Drupal Canvas Has Landed — and SFDUG is back.
Join us as we kick off a new era of the San Francisco Drupal Users Group with Matt Glaman, one day after the release of Drupal CMS 2.0! This officially introduces Drupal Canvas as part of a stable Drupal product for the first time.
Matt Glaman is a long-time Drupal contributor, author, and community leader known for his deep commitment to making Drupal more accessible to developers. He built his first website at age eleven and eventually found his way to Drupal through real-world problem-solving, falling in love not just with the framework’s power, but with the openness and generosity of its community.
Over the years, Matt has focused on doing “meaningful work” through open source, contributing extensively to Drupal core, contributed modules, and—especially—documentation. He is a strong advocate for treating blogs, guides, and shared knowledge as first-class contributions, believing that clear documentation is essential to onboarding new developers and sustaining Drupal’s long-term health.
In this talk, Matt will demonstrate Drupal Canvas as a real site-building tool—not just a page editor. You’ll see how to manage global headers and footers through regions, use content templates to take full control over node displays, and package these configurations using Recipes to create repeatable site templates for building complete sites.
Matt is the author of The Drupal 10 Development Cookbook, a practical guide designed to help developers—particularly those familiar with PHP but new to Drupal—become productive quickly. In addition to his writing and speaking, he has built tools like ContribKanban to improve how contributors manage and track Drupal issues, and his professional work has included major efforts such as Drupal 10 readiness as a module maintainer, tooling expert, and community mentor.
When he’s not working on Drupal, Matt enjoys cycling, which he credits as an important way to recharge and generate new ideas.
Event details and registration are available on Meetup:
https://www.meetup.com/sfdug-san-francisco-drupal-users-group/events/31…