[Archive] Drupal Association improvements to Drupal.org

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wmostrey's picture

Replace Drupal Planet and Drupal Talk with Drigg

With all the new sites added to the planet lately it seems like a silly process to be done manually. Also the border between Drupal Planet and Drupal Talk is getting pretty vague, especially with all the resposts of late. The Smashing Magazine post about the Drupal Toolbox appeared 4 times on the same frontpage for example.

My suggestion: replace both Drupal Planet and Drupal Talk with Drigg. For those who don't know what Drigg is, it's like Digg but completely written in Drupal. Here are a couple of popular sites running Drigg:

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dww's picture

drupal.org projects as Organic Groups

(Note: this was going to start life as a comment over at John's vision for d.o project pages, but I don't want to hijack that thread with a whole new train of thought...)

Summary: Each project on drupal.org should be an Organic Group.

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Amazon's picture

Cracking the open-source community code for drive-by developers

Cracking the open-source community code for drive-by developers

Matt hits on one of the core driving factors of this redesign. In order to grow the Drupal project, we need to make it easier to contribute. How do we do that? Big prizes await those who crack it.

Kieran

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JohnForsythe's picture

My vision for Drupal.org's project pages

I took some time today to draw up my vision for the project pages..

Only local images are allowed.

Full size version.

It's a mix of my current work, some future plans, and some ideas I had for harnessing Drupal.org's data. More details over here.

So, what do you think?

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Mark Boulton's picture

Redesign Schedule: Feedback/Involvement for initial research and branding

Hi All,

Today is the first in our scheduled dates to ask you for your feedback (if you haven't done already). There are two areas of work done to date that we need your help on:

  1. Initial Research

Leisa has been doing some fantastic work on trying to get to know you, the wider Drupal community, and what does d.o mean to you?

Leisa has been openly blogging the process for a while now, but we're still gathering comments and suggestions. This is a pretty fluid process.

a) the experience strategy for drupal.org, (http://www.disambiguity.com/draft-drupalorg-experience-strategy/),
b) proposed audience segmentation for drupal.org (http://www.disambiguity.com/insiders-and-outsiders/) and
c) initial wireframe ideas for drupal.org (http://www.disambiguity.com/drupalorg-come-wireframe-with-me/)

In addition to these posts, please browse around the Flickr group (http://flickr.com/groups/drupalredesign/), follow the Twitter group (http://twitter.com/drupalredesign)

  1. Initial Branding

For a bit of back story as to why Drupal needs to change its logo, please read this post from Larry.

The latest round of logotypes are attached here. For more rationale on how we got to this point, please have a look at:

a) What's in a Word(mark)? (http://www.markboultondesign.com/news/detail/whats_in_a_wordmark/),
b) Initial Wordmark designs (http://www.markboultondesign.com/news/detail/initial_wordmark_designs/)
c) Why do we need a new logo anyway? (http://www.markboultondesign.com/news/detail/why_do_we_need_a_new_logo_a...), and
d) Cap D or Not? Splash or Not? (http://www.markboultondesign.com/news/detail/cap_d_or_not_splash_or_not/)

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laura s's picture

Slightly OT: Feedback on changes to group layout

Since this has been such an active group, with multiple concurrently active threads, I did a little Panels work here to (hopefully) make it a bit easier to keep up with everything.

The Discussion tab shows all content in the traditional River of News format.

The Recent Activity tab shows a table of posts, sorted by the date/time of the most recent comment on the thread. (Current Drupal aficionados will recognize this as much like the Tracker view.)

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leisareichelt's picture

Updated: redesign discussions to get involved with!

hi all

just a little update of more redesign collaboration we're doing.

if you haven't already, consider whipping up a wireframe of a page you think needs some attention ref: http://www.disambiguity.com/drupalorg-come-wireframe-with-me/

We're also getting into tackling Information Architectuture issues with an online cardsort: http://www.disambiguity.com/drupalorg-help-overhaul-the-information-arch...
(phew, what a long URL!)

and a discussion about whether d.o is one site or many: http://www.disambiguity.com/drupalorg-one-site-or-many/

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starbow's picture

More coverage of regional conferences on drupal.org

I think it is crazy that the regional events don't get more coverage over at the drupal.org main site. DrupalCampLA just had a 400+ person event, but if you put DrupalCampLA into the d.o search box, all you get is a forum post from last year where one of the badcamp organizers mentions them as inspiration. We (badcamp) will probably have around 300 people show up and I am sure DCNYC was huge. g.d.o placement is nice, but d.o is missing out on a big marketing opportunity by not bragging about these events more.

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deviantintegral's picture

"Developer" features for Issues

I've created a javascript which adds plain-text links to issues for easy copy / paste into issue comments. For information, see the handbook page. But this brings up a topic for the redesign - what functions or features are missing which would be useful to developers? I'm sure many of them belong in project.module, but obviously how they are implemented would affect the redesign :)

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Mark Boulton's picture

What's in a word(mark)?

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.

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level09's picture

Let's Drop IE6 Support and provide a better experience !

Lets provide users with a better experience, designing for A crappy browser like IE6 will just hold us back, and limit the features that can be done, 37 signals and Apple MobileMe have already announced dropping IE6 support on all their products, shouldn't we make this step as well ?

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Chris Charlton's picture

I'm loving the open Drupal.org redesign sprints

It is the eve of Drupal Camp Los Angeles and we're super excited. Those who aren't attending know that I'll be pushing to the crowds info about the Drupal.org redesign community initiative, which is turning out to be a great project to watch (or get involved).

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wmostrey's picture

The difference between Drupal Planet and Drupal Talk?

Lately the Drupal Planet is starting to look more and more like Drupal Talk. A whole bunch of people have been added to the Planet the last couple of month and I don't feel it has done a lot of good to the quality of the feed. I wonder what the criteria is to get added to the Planet these days, and even what we expect the Planet to be?

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Amazon's picture

New group for drupal.org theme contributors

We've created a new group for people who would like to contribute to the drupal.org themes. This includes the current theme, the Drupal 6 version of blue beach, and the new theme for the redesign.

http://groups.drupal.org/drupalorg-theme-developers

We had 37 volunteers sign-up at Drupalcon Szeged.

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leisareichelt's picture

Current Redesign Conversations You Should Take A Look At! Experience Strategy & Audience Segmentation

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

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farriss's picture

Redesign schedule

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
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D.o interface inventory

In reviewing the *.d.o sites, I've begun compiling an inventory of existing "templates" and interface elements with examples. The benefit is two fold: 1) to serve as a reference for MBD and 2) to serve as a checklist for interface components we'll need addressed in the final design solution.

I've started first with the "templates" or page layouts and then broken it down with more granularity into interface elements with links for reference as necessary. This is a work-in-progress. Please make suggestions for items that seem to be missing. Thanks!

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JohnForsythe's picture

What users are searching for outside of Drupal.org

I thought you guys might be interested in these search numbers from DrupalModules.com. It turns out they're very similar to what's being reported by Drupal.org. One thing to note, my data has been filtered for IP-uniqueness to prevent result spamming (intentional, or not), the Drupal.org data is just coming right out of the watchdog log unfiltered.

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leisareichelt's picture

Ways for the Drupal Community to participate in the drupal.org redesign project

hi all

firstly I just wanted to say hi! and introduce myself - I'm working with Mark Boulton Design on the redesign project and what I'm working on at the moment is trying to get as much information and participation as possible from the community to help inform our high level user experience and design strategy. Hopefully I met some of you at the recent Drupalcon, and perhaps you've seen a few of my recent posts via Planet Drupal.

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dgorton's picture

Funding Usability and d.o. Redesign Work

Making Drupal easier to find, assess and use seem like good fits for the Knight Drupal Initiative.

We all know that there will be a lot of work to do in the redesign, both for theming as well as module development. How about lining up funding for sustained development time and perhaps things like hosted d.o. redesign sprints?

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