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DDEV Blog: DDEV June 2025 Newsletter

Drupal Planet
2 weeks 2 days ago

Welcome to the June 2025 DDEV Newsletter
This month: TYPO3 Community Budget Proposal (VOTE NOW), Randy is back from bikepacking, Running Old PHP versions, Vite and DDEV with WordPress, DDEV Architecture, and more.

TYPO3: Your Vote Requested Before June 16!
  • Q3 TYPO3 Budget Proposal: Improved GitHub Codespaces and Dev Containers support - We’ve proposed significant enhancements to make DDEV shine in GitHub Codespaces and Dev Containers. This will help TYPO3 and all DDEV users. If you're a TYPO3 member, please cast your vote to help the DDEV proposal using the email you received from the TYPO3 Foundation before June 16. → Read more↗
What’s New
  • Randy is back from bikepacking!
    We covered lots of territory out in the state of New Mexico and had a great time. I'll never forget though, laying in my tent when we had some coverage and watching the DDEV community continue on supporting each other so very successfully. And every support answer from Stas was exactly what I would have said. I'm proud and amazed by this wonderful community.
  • Using DDEV to Spin Up A Legacy PHP Application
    A guest blog by TYPO3 contributor Garvin Hickling on how to use DDEV to run a (very) old PHP 5.3/MySQL 5.5 application → Read more↗
  • Securing DDEV’s Future: Our Commitment to Financial & Community Sustainability Read more↗
  • 106 GitHub Sponsors
    We now have 106 GitHub Sponsors! Breaking our aggregation script was a delightful milestone—thank you for believing in DDEV.
  • May 2025 Advisory Group Meeting Notes → Read more↗. Join us July 2; ask for a calendar invitation in the DDEV Discord or the contact page.
Community Tutorials
  • Integrating Vite and DDEV into WordPress → Read more↗
  • AI-generated DDEV Architecture by DeepWiki, pretty impressive! → Read more↗
  • Setup an existing WordPress multisite locally with DDEV (with Bonus Pantheon support!) from Kalamuna → Read more↗
Governance & Roadmap
  • Apache Foundation-inspired Project Management Committee Exploration
    We’re exploring a governance model inspired by the Apache Foundation and Backdrop CMS to better support long-term sustainability and shared leadership. Take a look and join the conversation about future DDEV governance → Details↗
Sponsorship Status
  • Monthly average income up from $7,639 to $7,809 (65% of $12,000 goal, up a percent since early May!). Every contribution helps sustain our work—thank you! → Become a sponsor↗
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Nonprofit Drupal posts: June Drupal for Nonprofits Chat

Drupal Planet
2 weeks 2 days ago

Join us THURSDAY, June 12 at 1pm ET / 10am PT, for our call to chat about all things Drupal and nonprofits. (Convert to your local time zone.)

We don't have anything specific on the agenda this month, so we'll have plenty of time to discuss anything that's on our minds at the intersection of Drupal and nonprofits. Got something specific you want to talk about? Feel free to share ahead of time in our collaborative Google doc: https://nten.org/drupal/notes!

All nonprofit Drupal devs and users, regardless of experience level, are always welcome on this call.

This free call is sponsored by NTEN.org and open to everyone. 

Please note that, since the meeting was moved a week early due to the Juneteenth holiday, the Zoom link for this month's call is different. Please use the following link for June’s call:

View notes of previous months' calls.

Drupal Association blog: Voices of Pride: A Reflection from Fei Lauren

Drupal Planet
2 weeks 3 days ago

This Pride Month, the Drupal Association invited community members to share their voice, story, and perspective through a short questionnaire, an open-hearted call to celebrate who we are and where we belong.

In a time when many in the queer community may not always feel seen or safe, we want to reaffirm that the Drupal Association is a space rooted in inclusion, care, and visibility. Our goal is to spotlight the strength, joy, and diversity within the LGBTQ+ community around the world. Through shared stories like the one below, we hope to reflect the beauty of our global community and remind each other: you belong here.

This is a space where all identities are respected, celebrated, and uplifted, not just in June, but always. As stated in the Open Web Manifesto, the open web thrives on inclusion: everyone in the world, regardless of background, identity, wealth, or status, has a home on the open web.

Today, we’re honored to share reflections from Fei Lauren, an inspiring human, community-elected at-large board member and a Drupal Diversity & Inclusion initiative lead. Their story explores moments of vulnerability, history, solidarity, and global connection, reminding us of the power in simply being seen.

How is Pride celebrated in your city or country?

West Coast Canada is known as one of the best places in the world to live for the LGBTQIA+ community. But it’s a very common practice here to include ‘2S’ before the other letters. 2S stands for Two-Spirit, and it goes first to acknowledge and honor that Indigenous Peoples were here first.

Otherwise, Pride celebrations in many communities are very family-oriented. Face painting is popular, and I’ve also seen things like bouncy castles. 

Can you share a moment when inclusion really stood out to you, a personal story or memory?

I am genderqueer, and when I was first exploring neutral pronouns, the idea of putting pronouns in our Slack profiles came up at work. I didn’t realize it at first, but one of the managers I really liked and respected also used they/them pronouns.

We talked about it privately, and then they added their pronouns just before I did. I’ll never forget the anxiety I felt, followed by an incredible sense of relief that I wasn’t alone. I always try to be visible now. Sometimes, it just takes one person to shift that sense of vulnerability and make opening up feel safer.

What’s your favorite Pride-related fact, tradition, or symbol?

I recently learned that until the AIDS epidemic, the commonly used acronym was GLBT. Many medical professionals refused to treat patients who were HIV-positive, but the lesbian community stepped up as nurses and caregivers to provide support.

Changing the order of letters in the acronym, and the many variations used since, is done to honor this act of care and solidarity.

Is there a queer voice, an author, creator, or activist who has inspired or supported you?

I love Ivan Coyote. They have a book of letters from fans and their responses. I don’t cry easily, but some of the letters are so raw it’s impossible not to.

Pride celebrations here can sometimes feel like we’ve lost touch with our history and the ongoing struggle for respect, safety, and equality.

It feels important and powerful to tell those stories and make sure we don’t lose sight of how much work there is still to do in this world.

What’s one thing you love about the queer community you’re part of (in or outside Drupal)?

In Drupal, I love that the community is so global. I have learned a lot about what’s happening around the world. It’s easy to only see your own community and the struggles you and your friends face, the violence and heartbreak right in front of you.

But I love getting to celebrate wins and hold space for people globally. I’ve learned so much from the Drupal community. It has changed my relationship with queer activism and reminded me what I have to be grateful for. It also makes me feel like we really aren’t alone, and that gives me an incredible amount of hope.

Thank you, Fei, for your vulnerability, care, and presence in Drupal community. Your voice reminds us why representation matters and how simply showing up as yourself can make space for others to feel safe, seen, and supported.

To LGBTQ+ and queer members of our community, and to everyone reading, if you feel inspired to share your story this Pride Month, we welcome you with open arms. Every contribution helps build a more inclusive and loving web, one story at a time.

Want to share your own story? Submit your response here.

We also invite you to get involved with the Drupal Diversity & Inclusion (DD&I) initiative. Join the #diversity-inclusion channel on Drupal Slack and say hello! Learn more at drupaldiversity.com/get-involved.