I am pleased to announce that the Drupal association now has over 400 paid members. Collectively, we have raised $16 116.59 from our membership program.
1) The plone community has a plone strategic summit, perhaps this is something the association should fund. I am working with Angie, Google and Joomla to have a similar event in April.
2) #6: Increased focus on a culture of systematic benchmarking and performance tuning. I personally feel the Drupal association should fund a performance lab for Drupal. There's at least 5 Drupal performance labs being built privately, and if we had one for Drupal 7 it would help.
As outlined in the previous post, drupal.org got over 850k referalss from search engines' result pages in January 2008. Thanks to awstats we've got some statistics to share about people's favourite search words.
Newton, MA, January 29, 2008 – The AIIM International Exposition & Conference (www.aiimexpo.com), the largest, most comprehensive content and information management event in North America, today announced that Drupalcon Boston 2008 (boston2008.drupalcon.org) will be co-located. Drupal is a popular open source web publishing and collaboration platform, used by organizations including Sony BMG Records, Yahoo!, and The United Nations.
(from an earlier post to the infrastructure mailing list)
You'll maybe remember the problems we had with googlebot in summer. It had crawled about 150k pages per day and that caused problems on our servers. I then asked google (via the webmaster tools, thanks to Morbus Iff) to crawl less often and it went down to below 10k pages per day. This setting expired in November and as of December googlebot
Today, there was some loss of electricity at the Open Source Lab. An electrical fire somewhere else on their campus led to their power being turned off for some time.
That's usually bad for computers, but wasn't bad at all for drupal.org's infrastructure. Why? Because the OSUOSL data centre has a backup generator! So drupal.org continued to serve pages. About 40k during the roughly 2 hours of the outage. Thanks OSUOSL!
The Boston home town really wants you to come to Boston. If you haven't been to Boston, you should know locals take being the home team very, very seriously.
Let me introduce you to some of the outstanding volunteers local to the Boston area who are working hard to make this conference a rousing success.
Over 500 people have registered at drupalcon.org! But far fewer have paid for registration. One of the reasons is they are now doing the delicate dance of asking their boss if they can go to Drupalcon.
Here's a few tips for getting your boss to pay for a Drupalcon.
I am happy to let you know that I have been re-elected to the Drupal association board of directors. I ran for the position of fund raiser and I believe when the board next meets we will agree to have me continue in that role.
I'd like to talk a little bit about why I ran for this position, and the approaches I've pursued in raising funds for the Drupal project.
The Drupal association is an unusual entity in the Drupal project. It's the only part of the project that is organized as a legal business.
