DrupalCon Europe comes to Rotterdam this year, and I’ll be there for the two main conference days: Tuesday and Wednesday, 29–30 September. My tenth DrupalCon, if I’ve counted correctly.
I’m there to meet people I’ve kind of been following for 20-odd years now, and hope to meet once more. And I’m there to find out where the community stands after a year of AI, AI, and more AI.
Mostly, I’m curious about what lasts. I’ve been spending a lot of time with permaculture lately, and it’s starting to change how I think about quite a few things. Not just gardening, but systems, resilience, maintenance, limits, and what it means to build something that can keep going.
And then there’s Drupal. 25 years old, free software, nobody’s product, changing and adapting all the time, but somehow still here. I’ve been around since 2004, so I guess I’ve been watching that process for quite a while.
Most tech behaves like an annual — new thing, new stack, new thing again — and the seasons keep getting shorter. Drupal is a perennial. Let’s see how it’s doing.
I’ll probably corner someone about permaculture before the first coffee break.
If you’re there and fancy a chat about hosting, ops, permaculture, the open and the distributed web, or … Drupal, come say hi.
/Markus
