We all have been waiting for this.. Drupal.org upgrade project is entering QA stage! Over 190 people already signed up to be A/B testers. Announcement has been updated with further instructions, make sure to check it.
In other upgrade news - the Bluecheese team got more volunteers now with new people joining last week and team's issue queue is active again!
The Project team had a lot of progress in the past 2 weeks and fixed issues like:
In the third installment of the Drupal Global Training Day initiative as set forth by the Association’s Board, there was amazing success and growth. Drupal evangelists the world over stepped up to the plate providing free or low cost training events to their local communities.
July this year first ever Drupal Governance Sprint took place. Drupal.org was among the topics discussed. There were some ideas on how to ensure that site maintenance goes smooth, policies are in place, user’s issues are being answered and experience in the queue is consistent for the users. While implementing those ideas should have positive effect on Drupal.org maintenance, that process will take quite some time. And we don’t necessarily need to wait. We can start discussing existing problems and self-organizing right now. This will also make governance project go much easier and faster once it moves to Drupal.org.
I want to start discussion on Drupal.org governance with one huge and important part of the Drupal.org which is webmasters queue.
You are eligible to vote if you have an account on drupal.org, logged in during the past 12 months, and created your account before 31 August 2012 when the election was announced.
Last week we finished migrating companies from the old Drupal services book to the new Marketplace. We are already reviewing requests to be listed in the new section. If you want to get your company listed, please follow marketplace guidelines. We still have quite a lot of open requests, so please be patient while our volunteers are going through them. Or better.. help us make it faster by reviewing some of the requests! Find out how you can help.
This update contains important details about "Meet the candidate" sessions, who can vote and how to vote. I would like to extend a huge thank you to all the candidates for putting themselves forward. Their names, with links to their drupal.org profiles, and nominations are at the end of this post.
This is one of the hardest blog posts that I've had to write. Regrettably and with much consternation we have decided to cancel DrupalCon Sao Paulo due to a low level of sponsorship support, fewer than expected session submissions, and higher than expected costs.
Community Board Member elections are just around the corner, have you submitted your nomination yet? Submit today! Nominations close September 16th. We encourage members from all over the world to participate and bring balance of not only geography, but experiences.
Just over two years ago the Drupal Association began a major transformation to better meet the needs of the growing Drupal community. A lot of changes took place including the creation of a 501c3, a new governance structure, new committees, and, a very important step, the hiring of staff. This transformation set the Drupal Association on a path to be able to support the community in ways that were previously impossible. It also set the Association on a trajectory that would have it manage significant portions of community built and community controlled assets including drupal.org, DrupalCon, and the Git repositories that contains hundreds of thousands lines of your code.
Drupal Global Training Days is an initiative set forth earlier this year to introduce new and beginning users to Drupal. The Drupal Association is partnering with training companies around the world to make the next Drupal Global Training Day on September 14, 2012 a success.
We would love your help in spreading the word and in helping us grow your Drupal Community. These free or low cost training events will be offered on September 14, and then once a quarter, with one of two curriculums:
We are finally back after Drupalcon and "after-Drupalcon week" with a short week notes post.
DrupalCon..
was amazing! We've had several BOF sessions, met lots of community members and had lots of productive discussions. Drupal.org office hours BOF resulted in a "Drupal 8 call to action" block on the drupal.org front page (thanks woeldiche). Notes from other BOFs will be published as updates to their relevant issues or groups on groups.drupal.org.
