Drupal Mountain Camp 2025

The Drupal Mountain Camp in Davos took place last week for the fifth time - it was my first time there, but certainly not the last: because it was great to meet participants from all over the world and to be informed about the state of the art in a very short time through the lectures, especially in areas that you don't necessarily have much contact with in everyday life.

Open source on top of the world

"Open source on top of the world" - that is the slogan of the Swiss Drupal Mountain Camp. 77 participants from various countries met in Davos to discuss current topics.

As a Catalan, Cristina Chumilla raised a very interesting question in this constellation: Why is the preconfigured product "Drupal CMS" not (yet) multilingual? 
 

This question naturally concerns the hosts in multilingual Switzerland in particular, but also their colleagues from Belgium, who also have to have everything bilingual per se. According to Cristina, the reason why multilingualism has not yet arrived in the preconfigured "Drupal CMS" is: "you know... America" ;-)

Swiss Splash Awards 2025

On the evening of the first day, the Swiss Splash Awards 2025 took place, followed by a celebration in a bar in Davos. The Splash Awards are nationally limited events at which the best projects in a country are honored each year. And with the expected "Swissness", there really were some very good projects!

The Swiss Splash Awards were sponsored by plattform.sh and hosted by Andrew Melck.

Preview of the Experience Builder

One of the hottest topics of the whole event from my point of view was the preview of the upcoming Experience Builder. Lauri Timanee from Acquia presented the progress of the project and explained the connections between the React app and SDC Components and the basics of Layout Builder Components. It's already clear: the Experience Builder will revolutionize the way content is created in Drupal!

Fondue on the Schatzalp

The second evening was the social event par excellence in Switzerland: a fondue dinner together! We took the funicular from Davos up to Schatzalp, ate a delicious fondue and then walked back down to Davos by torchlight.

Conclusion

While we at Tojio have often been to Drupal events in Switzerland (mostly in Zurich), this was my first time at the Drupal Mountain Camp in Davos. To be honest, Davos had always put me off a bit; I only knew the place from the World Economic Forum, where world leaders meet in the Davos Congress Center...

On site, however, I found a wonderful, warm community - just like you know it from Drupal. I'll be there again next time!