Drupal project teams preparing International Splash Awards 2026 entries have an additional four weeks after organisers moved the submission deadline to 16 July 2026. The extension gives agencies and community teams more time to finalise case materials ahead of status notifications in early August, with winners scheduled to be announced during DrupalCon Rotterdam 2026 from 28 September to 1 October 2026. For entrants, the update changes the immediate timeline rather than the awards process, making deadline accuracy the main point for teams planning submissions. ...more

Drupal Switzerland will host an in-person Drupal Zurich Meetup on 9 July 2026 at Liip AG in Zürich, with the programme centred on agentic CMS use cases and AI workflows in Drupal. The listing includes sessions on Superblökkli, Drupal AI updates and an open speaker slot, with talk formats ranging from lightning talks to full-length presentations. The event is framed for Drupal users, editors, agencies and community members interested in how AI-assisted workflows may affect open-source content management work. ...more

DrupalFit’s 2026 whitepaper gives Drupal site teams a risk baseline across accessibility, AI visibility, privacy, and security, based on audits of 850+ Drupal websites and chapter findings across 876 home pages. The report says 84.2% of audited sites had WCAG AA errors, 94.6% carried detectable security risk, and sites passed an average of 26% of critical GDPR and CPRA checks. Its findings are useful as audit-scope indicators, but they should be read in context as a DrupalFit-authored whitepaper. ...more

Open source generative AI pilots will be discussed at an AI for Good Global Summit 2026 workshop on 9 July 2026 in Geneva. The session is connected to the GenAI for Good Challenge and will focus on public-service use cases in health, agriculture, and climate resilience across three nations. The event listing says winners will be announced during the workshop, but it does not name the countries, technical stacks, datasets, evaluation methods, or implementing public agencies, so the story should be framed as an upcoming session rather than evidence of completed deployment outcomes. ...more

Public Digital has opened UK pre-orders for <cite>Digital Sovereignty: The Power to Decide</cite>, a forthcoming book published with London Publishing Partnership. The announcement is relevant to open web readers because it frames digital sovereignty as institutional agency over systems, suppliers, data, skills, and rules rather than isolation or ownership alone. The source material is promotional and does not provide chapter-level detail or implementation examples, so the item should remain a short brief. ...more

The Drupal and open source calendar for 23–29 June 2026 includes community gatherings, accessibility discussion, incident response training, contribution sessions, and DrupalCamp events across New York, Tokyo, Turin, and Kortrijk. The week brings together formal and informal spaces for developers, designers, project managers, strategists, accessibility practitioners, and community organisers working across Drupal and the wider open source ecosystem. ...more

DrupalCon Rotterdam’s first Government Summit has opened its call for public-sector session proposals ahead of the one-day event on Monday 28 September 2026. The summit will bring local, national, and European public administrations together around shared digital infrastructure, open source reuse, digital sovereignty, and Drupal-based service delivery. Organisers are seeking case studies, demonstrations, workshops, and facilitated discussions, with submissions closing on Monday 29 June 2026 and selected participants receiving complimentary access to the summit. ...more

The Enterprise Drupal AI Summit 2026 is making its final call for organisations running AI in production with Drupal, with session proposals due by 28 June 2026. The summit will take place on 28 September 2026 aboard the SS Rotterdam during DrupalCon Rotterdam’s Summit Day and is aimed at CXOs, digital directors, enterprise architects, and business leaders. Organisers are seeking 20-minute case studies that explain the challenge, implementation approach, results, and lessons learned, while the summit site now lists confirmed cases from EPSO, Aalto University, the American Diabetes Association, and World Cancer Day. ...more