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Drupal Ottawa will host its June meetup on 18 June 2026 with a presentation by Steven Stapleton of Coldfront Labs on using htmx to build dynamic web experiences with less JavaScript. The session will be available both in person and online and is aimed at Drupal developers, site builders, students, and others interested in modern front-end development approaches.

Jeroen Spitaels’ Drupal AI Summit NYC session used the EPSO rollout to show how AI search is moving from experiment to governed public-sector infrastructure. The case centred on a retrieval-augmented search layer for EU Careers that answers candidate questions from controlled source content, cites official material, and keeps human contact-centre handling for harder cases. For D...

DrupalCamp Tokyo 2026 has published its programme for the event scheduled on 27 June 2026 in Tokyo. The schedule confirms a keynote by James Abrahams, a video message from Dries Buytaert, and sessions covering artificial intelligence, Drupal development practices, open-source governance, security, hosting platforms, and community participation. Organisers expect the event to bri...

A proposal to introduce “Module Families” on Drupal.org aims to help users compare contributed modules that solve similar problems through structured comparison pages and ecosystem signals. The proposal argues that Drupal’s challenge is not excessive choice but insufficient context, an issue that becomes more important as Drupal CMS introduces curated module selections and opini...

Salesforce's planned acquisition of Contentful has prompted renewed discussion about digital sovereignty and long-term technology control. In a blog post, Drupal founder Dries Buytaert argues that the deal demonstrates the limits of treating vendor nationality as a sovereignty guarantee, contending that ownership changes can quickly alter the legal and governance frameworks unde...