Drupal has a long history of usage in the European Commission (>10y at large scale) powering hundreds of websites from high profile communication websites to community websites where European citizens interact.

This session describes how Drupal evolved in the Commission over the years along different versions and approaches.

Prerequisite
No prerequisite.

Outline
Drupal has a long history of usage in the European Commission (>10y at large scale) powering hundreds of websites from high profile communication websites to community websites where European citizens interact.

This session describes how Drupal evolved in the Commission over the years along different versions and approaches.

Drupal paved its way from the initial simpler websites, to the expansion of the Drupal 7 multisite network (covering > 200 websites) towards a component based approach in Drupal 8, 9 and 10 and a distributed and extensible product that makes it easier to support most of its web presence.

The European Commission was able to leverage and evolve Drupal to suit its needs in different projects, creating workflows, standards and guidelines that orient different Drupal internal projects and teams fostering collaboration amongst them.

Apart from the technical aspects we look also to people and how the commission organized its development, support and operation teams, and how it collaborated within the community to maximize the value it gets and gives to Drupal as an open source product and an open source community.

Learning Objectives
Understand how Drupal is used at large scale within a high profile client. Analyse how Drupal's evolution over the last 10 years made it the standard web publishing platform for most communication websites. Learn about how it is shaped and reused for dozens of projects within a diverse set of development teams.