Media & News

Today we will be introducing “NETNODE”, one of Thunder’s new CTIs. NETNODE has not only won over the Thunder Core Team by creating the patientendossier.ch and sakk.ch websites but has also successfully completed 400 other projects since their adoption in 2007. In short, NETNODE AG is a digital agency with a strong focus on digital strategy, digital solutions and digital marketing. Founded in 2003, with a team of 10+ digital experts, NETNODE is capable of building large scale solutions in a lean and agile way.

Karlo Lucic has been Thunder’s Product Manager since September 2018 and was very eagerly awaited by the team. Everything has been running seamlessly since Karlo joined and the developers have become noticeably less stressed in their daily work.

An extremely productive Sprint organised by the Drupal Media Initative took place in Barcelona from 3.12.2018 to 8.12.2018. In addition to many improvements designed to increase the media module's stability within Drupal, the primary emphasis was on the further development of the media library and media integration for the CKEditor. With a total of nine participants, including Christian Fritsch and Alex Pott (Senior Developers in the Thunder team), very valuable results were achieved.

The future of Online Publishing was the central focus at Thunder Day 2018. Experts from media, IT and open source not only shared their experiences of the media world with Online Publishing but also provided food for thought regarding future trends, expectations and challenges. Particular attention was given to the question as to how income can be generated in the future from sources other than classic advertising.

Daniel Bosen, Lead Developer of the Thunder Core Team, shared knowledge about how Hubert Burda Media successfully adapted an Open Source solution and showed hands-on how Burda benefits from the contribution.