The Drupical Events Block Ships with Drupal CMS 2.0

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Back in 2012, we built drupical.com, a community project to make Drupal events easy to find. A map, filters by country and event type, and a lot of manually curated data. What started as a passion project eventually won the Austrian Open Source Award and became a regular fixture at DrupalCons across Europe.

The full story is on our Drupical page, but the short version is: we've been thinking about Drupal community events for a long time, and we always had one bigger goal in mind.

The Goal was to Increase Drupal Event's Visibility

Drupical was never the end destination. It was a stepping stone.

The real goal was to bring Drupal event information to where Drupal users actually are every day: the backend. When an editor logs in, the dashboard is the first thing they see. That's where community information belongs. Not on a separate site you have to remember to visit.

To get there, a few pieces had to fall into place first: drupal.org needed a proper events section, that section needed a public API, and someone needed to build a module that consumed it well enough to ship by default.

We built the module. On December 19, 2025, the Drupal Event Listing Block was merged into Drupal CMS 2.0.

Fourteen years from a tropical island logo to a default dashboard widget :)

The Events Block: Community Visible From Day One

The Drupal Event Listing Block ships with every new Drupal CMS 2.0 installation. No extra modules, no configuration needed to get started. Upcoming Drupal Camps and DrupalCons appear directly in the dashboard, pulled live from the official drupal.org events API.

This “block” is a natural extension of the work we've been doing with drupical.com since 2012, and It's currently active on nearly 3,000 websites.

Details on the Drupical Drupal.org Project page

Nico Grienauer

When you open Drupal CMS for the first time, you should immediately feel: there's a community behind this. Drupal has the best open-source community in the world and that needs to be visible from day one.

Nico Grienauer

Founder ACOLONO GmbH

Part of a Big Release

The Events Block arrives as part of Drupal CMS 2.0. A significant release that coincides with Drupal's 25th anniversary and marks a deliberate shift toward accessibility for non-developer audiences. The highlights: the new Drupal Canvas drag-and-drop editor, pre-built Site Templates, out-of-the-box accessibility and SEO, optional AI integration (page generation, admin chatbot, auto alt-text), and performance improvements of 26–33% over equivalent infrastructure. All without giving up the data sovereignty and extensibility that make Drupal the right choice for enterprise and public sector organizations.

What's Next

We're already working on the next iteration of the Events Block:

  • Event type filtering choose which types of events to show
  • Location-aware listing events near the current user
  • Country/region filtering for locally focused communities

The goal stays the same: make it effortless to stay connected to the Drupal community, directly from within Drupal itself.