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Ahead of Drupal Developer Days 2025 in Leuven, keynote speakers share what their sessions will cover—from AI and CMS usability to PHP, WebAssembly, and developer impact. Here's a look at the conversations shaping this year’s event.

Chris Kelly has updated Sheephole, a desktop app that allows non-developers to manage Drupal sites without using the command line. The latest version adds support for running composer update.

Dotsquares has been named a contributor to Drupal CMS 1.0. The company has launched its first site on the platform, with three more underway, and is supporting a university’s migration from legacy systems.

Lucknow’s diving into open source! LucknowFOSS 1.0 lands April 12 with talks, workshops, and a bold session on turning old Windows 10 machines into Linux champs. Join the city’s first FOSS fest and be part of the movement!

The Boston Drupal Group is hosting Lightning Talks on April 14, 2025, in a hybrid format at the Somerville Public Library and via Zoom. Organized by Tom Yukhayev and Benji Fisher, the event features 10-minute informal talks open to all. It’s a free, low-barrier way to connect, share, and spark ideas within the Drupal community.

DrupalCamp Finland 2025 will be held on April 25 at the Dipoli building, Aalto University in Espoo. The free event features two tracks of sessions on Drupal, accessibility, green coding, and more. Registration is required to attend.

Digital Garden has been named a finalist in three categories at the 2025 Australian Web Awards for its work on the National Library of Australia website, built on Drupal 10 and hosted on Platform.sh.

Drupal’s going big in Europe! A new European Drupal Association is in the works—get the scoop and join the conversation at Drupal Dev Days Leuven.

Frederik W. and James Abrahams are collecting examples of non-CMS Drupal applications. Developers are invited to submit unique Drupal use cases through a short form. Selected projects will be featured on doitwithdrupal.eu.

DrupalCamp Poland 2025 will be held on June 7 in Warsaw. Sponsor applications are open through April 15. The event will focus on Drupal, PHP, and open-source development.

Rob Carr will lead an A11yTalks session on April 29, 2025, focusing on organizational strategies for accessible design and content. The session will cover scalable accessibility practices, including inclusive personas, design systems, and content workflows.

Mark your calendars! The Drupal Delhi Meetup is back on April 26—an afternoon of talks, tech, and community at OpenSense Labs. Don’t miss your chance to connect, learn, and collaborate!

Cristina Chumillas will deliver a keynote address on April 16 at Drupal Developer Days 2025 in Leuven. The session will focus on Drupal CMS's current progress, future development plans, and how contributors can support ongoing work.

In this in-depth interview with The Drop Times, long-time Drupal contributor and UI Suite founder Pierre Dureau opens up about nearly two decades in the Drupal ecosystem, the philosophy behind UI Patterns 2.0, and the growing complexity of design systems. He shares why Drupal is more than just a CMS, what most teams get wrong about frontend architecture, and drops an exclusive: his team is working on a new Display Builder module that could unify and simplify Drupal’s entire display layer. From SDC to WebAssembly on the server—this conversation goes deep into where Drupal is headed next.

Big names, bold support—Drupal Dev Days 2025 is coming to life thanks to a powerhouse lineup of sponsors. From coffee to code, they’ve got the community covered!

NEDCamp returns to Rhode Island College in November 2025 with two days of Drupal training, sessions, and a higher education summit. Registration and sponsorship options are now open.

UN Women is inviting proposals to provide Drupal website hosting services for the UNGM.org platform. The deadline for submission is April 14, 2025. Full details are available on UNGM.org.

Thijs Suijten, co-founder of Hack The Planet, will deliver the opening keynote at Drupal Developer Days 2025 in Leuven. His session will focus on how developers can apply technology to address real-world challenges through open-source tools and conservation tech.

At its March 28, 2025, event in Jaipur, Dotsquares launched a no-code Drupal platform aimed at making website development accessible to non-technical users. The platform, powered by AI, was developed at the Dotsquares Global Capability Centre in India.

Dries Buytaert used Claude Code to add features and modernize custom modules on his Drupal site. The AI handled everything from plugin annotation conversion to Drush command generation, showing practical value for Drupal development workflows.