In this session I'll introduce you to Harmony, an entity based Forum & Community solution for Drupal which will (with any luck) put an end to horrible integrations with vBulletin or phpBB and allow discussion communities to flourish. Finally, a strong forum solution for Drupal!

We will walk through:

• Why would you do this? Inception, aim and components.
• Differences between Harmony and core forum and advanced forum.
• How it can make your life easier when building a community.
• Frontend, what the distro will look like (Bootstrap 3).
• Site builders
  • how integrating with contrib allows for easier customisation.
  • how splitting parts in to sensible modules allows you to pick and choose functionality, e.g. Messaging and notifications, Social sign in.
• Developers - opportunities to integrate with contrib favourites. Planned modules e.g. harmony_migrate, harmony_mailhandler.
• Quick click through demo of harmony_core.
• Questions & answers.

For more information, check out the groups.d.o post - https://groups.drupal.org/node/314178 and sign up to the newsletter here - http://getharmony.io