows and maybe needs some help convincing their managers of change.