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Drupal 9 is expected to be released on time in June 2020. Are the most popular modules ready? How are we at MD Systems helping in the D9 readiness effort?

Every year, the last weekend in January is reserved for a global Drupal contribution weekend. Community members and contributing organizations from over 30 world cities volunteered to organize a local Drupal contribution weekend. Zurich was one of these cities and the full team of MD Systems was there.

Drupal 9.0.0 is scheduled to be released in 2020. What does that mean? What needs to be done? What is MD Systems doing?

This year, Amsterdam, Netherlands celebrated its third time as a home city for the biggest European Drupal conference - DrupalCon. My overall experience was great and I am going to provide you with more insights in the next paragraphs below.

After the great success of 2017, the Drupal Mountain Camp in the beautiful Swiss city of Davos happened again from 7th to 10th of March 2019. With a wide range of workshops, sessions and organised coding sprints and various winter activities, it was not just like a normal Drupal Camp.

Last year, Drupal Association has decided to take a break to consolidate and not organize an official DrupalCon Europe in 2018. Twelve community members stepped in and developed a plan to organize a DrupalCon replacement − named Drupal Europe. The final result was outstanding.

The largest DrupalCon yet took place from April 9 to April 13 in the city of music - Nashville, Tennessee. Thanks to their contributions and MD System’s Open Source contributing strategy, two of our members, Miloš and John, received a DrupalAssocation grant and represented our company at the conference. As the most important community event, DrupalCon has had much to offer.

MD Systems is awarded the contract for the integration of the Web Content Management System of the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) and its operation for the next four years.