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The Drupal Burkina Faso Association is working hard to bring back DrupalCamp this April at Joseph KI-ZERBO University in Ouagadougou. But there's a hitch: they’re still short on the funding needed to make it happen. That means a potential pause, not for lack of passion or planning, but because access to resources still draws the line between who gets to gather, learn, and grow, and who doesn’t. And for a community that’s trying to build something from the ground up, that line is everything.

This isn’t just Burkina Faso’s problem. It’s a challenge for the entire Drupal ecosystem. If Drupal is going to stay relevant and expand beyond its current reach, it has to grow where the need is greatest and the potential is untapped. Africa’s tech scene is rising fast, and platforms like Drupal could be part of that momentum. But that depends on whether we show up for the developers and organizers making it possible. These aren’t side stories. They’re the future of Drupal, and they deserve real investment.

The code is solid. The talent is there. What’s missing is community at scale. Supporting efforts like DrupalCamp Burkina Faso isn’t charity. It’s strategy. It’s how we build a global, sustainable open-source movement that reflects the diversity of the world it serves. If you believe in the long-term vision of Drupal, now’s the time to act. Because when one community grows, we all move forward.

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Drupal CMS 1.0 launched in January with a fresh and simple installer, and user feedback was great! But even with these improvements, getting Drupal up and running is still harder than it should be. At DrupalCon Atlanta, Dries Buytaert shared a solution: a super simple desktop app. Instead of downloading and setting up Drupal manually, you can now install it with just a few clicks!

The Drupal CMS Launcher is already available for Mac (Windows is coming once we are able to sign the app). It has everything you need to run Drupal locally built-in—no extra software required! It comes with a web server and an SQLite database, so you can run Drupal right away. It also has Drush built-in, making it even easier to manage your site. Your Drupal files are stored in your Documents folder, so you can access them anytime.

This app is still new, and the team isn’t sure what’s next for it. But it’s already a big step toward making Drupal more accessible. Once you set it up, you can use Project Browser to add extensions to Drupal that are not yet installed.

To try it, download it now at new.drupal.org/drupal-cms/launcher. Check out the source code and contribute on GitHub at github.com/drupal/cms-launcher!

Preamble

Before I express my thoughts, I want to clarify that this blog post will be reviewed, revised, and improved with the help of Grammarly's AI. Although I've been cautious about relying on AI to enhance my writing, I recognize that my dyslexia and ongoing grammar challenges impact my writing ability. However, I'm skilled at organizing my ideas to convey a message. In the context of this post, I see AI as a helpful tool, similar to wearing glasses, that aids me in communicating and interacting with the Drupal community. Nothing in this post is generated by AI through prompts. My inspiration for sharing these thoughts came from attending DrupalCon Atlanta.

Background

Like many people, I am skeptical and hesitant about using AI in my day-to-day tasks, but this is about to change. Until recently, my daily use of AI was limited to using PHPStorm's AI assistant to suggest or look up some code occasionally. Frequently, I’d smirk at its hallucinations and never ask the AI assistant to correct itself.\

At DrupalCon Barcelona, I was impressed by the demo of Drupal CMS' AI capabilities, but I did not attend any AI sessions. A month after DrupalCon, I had breakfast in Brooklyn with Jamie, co-founder of FreelyGive and one of Drupal's AI evangelists. We discussed improving the sustainability of the AI module's ecosystem based on my experience with the Webform module's sustainability. At the same time, I sensed from his excitement that the possibilities with Drupal and AI were limitless.

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