Anyone paying for Open Source work should be able to check whether a vendor contributes. Open Source projects should take responsibility for making that easy by publishing contribution records.

Open Source code and the stewardship around it have different economics. That distinction helps show what a project might charge for, what it must budget for, and how it could fund stewardship without...

Open source companies learned how to build valuable businesses when access to the code was free. AI is forcing the rest of the software industry to confront the same business-model question.

Open weights split creation, distribution, and use across different actors. Responsibility should follow control.

My API catalog helps agents that already found my site. Agentic Resource Discovery, or ARD, tackles the harder problem: being found at all.

I added /.well-known/api-catalog support to dri.es so AI agents can discover my search API and search my site efficiently.

Running multiple CMS platforms duplicates integrations, security, governance, and expertise. Standardizing on Drupal with different operating models reduces that cost while preserving flexibility.

Some Open Source is simply shared. Some is maintained as infrastructure. Naming the difference changes the conversation.

AI could reduce the privilege of free time in Open Source. But unless communities invest in access, it risks becoming a privilege of its own.

Drupal's future in AI workflows is both inside and outside the CMS: supporting Drupal-native workflows, external orchestration, and the trusted handoffs between them.

Dries is the Founder and Project Lead of Drupal and the Co-founder and Executive Chair of Acquia.

AI is not killing the CMS. It is unbundling creation from control. That may replace the CMS for simple publishing, but it makes the CMS more important wherever content is shared, reused, approved, or ...

AI agents favor software they can easily install, run, change, and verify. Open Source software has a structural advantage over proprietary software, but only token-efficient Open Source projects may ...

Dries is the Founder and Project Lead of Drupal and the Co-founder and Executive Chair of Acquia.

Drupal is stronger than its reputation, but unless the community tells that story, the outdated one wins.

The EU's sovereignty framework scores Open Source at roughly 4%. It should be a prerequisite, not a rounding error.

Dries is the Founder and Project Lead of Drupal and the Co-founder and Executive Chair of Acquia.

Open Source infrastructure is essential, invisible, and chronically underfunded. A more sustainable approach may be to connect the cost of running that infrastructure to the organizations that rely on...

Dries is the Founder and Project Lead of Drupal and the Co-founder and Executive Chair of Acquia.

After four years of neglecting my Web3 site, does it still work? Plus, insights into Web3's progress for website hosting.

Dries is the Founder and Project Lead of Drupal and the Co-founder and Executive Chair of Acquia.

Open Source alone won't deliver digital sovereignty. Europe must fix procurement and fund those who actually build it.

Dries is the Founder and Project Lead of Drupal and the Co-founder and Executive Chair of Acquia.

Dries is the Founder and Project Lead of Drupal and the Co-founder and Executive Chair of Acquia.

I made my website easier for AI agents and crawlers to read, and within an hour it was getting hundreds of requests.

Dries is the Founder and Project Lead of Drupal and the Co-founder and Executive Chair of Acquia.

Dries is the Founder and Project Lead of Drupal and the Co-founder and Executive Chair of Acquia.

Dries is the Founder and Project Lead of Drupal and the Co-founder and Executive Chair of Acquia.

Dries is the Founder and Project Lead of Drupal and the Co-founder and Executive Chair of Acquia.

As AI grows more capable, the workflows around it will matter just as much.

Dries is the Founder and Project Lead of Drupal and the Co-founder and Executive Chair of Acquia.

Dries is the Founder and Project Lead of Drupal and the Co-founder and Executive Chair of Acquia.

Dries is the Founder and Project Lead of Drupal and the Co-founder and Executive Chair of Acquia.

Dries is the Founder and Project Lead of Drupal and the Co-founder and CTO of Acquia.

Your marketing stack is becoming a marketing network. Why the layer that connects your tools could be the next critical infrastructure.

In my DrupalCon Vienna keynote, I talk about how Drupal is adapting to an AI-driven web through AI-enabled visual editing, site templates, autonomous agents, and workflow orchestration.

Dries is the Founder and Project Lead of Drupal and the Co-founder and CTO of Acquia.

To protect the digital foundation of essential government services, governments should invest in Open Source as public infrastructure and shift from consumption to contribution.

AI is transforming digital agencies and web development at an accelerating pace. To stay relevant, agencies must evolve beyond commoditized technical work and reposition themselves around strategy, or...

AI companies are breaking the web's economic model by extracting content without compensating creators, but new enforcement tools and content licensing marketplaces could restore fair compensation.

DrupalCon North America 2025 DriesNote presentation

How I created an automated system that uses AI to generate alt-text for all the images on my website.

I tested 12 LLMs — 10 running locally and 2 cloud-based — to assess their accuracy in generating alt-text for images.

Dries is the Founder and Project Lead of Drupal and the Co-founder and CTO of Acquia.

This is a patch (bugfix) release of Drupal 10 and is ready for use on production sites. Learn more about Drupal 10. Drupal 10.0.x will receive security coverage until December 2023. Important update information If you are updating from Drupal 9, refer to Preparing your site to upgrade to a newer major version for tools you can use to check the Drupal 10 compatibility of modules, themes and sites. Then, upgrade from Drupal 9 to 10. You should also check the Drupal 10.0.0 release notes.