Talking Drupal

Live from DrupalCon Chicago, Nic Laflin is joined by Tim Plunkett, Steve Wirt, Martin Anderson-Clutz, and John Picozzi to discuss the event's tone, Dries Notes and key themes including Drupal Canvas, Drupal AI, and new site templates/marketplace progress and more. For show notes visit: https://www.talkingDrupal.com/546 Topics Reconnecting With Community Must See Sessions Vibe And Starshot Attendance And Venue Community Party Returns Dries Note and AI Debate Roadmap And Templates Recipes And Exports AI In Engineering Workflows Keynote Style Takeaways Dries Note Takeaways Canvas Content Templates View Modes Roadmap Translation Plans Explained Gala Highlights Commemorative Tokens Future Excitement Roundtable DrupalCon Orlando Tease Wrap Up and Contacts Guests Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi Tim Plunkett - timplunkett Hosts Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan Steve Wirt - civicactions.com Swirt

Today we are talking about the open data platform DKAN, what it's used for, and how it applies to Drupal with guests Liz Tupper & Dan Feder. We'll also cover Modern Drupal Dashboard as our module of the week. For show notes visit: https://www.talkingDrupal.com/545 Topics What Is DKAN Who Uses Open Data 20:08 DKAN Origin Story Why Drupal Fits DKAN From Distribution to Module DKAN 2 Rebuild and JSON Shift Async Jobs and API First How Teams Publish Data What a Dataset Really Is Metadata vs Data Access Why DKAN Left Drupal Org Migration Path to DKAN Four Harvesting and Data Store ETL APIs Visualizations and Bots Roadmap Data Store and AI Contributing and Where to File Issues Resources DKAN DKAN Drupal Module DKAN on GitHub Public sites using DKAN 2 DKAN channel on Drupal Slack JSON Form Widget Guests Liz Tupper - civicactions.com etupper Dan Feder - getdkan.org dafeder Hosts Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi Steve Wirt - civicactions.com Swirt MOTW Correspondent Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu Brief description: Have you ever wanted to have your Drupal site admins start with a fast, widget-based interface that surfaces key site metrics, system health, and operational insights? There's a module for that. Module name/project name: Modern Drupal Dashboard Brief history How old: created in Feb 2026 by Gaurav Kapoor (gaurav.kapoor) of werk21 in Berlin Versions available: 1.0.5, which works with Drupal core 10.3 and 11 Maintainership Actively maintained Security coverage Number of open issues: no open issues Usage stats: 4 sites Module features and usage With the module installed, site visitors with the new "Access modern dashboard" permission can access a React-based dashboard with widgets to provide insights on topics like: Content overview: total content count, published vs unpublished, and per content type breakdown. Users overview: user count per role (users with multiple roles are counted in each role), plus pie chart visualization. Additional Content (Entity overview): lists all entity types (content + configuration), shows counts, and provides direct "Manage" links. Modules overview: installed modules summary, including enabled/disabled and core/contrib breakdown. System & status: key environment details such as Drupal core version, PHP version, and database information. Health checks: displays Drupal requirement checks grouped by status (pass/warning/error) with a dedicated detail view. Each widget can be clicked to open a detail view of the extended data, making it easy for admins to dig into any area The widget-based architecture should also help to pull in data from other sources, potentially including things like analytics

Today we are talking about World Cancer Day, how they use Drupal, and why Drupal was the right choice with our guests Charles Andrew Revkin & Diego Costa. We'll also cover PDFa11y as our module of the week. For show notes visit: https://www.talkingDrupal.com/544 Topics What Is World Cancer Day Why UICC Uses Drupal Diego Joins the Project Multilingual Strategy at Scale Drupal Architecture and AI Tools Vetting AI Moderation and Summaries AI Disclosure and Review Traffic Spikes and Scaling Drupal Stack and React Apps Campaign Theme United by Unique Yearly Content and Three Year Cycle Drupal Community and Open Access Custom AI Modules and Azure Future Improvements and AI Tagging Story Submission Formats Prevention PSA and Wrap Up Resources World Cancer Day Union for International Cancer Control Guests Diego Costa - 1xinternet.com diegofcosta Charles Andrew Revkin - worldcancerday.org revkin Hosts Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi Steve Wirt - civicactions.com Swirt MOTW Correspondent Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu Brief description: Have you ever wanted to check PDF files for accessibility, as they're uploaded to your Drupal site? There's a module for that. Module name/project name: PDFa11y Brief history How old: created in Feb 2026 by Joshua Mitchell (joshuami), a friend of this podcast Versions available: 1.0.1, which works with Drupal 10.2 and 11 Maintainership Actively maintained Security coverage in process Test coverage Number of open issues: none Usage stats: 0 sites Module features and usage With the PDFa11y module installed, you can set its configuration, including whether to enable or disable automatic checking on upload, whether to block uploads that fail checks or just show warnings, a minimum PDF version requirement, and which accessibility checks to run The module also sets creates three new permissions, Administer PDF accessibility settings, Run PDF accessibility checks, and View PDF accessibility report Each PDF media item has an "Accessibility" tab where anyone with the necessary permissions can view the check results Under the hood PDFa11y uses the smalot/pdfparser library to extract data from PDF files Many sites rely on PDFs to make available content that they aren't able to migrate directly into Drupal content, so making sure that doesn't introduce its own accessibility regressions is an important step

Today we are talking about The Good and the Bad of AI , How our panel feels about AI , and you guessed it more AI with guest Scott Falconer. We'll also cover Field Widget Actions as our module of the week. For show notes visit: https://www.talkingDrupal.com/542 Topics AI and Social Isolation How We Use AI Friction and Independence Stack Overflow Debate Collaboration and Team Culture Is AI Inevitable AI Hype Meets Costs Adoption Cooling Signals Pricing Inequality Risks Open Source and PRs Requirements and LLMs Easy Tools Not Always Right Juniors Learning and Patterns Human Value and Ambiguity Losing Cognitive Endurance AI vs Social Media Uniquely Human Skills Resources Stack overflow Guests Scott Falconer - managing-ai.com scott-falconer Hosts Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi Catherine Tsiboukas - mindcraftgroup.com bletch MOTW Correspondent Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu Brief description: Have you ever wanted to enhance the Drupal content editing experience by allowing site builders to attach actionable buttons directly to field widgets on entity forms? There's a module for that. Module name/project name: Field Widget Actions Brief history How old: created in Oct 2025 by Artem Dmitriiev (a.dmitriiev) of 1x Internet, a founding member of the AI Initiative Versions available: 1.0.0-alpha1 and 1.3.0, both of which works with Drupal 10.3 and 11.1 or newer Maintainership Actively maintained Security coverage Test coverage Documentation - includes Markdown files that explain how to set up and extend its capabilities Number of open issues: 12 open issues, 4 of which are bugs Usage stats: 24 sites Module features and usage With this module installed, a site builder can attach action buttons to form fields in Drupal entity forms, for example for creating nodes or taxonomy terms What happens when you click a button depends on what processor you associate with it, and the settings you configure for the processor. Processors can be provided by other modules, like AI or ECA. For example, you could attach a button to a tags field that when clicked will send the content of the body field to an AI agent that will return a set of suggested tags. Or, you could have it trigger an ECA model for a more deterministic flow This is all done using a plugin framework implemented by Field Widget Actions, so you also create your own custom processors to be used with action buttons One of the things that got me excited about working with the team behind Augmentor AI was the approach that module used to make AI something a user would manually trigger, and then can curate before the suggestions are saved. Field Widget Actions allows that same approach to be implemented with the AI ecosystem that is growing by leaps and bounds thanks to the team involved with Drupal's AI Initiative It's worth noting that Field Widget Actions used to be a submodule of the AI project, so if you're using a version of that older than 2.0, you may already have Field Widget Actions available in your codebase

Ruth Cheesley, open source advocate and Mautic project lead, discusses Mautic's marketing automation platform and its focus on self-hosting and data ownership. She covers integrations with Drupal, campaign orchestration, multi-channel messaging, privacy and GDPR tools, advanced segmentation and scoring, hosting and scaling, AI plans, sustainability and fundraising, and ways people can contribute to the project.

Karen Horrocks, web and database developer with a decade building nonprofit Drupal sites. Stephen Musgrave, co-founder and lead technologist focused on ROI and maintainability. They preview a nonprofit summit covering AI for mission work, AI dos and don'ts, Kubernetes for cost efficiency, resiliency and governance, project stewardship, and practical sessions for small nonprofit sites.

Matthew Grasmick, Acquia VP of Innovation and long-time Drupal contributor, discusses Acquia Source and its evolution from earlier Acquia products. He covers Canvas frontend/backend separation, governance and scaling for enterprises, AI experiments with agent orchestration, tooling like Canvas CLI and Nebula, and how agencies can leverage Source for lower-cost, repeatable Drupal delivery.

AmyJune Hineline, a Linux Foundation certification community architect and longtime camp organizer, and Avi Schwab, MidCamp founder and event organizer, talk community organizing, safety, and accessibility at large events. They recall camp traditions, discuss community working group processes, health and safety planning, accessibility challenges, and tools for supporting new organizers and inclusive event practices.

Maya Schaeffer, community lead at Evolving Web and Drupal Association board member who runs the Evolve Digital summit series. She discusses how Evolve Digital began and its focus on cross-discipline case studies. Conversation covers summit format, speaker selection, networking, comparisons between Drupal and other CMSs, and how the event supports marketing and technical collaboration.