For the past few months, we have been holding "Drupal.org Office Hours" on IRC. Each Monday anyone interested in contributing to Drupal.org development had a chance to talk to the team, get support and advice, generally see what we are working on. Lately we noticed that less and less people attend office hours. We would like to know what is the reason and how can we make office hours more efficient. Please fill out this short survey to let us know how we can improve!
Tezza is doing great job reviewing case studies together with lisarex and kwseldman. We are slowly adding more of them to the Featured section. There is always a room for more reviewers - take a look at the wiki if you'd like to help.
The new events page for groups.drupal.org is basically ready. Few things are stopping it from being deployed. One of them - Better exposed filters module, which we need to install on groups.drupal.org, more accurately - this patch for Better exposed filters needs some testing.
The past 2 weeks have been pretty active and we have some awesome developments to share today.
First, a new slideshow has been added to the Case studies section thanks to bmaheshs and Kapil Juneja from Tekriti Software. This section is now fully ready to showcase the best sites built with Drupal. If you have an impressive site to share, follow the guidelines and publish your own case study.
Earlier this year we asked you to vote on improvements to Drupal.org that you would like to see happen. Request for a better showcase of Drupal websites was in the top 5 by the results of the voting. This week we are happy to announce a revamped Case studies section. This section is a space for members of our community to share what they have been working on and get some feedback. At the same time we hope that it will be helpful for people evaluating Drupal as possible solution by providing real-life examples of awesome sites built with Drupal, technical details of their implementation and details of project management process. Thank you to lisarex, larowlan, drumm and all other community members that made this possible!
Last week we launched the revamped Case Studies section on drupal.org. More improvements to layout and filtering are planned. This section can be a great help for people evaluating various solutions and figuring out how Drupal can help them. It can be a great marketing tool for Drupal project as a whole.
For this to be a success, we need to regularly populate this section with high quality case studies that will be featured on the Drupal.org homepage. We are looking to build a team of dedicated people who will work on Case Studies section on a constant basis, particularly writers, editors and marketing professionals.
You only need to commit to spending 1 hour per week on this initiative, though if you want to do more, that's great!
During past 2 weeks we had slow progress on all fronts, with the biggest impediment - resource constraints (as in too few people to do too many things).
We are very close to deployment of updates to Case studies section on drupal.org. This will be the first step of redesign of that section. In future we are planning to add slideshow (bmaheshs and the team at Tekriti Software are working on this right now) and various other enhancements.
Welcome to the first edition of drupal.org team weekly notes - regular updates on what is happening at the drupal.org development land, what we've been working on and how you can participate and help us make drupal.org a better place. (Actually these updates will be posted once per 2 weeks, but bi-weekly notes sounds not so cool!)
