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Talking Drupal: Talking Drupal #528 - Drupal Goes to the U.N.

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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.

For show notes visit: https://www.talkingDrupal.com/528

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 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

MOTW Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu

  • Brief description:
    • Are you looking to create a website for a local Drupal association? There's a project on drupal.org to help you get started.
  • Module name/project name:
  • Brief history
    • How old: created in Oct 2023 by Jeremy Chinquist (jjchinquist) of drunomics and Drupal Austria
    • Versions available: dev version only
  • Maintainership
    • Security coverage - opted in, no coverage until stable
    • Documentation guide available to help with setup
    • Number of open issues: 49 open issues, 4 of which are bugs
    • No usage stats available
  • Module features and usage
    • This is an unusual project because it's designed to help you quickly create a Drupal website but it doesn't follow any of the usual patterns I've seen: a distribution, composer project template, or Drupal site template
    • Instead, the recommended path is to clone the repo local, and run a setup script. That creates your DDEV project, runs a composer install and then drush site install, and even runs a drush uli so you can log into your built site with a single click once it's done
    • Along the way it will install a couple of custom modules. One populates a multitude of default content, so you have a populated site including navigation as your starting point. It will look like a clone of the 2022 Drupal Netherlands site, though there have been ongoing tweaks to the overall setup, with the most recent in June of 2025.
    • The other custom module provides some additional layouts for use with layout builder, and the project also includes a theme meant to be customized.
    • As you may have guessed by now, this project started when the Dutch Drupal Association rebuilt their website in 2022, and wanted to share their work with other local associations. Drupal France was the first to adopt it, and there was a BoF at DrupalCon Lille in 2023 to discuss sharing it more widely.
    • Following that, an international workgroup began collaborating to establish this project and it was adopted by Drupal associations in Belgium, Germany, Norway, Finland, and London, England.
    • Since today's topic is about positioning Drupal on the international stage, I thought it would also be interesting to talk about how local Drupal associations have also formed their own federation to reduce effort

Web Wash: First Look at Drupal CMS V2 (alpha1) + Drupal Canvas

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Drupal CMS V2 alpha1 introduces Drupal Canvas, a modern page builder that changes how you create content and build sites.

In the video above we cover installation, key features, and hands-on use of Drupal Canvas. You'll learn the new interface, site templates, the Mercury theme, visual page building, and how to create code components.

#! code: Drupal 11: Programmatically Change A Layout Paragraphs Layout

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The Layout Paragraphs module is a great way of combining the flexibility of the layout system with the content component sytem of the Paragraphs module. Using this module you can set up a Paragraph that can understand different layouts and then inject Paragraphs into that layout, all within the confines of a single field.

What this means is that you users can build the layout they want within the edit pages of your Drupal site, without having to guess where Paragraphs will end up in the final site. It makes the site a little easier to edit and means that there should be less previewing of pages before publishing.

When working on a recent project I found that layout Paragraphs was in use, which wasn't a problem. The problem was that the site was quite simple, but had 12 different layouts to pick from. As a consequence, the pages consisted of a variety of different layouts that not only made the site difficult to edit, but also made the end result look a little messy.

The solution was to move some of the existing layouts to a single type and remove those layouts from the selection. This made it easier to edit pages and also easier to predict how the site would look when we made some style changes.

Whilst it is certainly possible to do this by hand, it's not easy to track down every instance of a particular layout and convert them all. I also wanted a more automatic approach to the solution so that I could run a drush command and convert all of one type of Layout Paragraph to another.

In this article we will look at the structure of the Layout Paragraphs module and when how to move a Layout Paragraph from one layout to another using PHP.

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