Flickr Photo: nidhugLast year, The Drupal Association launched the Supporting Partner Program. The program was to function as a way to crowdsource funds for strategic community initiatives; namely creating a tech team to improve the community’s home Drupal.org. We are so thankful to the 36 companies who stepped up to support this effort. 



It goes without saying that Drupal.org is a big site to manage and requires a lot of resources. Resources are needed not only to maintain the site, but yes...improve it! Drupal.org needs to be upgraded to D7. Developers want better collaboration tools. Site builders want to find the right modules for the job, faster. To tackle this brain-smacking project we needed a team, the D.O Tech Team. But how to fund it?



Meet the Supporting Partners!

These companies saw our need for help, a unique opportunity to help the community, and give back to the project. By becoming Supporting Partners, they  secured over $115,000 in 2012 to fund Drupal.org improvements.



Achieve Internet, Acquia, ADCI Solutions, Amazee Labs, Aten Design Group, Bellcom Open Source, Blackmesh, Blink Reaction, BlueHost, Bluespark, The Cherry Hill Company, Chuva inc., Consult and Design International, Cross(Functional), Duo Consulting, Elevated Third, Evolving Web, GreenGeeks, ImageX Media, Isovera, Jackson River, Krimson, Lullabot, Metal Toad Media, MoatMedia, Microsoft, New Media Denver, Palantir.net, Phase2 Technology, PingV, PreviousNext, Propeople, RealityLoop, Synocom, Tekriti Software, Tribeca Digital


Here’s how Supporting Partners helped us serve the community in 2012

Investments made in hosting and hardware fees to Oregon State University - Open Source Lab (OSU-OSL), home of the Drupal.org servers. Our budgeted investment for 2013 is $90,000. These fees support OSU-OSL in sustaining emerging open source projects and pays for our rapidly growing use of their services. Our current usage:

  • 90 GB space
  • Bandwidth: 22 Mb in, 55 Mb out
  • Use of the virtualization cluster for our Buildbot

Significant upgrade progress made on Drupal.org to D7. This has been a huge project we look forward to seeing through to completion in 2013.

Drupal.org upgrades:

  • New BDD Testing infrastructure for continuing testing of Drupal.org
  • Upgraded GIT infrastructure ready for Drupal 7 or Drupal 8
  • Migrated Bluecheese theme to Drupal 7
  • Upgraded significant portions of the hosting infrastructure
  • Created architecture plans for the Project module and SOLR search infrastructure

What will they fund in 2013?

  • Completion of the D7 upgrade
  • Investment of roughly $25,000 on Drupal.org hardware upgrades to help performance and increase uptime 


We won’t be stopping there! The Drupal Association will work even harder to improve Drupal.org once governance is complete. Stay tuned for further updates on our upcoming plans once governance is in place!



What’s on your mind? What do YOU want to see next on D.O?

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