23 Sep 2026
Drupal.org aggregator
LakeDrops Drupal Consulting, Development and Hosting: Eight Posts on the Fun Part. One on the Bill.
Eight Posts on the Fun Part. One on the Bill.

In Post 8 I described my monthly billing run. One client never gets an invoice: the Drupal community, which has had almost all of my working time since July 2025. This post is that invoice. The eight posts before it showed the fun part: the Modeler API, the Workflow Modeler, test and replay, the ECA Guide, orchestration. This one shows the ledger underneath: 87 actively maintained drupal.org projects, the Gin admin theme, the Admin theme subsystem in core, 293 public projects on the LakeDrops GitLab, a calendar of weekly and monthly community meetings, two DrupalCons a year. Innovation gets applause; maintenance gets a green badge. Every funding conversation so far was about a feature. Nobody has offered to sponsor a security release. Since July 2025 the revenue has been zero, paid for by earlier years. Dries' cost-allocation posts explain why. The menu at the end has prices: sponsor maintenance through Open Collective, a service agreement, hiring for ECA work, funding the next innovation. Total: roughly €10,000 a month.
23 Sep 2026 1:00pm GMT
Symfony Blog
Case Study: Scanning for quality: How Yuka fuels healthy choices at global scale with Symfony
Yuka is a global leader in health and environmental transparency. Available across iOS and Android, its mobile application helps over 68 million consumers worldwide decode food and cosmetic labels instantly. With a lean technical team of just five…
23 Sep 2026 12:30pm GMT
New in Symfony 8.2: JSON Schema for Configuration
Symfony 7.4 added JSON schemas for YAML files like services.yaml and routes.yaml, so IDEs can autocomplete and validate them. The files in config/packages/ weren't included and that's where you write or maintain most of your YAML config. Each bundle defines…
23 Sep 2026 7:07am GMT
Drupal.org aggregator
Cheppers: ExperienceKit: Drupal Canvas and AI Page Generation - What Digital Teams Should Know
Two shifts are converging in how Drupal pages get built. The first has already arrived: Drupal Canvas, Drupal's new visual page builder, gives editors a modern, component-based way to compose pages. The second is happening across the broader industry: AI that generates pages from natural-language prompts.
23 Sep 2026 12:00am GMT
22 Sep 2026
Drupal.org aggregator
Drupal AI Initiative: The countdown is on: sovereignty on the Enterprise AI Summit
The Enterprise AI Summit takes place in one week, on 28 September aboard the SS Rotterdam, and the countdown is a good moment to properly introduce a session that's been on the agenda for a while: sovereign AI with Julien Blanchez.
Digital sovereignty has moved from a policy discussion into a boardroom question. Regulators, procurement teams and public sector organisations are asking the same thing in different ways: can we use world-class AI technology while keeping control over where our data lives, who can access it, and under what conditions?
With over a decade at Google working on data protection, security and digital sovereignty for large, highly regulated organisations, Julien will walk us through what's driving rising sovereignty expectations and how to keep access to leading AI technology on your own terms.
He joins a day full of similar questions answered with real numbers. The European Personnel Selection Office deployed a RAG-powered instant answer engine inside Drupal in under eight weeks, running in all 24 EU official languages, with 90% fewer repeat support questions and zero hallucinations on manual review. The American Diabetes Association will share what happened when editorial teams got real AI tools in their hands, including the honest lessons that came with it. And Moritz Arendt takes on a question that sits right next to Julien's: can AI strengthen digital communities, or does it risk hollowing them out?
With just days left, there's still time to check the full agenda and save your seat. Tickets and details are available on the Enterprise AI Summit page.
22 Sep 2026 11:11pm GMT
Symfony Blog
SymfonyCon Warsaw 2026: Real Browsers, Real Kernel: Playwright Testing in Symfony
Connect, learn, and grow with the international Symfony ecosystem! SymfonyCon Warsaw 2026 lands in Poland on November 26-27. Expect two full days of high-value talks across 3 tracks, paired with vibrant community side-events. Don't miss out-lock in…
22 Sep 2026 3:49pm GMT