Talking Drupal #574 - UN Open Source Week
Talking Drupal
Today we are talking about the UN, Open Source, and Drupal with guests Tim Lehnen & Henry Poole. We’ll also cover Live Update as our module of the week. For show notes visit: Topics What Is UN Open Source Week Why Open Source Fits UN Goals Who Attends and What Tech Is There Conference Audience and DPI DPG Drupal as a Digital Public Good UN Uses Drupal at Scale Why Attend and What to Gain Upstream First Contracting Open Procurement Curriculum Reaching Procurement Conferences Steering Spend Upstream Funding Open Source Legally Talking Louder Beyond Drupal Digital Sovereignty Explained...
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Talking Drupal #573 - Off The Cuff #13
Talking Drupal
Today we are talking about Drupalcon Rotterdam, Canvas and evaluating modules. We’ll also cover Revision Graph as our module of the week. For show notes visit: Topics DrupalCon Rotterdam recap AI summits and training FrankenPHP app servers Driesnote highlights Advocacy and WordPress Rosetta Sprint and MCP Canvas multilingual and headless 3Frameworks And Voiceover Canvas And SDCs Headless And Signage Drupal 12 Beta Testing Rector And Deprecations PHP 8.5 Requirements Rethinking Module Evaluation AI And Commit Scale Module Discoverability 0Distributions Versus Recipes Resources Hosts...
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Talking Drupal #572 - The PHP Foundation
Talking Drupal
Today we are talking about PHP, Open Source, and Sustainability with guest Elizabeth Barron. We’ll also cover AI Image Classification as our module of the week. For show notes visit: Topics What is the PHP Foundation Language Health Challenges Paid Core Developers Release Infrastructure Foundation Role and Perception Docs and Onboarding Elizabeth Open Source Journey Future of PHP Ecosystem Listener Elephant Question Ecosystem Security Hub Advisory Board Limits Modernizing Mailing Lists Foundation Awareness Push PHP Ambassadors Strategy State of PHP Survey Five Year Vision Community Hour...
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Talking Drupal #571 - GovHub
Talking Drupal
Today we are talking about GovHub, Drupal in Government, and Why Governments Love Drupal with guest Jasmyne Epps. We’ll also cover Convivial Gov Site Template as our module of the week. For show notes visit: Topics GovHub Origins and Goals Feature Requests and Governance Why Government Chooses Drupal Team Structure and Release Cadence Accessibility and Compliance Strategy Hosting Model and Multisite Structured Content and Microcontent Syndication and Emergency Alerts Orchard Design System Explained Training and Onboarding Editors Gov Talks Conference Logo Specs and Releases Ticket...
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Talking Drupal #570 - Laravel & Marketing PHP
Talking Drupal
Today we are talking about Laravel, Marketing, and The PHP Foundation with guest Matt Stauffer. We’ll also cover Formdazzle as our module of the week. For show notes visit: Topics What Is Laravel Writing Laravel Books AI and Technical Writing Laravel Versus CMS Drupal as Framework Integrating Laravel and CMS Laravel and Symfony Marketing Modern PHP Laravel Community Marketing Jigsaw and Onramp Drupal Marketing Lessons Onboarding Focus in Laravel Laravel BDFL Changes Onboarding And Docs Drupal Framework Perception What PHP Foundation Does Marketing PHP Vs Laravel AI Answers And Positioning...
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Talking Drupal #569 - Site Templates
Talking Drupal
On today's show we are talking about Site Templates, What they do, and How you can use them with guests Tim Lehnen & Adam Globus-Hoenich. We’ll also cover Haven as our module of the week. For show notes visit: Topics MOTW: Haven What Site Templates Are Canvas Components Included Promoting Templates Beyond Drupal Templates vs Distributions Who Benefits from Templates Template Types and Adoption Where to Find Templates Featured vs Installer List Free vs Paid Templates Recipes vs Templates Distributions and Themes Empowering Site Builders Exporting a Template Designing for Users Releases...
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Talking Drupal #568 - Off The Cuff #12
Talking Drupal
Today we are talking about Drupal Performance, Rapid Development, and Drupal Canvas Maturity with our hosts. We’ll also cover Microsoft 365 FullCalendar as our module of the week. For show notes visit: Topics Deprecating Module Theme Files Migrating Hooks to Classes Why This Change Matters Drupal Performance Gains Performance Audits and Lighthouse Automating Checks and Spreadsheet Rant AI Spreadsheet Cautionary Tale Privacy Concerns with AI Freelancer Pressure Rapid Change Reality Canvas Release Risks Community Support Needed AI For Documentation Canvas Production Readiness Canvas...
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Talking Drupal #567 - Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures
Talking Drupal
Today we are talking about Security, Vulnerabilities, and how to avoid exposure with guest Dave Welch. We’ll also cover Security Scanner as our module of the week. For show notes visit: Topics What Are CVEs CVE Lifecycle and Disclosure AI Era Security Challenges What CVE Program Excludes Patch Fast Reality Global Security Signals CVE Timing Judgment KEV Flags Explained CVE Updates Link Rot Who Decides CVE Sneaky Patch Dangers ADP Program Fixes Small Team Triage Vulnerability Tsunami AI Autonomous Security Future Legal Pressure Budgets Resources Guests David Welch - Hosts Nic...
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Talking Drupal #566 - DrupalEasy: Responsible Drupal AI
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Today we are talking about Drupal, AI, and learning to use it responsibly with guest Mike Anello. We’ll also cover Entity Mesh as our module of the week. For show notes visit: Topics Course overview Fast moving modules Inside vs outside AI No code approach Keeping curriculum current Essentials vs add ons Chat Claude Code setup Inside vs Outside AI Rules and Provider Calls Guardrails in Drupal UI Model QA and Testing Local Models and Costs Token Budgets and Logging Course Use Cases Overview RAG and Vector Basics Class Schedule and Pricing AI Predictions and Wrap Resources Guests...
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Talking Drupal #565 - That Geerling Guy
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Today we are talking about Open Source sustainability, becoming your own content creation machine, and how drupal influenced some of that with guest Jeff Geerling. We’ll also cover AI Metering as our module of the week. For show notes visit: Topics Jeff’s Timekeeping Icebreaker Jeff’s Drupal Origin Story From Drupal to Hardware Tinkering Staying Motivated on YouTube What Conferences Are Really About DrupalCon Memories and Community Why Jeff Moved to Hugo PSA Tornado Warning Detour Keeping Up with Drupal CMS PHP Perception Shift Fast Drupal Setup COVID Streaming Boom Picking Video...
info_outlineToday we are talking about Access Policy API, What it does, and How you can use it with guest Kristiaan Van den Eynde. We’ll also cover Visitors as our module of the week.
For show notes visit:
https://www.talkingDrupal.com/472
Topics
- What is the Access Policy API
- Why does Drupal need the Access Policy API
- How did Drupal handle access before
- How does the Access Policy API interact with roles
- Does a module exist that shows a UI
- What is the difference between Policy Based Access Control (PBAC), Attribute Based Access Control (ABAC) and Role Based Access Control (RBAC)
- How does Access Policy API work with PBAC, ABAC and RBAC
- Can you apply an access policy via a recipe
- Is there a roadmap
- What was it like going through pitchburg
- How can people get involved
Resources
- Access Policy API
- Access Policy
- Talking Drupal #226 Group
- Flexible Permissions
- External roles
- Test Super access policy
- Access policy talk at Drupalcon barcelona
- D.o Issue about exception on security issue
Guests
Kristiaan Van den Eynde - kristiaanvandeneynde
Hosts
Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan
John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi
Aubrey Sambor - star-shaped.org starshaped
MOTW
Correspondent
Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu
- Brief description:
- Have you ever wanted a Drupal-native solution for tracking website visitors and their behavior? There’s a module for that
- Module name/project name:
- Brief history
- How old: created in Mar 2009 by gashev, though recent releases are by Steven Ayers (bluegeek9)
- Versions available: 8.x-2.19, which works with Drupal 10 and 11
- Maintainership
- Actively maintained
- Security coverage
- Test coverage
- Documentation guide is available
- Number of open issues: 20 open issues, none of which are bugs against the 8.x branch
- Usage stats:
- Over 6,000 sites
- Module features and usage
- A benefit of using a Drupal-native solution is that you retain full ownership over your visitor data. Not sharing that data with third parties can be important for data protection regulations, as well as data privacy concerns.
- You also have a variety of reports you can access directly within the Drupal UI, including top pages, referrers, and more
- There is a submodule for geoip lookups using Maxmind, if you also want reporting on what region, country, or city your visitors hail from
- It provides drush commands to download a geoip database, and then update your data based on geoip lookups using that database
- It should be mentioned that the downside of using Drupal as your analytics solution is the potential performance impact and also a likely uptick in usage for hosts that charge based on the number of dynamic requests served