bertboerland
Bert Boerland has been part of the Drupal community for over 25 years. He registered the drupal.org domain in its earliest days and handed it to Dries Buytaert, organized DrupalCon Amsterdam (2005) and co-led DrupalCon Barcelona (2007), founded DrupalJam and the Splash Awards, and served as a Drupal Association board member. He currently chairs Stichting Drupal Nederland and is a 2026 candidate for the Drupal Association's At-Large Board seat. By day he works in enterprise Linux and Kubernetes sales at SUSE. Bert writes and speaks regularly on open source governance, sovereignty and infrastructure funding, and is currently organizing a community working session on FAIR at DrupalCon Rotterdam 2026 with contributors from across the Drupal, TYPO3 and WordPress ecosystems.
Session
Governments are rewriting digital sovereignty checklists around servers and cloud providers, but rarely ask who controls the pipe that delivers the software itself. This talk uses the 2025 cutoff of ICC prosecutor Karim Khan's Microsoft email as a lens on a structural blind spot in open source: centralized package distribution. It introduces FAIR (Federated and Independent Repositories) and asks what it would take to make Drupal, WordPress, TYPO3 and similar ecosystems resilient to a single point of legal or technical failure.