[17:38] Question 1: How would you describe yourself as a Drupal.org user?
[17:38] you mean my level of expertese?
[17:39] Are you a casual user, an expert, a helper, problem solver etc.
[17:39] um ... I develop web sites with Drupal, and visit Drupal.org pretty much every day ... so I'd say I'm a fanatic.
[17:39] I try & help every know and then in the forums.
[17:40] Question 2: How often do you visit Drupal.org?
[17:40] every day pretty much.
[17:40] I think you answered it
[17:40] yep
[17:40] Question 3: When you visit Drupal.org, how long do you spend on the site?
[17:41] Normally between 30 and 90 minutes I guess.
[17:41] Question 4: What would you describe as your goals for visiting Drupal.org?
[17:41] Look at the forums for general news & questions ... check new module updates, and check out the api if I'm trying to solve a development problem.
[17:42] When you look in the forums, you goal is?
[17:42] normally just to check out the questions people are asking, and 'keep my finger on the pulse' - sometimes it almost seems to be a social thing!
[17:42] That's great feedback
[17:43] Question 5. What is easy to do on Drupal.org?
[17:43] front page news is easy - but the page I normally look at first is the forums ... with some practise they are easy to navigate (I didn't find the forums easy to navigate initially).
[17:44] Can you tell me a little about your learning process with respect to learning how to navigate the forums?
[17:44] I think the different sections were confusing - I wasn't quite sure what section I should be using for what particular question I had.
[17:46] Any ideas on how to improve that?
[17:47] I'd have to think about that (the forum structure) ... because it's easy to get used to how it is of course.
[17:47] If I can jump the gun, and say what I think does need improving on the site?
[17:47] go ahead
[17:48] I suppose it would be the handbooks (and to a lesser extent perhaps the api).
[17:48] The handbooks are very hard to navigate - quite a mess. I think they use the book structure, which after two years of using, I still find fairly un-intuitive.
[17:49] Let's expand on that
[17:49] Quite apart from a lot of the information being out of date, or to do with 4.6, 4.5, etc, I actually find just the way the information is physicaly organised quite difficult to navigate.
[17:49] Question 6: What's hard to do on Drupal.org?
[17:49] For me, it would be navigating the handbooks the top one.
[17:50] I haven't learnt how to do cvs ... and applying patches can be an ordeal - but this isn't really drupal.org's problem.
[17:50] Perhaps a link to /project/modules/date could be useful (for seeing updated modules)
[17:50] But my number one suggestion would be to improve the handbooks - and as I say, not just the information there, but improve the navigation of the book module.
[17:51] This is the last question. Question 7: Is there anything else important about Drupal.org that we haven't discussed?
[17:52] I suppose just the problem you would have in any community on any site ... sometimes the hardcore regular user/developers can be a bit harsh on new people making suggestions.
[17:53] Do you want to expand on that?
[17:53] However, as a rule, I think there is a pretty good atmosphere in the forums. Just sometimes when people make suggestions they get the "do it yourself, scratch your own itch" answer ...
[17:53] I can understand why sepeck, chx, etc talk like this of course ...
[17:53] But for someone who has just joined the site for a week or so, sometimes those answers can be a bit demoralizing.
[17:54] I'm not criticizing sepeck or anyone else by the way - because of course he does an enormous amount of great work. As I say, I think things like these are inevitable.
[17:54] Ok, got it
[17:55] Anything else import to talk?
[17:55] oh if I can say one more thing?
[17:55] yes, please
[17:55] go ahead
[17:55] What has hugely improved my understanding of Drupal by 1000% has been the articles on IBM, and drupaldojo
[17:55] That's great
[17:56] feedback
[17:56] some structured tutorials like these have helped me 100 times more than the handbooks ever have. I really think drupaldojo is going to be brilliant for the drupal community.
[17:56] That's it - thanks for listening!
[17:56] Thanks for your feedback