Dries Buytaert

Drupal founder Dries Buytaert has published a blog post inviting community members to a gala celebrating Drupal’s twenty fifth anniversary during DrupalCon Chicago. Scheduled for 24 March 2026, the evening event will bring together contributors, organisations, and long time community participants to mark the milestone. The invitation outlines ticketing details and encourages members of the Drupal ecosystem to join the celebration. ...more

A recent opinion piece by Wassim Ben Sassi examines Drupal’s AI Roadmap for 2026 and argues that its governance-focused architecture may distinguish it from other CMS platforms pursuing artificial intelligence integration. The analysis reviews eight planned capabilities and assesses their feasibility in enterprise contexts. ...more

Four years after publishing a simple Web3 “Hello World” page using IPFS and ENS, Dries Buytaert checked whether it still works. The site remains accessible, but the surrounding ecosystem has shifted dramatically, with several key hosting and pinning services shutting down or pivoting away from IPFS. ...more

Dries Buytaert has introduced Drupal Digests, a tool that tracks development activity across Drupal Core, Drupal CMS, Drupal Canvas, and the Drupal AI Initiative. The system monitors issue queues and uses AI to generate summaries of commits and code changes. ...more

The Digital Center of Excellence questions whether Drupal’s biggest challenge today is not technical strength but brand clarity, leadership alignment, and positioning in a WordPress-dominated CMS landscape. ...more

DrupalFit has confirmed it will participate in DrupalCon North America 2026 in Chicago as both an Exhibitor Sponsor and a Non-Profit Industry Summit Sponsor. The event, scheduled for 23–26 March at the Hilton Chicago, marks the first North American DrupalCon following Drupal’s 25-year milestone. ...more

In a recent article, Anja Schirwinski, CEO of undpaul, analyzes Dries Buytaert’s AI Roadmap 2026 and its implications for Drupal’s future. The post outlines how structured data, governance frameworks and contextual controls could shape Drupal’s evolution into an AI-enabled publishing platform with human oversight at its core. ...more

Dries Buytaert has introduced the Software Sovereignty Scale, a five-level framework that evaluates software based on long-term legal control rather than geographic origin. In a post published on 10 February 2026, he argues that European digital sovereignty policy should give greater weight to open-source licensing and relicensing risk. ...more

Acquia will host a live webinar on 4 February 2026, spotlighting content trends in the AI era. Featuring insights from Dries Buytaert and Forrester’s Chuck Gahun, the session will explore how organizations can future-proof their content strategy and embrace autonomous content execution. ...more

Dries Buytaert documents a daily script that exports his Drupal site content to GitHub as Markdown, using SSH-based deployment and a custom Drush module. ...more

Dries Buytaert, creator of Drupal, calls on European governments to fix procurement systems that bypass open-source maintainers. He argues that real digital sovereignty depends not just on using open-source software, but funding those who build and sustain it. ...more

Dries Buytaert, founder of Drupal, shared 25 key lessons learned over the project’s 25‑year history — focusing on community, coordination, maintainability, and the evolution of open source beyond code. ...more