La Eu

The Local Association (EU Sites Project) makes it easier for local associations to create their own Drupal site for their association. Using this shared codebase, associations will be able to set up a modern website and adjust it to their need Contributions back to the project are highly appreciated.

How it started

The Dutch Drupal Association rebuilt and designed a fresh, modern Drupal website: drupal.nl. They had the desire to share their work with other local associations, and build a community to keep the codebase growing and up to date. France was the first to adopt the codebase for their website drupal.fr. witch went live in 2023.

At DrupalCon Lille in 2023, a BoF was initiated by the Dutch Association to further share their codebase. The initial discussion can be found here (link allows commenting, non-editing).

After Lille, an international workgroup set out to make it happen. This and related projects started as a collaboration project with Drupal communities in the Netherlands, France, Belgium, German, Switzerland, Austria, etc. More and more groups joint the initiative. At the moment, the number of local associations who are already live or are working on using the code, steadily rises.

Current websites

https://drupal.nl
https://drupal.fr
https://drupal.no
https://drupal.be
https://drupal.de
https://drupal.london
https://www.drupal.fi

Upcoming contrib IRL meetings

• Contribution table at Drupalcon Vienna
• Contribution table at Drupal Dev Days Greece

We have three different regular meetings:

1. Jitsi video meetings every three weeks on Wednesday at 16:00 -- used to align with the Drupal Agency working on the codebase, to refine features, to demo work done et cetera.
2. Asynchronous Slack meetings in the #la_eu channel (Join Drupal Slack first). These meetings are open for 24 hours, and start at 9am UTC. We have them every three weeks on Wednesday
3. Contribution window: every first Wednesday of the month, between 15:00 and 16:00 CET. This is to facilitate working together on the project.

Learn more about our meetings by reading the Meta ticket.

In the news:

• The Drop Times, 'The la_eu Site Project Takes a Step Further at Barcelona'.

• The Drop Times, 'Drupal Netherlands Foundation Launches EU Sites Project for Enhanced Drupal Presence in Europe'.

• SDN, 'Stichting Drupal Nederland deelt haar broncode met de wereld'.

• The Drop Times, 'Local Drupal Associations Join Forces with Shared Codebase'.

Features

• News
• Events
• Partners
• Cases
• Component pages
• Basic pages

Documentation

For installation instructions, please follow
#3404467: Add a README file and document how to setup locally and start basic documentation.

Documentation can be found here

Related projects

the Network of European Local Associations (NEDA)