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15 Jul 2026 10:05pm GMT

The Drupal Association is entering a new chapter. Tim Doyle is stepping down as CEO, and the Board has appointed Tiffany Farriss as interim CEO.

I am grateful to Tim for his leadership and his impact on the Association. He built a strong leadership team that helped guide Drupal through an ambitious period of innovation. That team is well positioned to continue supporting Drupal and its community.

Tiffany brings continuity and deep expertise to the Drupal Association. She has contributed to Drupal for many years and served on the Drupal Association Board for more than a decade, including on its Finance Committee. She helped organize DrupalCon and built and ran a successful agency in the Drupal ecosystem. She understands our project, the Association's finances, and the realities our partners, contributors, and users face.

I have worked with Tiffany for many years. She is thoughtful, deeply committed to Drupal, and unafraid of hard questions. Although her title is interim CEO, she has the full authority and confidence of the Board, as well as my full support.

We expect Tiffany to serve for six to twelve months. During that time, she will focus on strengthening the Association's financial and operational foundation and preparing it for long-term leadership. Later in that period, the Board plans to launch a search for the next permanent CEO.

Turning innovation into momentum

Tiffany is stepping into the role at an important moment for Drupal.

Over the past few years, our community has done some of its most ambitious work. Contributors have continued to modernize Drupal Core. We launched Drupal CMS to make Drupal easier to adopt, introduced Drupal Canvas to rethink how people build, and rapidly advanced Drupal AI to change how people create and manage content.

We have also taken important steps toward marketing Drupal with the seriousness it deserves, so more organizations understand why it remains one of the most powerful and trusted platforms for building serious websites and applications.

This progress was made possible by our contributors and the organizations that invest in Drupal every day. The Drupal Association's role is to support that work and help turn it into wider adoption, a stronger ecosystem, and more opportunity for Drupal businesses.

Sustaining Drupal's essential work

The Drupal Association operates much of the infrastructure the project depends on, from Drupal.org and our collaboration tools to the services that help keep Drupal secure.

Drupal's infrastructure alone costs roughly $3 million each year. Today, it is funded through DrupalCon revenue, partnerships, sponsorships, donations, donated services, and volunteer contributions. That model has supported Drupal for many years, but it is not durable enough for the scale of the work ahead.

This is a challenge shared by open-source stewards everywhere. The software may be free to download, but the infrastructure and stewardship that make it dependable are not free to provide.

Building a stronger Drupal Association

Our commitment to Drupal's infrastructure and community will not change. Supporting them well requires a stronger Drupal Association, and that may mean exploring new approaches. We will weigh the options carefully, guided by what is best for Drupal and the people who depend on it.

This work will not be easy, but our ambition is clear: make the Association more sustainable, help Drupal innovate faster, strengthen how we bring it to market, and better support Certified Partners.

As this work takes shape, we will be transparent about what we are learning, the choices we are considering, and what they could mean for the Association and the community.

Tiffany understands what makes Drupal special and what the community values most. She also has the experience and mandate to shape what comes next.

Every new chapter depends on people willing to step forward. I am thankful to Tim for all he has done, to the Association's staff for their dedication, and to Tiffany for taking this on. With their commitment, I am confident in Drupal's direction and excited about the work ahead.

15 Jul 2026 9:54pm GMT

15 Jul 2026 8:01pm GMT

On 2 July 2026 , the W3C Advisory Board organised a meetup around the web and web standards. It featured three talks and had time to mingle.

15 Jul 2026 3:29pm GMT

This blog post is about incremental improvements by W3C's IT/Systems Operations Team to how W3C member representatives use the W3C website to nominate, change, and remove the people who participate in W3C groups on behalf of their organization.

06 Jul 2026 1:05pm GMT

In this blog post we celebrate International Women in Engineering Day by interviewing Carine Bournez, W3C Principal and Team Contact who specializes in WebRTC, Web Performance, SVG and Data Shapes.

23 Jun 2026 12:32pm GMT

On January 14, 2006, John Resig introduced a JavaScript library called jQuery at BarCamp in New York City. Now, 20 years later, the jQuery team is happy to announce the final release of jQuery 4.0.0. After a long development cycle and several pre-releases, jQuery 4.0.0 brings many improvements and modernizations. It is the first major … Continue reading →

18 Jan 2026 12:29am GMT

It's here! Almost. jQuery 4.0.0-rc.1 is now available. It's our way of saying, "we think this is ready; now poke it with many sticks". If nothing is found that requires a second release candidate, jQuery 4.0.0 final will follow. Please try out this release and let us know if you encounter any issues. A 4.0 … Continue reading →

11 Aug 2025 5:35pm GMT

Last February, we released the first beta of jQuery 4.0.0. We're now ready to release a second, and we expect a release candidate to come soon™. This release comes with a major rewrite to jQuery's testing infrastructure, which removed all deprecated or under-supported dependencies. But the main change that warranted a second beta was a … Continue reading →

17 Jul 2024 2:03pm GMT

When it comes to crafting an article, the headline is crucial for grabbing the reader's attention and enticing them to read further. In this post, I'll explore the 7 types of article headlines and provide examples for each using the subjects of product management, user experience design, and search engine optimization. 1. The Know-it-All The […]

The post 7 Types of Article Headlines: Craft the Perfect Title Every Time first appeared on Smiley Cat.

29 May 2023 10:20pm GMT

Product management is one of the most exciting and rewarding careers in the tech world. But it's also one of the most misunderstood and misrepresented. There are many myths and misconceptions that cloud the reality of what product managers do, how they do it, and what skills they need to succeed. In this blog post, […]

The post 5 Product Management Myths You Need to Stop Believing first appeared on Smiley Cat.

09 Apr 2023 5:28pm GMT

The role of a product manager is crucial to the success of any product. They are responsible for managing the entire product life cycle, from conceptualization to launch and beyond. A product manager must possess a unique blend of skills and qualities to be effective in their role. Strong strategic thinking A product manager must […]

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11 Dec 2022 4:43pm GMT

Last week I helped the folks at ezSystems debug some APC problems they were having. The problems ended up being a 64bit architecture problem (they have uber-fast Opterons) and the bug is now fixed in 2.0.3.

Today I received Python & XML from them (off my Amazon wishlist). Thanks guys!

On a side note, my wishlist seems borked. The list I get when I search on my email address or name is not the same one I can edit when I log into the site.

01 Apr 2004 6:53pm GMT

1st of April 2004 get's to it's end and I guess it's time, to summarize the recent April fools a bit. Not that I think anyone in the world believes in them, but some were quite funny:

1. Changes to case sensitivity in PHP.
Alan Knowles announced that PHP will change to the studlyCase API and therefor will get everything broken by changing established functions.

2. IBM takes over Zend.
Myself hacked a little article about IBM taking over Zend to make PHP a compete of Java.

3. The first PHP virus has been seen.
Wasn't there one last year, too?

4. PHP has been overtaken by Micro$oft.
Mhhh... a little bit unreliable, if they had been taken over by IBM this morning... Maybe one should first look, what others wrote...

5. And finally, PHP4 and 5 showed their real faces...
Take a look at a phpinfo() output!

I guess I missed some, so feel free to comment on this entry, if you found another!

01 Apr 2004 5:49pm GMT

Symantec have a report of the virus here. I've yet to see any of the PHP news sites picking up on it but, using a virtual host account, managed to deliberately expose some PHP scripts to it. From examining the infected scripts, what's disturbing is once infected, every tim...

01 Apr 2004 12:19pm GMT