Talking Drupal #574 - UN Open Source Week

Today we are talking about the UN, Open Source, and Drupal with guests Tim Lehnen & Henry Poole. We'll also cover Live Update as our module of the week.

For show notes visit:

https://www.talkingDrupal.com/574

Topics What Is UN Open Source Week Why Open Source Fits UN Goals Who Attends and What Tech Is There Conference Audience and DPI DPG Drupal as a Digital Public Good UN Uses Drupal at Scale Why Attend and What to Gain Upstream First Contracting Open Procurement Curriculum Reaching Procurement Conferences Steering Spend Upstream Funding Open Source Legally Talking Louder Beyond Drupal Digital Sovereignty Explained Governance Values Matter Fixing Funding Perception Community Next Steps Closing Resources Appalachia Omar Mohsine Digital public infrastructure - DPI Digital public good - DPG ShareIT act Agencies need to use open source PDF: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/COMPS-17951/pdf/COMPS-17951.pdf Ditap NCMA Sovereign tech agency Palantir blog Eva black - Four opens FSF - Four freedoms Drupal's open web manifesto https://www.drupal.org/association/open-web-manifesto https://openwebsitealliance.org/charter.html#open-web-manifesto Guests Henry Poole - civicactions.com henry-poole

Tim Lehnen - drupal.org hestenet

Hosts Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan

John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi

Tim Sharp - tea-sharp

MOTW Correspondent Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu

Brief description: Have you ever wanted parts of your Drupal pages, like blocks, views, or notifications, to update in real time without a page refresh, and without having to stand up extra infrastructure to do it? There's a module for that. Module name/project name: Live Update Brief history How old: created in Sep 2026 by Alessandro Feijó (afeijo) of Mindcore Versions available: 1.0.0-alpha6, which works with Drupal 11 and 12 Maintainership Actively maintained, latest release just a week ago No security coverage yet, since it was just created and only has alpha releases Test coverage Documentation: a detailed README, plus a roadmap doc and a built-in demo page Number of open issues: none Usage stats: 14 sites Module features and usage Live Update positions itself as a generic real-time event layer for Drupal: modules publish events to named channels, and browsers subscribed to those channels update just the affected part of the page Out of the box it uses plain HTTP polling back to Drupal, every 5 seconds by default, so it works on pretty much any host with no e