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# Talking Drupal #462 - DrupalCon Singapore
Today we are talking about DrupalCon Singapore, What you can expect, and What’s next for Drupal in Asia with guest Mike Richardson & Surabhi Gokte. We’ll also cover Filefield Paths as our module of the week.

For show notes visit:
[www.talkingDrupal.com/462](https://www.talkingDrupal.com/462)

## Topics
- When is Drupalcon Asia
- The last one was in 2016, what did it take to reprise
- How do you handle language barriers
- What are your roles in the organizing committee
- Steering committee and Drupal South
- What can attendees expect
- Any special programming
- What kind of diversity is expected from attendees
- Driving from Mumbai to Singapore is 110 hours
- Will Dries be there
- Can we expect future Drupalcon Asia's
- Planning and logistics regarding coffee
- Starshot

## Resources
* [DrupalCon Singapore](https://events.drupal.org/singapore2024)
* [Droptimes](https://www.thedroptimes.com/41573/thoughts-drupal-starshot-2-new-direction-drupal)
* [Drupal camp Pune](https://www.drupal.org/community/events/drupalcamp-pune-2024-2024-10-19)
* [Steering committee for Drupal South](https://drupalsouth.org/committee)
* [Linux Australia Council](https://linux.org.au/)
* DrupalCon Singapore Sponsorship
    * Email events@drupalasia.org 
* [Park Royal Collection Marina Bay](https://www.panpacific.com/en/hotels-and-resorts/pr-collection-marina-bay.html)
* [Singapore Wiki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapore#:~:text=Multi%2Dracialism%20is%20enshrined%20in%20the%20constitution%20and%20continues%20to%20shape%20national%20policies%20in%20education%2C%20housing%2C%20and%20politics.)
* [Singapore Visa](https://www.ica.gov.sg/enter-transit-depart/entering-singapore/visa_requirements)

## Guests
Mike Richardson - [Singapore DrupalCon](https://events.drupal.org/singapore2024) [richo_au](https://www.drupal.org/u/richo_au)
Surabhi Gokte - [surabhi-gokte](https://www.drupal.org/u/surabhi-gokte)

## Hosts
Nic Laflin - [nLighteneddevelopment.com](https://www.nLighteneddevelopment.com) [nicxvan](https://www.drupal.org/u/nicxvan)
John Picozzi - [epam.com](https://www.epam.com) [johnpicozzi](https://www.drupal.org/u/johnpicozzi)
Josh Miller - [joshmiller](https://www.drupal.org/u/joshmiller)

## MOTW
### Correspondent
Martin Anderson-Clutz - [mandclu.com](https://mandclu.com) [mandclu](https://www.drupal.org/u/mandclu)
* Brief description:
    * Have you ever wanted to use a variety of tokens to customize the directory and file names of your uploaded files? There’s a module for that.
* Module name/project name:
    * [File (Field) Paths](https://www.drupal.org/project/filefield_paths)
* Brief history
    * How old: created in July 2008 by Stuart Clark (Deciphered), though recent releases are by Oleh Vehera (voleger) of Golems GABB
    * Versions available: 7.x-1.2 and 8.x-1.0-beta7, the latter of which supports Drupal 9.3 or newer, and Drupal 10
* Maintainership
    * Seeking co-maintainers
    * Security Coverage
        * Opted in, but no coverage in practice for Drupal 9 or 10
    * Test coverage
    * Number of open issues: 131 open issues, 50 of which are bugs against the current branch
* Usage stats:
    * 34,609 sites almost 35,000 sites
* Module features and usage
    * This module allows you to customize file names and paths by leveraging a variety of entity-based tokens
    * It also integrates with the Pathauto module, giving you options to clean up the tokens for example by removing slashes, filtering out words or punctuation, and so on
    * It can also work with the Transliteration module to convert unicode characters into US-ASCII
    * Filefield Paths has options to rename and move existing files, and can retroactively rename files, effectively bulk updating and moving all your existing files
    * It can also work with the Redirect module to automatically create redirects from the old path and filename to the new location, when renaming
    * I’d also like to give a tip of the cap to Jim Birch of Kanopi for suggesting this module, when I was talking to a customer who was looking to achieve pretty much exactly what this module does
