Hello , Howdy folks! I wanted to get in touch to send some information about an important (and hopefully exciting!) upcoming discussion we are planning to host around the future of the CiviCRM’s Drupal 7 integration. Read on to find out more and how to sign up for the briefing sessions next week on Wednesday 15th May! The background: As you may already know CiviCRM is designed as a plugin or module for many of the largest open source content management systems available today. This includes Drupal, Backdrop, WordPress and Joomla. As such in order to use CiviCRM you need to install it on one of these frameworks to get started*. *It’s probably also worth mentioning that there is also some exciting work to have CiviCRM “Standalone” which is under active development. According to the latest CiviCRM stats, over 40% of CiviCRM sites currently use Drupal 7 as their CMS framework. It has a rich ecosystem of module integrations and allows CiviCRM users and developers to build rich integrated website and CRM experiences for non profit organisations. Drupal 7 is robust, powerful and has been the backbone of the CiviCRM community for many years, but, as many of you are probably aware, Drupal 7 is approaching its official “End of Life” date on January 5th of next year. This means that from that date the Drupal Association will no longer be publishing security updates for the platform and your site may become vulnerable. Oh no! What should I do? Whilst this upcoming end of life date sounds ominous, if you are on Drupal 7, you do have options and there is still plenty of time to plan your way ahead. These include: Migrate to Drupal 10 Upgrade to BackdropCMS Migrate to another CMS Framework i.e. Wordpress or Joomla 🚀NEW🚀 Drupal 7 Never Ending Support “NES” for CiviCRM Wait for CiviCRM standalone We’ve set out more details on these options in the blog post here: | 