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Governance of Open Source Projects

March 23, 2022

Last DrupalCon I was leading BoF "Musings on Open Source and Drupal"

This year I am learing about various approaches to projects Governance and infrastructure support, here are some of the links

Migrations costs for D7 EOL

March 15, 2022

While the Drupal security team has announced they are pushing back Drupal 7 EOL until November 1, 2023, that will come sooner than we think. This is not the time to be building new sites or new features on existing Drupal 7 sites. We can all use this extra time to thoughtfully migrate our sites into a CMS that will be supported long term.

So what does it take to migrate your site from Drupal 7 to a supported CMS on budget and on schedule? The first question is always: how much is this going to cost?

Here are some links to hosting services that we provide to our customers

Notes from Backdrop Live March 2022

March 14, 2022

Here are the sessions that I got to attend - lots of new information and lots of learning for me to do!

  • https://events.backdropcms.org/sessions/showcase-americas-best-bootfitters
  • https://events.backdropcms.org/sessions/upgrading-to-backdrop-cms-from-drupal-7
  • https://events.backdropcms.org/sessions/stanford-joins-the-backdrop-community

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Drupal 7 End-of-Life date will be re-evaluated annually

February 23, 2022

Today announcement came out:

Therefore, we are announcing that moving forward, the scheduled Drupal 7 End-of-Life date will be re-evaluated annually. As of today, we are extending the end-of-life by one year to November 1, 2023.

Shows respect for a huge community that cannot afford to move to D9.