DrupalSouth Splash Awards 2025: Recognizing Excellence in Drupal Development

Staff Reporter

The 2025 DrupalSouth Splash Awards, held as part of DrupalSouth Melbourne, celebrated the best in Drupal web development across Australia and New Zealand. Sponsored by Ironstar, the event highlighted outstanding achievements in both commercial and open-source projects, with winners selected by an independent panel of experts.

The Best in Show and Corporate Category award went to the "Transforming Catholic Education in NSW with a Modern Drupal Platform" project by PreviousNext & Folk. The runner-up in this category was Tomato Elephant Studio for their "AusCo website rearchitecture and Drupal 11/Commerce 3.0 upgrade."

In the Design/UX category, R/GA won for "Resilience Reimagined: The NSW SES Drupal Transformation," while Pragma Partners secured the runner-up position for "Clean Energy, Clear Design: Transforming CER Online."

The Government category recognized Salsa Digital for modernizing the Department of Social Services (DSS) website, with Morpht earning the runner-up spot for their "Modern Slavery in Australia" project.

In the Open Source category, Morpht took first place with "Convivial CXP," while PreviousNext was named runner-up for "MySQL Toolkit (MTK)."

The Ironstar Community Recognition People’s Choice Awards honoured Damien P. as the Rising Star, Ivan Zugec as the People’s Choice winner, and Vicki Spagnolo as the newest Hall of Fame inductee.

Here is the complete list of DrupalSouth Splash Award winners. The photographs from the event are available in this LinkedIn post from DrupalSouth. Also, check this post by Michael Richardson.

The event reinforced the depth of talent in the Drupal community and its impact on digital innovation in the region.

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