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Drupal 8 is quickly evolving and the remaining tasks are becoming very clear and concrete. The topic 'layout management' and the need for a related sprint has been identified long ago. Therefore, we recently announced this very sprint in the Swiss Drupal User Group.At MD Systems, 6 people already work full time for Drupal 8 core, contrib and related customer projects. Our experience as architects and expert consultants allows us to identify the missing pieces and design reusable solutions.

With the goal to port Search API to Drupal 8 we organized a sprint from 28. April to 2. Mai 2014. The goals were ambitiously set. Due to a large number of competent participants it was a big succes and most targets have been reached!

At MD Systems work on Drupal 8 is in full swing. We start working on new modules for Drupal 8 almost every week. But this time it is about something bigger.Challenging projects need powerful search - Usually MySQL cannot keep up. Specialized search systems such as Apache Solr are then used.All search engines have one thing in common: Instead of looking directly at the database, an optimized search index is created.

Our monthly "First Friday Sprint" has now been held since October 2013 and every time we have been happy to report huge jumps in Drupal 8 and its environment of contrib modules.Invitation to the event: https://groups.drupal.org/node/416933Orientation in the jungleEach month a participant must first look at what all has changed the last few weeks and test all relevant modules.

The annual Drupal Developer Days (DevDays) event this year took place from the 24th to 30th march in Szeged, the city of DrupalCon 2008.After the last DevDays in Dublin last year began with an unofficial all-week long Drupal 8 sprint, it became an official part of the event this year and it was a huge success. The event focused almost completely on Drupal 8, not just for the sprints, most of the sessions were about the upcoming new Drupal version.

For the initialisation of a large new Drupal 8 Project (we will inform you soon... stay tuned!) we have done a test-run for our new Drupal 8 Boostrap Week.

Each month MD Systems organises the First Friday sprints. We continuously help those interested with their entry into the world of Drupal 8.The initiative simultaneously takes the pulse for progress to Drupal 8 core and the open source add-on modules (contrib).This month we were able to set up a 9 person sprint team and got some good results.Event Invitation: https://groups.drupal.org/node/411843Following some actual work results: