Acquia deliberately spent less on its Rotterdam booth and made that decision visible. Shawn Perritt then used the DrupalCon stage to challenge sponsors, agencies and competitors to find their own way to give back.
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Digital sovereignty does not begin with replacing software. It begins with knowing which services an organisation depends on, who controls them, and what it would cost to leave.
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The more consequential part of Dropsolid's Rotterdam presence is not the sponsorship tier. It is the argument that Drupal's content, permissions and workflows can form part of the control layer around AI systems using organisational knowledge.
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A statewide publishing platform can reduce repeated technical work across public websites, but it also establishes an operating model that can outlast the migration that created it.
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What should an agency return to the open-source ecosystem it relies on? Zoocha’s answer connects community investment with harder questions about AI accountability and Drupal’s ability to explain its value beyond familiar audiences.
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A complex public healthcare platform can put Drupal at the centre of governance without making it responsible for identity, workflows, messaging, observability or the frontend.
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Public registries face rising operational and security demands while many still rely on small teams and donated infrastructure. The new commitment puts enterprise customers on record as willing participants in funding experiments.
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Big Blue Door’s Rotterdam responses point to a question already being tested in councils and healthcare: how far can shared Drupal platforms be reused across organisations with different services, editorial practices, and governance requirements?
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AI agents can act on stale or unreviewed knowledge as readily as trusted information. OpenKnowledgebase applies Drupal's existing governance controls to the problem of deciding what agents and people can rely on.
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