Talking Drupal #551 - Drupal Recording Initiative
Talking Drupal
Kevin Thull, who leads the Drupal Recording Initiative (DRI), joins us to discuss why DRI started, how it scaled from Kevin recording local camps to supporting many events, the hub-and-mentorship model for maintainers, differences between shipping kits vs onsite support, costs compared with traditional AV vendors, and challenges like aging capture hardware, audio/video troubleshooting, and sustainable funding. For show notes visit: Topics Module of the Week TFA Why Recording Matters Early Events and Growing Pains Post Production and Gear Limits Recording DrupalCon vs Camps Costs and Value...
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Talking Drupal #550 - The Future of Site Builders
Talking Drupal
In episode 550 of Talking Drupal, Rod Martin joins us to discuss how Drupal site builders are defined, how their role has changed across Drupal versions, and what the future may look like with Drupal CMS, Canvas, and Drupal AI. The show’s module of the week is Password Policy, presented by Avi Schwab, covering customizable password constraints and password expiration/reset features, along with supporting modules Password Policy Extras and Password Policy Pwned, which checks passwords against the Have I Been Pwned database. The conversation also explores the challenges site builders face...
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Talking Drupal #549 - Catching up with the DDEV Team
Talking Drupal
In Episode 549, Randy Fay and Stas Zhuk join us to discuss what DDEV is, recent improvements, and where it’s headed. Module of the week is the DDEV Drupal Contrib add-on. Randy and Stas discuss priorities like reliability, consistent UX, add-ons discoverability, and new features including revamped ddev share with Cloudflare and rootless Podman support. They also cover , a cloud-based DDEV environment built on for easier onboarding and contribution, plus sustainability, community support, and challenges such as AI-driven PR volume and Stas’s development constraints in Ukraine. For show...
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Talking Drupal #548 - How to build your own CRM
Talking Drupal
In episode 548 we welcome back JD Leonard to discuss what CRMs are, what problems they solve, and which organizations benefit from them. JD explains why Drupal CRM defines CRM as “Contact Relationship Management,” outlines core expectations like contact and relationship tracking and integrations, and describes Drupal CRM’s Drupal-native architecture using dedicated, fieldable entity types for contacts, relationships, and contact methods. The panel compares Drupal CRM to older Drupal CRM efforts and user-based approaches, covers security considerations for PII and plans for field...
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Talking Drupal #547 - Why Developers Don't Choose Drupal
Talking Drupal
In episode #547, guest JD Flynn joins us to discuss why developers don’t choose Drupal, focusing on Drupal adoption, discoverability, and outdated perceptions from Drupal 6/7. JD cites survey data showing low interest among non-Drupal developers, arguing Drupal’s biggest problem is invisibility and that developers often pre-filter it due to PHP stigma and friction getting started. For show notes visit: Topics Welcome to Talking Drupal Meet JD Flynn Co Hosts Introductions Module of the Week: Native Observability Production Overhead Debate AI Patches and Etiquette Live Stream and Topic...
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Talking Drupal #546 - DrupalCon Chicago
Talking Drupal
Live from DrupalCon Chicago, Nic Laflin is joined by Tim Plunkett, Steve Wirt, Martin Anderson-Clutz, and John Picozzi to discuss the event’s tone, Dries Notes and key themes including Drupal Canvas, Drupal AI, and new site templates/marketplace progress and more. For show notes visit: Topics Reconnecting With Community Must See Sessions Vibe And Starshot Attendance And Venue Community Party Returns Dries Note and AI Debate Roadmap And Templates Recipes And Exports AI In Engineering Workflows Keynote Style Takeaways Dries Note Takeaways Canvas Content Templates View Modes Roadmap...
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Talking Drupal #545 - DKAN
Talking Drupal
Today we are talking about the open data platform DKAN, what it’s used for, and how it applies to Drupal with guests Liz Tupper & Dan Feder. We’ll also cover Modern Drupal Dashboard as our module of the week. For show notes visit: Topics What Is DKAN Who Uses Open Data 20:08 DKAN Origin Story Why Drupal Fits DKAN From Distribution to Module DKAN 2 Rebuild and JSON Shift Async Jobs and API First How Teams Publish Data What a Dataset Really Is Metadata vs Data Access Why DKAN Left Drupal Org Migration Path to DKAN Four Harvesting and Data Store ETL APIs Visualizations and Bots Roadmap...
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Talking Drupal #544 - World Cancer Day
Talking Drupal
Today we are talking about World Cancer Day, how they use Drupal, and why Drupal was the right choice with our guests Charles Andrew Revkin & Diego Costa. We’ll also cover PDFa11y as our module of the week. For show notes visit: Topics What Is World Cancer Day Why UICC Uses Drupal Diego Joins the Project Multilingual Strategy at Scale Drupal Architecture and AI Tools Vetting AI Moderation and Summaries AI Disclosure and Review Traffic Spikes and Scaling Drupal Stack and React Apps Campaign Theme United by Unique Yearly Content and Three Year Cycle Drupal Community and Open Access...
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Talking Drupal #543 - Commerce 3.x
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Talking Drupal #542 - Another AI Show
Talking Drupal
Today we are talking about The Good and the Bad of AI , How our panel feels about AI , and you guessed it more AI with guest Scott Falconer. We’ll also cover Field Widget Actions as our module of the week. For show notes visit: Topics AI and Social Isolation How We Use AI Friction and Independence Stack Overflow Debate Collaboration and Team Culture Is AI Inevitable AI Hype Meets Costs Adoption Cooling Signals Pricing Inequality Risks Open Source and PRs Requirements and LLMs Easy Tools Not Always Right Juniors Learning and Patterns Human Value and Ambiguity Losing Cognitive Endurance AI...
info_outlineToday we are talking about Mautic, marketing automation, and its history with Drupal with guest Ruth Cheesley. We’ll also cover Mautic ECA as our module of the week.
For show notes visit:
https://www.talkingDrupal.com/541
Topics
- What Is Mautic?
- Self-Hosting and Data Ownership
- Who Uses Mautic + Personalization
- Mautic’s History with Drupal
- How Drupal Integrate Mautic
- Orchestration in Mautic
- Privacy & Compliance: GDPR Tools, Consent, and Do-Not-Contact Controls
- Hosting Options
- Advanced Segmentation
- Points-Based Lead Scoring
- Validating Segments
- Using Points to Boost
- Common Mautic Adoption Pitfalls
- Getting Support
- The Future with AI
- AI and Open Source Maintenance
- Mautic Sustainability & Fundraising
- How to Contribute
Resources
- Mautic
- Mautic Integration
- Advanced Mautic Integration
- Talking Drupal #343 - Marketing Automation with Mautic
- Managed hosting, 40% goes to the community
- Mautic/Drupal case study and presentation on that from our conference
- GDPR cleanup jobs to remove old data
- Anonymization tasks to comply with specific laws (eg CCPA)
- Anonymize IP setting
- Proposal to overhaul all things privacy and streamline experience for marketers - currently seeking funding, planning to ship in Mautic 9
- Mautic contribution docs
- Testing PRs: inlcuding local setup guide
- Low/no-code tasks board
- Thanks Dev
- Ecosystems
Guests
Ruth Cheesley - ruthcheesley.co.uk RCheesley
Hosts
Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan
John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi
Catherine Tsiboukas - mindcraftgroup.com bletch
MOTW
Correspondent
Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu
- Brief description:
- Have you ever wanted to integrate Mautic marketing automation into your Drupal website, using ECA? There’s a module for that.
- Module name/project name:
- Brief history
- How old: created in Jun 2025 by Abhisek Mazumdar (abhisekmazumdar) of Dropsolid
- Versions available: 1.0.6 which works with Drupal 10 and 11
- Maintainership
- Actively maintained
- Documentation - detailed README
- Number of open issues: 1 open issues, which is not a bug
- Usage stats:
- 3 sites
- Module features and usage
- With the module installed, your ECA models can respond to Mautic webhooks, and can also make use of new actions to give you CRUD capabilities (Create, Read, Update, or Delete) for contacts and segments within ECA
- Mautic ECA declares the Mautic API module as a dependency, and you need to use it to set up an API connection, and to define any webhooks you want to use in your models
- It’s worth noting that the maintainers of Mautic ECA also seem to be involved with a number of other modules in the Mautic API ecosystem, including Mautic Personalization, as well as Mautic Content Provider, which can expose Drupal content for use in Mautic, for example to include in emails