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 extra services
• The transport is pluggable, though. Set it to automatic and it'll try WebSockets first, then an experimental Server-Sent Events submodule, then fall back to polling
• For site builders, the base module adds an "Update this block live" checkbox to any block in the block layout, no code needed
• There's also a whole suite of submodules: live-refreshing Views displays…