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Luma Guests Jasmyne Epps - jasmyneepps.com jasmyneepps Hosts Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi Amber Matz - tugboatqa.com [amber himes matz](https://www.drupal.org/u/amber himes matz) MOTW Correspondent Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu Brief description: Have you ever wanted to stand up a polished, accessible government website in Drupal (with components, content types, SEO, and cookie consent all wired up) without writing any code? There's a site template for that.
Module name/project name: Convivial Gov
Brief history Created in March 2026 by Morpht, the shop behind the Convivial family — with Ivan Zugec leading the maintainer team. Versions available: 1.3.3, which works with Drupal 11
Maintainership Actively maintained: release just last week, on September 16th Security coverage Test coverage: functional tests for install and validation, plus a kernel requirements test. Documentation there's a full handbook over at docs.morpht.com, and a live demo at gov.convivial.io Open issues: none?
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