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  • Nov 19

    Getting the drupal.org re-design implemented: Drupal companies please sponsor a section

    For the last year the Drupal.org redesign has progressed quietly and steadily. Almost 200 people have participated in the redesign by commenting, discussing, reviewing, testing, designing, theming, or writing code to get it done. We have had 6 re-design sprints (2 in Europe and 4 in the US) and built significant infrastructure to get the redesign development and staging ready for the community to make the final push. We are now asking Drupal consulting shops to step forward and help us implement one section of the redesign.

  • Oct 30

    Building the Drupal.org re-design community infrastructure: Administrators wanted

    One of the biggest challenges in working in a large community like the Drupal community is removing bottlenecks. All too often the community can seem to come to a grinding halt on just one issue that can only be managed by one person. On Monday Dries gave a presentation at MIT and talked about how some of the Drupal community’s biggest problems have helped create some of our best solutions. In particular, he cited how our drupal.org server melt down in 2005 lead to the creation of the Drupal association to proactively manage and plan for our infrastructure growth.

  • Sep 11

    More computer power

    The Drupal Association has used some of the money that it acquired thanks to the Drupal community and its sponsors to buy more computing power for the infrastructure that all services of drupal.org are hosted on.

  • Jun 29

    Drupal booth at Hostingcon, Aug 10-12th, Washington, DC

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    The Drupal project will have a booth at Hostingcon, August 10-12th, in Washington, DC. This is the second year we will be at hostingcon meeting with members of the Drupal community and talking to hosting providers. The booth will be staffed by Eric Mandel, from Blackmesh hosting, members of the DC Drupal community, and Drupal hosting providers.

  • Jun 21

    2009 Budget

    After months of hard work defining goals, getting price quotes, setting priorities and building working teams the Association is ready to announce our 2009 budget. The Association is an all volunteer ran organization made up of and supported by the Drupal community and is excited to share our budget with the community. We want to keep you informed as to how your donations are being used.

  • Apr 29

    Turn over in the Drupal association board and general assembly

    A few weeks ago a community member raised concern on the consulting list about turn over in the Drupal association, or rather the lack of it. Since this information is often public, but hard to track down, I thought I'd shed some light.

    Ten people have rotated on and off the board of the Drupal
    association. Only four original board members are still present.
    The board has two new members as of 2009 for the Drupal association, who were not previously permanent members of the association: Tiffany Farriss and Cary Gordon.

  • Mar 15

    Submit ideas for Drupal Association website

    Now that the Drupal.org redesign is underway, Neil Drumm is currently collecting suggestions for what a revamped Drupal Association website might look like.

    Angela Byron is collecting feedback and opinions from the Drupal community at http://webchick.net/node/58. Please post comments/opinions!

  • Mar 12

    Drupal.org infrastructure status and growth presentation

    Narayan Newton and I gave a talk at Drupalcon on the state of the http://drupal.org infrastructure. Narayan, Gerhard, David, and myself are currently working on a infrastructure budget proposal for the Drupal association. This proposal will give you some insight into the challenges of running Drupal.org and why it is not just another Drupal site. In fact, our use of Drupal as a web application platform for Drupal.org pushes the Drupal project in many directions that lead to innovation.

  • Feb 27

    Drupal association membership reminders sent out with CiviCRM 2.1

    The Drupal association has been using CiviCRM for a couple of years now. As part of the redesign effort we upgraded the Drupal association site to Drupal 6 and CiviCRM 2.1.

    With the help from the Donald Lobo of the CiviCRM team and David Strauss we now have automatic membership renewal notices working in CiviCRM 2.1. With previous versions we had technical difficulties with membership renewal notices and would send renewal reminders out in batches.

  • Feb 27

    Drupal's participation in Google Summer of Code 2009

    For the last several years, Angie Byron (aka webchick) has done an outstanding job coordinating Drupal's participation in the Google Summer of Code program. This year, however, Angie has the additional responsibility of being a core maintainer for Drupal 7.

    Earlier this year, Angie put out a post asking for help in the Summer of Code 2009. Alex Urevick-Ackelsberg responded, and has been working with other members of the community to prepare for SoC 2009.

    So this year, Alex will be Drupal's "organization administrator," or point person within the community for the SoC. In this role, Alex will have a number of duties, and will need your help!