This week, Dries announced at DrupalEurope, and on his blog, that November 2021 will be the End of Life (EOL) date for both Drupal 7 and Drupal 8. Drupal 9 is now scheduled to be released in 2020, giving people a year to upgrade from version 8 to version 9 before Drupal 8's EOL. Why is Being on a Supported Version Important? Because being on a version of Drupal that's "no longer supported" means that it will not be updated when new security vulnerabilities are discovered.
How does this affect resource-constrained nonprofits using Drupal?
I just got back from a double-conference trip, first to DrupalCon Nashville, followed mid-week by the NTEN Nonprofit Technology Conference (18NTC) in New Orleans. That's a lot of conferences in one week, but my brief trip to each conference was really fulfilling. Here, I tell more about co-presenting the 18NTC session, "Website Accessibility Is A Social Justice Issue".
I just got back from a double-conference trip, first to DrupalCon Nashville, followed mid-week by the NTEN Nonprofit Technology Conference (18NTC) in New Orleans. That's a lot of conferences in one week, but my brief trip to each conference was really fulfilling. Here, I give a recap of the second-ever DrupalCon Nonprofit Summit.
What gets me out of bed in the morning, day after day, to build websites for nonprofits is the idea that a well-built website can make an org's work easier, save them time, or help them reach more people. Our client The Actors Fund (TAF) recently used their Drupal site to do all of those things, in response to the devastating 2017 hurricanes. The Emergency Assistance Relief Application serves as an online intake form for those affected by the three hurricanes, as well as the California wildfires.
