The Association and DrupalCon are growing
I am very excited to announce that the Drupal Association and DrupalCon have hired two great folks to work on our worldwide team; Paul Suway and Isabell Schulz. These two amazing folks will help our growing team continue to refine the DrupalCon and Drupal Association member experience and put in the solid foundation for a strong Association. The Drupal project is growing and we're building out a great team to support this amazing community!
Please help me welcome Paul to the Drupal Association and Isabell to the DrupalCon team!
The internets are like totally evil
This isn't exactly news, but I was always assuming that Drupal people are a bit more honest and reliable. Turns out that I am pretty naïve.
Git migration shake-up improves average crawl speed for drupal.org
So, you have been wondering what the overall effect of the git migration was on drupal.org's performance but didn't dare to ask?
Here's the answer: I don't really know.
The reason for this is that at the same time we made two other changes: all the CVS related URLs were temporarily disabled and the issue statistics pages for each project were restricted to logged in users.
How the Drupal.org home page map works
The map on the home page of Drupal.org is one of the most-noticed new features. It started with the prototype, which was just that— a Flash-based idea for what might go there. During implementation, we had to figure out what exactly it would be and how it would work.
First, we needed to know where people were. Drupal.org has the advantage of an audience who is more-likely to be using modern browsers, and we don’t need everyone’s location. I decided we should use the new Geolocation API, but didn’t find any existing modules. I wrote a small HTML5 user geolocation module to add a share location option to your profile page. For privacy, it is opt-in and rounded to the nearest 0.1 longitude/latitude. Over 5,000 have shared their location, less than 1% of active Drupal.org users, but still looks impressive on a map:
Drupal Store at DrupalCon Chicago 2011!
Drupal schwag.. Drupal schwag.. delicious Drupal schwag. Personally I've been dying to get my hands on some awesome Drupal Shirts from Morten.dk or those cute Druplicons from the Peru folks or a woven knit hat like Webchick's! And I've always been curious to learn about the latest Drupal books and browse them all in one place... a place like DrupalCon!
Why are the old DrupalCon sites blocked?
Some of you may have noticed it, but most probably have not:
the old DrupalCon sites that are still running Drupal are not accessible at the moment, they are locked by a htaccess script.
This is an unfortunate development, but in the end I didn't have any choice but to do this.
The reason for this is quite simple: the sites are unmaintained. With the associated DrupalCon, the various webteams dispersed and software updates weren't done anymore.
How the Drupal 7 announcement page was built
The days before the Drupal 7 release were a scramble to organize a PR effort, including a new landing page and changes to the home page. Both are custom pages rendered by the drupalorg module, Drupal.org’s site-specific module. Site-specific modules need sites to work, and we were ready with infrastructure built during the Drupal.org redesign.
Town Hall Meeting
Hear Ye! Hear Ye!
You are all invited to the Drupal Association's second Town Hall meeting!
The Drupal community is one of the strongest open source communities, involving tens of thousands of developers, themers, administrators, and users connecting with each other every day. In 2006, the Drupal Association was formed by a few community volunteers to support the Drupal community. Now in 2011 the Drupal Association is growing extremely fast and we have a lot of exciting events happening.
Drupal.org Marketplace
The Drupal Association is constantly looking for ways to make Drupal.org more useful for the community. Currently we are working on a Drupal Marketplace which will allow Drupal Service providers to publish listings and categorize them.