[IT-SecNots] Community Briefing - Discussion on the future of Drupal 7

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Title: Community Briefing - Discussion on the future of Drupal 7

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Community Briefing - Discussion on the future of Drupal 7

Hello ,

Howdy folks!

I wanted to get in touch to send some information about an important (and hopefully exciting!) upcoming discussion we are planning to host around the future of the CiviCRM’s Drupal 7 integration.

Read on to find out more and how to sign up for the briefing sessions next week on Wednesday 15th May!

The background:

As you may already know CiviCRM is designed as a plugin or module for many of the largest open source content management systems available today. This includes Drupal, Backdrop, WordPress and Joomla. As such in order to use CiviCRM you need to install it on one of these frameworks to get started*.

*It’s probably also worth mentioning that there is also some exciting work to have CiviCRM “Standalone” which is under active development.

According to the latest CiviCRM stats, over 40% of CiviCRM sites currently use Drupal 7 as their CMS framework. It has a rich ecosystem of module integrations and allows CiviCRM users and developers to build rich integrated website and CRM experiences for non profit organisations.

Drupal 7 is robust, powerful and has been the backbone of the CiviCRM community for many years,  but, as many of you are probably aware, Drupal 7 is approaching its official “End of Life” date on January 5th of next year. This means that from that date the Drupal Association will no longer be publishing security updates for the platform and your site may become vulnerable.

Oh no! What should I do?

Whilst this upcoming end of life date sounds ominous, if you are on Drupal 7, you do have options and there is still plenty of time to plan your way ahead. These include:

• Migrate to Drupal 10
• Upgrade to BackdropCMS
• Migrate to another CMS Framework i.e. Wordpress or Joomla
• 🚀NEW🚀 Drupal 7 Never Ending Support “NES” for CiviCRM
• Wait for CiviCRM standalone

We’ve set out more details on these options in the blog post here:

Read the post!

🚀NEW🚀 Drupal 7 Never Ending Support “NES” for CiviCRM

What we’re most excited to announce is the new option of a Drupal 7 “Never Ending Support” package sites. 

In order to offer this, Compuco and the CiviCRM core team will be partnering with HeroDevs, a Drupal gold partner and one of the official partners of the Drupal Association for extended support for Drupal 7. HeroDevs offer extended support for many other open source projects that have reached end of life and on this project they are working directly with active Drupal core contributors and Drupal 7 maintainers. These are experts in Drupal 7 and have shaped and built the platform.

With this package, you will be able to continue to run your CiviCRM sites with a Drupal 7 framework for many years to come, safe in the knowledge that they will be compatible and secure.

Get in touch below to find out more about about Drupal 7 NES for CiviCRM.

Contact us

Community Briefings:

To answer any questions you may have, we’re inviting everyone to join us for a set of Community Briefings on Wednesday May 15th. 

We’ll have two 30-minute sessions where we’ll be explaining the options above and answering any questions people might have.

The 2 sessions will be across the day so hopefully as many of you can join as possible:

• 10:00 BST / 11:00 CEST - Sign up here
• 17:00 BST / 12:00 EDT / 9:00 PDT - Sign up here

If you can’t make either of these times, as always we’ll be sharing a recording of one of the sessions.

Get in touch today

If you’d like to register your interest in this support before the briefing and would like to discuss it further, please fill out this enquiry form or feel free to get in touch with us at hello AT compuco.io.

Best,

Jamie Novick

Compuco

CiviCRM

1350 Ortega St
San Francisco, California 94122
United States

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