redesign

Hi All,

I just thought I'd drop a note in here about some thoughts on branding we're having, and particularly, the Drupal Wordmark.

http://www.markboultondesign.com/news/detail/whats_in_a_wordmark/

This doesn't mean we're ditching Druplicon by any means. What it does mean is that we're progressing the Drupal Wordmark (and associated styleguide) beyond an off-the-shelf typeface.

hi all

Just wanted to get these in front of you for your review - we're currently discussing:

a) the experience strategy for drupal.org, (http://www.disambiguity.com/draft-drupalorg-experience-strategy/) and
b) proposed audience segmentation for drupal.org (http://www.disambiguity.com/insiders-and-outsiders/)

take a look, give us some feedback!
and don't forget you can also participate on Flickr, Twitter and Slideshare!
(more info here: http://www.disambiguity.com/opening-the-floodgates/)

thanks
Leisa

As mentioned in the d.o front page post, here is the working schedule for the redesign (e.g. please tune into this redesign group at these regularly scheduled times!):

• Friday, September 19th – Sunday, September 21st: initial research and branding development
• Friday, September 26th – Sunday, September 28th: proposed top level IA
• Friday, October 3rd – Sunday, October 5th: prototyping round 2
• Friday, October 24th – Sunday, October 26th: prototyping round 3, branding development round 3, IA strategy, design concepts
• Friday, October 31st – Sunday, November 2nd: prototyping round 4, branding development round 4, design concepts

As announced on the front page of Drupal.org (http://drupal.org/node/295037) Welsh graphic designer Mark Boulton has been named as the Drupal redesign partner by the association.

For more information on Mark head over to
http://www.markboulton.co.uk
http://www.markboultondesign.com

In preparation for the anticipated release of the redesign RFP, I am soliciting the names and contacts for firms or individuals who are interested in receiving a copy of the RFP and all official communications about the project.

The scope of the project includes:
- research
- information architecture
- design and branding

(The full draft RFP can be found here: http://groups.drupal.org/node/11336)

Firms or individuals who can show successful experience in one or more of these areas on projects of similar size are encouraged to participate in the bid process.

We have finally gone live with our redesign of the Georgia Podcast Network! For a rundown of what's new from an end user standpoint, check out our announcement blog post.

GAPN is based on Drupal 5.7, and makes heavy use of the following modules: CCK, Views, Workflow-ng, FeedAPI, ImageCache, Usernode, Bio, Fivestar, and Voting API. That's not a full list, but the site leans on those the most.

Additionally, we built a custom theme and wrote several custom modules to get things working just the way we wanted them to. In writing these modules, we built custom Drupal integration for getID3, SWFUpload, and the JW Media Player.

Hope you like the site! I'll be happy to answer any "how did you do that?" questions if you have them.

I asked more than 1,000 existing Drupal users (not Drupal prospects) what they would like to see improved on drupal.org. A prioritized wish list is provided below:

More ideas and suggestions might be available in the comments of http://buytaert.net/drupal-org-wishlist.