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Membership Calculator: Excludes unpublished branch locations from display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
Slack: Community support channels (monitored by Tom Scarboro and team)
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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