Dries Buytaert

Last week at Drupal South, Pamela Barone delivered a keynote on Drupal CMS. Her talk is one of the clearest articulations I've seen of what Drupal CMS is, why it exists, and where it's headed. That shouldn't come as a surprise because Pam is the Product Lead for Drupal CMS.

Pam quoted a familiar Drupal saying: Drupal makes hard things possible, but it also makes easy things hard.. The room laughed because it's true.

Her keynote makes the case that Drupal CMS is making Drupal easier across the board: visual page editing, a gentler on ramp for new developers, and project economics that finally work for smaller budgets. Larger organizations such as universities, governments, and Fortune 2000 companies want those same advantages, which is why Drupal CMS matters at every scale.

Pam also explains how Drupal CMS sits on top of Drupal Core, why it is not a Drupal distribution, how it gives digital agencies leverage, what site templates unlock, and how Drupal Canvas reshapes the page building experience.

If you watch one Drupal video this week, make it Pam's!