While the Drupal Association’s regular events are DrupalCons in Europe and North America, the community is always busy organizing all kinds of events around the world. The community has a long standing tradition to augment DrupalCon with the Frontend United and Drupal Dev Days traveling conferences in Europe which have more focused target groups.
There is never a shortage of things to do on Drupal.org and that’s never been more true than right now. We have D7 upgrade clean up to finish, as well as variety of improvements that were on hold during the upgrade. We want you to know what our tech team is focused on and where we’re spending our time, so here are some of the pieces in our first quarter roadmap.
In 2014, The Drupal Association will launch new programs that serve the community and generate revenue to make Drupal.org a worthy home for the project. You can learn more about this focus in our February 2013 blog and our December 2013 blog about funding Drupal.org improvements.
I am very pleased to introduce you to the newest member of the Drupal Association staff: Rudy Grigar (basic). Rudy’s first day at the Association is today, but it’s certainly not the start of his Drupal or Drupal.org experience. As our DevOps Engineer, Rudy will be in charge of ensuring that Drupal.org infrastructure is optimized for security and performance.
How can Drupal compete with the large budgets of proprietary software sales teams? It’s not just a question for Drupal. Other open source projects that largely depend on the work of volunteers have similar challenges. That’s why we decided it was worth a try to cooperate with other communities struggling with similar issues.
Join us on January 15 at Noon Pacific for our first board meeting of 2014. This meeting will be the first to use the metrics we developed in our 2014 Leadership Plan to tell the story of our progress. For 2014, each staff update will contain metrics through the prior month. For example, in February, we will be able to report the number of comments in issues on Drupal.org as of 31 January, 2014.
Great news! The official dates for 2014 Global Training Days have been selected:
Friday, February 28 (or Saturday, March 1)
Friday, May 30 (or Saturday, May 31)
Friday, August 29 (or Saturday, August 30)
Friday, November 14 (or Saturday, November 15)
As you have likely heard, the Drupal.org Tech Team recently completed the upgrade of Drupal.org to Drupal 7. While there are still some upgrade issues being resolved, Drupal.org now runs the latest version of Drupal, improving the code under the hood and allowing for greater flexibility.
Have you seen all the great things that are in store for Drupal.org next year? For example here are just a few mentioned in the 2014 Leadership Plan: a Drupal.org Tech Team to provide feature development, more servers and hardware to improve speed and security, and new persona-centric landing pages to grow Drupal adoption. It is going to be an awesome 2014!
While the Drupal Association’s regular events are DrupalCons in Europe and North America, the community is always busy organizing all kinds of events around the world. The community has a long standing tradition to augment DrupalCon with the Frontend United and Drupal Dev Days traveling conferences in Europe which have more focused target groups.
In 2014, The Drupal Association will launch new programs that serve the community and generate revenue to make Drupal.org a worthy home for the project. You can learn more about this focus in our 
I am very pleased to introduce you to the newest member of the Drupal Association staff: Rudy Grigar (
Join us on January 15 at Noon Pacific for our first board meeting of 2014. This meeting will be the first to use the metrics we developed in our 2014 Leadership Plan to tell the story of our progress. For 2014, each staff update will contain metrics through the prior month. For example, in February, we will be able to report the number of comments in issues on Drupal.org as of 31 January, 2014.
Congratulations Drupal community. You are now raising a teenager!
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