From trial sites to persistent hosting
Due to concerns that the launch button would funnel business to one vendor at the expense of others, Starshot leadership announced that the launch button would use WebAssembly to run site trials in a user’s browser without ex
Starshot ignites Drupal Forge
Dries Buytaert introduced the Starshot initiative at Drupalcon Portland 2024.
How Drupal Forge began
At DrupalCon Portland 2022 people were talking about makers and takers.
Demo Drupal Umami
Umami is an example food magazine website to demonstrate some of the features of Drupal core. It is intended to be used as a demo site, and not suitable as a foundation for building your own site. It is part of the Drupal core Out of The Box initiative.
Features of Umami
- Content: nodes (3 content types), taxonomies (2 vocabularies)
- Media library with images
- Content moderation
- Layout builder
Openy
Open Y is a philosophy that collaboration drives innovation and impact. A community of YMCAs and technology partners. A platform for marketing, e-commerce, and digital products.
What vendors work with Drupal Forge?
DevPanel is actively contributing to Drupal Forge. We are in talks with other vendors about getting involved and would welcome assistance reaching out to more. Interested vendors should open an issue on our project page and select Vendors as the component.
Who controls the Drupal Forge project?
Drupal Forge is a maintained as a Drupal community project. We invite you to get involved and help shape the future of this project. This project is built by the community for the community.
How is Drupal Forge associated with Starshot?
Our goal is to be a platform where competing vendors can work together on a unified launch experience. This aligns with the Starshot goal of bringing vendors together to build a common Drupal product for non-technical users. We are in talks with the Drupal Association to align our work with Drupal launch button in the Starshot wireframes.
How does Drupal Forge support Drupal contributors?
Drupal contributors can use Drupal Forge to try Drupal, experiment with new modules, test bugs, try out bug fixes, and to contribute code back to the Drupal project.
You can use it to teach Drupal development and VS Code to others.
You can collaborate with other developers from around the world - in real time.
How would Drupal Forge support my business?
Drupal Forge is mainly a tool for developers.
If you're in the development business, then Drupal Forge will make you more productive, help you collaborate, and save costs.
You will be able to create and deploy better sites faster.