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Who sponsors Drupal development? (2017-2018 edition)

By Dries on

For the past two years, I've examined Drupal.org's contribution credit data to understand who develops Drupal, how much of that work is sponsored, and where that sponsorship comes from.

I have now reported on this data for three years in a row, which means I can start to better compare year-over-year data. Understanding how an open-source project works is important because it establishes a benchmark for project health and scalability.

A note from Dries on Drupal 8.6.0's release

By Dries on

I firmly believe this is the most significant Drupal 8 release to date. It is significant because we made a lot of progress on all twelve of Drupal 8 core's strategic initiatives. As a result, Drupal 8.6 delivers a large number of improvements for content authors, evaluators, site builders and developers.

Drupal 8.6.0 is available

By Gábor Hojtsy on

The most significant update to Drupal 8 in its history, this new release includes two new easy ways to install Drupal, a cooking magazine demo, oEmbed media support, a new media library and workspaces experimental modules, significant layout improvements, stable upgrades for monolingual Drupal sites, various REST fixes and testing improvements.

Building digital backpacks for Syrian refugees

By Dries on

Last month, UC Davis used Drupal to launch Article 26 Backpack, a platform that helps Syrian Refugees document and share their educational credentials.

How Drupal continues to evolve towards an API-first platform

By Dries on

It's been 12 months since my last progress report on Drupal core's API-first initiative. Over the past year, we've made a lot of important progress, so I wanted to provide another update.

Kevin Thull's unique contribution to Drupal

By Dries on

If you've ever watched a Drupal Camp video to learn a new Drupal skill, technique or hack, you most likely have Kevin Thull to thank. To date, Kevin has traveled to more than 30 Drupal Camps, recorded more than 1,000 presentations, and has shared them all on YouTube for thousands of people to watch. By recording and posting hundreds of Drupal Camp presentations online, Kevin has has spread knowledge, awareness and a broader understanding of the Drupal project.

Why large organizations are choosing to contribute to Drupal

By Dries on

I wanted to share an extended version of my interview with Mike Lamb of Pfizer, where he explains why the development team at Pfizer has ingrained Open Source contribution into the way they work.

Design 4 Drupal: The future of JavaScript in Drupal

By Dries on

Today, I gave a keynote presentation at the 10th annual Design 4 Drupal conference at MIT. I talked about the past, present and future of JavaScript, and how this evolution reinforces Drupal's commitment to be API-first, not API-only.

Working together to promote Drupal

By Dries on

At DrupalCon Nashville, we set a goal of fundraising $100,000 to support the Promote Drupal Initiative. I'm excited to announce that we have already reached 75% of our goal. If you can, please help us reach our total goal of $100,000! By raising a final $25,000, we can build a program that will introduce Drupal to an emerging audience of business decision makers. Together, we can make a big impact on Drupal.

Increasing Drupal contributions from underrepresented groups

By Dries on

How the Drupal Diversity and Inclusion Contribution Team is working to better include women and underrepresented groups to increase code and community contributions.

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