About groups.drupal.org

Introduction

Groups.drupal.org facilitates collaboration for collections of Drupal fans everywhere. We host local meetup groups like Toronto and South Africa. We host working groups like Views developers and High performance. These groups each get a home page where they can post. Those posts are offered via email and RSS to those who wish to subscribe. The posts are tagged for interesting browsing. This site expects all users to follow the Drupal Code of Conduct.

Site maintainers

Ezra Gildesgame (ezra-g)
Scott Reynen (sreynen)
Justin Tupin (justin2pin)

Former Site maintainers

Code

  • This site runs Drupal 6
  • Modules of interest
    • Organic Groups and OG Vocab. This module provides the groups containers and access control and subscription management features. Each group gets email subscriptions, RSS feeds, own theme and own language, taxonomy, and much more. By Moshe Weitzman.
    • Views. Provides for powerful custom node listings such as seen on the group directory page and on the Unread posts pages. By merlinofchaos.
    • Date. This CCK related module powers the Events functionality here. By KarenS
    • Signup. Lets users reply to events, sends reminder e-mails, broadcast messages to everyone signed up, etc. By dww.
    • Markdown. Enables authors to use comfortable text syntax to create rich HTML posts. By Gábor Hojtsy.
    • Mollom for a preventive form of spam protection. This is important since every post/comment on the site is mailed out to users.
    • Image and image_attach. Enabled groups to have their own image.
    • Modr8. Moderate posts using an optimized administrative interface. Used to review new group proposals.
    • Pathauto. Provides automatic friendly URLs for group home pages.
    • Diff. Shows word by word differences between different revisions of a node. Also shows differences during a node edit. Maintained by yhahn
    • Fasttoggle. Editors may promote or sticky posts with just a single click while reading around the site. By kkaefer.
    • Apachesolr. Powers our fast faceted search. By robertDouglass
    • Og Panels, Panels, and CTools. Powers the custom panel pages authored by group administrators.
    • Bakery. Single sign on integration among all *.drupal.org web sites.
    • Notifications and Messaging which power the e-mails sent by the site.
    • Radioactivity which helps calculate the hot content on the site automatically to create a more interesting view of the most important content than a manually curated homepage.

Policies

We have a few policies for how the site runs. In general we follow all the rules of drupal.org. Then beyond that:

Problems with this site, Helping with this site

You might want to subscribe to the general discussion group about this site. Editors and interested users might be interested in the Maintenance group which discusses the day to day operation of this site. You may also contact the site maintainers with any questions or concerns. There is also a queue where you can add an issue if you're having a problem with this site.

More

For more information about Drupal Groups policies and processes, see http://drupal.org/getting-involved-guide/groups