Talking Drupal #571 - GovHub

Today we are talking about GovHub, Drupal in Government, and Why Governments Love Drupal with guest Jasmyne Epps. We'll also cover Convivial Gov Site Template as our module of the week.
For show notes visit:
https://www.talkingDrupal.com/571
Topics

• GovHub Origins and Goals
• Feature Requests and Governance
• Why Government Chooses Drupal
• Team Structure and Release Cadence
• Accessibility and Compliance Strategy
• Hosting Model and Multisite
• Structured Content and Microcontent
• Syndication and Emergency Alerts
• Orchard Design System Explained
• Training and Onboarding Editors
• Gov Talks Conference
• Logo Specs and Releases
• Ticket Prioritization PRICE
• QA Workflow with Tugboat
• Handling Traffic Spikes
• Drupal 11 Performance Talk
• Drupal 11 Upgrade Gotchas
• Getting Users Excited
• Translation Strategy Limits
• Why Government Loves Drupal
Resources

• GovHub
• The Bug Stops Here — The State of Georgia Shifts Left (GovCon 2025 presentation with Jasmyne Epps and James Sansbury)
• Accelerating an ambitious migration and development project (GovHub + Tugboat migration story)
• Logo page
• Public facing knowledge base
• Orchard design system
• (P)Rice
• (P)olitics - (R)each - (I)mpact - (C)onfidence - (E)ffort

• Luma
Guests
Jasmyne Epps - jasmyneepps.com jasmyneepps
Hosts
Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan
John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi
Amber Matz - tugboatqa.com [amber himes matz](https://www.drupal.org/u/amber himes matz)
MOTW
Correspondent
Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu

• Brief description:
• Have you ever wanted to stand up a polished, accessible government website in Drupal (with components, content types, SEO, and cookie consent all wired up) without writing any code? There's a site template for that.

• Module name/project name:
• Convivial Gov

• Brief history
• Created in March 2026 by Morpht, the shop behind the Convivial family — with Ivan Zugec leading the maintainer team.
• Versions available: 1.3.3, which works with Drupal 11

• Maintainership
• Actively maintained: release just last week, on September 16th
• Security coverage
• Test coverage: functional tests for install and validation, plus a kernel requirements test.
• Documentation there's a full handbook over at docs.morpht.com, and a live demo at gov.convivial.io
• Open issues: none?

• Site template features and usage
• Like the Haven site template we talked about a couple of weeks ago, Convivial Gov gives you a curated stack plus demo content, and in this case hands you a robust, ready-to-customize government site.
• Because it's built on Drupal CMS, you get all the latest Drupal tooling: Canvas for visual page building, Single Directory Components, and Recipes.
• The front end is Morpht's Morphos theme, built on Tailwind and DaisyUI, so you get dark mode, multiple colour palettes, and a big library of editor-friendly components out of the box. It's worth mentioning that using the Morphos theme on a production site requires a paid…