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OpenSSF Commitment Backs Enterprise Funding for Public Package Registries

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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. ...more

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Dries Buytaert Proposes 60-Second Procurement Test for Open Source Vendors

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Vendor involvement can be difficult to compare when Open Source contribution extends beyond code into documentation, governance, events, support, and funding. ...more

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Policy & Governance

Public-Sector Drupal Scale Puts Upstream Funding in Focus

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Large government Drupal platforms show how deeply open source can become embedded in public digital infrastructure. The harder question is how to maintain the foundations beneath those platforms when deployment and upstream funding follow different paths. ...more

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Dries Buytaert Frames Open Source as a Cost-Allocation System

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A technical design that works well at one scale can become costly as an ecosystem grows. Drupal's update service shows how those costs can fall on a different group from the one that controls the underlying code. ...more

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Policy & Governance

Tiffany Farriss Says Public-Sector Budgets Should Fund Open Source Maintenance

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Open-source software still depends on infrastructure and human maintenance that carry real costs. Farriss argues that institutions should plan for those costs before contracts are awarded. ...more

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Drupito Combines Reusable Drupal Site Builds with Hosting and Recurring Revenue

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Drupito targets smaller organisations that may not support a conventional custom Drupal project. Its marketplace model asks whether reusable builds can create recurring work for maintainers, sellers, and agencies. ...more

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PreviousNext’s Drupal Record Spans Contrib, Core, and Governance

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A contributed experiment can take years to become a supported core capability. PreviousNext’s history offers one view of the work sustained between those points. ...more

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1xINTERNET Details Contribution Model Behind Top-Tier Drupal Status

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For Drupal agencies weighing contribution against client delivery, 1xINTERNET presents the two as parts of the same operating model. ...more

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Policy & Governance

Drupal Association Reserves Fall Below Board Minimum After Two Years of Shortfalls

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Reported revenue grew, but the cash picture moved the other way as non-cash exchanges expanded and Drupal.org costs rose. ...more

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TDT Town Hall Links Newsroom Changes With Drupal’s Wider Future

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Community participation moves beyond story leads as The DropTimes prepares an Editorial Working Group for Drupal contributors. ...more

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Policy & Governance

Dries Buytaert Proposes License-only and Stewarded Open Source Terms

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For organisations relying on open-source software, the missing question is who will still be maintaining it when a vulnerability or upgrade arrives. ...more

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Drupal Association Appoints Tiffany Farriss as Interim CEO

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The interim mandate places the Association’s funding model and operational stability at the centre of its next leadership phase. ...more

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