Talking Drupal Newsletter 11/10/25

#528 - Drupal Goes to the U.N.

Today we are talking about The United Nations Open Source Week, Digital Public Infrastructure, and Digital sovereignty with guest Tiffany Farriss & Mike Gifford. We’ll also cover Local Association (EU Sites Project) as our module of the week.

Topics

• Drupal at the United Nations Open Source Week

• The Role of Open Source in Digital Governance

• Global Collaboration and Open Source Initiatives

• Challenges and Opportunities in Open Source Adoption

• The Role of Open Source Program Offices

• Understanding Digital Public Infrastructure

• The Importance of Digital Sovereignty

• Challenges and Opportunities in Digital Public Goods

• Balancing Innovation and Standardization

• The Impact of Market Capture on Innovation

• Funding Open Source as Public Infrastructure

• Future of Drupal in Global Digital Infrastructure

Resources

• Funding Open Source like public infrastructure

• chaos gone global

• UN digital

• NEDCamp 2023 Keynote

• Enshittification

• Recording

  • https://govstack.global/

  • https://www.sovereign.tech/

  • https://www.drupal.be/en/drupal-eu-government-day-2026

  • https://govstack.global/

  • https://sdgs.un.org/goals

  • https://chaoss.community/

  • https://www.un.org/digital-emerging-technologies/content/open-source-week-2025

• Tiffany’s talk about Drupal at UN

• EvolveDigital NYC summit on Nov 20-21

Guests

Tiffany Farriss - www.palantir.net farriss
Mike Gifford - accessibility.civicactions.com mgifford

Hosts

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan
John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi
Maya Schaeffer - evolvingweb.com mayalena

Module of the Week

with Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu

Local Association (EU Sites Project) - The Local Association (EU Sites Project) makes it easier for local associations to create their own Drupal site for their association. Using this shared codebase, associations will be able to set up a modern website and adjust it to their need Contributions back to the project are highly appreciated.

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Upcoming Episodes

#530 Join the Community Working Group with AmyJune Hineline and Mark Casias. Recording November 18.
#531 Evolve Digital with Maya Schaeffer. Recording November 25.
#532 Drupal as an App Framework with Jürgen Haas. Recoridng December 2.
#533 AI Marketing and Stuff with Hayden Baillio. Recording December 9.
#534 The At-Large Board Seat with Fons Vandamme. Recording December 16.

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