Drupal Austria

8 July — our slot at the WordPress Meetup at SAE Vienna 🇦🇹

Government CMS in Europe is often a top-down story: a platform gets defined centrally and rolled out downwards. Martin Mucha’s talk laid that out — and ours came at the same problem from the other end.

Bottom-up. Councils were tired of rebuilding the same website every 5–7 years with a different vendor. So they built one shared open source codebase together. In the UK it now runs 70+ council sites and 80+ microsites — and nobody owns it.

Now it’s coming to Austria. Six agencies, one platform, launch Q4 2026. Drupal Austria is the umbrella. @acolono , @drunomics , @_lowfidelity_ , @activatemedianet , doloops and @webshapers_tulln

Best moment of the night came afterwards: a participant told us this is the only concept they see actually working. Exactly because it grows from the bottom up.

Open source doesn’t win because it’s better. It wins when we work together.

Want to know who we are and what we do? Link in bio → drupal-austria.at

📸 Swipe for impressions of the evening

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