DrupalSouth Community Day 2026
Hellenic Club, 1 Matilda St, Phillip ACT
19th Nov to 20th Nov
Thursday, 19 November 2026
These sessions are a the Hellenic club, Woden.
| Rooms | Olympus | Apollo |
|---|---|---|
| 08:00 | Registration (outside rooms) | |
| 09:00 | 👋 Opening remarks | |
| 09:05 | 09:05 - Olympus Keynote/ 📸 Group photo | |
| 09:25 | 💬 Break | |
| 09:30 | 09:30 - Olympus Ask six people: rapid testing for non-researchers / UX, Case study / Tori Sanderson | 09:30 - Apollo Putting the hyper into hypermedia: htmx 4 in Drupal / Development / Brendan Tuckerman |
| 10:00 | 💬 Break | |
| 10:05 | 10:05 - Olympus The Discomfort Dividend / People & Strategy, Case study / Fonda Duffy | 10:05 - Apollo Not your grandad's Drupal / Development / Lee Rowlands |
| 10:35 | ☕ Morning tea | |
| 11:00 | 🎤 Drupal Feud | |
| 11:20 | 11:20 - Olympus Does Discovery have a branding problem? / UX, People & Strategy / Morgan Goulding | 11:20 - Apollo Composition over Maintenance / Architecture, Development / Andrey Simonov |
| 11:50 | 💬 Break | |
| 11:55 | 11:55 - Olympus Accessibility as architecture / Accessibility, Architecture, UX / Rikki Bochow | 11:55 - Apollo A SKILL.md for Drupal / AI, Development / Jeannie Panting |
| 12:25 | 💬 Break | |
| 12:30 | 12:30 - Olympus Designing encapsulated content / Content, Architecture / Angus Gordon | 12:30 - Apollo Inside GovCMS Rules as Code / GovCMS, Development, Architecture / Phillipa Martin & Suchi Garg |
| 13:00 | 🍱 Lunch | |
| 13:40 | 13:40 - Olympus New agency, new voice / Content, Case study, People & Strategy / Tim Gay & Shannon Li | 13:40 - Apollo How we implemented AI search on GovCMS / GovCMS, AI, Case study / Adam Bramley |
| 14:10 | 💬 Break | |
| 14:15 | 14:15 - Olympus Give editors the keys / Content, UX / Matt Commons | 14:15 - Apollo GovCMS security features / GovCMS, Development, Security / Janna Malikova |
| 14:45 | 💬 Break | |
| 14:50 | 14:50 - Olympus A structured way to explore AI enablement / AI, People & Strategy / Julia Topliss & Weave | 14:50 - Apollo Be Lazy – get the DB to do that / Development, Architecture / Daniel Black |
| 15:20 | 📣 Closing remarks | |
| 15:30 | 🍻 Networking event | |
| 17:30 | End of day | |
Friday, 20 November 2026 (Day 2)
Please note that this is being held at the Pragma office in the city.
| 9:45-10:15 | Vladimir Roudakov | Moving Issue Queues to GitLab for Drupal Projects |
| Tomato Elephant Studio | The Drupal ecosystem is currently transitioning its project management and issue queues to GitLab. If you are used to the legacy issue queue workflow or patch-based contributions, this hands-on session provides a clear, practical guide to navigating the modern contribution workflow. Learn how to search and manage issue queues, create and review Merge Requests (MRs), and properly award issue credits under the updated Drupal contribution model. | |
| 10:30-11:00 | Tristan Blattman | Dispatch |
| Upsun | TBA |
