In recent days there's been a bunch of insightful and thought provoking reflection within the Drupal community (as well as a share of bullshit). I've benefited from hearing perspectives that remind me of my biases and privileged placement as a cis white male.
As controversy swirls around the Drupal project leadership, community members are asking searching questions about the role of corporate influence in the project.
Our client, a prominent national nonprofit in the US, had built a custom Drupal platform for their 50-odd state-level affiliates. Now they needed to get all those affiliates onto the platform by bringing forward their existing web content.
As a relatively new standard, ActivityPub is not yet super well documented either for adopters or for developers. To help address that, in January 2020 we undertook a project to produce ActivityPub documentation guides.
Drutopia is a flexible and extensible Drupal distribution that can be used as the basis for building a customized platform for your network or organization.
As always, the best way to test out how things are working is to get busy and start using them. And so far the results of building with Drutopia are feeling pretty positive.
In a recent blog post, Drupal 8 co-maintainer Alex Pott highlighted a seismic shift in Drupal that's mostly slipped under the radar. In Drupal 8, he wrote, "sites own their configuration, not modules".
