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Monthly Community Calls

Summaries and recordings from our monthly community calls featuring platform updates, feature demos, and Q&A sessions.

YUSA, along with the YMCA Website Services partner agencies, host a monthly call where we update the community on the distribution, demo new features, and answer community questions.

When: Second Wednesday of the month at 11AM Central Time Who: YMCAs, partner developers, and interested parties Join: Contact us for an invitation

Latest Call

Watch the most recent call in our playlist below, or scroll down to review summaries from past calls.

Past Calls


July 9, 2025

The YMCA Website Services Community Call from July 9th, 2025 featured updates from the IT Care team and Y-USA leadership on distribution maintenance, security updates, and the roadmap ahead.

Agenda items include:

  • Drupal 10.5 Core Upgrade (Completed)
  • Drupal 11 Progress Update
  • Improvements to Schedules
  • Security Patches & Bug Fixes
  • Future AI Integration Discussion
  • Q&A with Community

Key Highlights

Y-USA Commitment (Tom, Y-USA)

  • IT Care retained to maintain the code distribution through 2025
  • Commitment to keeping distribution patched, secure, and stable
  • Focus on security and functionality updates from the community
  • Pause on new functionality in 2025, with plans for 2026 still in development

Drupal 10.5 Core Upgrade (Dmytro, IT Care)

Completed this week - key improvements include:

  • Enhanced core functionality and latest CKEditor features
  • Membership Calculator: Excludes unpublished branch locations from display
  • Media Library: Improved content workflow for editors
  • Content Manager Permissions: Enhanced security for bulk operations
  • Schedules (PEF): Support for classes with special symbols

Security Patches:

  • Unauthorized code injection prevention
  • Improper access control fixes
  • Malicious code execution vulnerability closed

New Features:

  • Expanding menu on mouse hover option
  • Display-only hours option for branch pages
  • Branch hours overlay showing all holidays (not just upcoming)
  • Mobile burger menu fixes for sub-pages

Drupal 11 Progress (Andrii, IT Care)

  • Alpha release: Expected in 1-2 weeks for early adopters
  • Focus: Small Y Template + Standard installation (covers 80-90% of sites)
  • No upgrade path in alpha - for testing and development sandboxes only
  • Stable release: Planned for Q3-Q4 2025 after community feedback
  • CKEditor 5 integration means many custom features now covered by Drupal core
  • Performance improvements visible in Drupal 11

Important: Lily and Rose themes officially deprecated in 10.5 and removed from Drupal 11 distribution. Still available for use, but no longer supported by core team.

Preparing for the Future

  • Drupal 11 baseline opens doors for future AI integrations
  • Feedback requested: Share AI ideas and requirements to ycloud@ymca.net
  • Future workshops and demos planned for later in 2025/2026
  • No commitments yet, but community input welcomed

Sandboxes Update (Andrii)

  • Production sandboxes temporarily down due to 10.5 release (will be fixed within 1-2 days)
  • Development sandboxes for Drupal 11 coming in next couple of weeks
  • Production sandboxes intended to stay up permanently for community testing

Recording

Resources

December 11, 2024

Tom Scarborough is joined by Kylie Aldridge-Ogden from the Core team, guest Mike Hennesey from YMCA360, and Y-USA CIO Tom Gardner to discuss status of YMCA’s Website Services.

Agenda items include:

  • Small Y Template Release
  • YMCA360 Demo
  • Deprecation Reminders
  • Community Resources
  • Y-USA Update
  • Q & A

Recording

Resources

November 13, 2024

Tom Scarborough is joined by Stasya Paliienko, Avi Schwab, Shelley Goetz, and Andrii Podanenko from the Core team to discuss what’s coming up in the YMCA’s Website Services roadmap.

Agenda items include:

  • Upcoming Releases
  • Small Y Template demonstration
  • Deprecation Reminders
  • Product Roadmap Reminder
  • Community Resources
  • Questions

Recording

Resources

October 9, 2024

Tom Scarborough is joined by Kylie Aldridge-Ogden and Avi Schwab from the Core team to discuss what’s coming up in the YMCA’s Website Services roadmap.

Agenda items include:

Release Schedule Update

  • Small Y Template demonstration
  • Deprecation Reminders
  • Product Roadmap Reminder
  • Community Call Time Change
  • Community Resources
  • Questions

Recording

Resources

August 13, 2024

Tom Scarborough is joined by Shelley Goetz and Avi Schwab from the Core team and Michael DeTorre, Joe Michaelson, and Jeff Greer from VMLY&R to discuss what’s coming up in the YMCA’s Website Services roadmap.

Agenda items include:

  • Release Schedule Reminder
  • An explanation of the Small Y Template project
  • Font Licensing - for Cachet and Montserrat fonts
  • Product Roadmap Reminder
  • Community Call Time Change - Now on the 2nd Wednesday of each month at 11am CT
  • Virtual Y - Sunset Reminder

Recording

Resources

July 9, 2024

Tom Scarborough is joined by Shelley Goetz and Avi Schwab from the Core team to discuss what’s coming up in the YMCA’s Website Services roadmap.

Highlight agenda items include:

  • Release Schedule Changes
  • Description of the Small Y Template
  • Security Updates
  • Virtual Y - sunsetting at end of 2024

Recording

Resources

June 11, 2024

Tom Scarborough is joined by Stasya Paliienko, Avi Schwab, and Shelley Goetz from the Core team to demonstrate features in the June release of YMCA’s Website Service.

Highlight agenda items include:

  • Release timeline updates
  • Showcasing new Activity Finder updates
  • Layout Builder improvements: Scheduling Options, Updated Schema, and Meta Tags
  • Canadian Colorway Improvements
  • Virtual Y - sunsetting at end of 2024

Recording

Resources

May 7, 2024

Tom Scarborough is joined by Avi Schwab and Shelley Goetz from the Core team to demonstrate features in the forthcoming June release of YMCA’s Website Service.

Highlight agenda items include:

  • Release timeline updates
  • Showcasing new Activity Finder updates
  • A closer look at Website Service’s Next Generation Design System
  • The “dark mode” enhancements and why they are important.

Recording

Resources

April 8, 2024

Tom Scarborough is joined by Kylie Aldridge-Ogden, Shelley Goetz, and Roman Salo from the Core team to demonstrate newly released features from the March point release of YMCA’s Website Service.

Highlight agenda items include:

  • Release timeline updates
  • Demo of updates to Weekly Schedule Management
  • An in-depth description of the website update process from YMCA’s Cloud Hosting Service and YMCA partners

Recording

Resources

March 12, 2024

Tom Scarborough is joined by Kylie Aldridge-Ogden, Shelley Goetz, Roman Salo, and Avi Schwab from the Core team to demonstrate newly released features from the March release of YMCA’s Website Service.

Highlight agenda items include:

  • Demo of Weekly Schedule Management
  • Explanation of the Polyfill issue fix
  • Description of the Text Editor fix for creating buttons
  • Events entry and display improvements, now with recurring options!
  • Traction Rec Integration Update

Recording

Resources

February 9, 2024

Sandeep Goswami and Tom Gardner are joined by Kylie Aldridge-Ogden, Andrii Podanenko, and Avi Schwab from the Core team to review the current state of the YMCA’s Digital Services roadmap, including an update about the TractionRec/Y-CRM, upcoming security updates, and addressing community questions.

Recording

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January 9, 2024

Tom Scarborough is joined by Kylie Aldridge-Ogden, Avi Schwab, and Shelley Goetz from the Core team to review the current state of the YMCA’s Digital Services roadmap.

Recording

Due to a technical issue there is no meeting recording available.

Resources

December 12, 2023

Tom Scarborough is joined by Kylie Aldridge-Ogden, Avi Schwab, and Shelley Goetz from the Core team to review the current state of the YMCA’s Digital Services roadmap, including a demonstration the new Promotion content type and the Program & Subprogram content types in Layout Builder.

Recording

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November 14, 2023

Tom Scarborough is joined by Kylie Aldridge-Ogden, Avi Schwab, and Shelley Goetz from the Core team and Michael DeTorre from VMLY&R to review the current state of the YMCA’s Digital Services roadmap and to present the Demo Content sample pages.

Recording

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October 10, 2023

Tom Scarborough is joined by Tom Gardner, Kylie Aldridge-Ogden, and Shelley Goetz from the Core team to review the current state of the YMCA’s Digital Services roadmap including features slated for the December 2023 release. Guest presenter and SEO expert Richard Nosek shared his knowledge about Google Analytics 4.

Recording

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September 12, 2023

Tom Scarborough is joined by Kylie Aldridge-Ogden, Shelley Goetz, Stasya Paliienko, and Avi Schwab from the Core team to demonstrate newly released features from the September release of YMCA’s Website Service.

Highlight features demonstrated by Stasya Paliienko and Avi Schwab include:

  • Layout Builder content types for Camp, Facility, Branch, and Event
  • Content Overview documentation links
  • Ability to compare Revisions of pages
  • Updated CK Editor
  • Support for adding Structured Schema data and Metadata

Recording

Resources

August 8, 2023

Tom Gardner is joined by Kylie Aldridge-Ogden and Shelley Goetz from the Core team and Dan Dieffenbach and Jessica Stroot from YMCA360 to share the latest news about the YMCA’s Digital Services roadmap, including a demonstration of the YMCA360 Web and mobile product.

Recording

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July 11, 2023

Tom Scarborough is joined by Kylie Aldridge-Ogden, Shelley Goetz, Stasya Paliienko, and Avi Schwab from the Core team to share the latest news about the YMCA’s Website Service roadmap.

Recording

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June 13, 2023

Tom Gardner is joined by Kylie Aldridge-Ogden, Shelley Goetz, Andrii Podanenko, Stasya Paliienko, and Avi Schwab from the Core team to share the latest news about the YMCA’s Website Service roadmap.

Recording

Resources

May 9, 2023

Tom Gardner and Tom Scarborough are joined by Kylie Aldridge-Ogden, Shelley Goetz, Andrii Podanenko, and Avi Schwab from the Core team to share the latest news about the YMCA’s Website Service roadmap.

Recording

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April 11, 2023

Tom Gardner and Tom Scarborough are joined by Kylie Aldridge-Ogden, Shelley Goetz, and Avi Schwab from the Core team to share the latest news about the YMCA’s Website Service roadmap.

Recording

Resources

March 14, 2023

Tom Gardner and Tom Scarborough are joined by Shelley Goetz, Stasya Paliienko, Andrii Podanenko, and Avi Schwab from the Core team to share the latest news about the YMCA’s Website Service roadmap. Stasya Paliienko demonstrates the Layout Builder version 2 components released today.

Recording

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February 14, 2023

Tom Gardner and Tom Scarborough are joined by Kylie Aldridge-Ogden, Shelley Goetz, Andrii Podanenko, and Avi Schwab from the Core team, as well as Steven Wright from Daxko to share the latest news about the YMCA’s Website Service roadmap. Avi demonstrates comparing a page created with Paragraphs to an equivalent page created using the new Layout Builder, and Steven shares details about the new Daxko API.

Recording

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January 10, 2023

Tom Gardner and Tom Scarborough are joined by Kylie Aldridge-Ogden, Shelley Goetz, Andrii Podanenko, and Avi Schwab from the Core team to share the latest information about:

  • Daxko and GXP Embedded Code updates
  • 2023 site planning, including
  • Migration to Drupal 10
  • Budgeting for end of year
  • 2024 for migration off of paragraphs
  • Layout builder V2 Training and Documentation Overview
  • Incorporate of Events page feedback
  • Welcome YMCA of Metro Atlanta to the community!

Recording

Resources