Drupal is dead. Long live Drupal

With the release of Drupal 9 our open source CMS has reached a new stage in its life cycle! We’ve come a long way, and grown a lot, through some challenges and a lot of success. What has changed with Drupal, its components and dependencies recently and why? What do some of these changes mean for the future of Drupal, for open source, and all of us as contributors and users?

In 2020, Drupal can serve as just one piece in a complex puzzle of services and tools needed to create and deploy a relevant, contemporary project. By working closely with other open source projects and communities to define and create agnostic best practices as well as software solutions we can help support each other as our own CMS changes. When you leave this session, you will have a sense of the open source landscape surrounding and supporting Drupal and how you can participate to help more people succeed in our shared future.

In short, we will cover:
- What's new in Drupal as it relates to broader open source projects.
- How we as the Drupal community might fit into the larger discussion of Open Source in 2020.
- What we as open source ecosystem members can do next to support each other and help others to advance and flourish using this technology.

At the end of this session, attendees will be able to identify some of the component open source projects supporting Drupal Core and Drupal Projects, contribute back to those projects, and participate in discussions about how open source can support our communities in the future.

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