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Should Europe be building an equivalent of @microsoft.com or #Google?

In his latest article, #EOSA Member Dries Buytaert (@drupalassociation.bsky.social)delves deeper into why open source is the most credible path to digital sovereignty.

Check out Dries' latest blog now : dri.es/funding-open...
January 22, 2026 at 9:18 AM
Europe needs digital sovereignty, and Open Source is the most direct path to it. But it requires more contribution-based procurement. More public money must flow upstream to Open Source maintainers, not just to integrators and resellers.

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Funding Open Source for Digital Sovereignty
Open Source alone won't deliver digital sovereignty. Europe must fix procurement and fund those who actually build it.
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January 21, 2026 at 5:13 PM
Blog post: Software as clay on the wheel dri.es/software-as-...
Software as clay on the wheel
Dries is the Founder and Project Lead of Drupal and the Co-founder and Executive Chair of Acquia.
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January 20, 2026 at 10:21 PM
Drupal turns 25 today. A quarter of a century. I captured 25 lessons from the journey. dri.es/25-years-of-... #foss #opensource #web
25 years of Drupal: what I've learned
Dries is the Founder and Project Lead of Drupal and the Co-founder and Executive Chair of Acquia.
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January 15, 2026 at 2:47 PM
This morning I made a small change to my site: I made every page available as Markdown for AI agents and crawlers. I expected maybe a trickle. Within an hour, I was seeing hundreds of requests from ClaudeBot, GPTBot, and OpenAI’s SearchBot. 😲 dri.es/the-third-au...
The third audience is AI
I made my website easier for AI agents and crawlers to read, and within an hour it was getting hundreds of requests.
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January 14, 2026 at 10:59 PM
Blog post: When backward compatibility became an advantage dri.es/when-backwar... #drupal
When backward compatibility became an advantage
Dries is the Founder and Project Lead of Drupal and the Co-founder and Executive Chair of Acquia.
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January 12, 2026 at 5:54 PM
Tailwind Labs laid off 75% of its engineering team. AI isn’t killing open source though. It’s stress-testing business models built on "describable things". I wrote more about what this means for developer tools and where durable value lives: dri.es/ai-is-a-busi...
AI is a business model stress test
Dries is the Founder and Project Lead of Drupal and the Co-founder and Executive Chair of Acquia.
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January 10, 2026 at 2:35 AM
Blog post: Claude is growing a tomato plant dri.es/claude-is-gr...
Claude is growing a tomato plant
Dries is the Founder and Project Lead of Drupal and the Co-founder and Executive Chair of Acquia.
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January 5, 2026 at 4:06 PM
My blog turns 20 today: dri.es/20-years-of-...
20 years of blogging
Dries is the Founder and Project Lead of Drupal and the Co-founder and Executive Chair of Acquia.
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December 31, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Blog post: The Control Layers of AI dri.es/the-control-...
The control layers of AI
As AI grows more capable, the workflows around it will matter just as much.
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December 30, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Blog post: AI flattens interfaces and deepens foundations dri.es/ai-flattens-...
AI flattens interfaces and deepens foundations
Dries is the Founder and Project Lead of Drupal and the Co-founder and Executive Chair of Acquia.
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December 23, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Blog post: I open-sourced my blog content dri.es/i-open-sourc... #digitalpreservation
I open-sourced my blog content
Dries is the Founder and Project Lead of Drupal and the Co-founder and Executive Chair of Acquia.
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December 15, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Blog post: A blog is a biography dri.es/a-blog-is-a-...
A blog is a biography
Dries is the Founder and Project Lead of Drupal and the Co-founder and Executive Chair of Acquia.
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December 12, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Blog post: The house and the town square dri.es/the-house-an...
The house and the town square
Dries is the Founder and Project Lead of Drupal and the Co-founder and CTO of Acquia.
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December 8, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Business logic is moving out of individual applications and into the orchestration layer. Your marketing stack is becoming a marketing network. I call this the Orchestration Shift, and I think it might reshape enterprise software architecture. dri.es/the-orchestr...
The Orchestration Shift
Your marketing stack is becoming a marketing network. Why the layer that connects your tools could be the next critical infrastructure.
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October 29, 2025 at 12:21 PM
I just blogged my DrupalCon Vienna keynote at dri.es/state-of-dru... Many people don't realize how much Drupal has evolved or how much heart the community puts into it, so check it out! #drupal #drupalcon #php #openweb
State of Drupal presentation (October 2025)
In my DrupalCon Vienna keynote, I talk about how Drupal is adapting to an AI-driven web through AI-enabled visual editing, site templates, autonomous agents, and workflow orchestration.
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October 23, 2025 at 9:26 AM
When I was ten, my uncle gave me a Kasparov chess computer. Last night I was lucky enough to have dinner with Kasparov. I also learned that Daniel Naroditsky, whose YouTube videos rekindled my love for chess, had passed away. I'll be thinking about them both for a long time.
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Meeting one chess master, mourning another
Dries is the Founder and Project Lead of Drupal and the Co-founder and CTO of Acquia.
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October 21, 2025 at 8:33 AM
To protect the digital foundation of essential government services, governments should invest in Open Source as public infrastructure and shift from consumption to contribution. dri.es/funding-open... #foss #opensource #sovereignty
Funding Open Source like public infrastructure
To protect the digital foundation of essential government services, governments should invest in Open Source as public infrastructure and shift from consumption to contribution.
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August 13, 2025 at 3:44 PM
AI is changing the digital agency model. Here is how and why it matters: dri.es/ai-and-the-g...
AI and the great digital agency unbundling
AI is transforming digital agencies and web development at an accelerating pace. To stay relevant, agencies must evolve beyond commoditized technical work and reposition themselves around strategy, or...
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July 24, 2025 at 2:42 PM
The Open Web was built on a fair exchange: content in return for visitors. AI broke that deal. We need new systems to support creators, not leave them behind. My thoughts on the forward: dri.es/the-webs-bro... /cc @cloudflare.social #openweb #ai
The web's broken deal with AI companies
AI companies are breaking the web's economic model by extracting content without compensating creators, but new enforcement tools and content licensing marketplaces could restore fair compensation.
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July 1, 2025 at 3:12 PM
I just shared my State of Drupal presentation from DrupalCon Atlanta! Get an update on Drupal CMS 1.0's launch and what is next: Experience Builder, AI agents, Site Templates, and a potential marketplace. Watch the keynote or download my slides. dri.es/state-of-dru... #drupal #drupalcon #ai #xb
State of Drupal presentation (March 2025)
DrupalCon North America 2025 DriesNote presentation
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March 31, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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No joke
Drupal Experience Builder is what the WP full site editor SHOULD be
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March 25, 2025 at 3:21 PM
A few weeks ago, I started exploring how AI can improve alt-text for images on my website. What seemed like a simple fix turned into a multi-step challenge. In my latest post, I share how I'm scaling this process to handle 9,000 images while keeping some control over quality. dri.es/automating-a...
Automating alt-text generation with AI
How I created an automated system that uses AI to generate alt-text for all the images on my website.
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February 20, 2025 at 1:38 PM
I tested 12 LLMs to generate alt-text for 9,000 images missing descriptions. Not surprisingly, cloud models performed best. For local options, Llama variants and MiniCPM-V were ok. Local models align with my values, but cloud models would serve visually impaired users better. dri.es/generating-i...
Generating image descriptions and alt-text with AI
I tested 12 LLMs — 10 running locally and 2 cloud-based — to assess their accuracy in generating alt-text for images.
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February 3, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Yes, it's mind-blowing to watch AI agents *use a browser* to seamlessly browse your site and edit content. 🤯 dri.es/i-gave-an-ai...
January 22, 2025 at 11:33 PM