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Drupal Knowledge Base
I've been discussing with wundo a few ideas we have about a "Drupal knowledge base" and I think this could be included in the coming Drupal.org redesign.
This Drupal knowledge base would be a place for keeping very consistent and comprehensive documentation for users and developers and a place to gather useful information that is currently dispersed on the web.
This knowledge base, as planned, would include these elements:
Read moreDrupal.org - the redesign (high level)
OK, this is a proposal for drupal.org's overall structure, drafted out of an irc discussion which lasted at least 2-3 hours.
In total, drupal.org + 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 subdomains
drupal.org
Read moreRoles and responsibilities for the Drupal re-design
Hello, I've begun contacting individuals who've expressed interest in taking on a formal role in the Drupal.org redesign.
Here are some roles I am looking to have filled. The roles will take approximately a 12 month commitment, depending on the role.
- Business owners - Business leaders from the community with proven track records of deliver solid business results of a major Drupal site deliverable
- small consulting business representative: A person to represent the interests of small <= 3 person Drupal consulting shops
Drupal Dojo + drupal.org/videocasts = video.drupal.org?
During the Drupal Dojo Birds-of-a-Feather meeting at DrupalCon Boston we discussed two seperate items that I believe are interconnected: figuring out how to get more video lessons into the Dojo and doing a better job of attracting more potential teachers and students to the site. To address the first of these issues, I committed myself to doing outreach to individuals and companies who are creating video-based instructional materials to try and get them to submit their work to the Dojo. After that session I started to look around the series of tubes known as the "Internet" and I found quite a few videos. But, what I also noticed was that a good percentage of those videos already are being shared with the Drupal community, but through drupal.org/videocasts rather than the Dojo, which oddly doesn't seem to appear on the videocast pages at all. This brought to mind something that I've heard Josh and others talk about, the idea that we should consider moving the dojo to something more aligned with Drupal.org itself, and I have to say that the more I think about it, the more sense it makes to me.
So, my question is this: does it make sense to consolidate our collective efforts in one location that is better connected with d.o. itself? Something like video.drupal.org, or possibly as a subsection of a <a href="http://drupal.org/handbook/customization>tutorials section of the site (which is where the videocasts now sit), which could be called something like tutorials.drupal.org.
Read moreCommunity Segmentation, Bad News?
What brings me to this topic is all the excited talk I've been hearing second hand about splitting groups.drupal.org and drupal.org into many separate chunks (documentation.drupal.org, news.drupal.org, groups.drupal.org, downloads.drupal.org, content.contributed.maintained.6.modules.downloads.drupal.org , you see where this is going). What worries me is that in such an implementation it may become too complex to get to key areas or discussions.
The way I see it, there are a couple major roadblocks for making such a system work (here comes the dreaded Robin-list, grab some coffee):
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The Drupal Brand
I know I am weighing in on a sensitive topic. I found that out earlier today with my poorly received attempt at a humorous blog post entitled "Decapitate Drupal, please". I was unprepared for the negative response I received (though I did get some positive response as well). Someone rightly pointed out that Drupal Planet was not the right place for the discussion and suggested I come here. So, here I am.
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Drupal Home Redesign - A Project / Product managers POV
So this is my first post in the Drupal Community – I will warn you that this is LONG and may seem to be off-topic but I promise I will pull it all together (I hope)…
I was inspired to “bite the bullet” after attending one day @Boston DrupalCon. I think that my hesitation to post on Drupal or participate in any Drupal groups is an indication of the need to work on redesigning the home of Drupal.
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news.drupal.org
I only found out about this group yesterday. I've been involved for a couple of months in a discussion to relaunch the Drupal Newsletter as a stand-alone site, ideally on a sub-domain such as newsletter.drupal.org. I just spoke with Dries this morning, who liked the idea, but suggested news.drupal.org. He also suggested contacting members of this group, since you folks have already been working on the bigger picture.
You might want to take a look at my post about a proof-of-concept at https://groups.drupal.org/node/9432 and also http://drupal-newsletter.org (the proof-of-concept itself).
Read moreSearch Engine Optimization
Last updated by tjholowaychuk on Sun, 2008-03-02 19:23
How to SEO Drupal.org:
- Better keyword selection. Phrases like "Community Plumbing" are cute/fun/interesting but do little to actually move our cause forward. We should change the title tag to: "Drupal Content Management System, an Open Source CMS"
Drupal.org redesign progress to date
NOTE: this is a work in progress. We're trying to gather up a summary of this group's postings in preparation of the d.o redesign talk. Pardon the dust.
Read moreAgenda for DrupalCon panel about the d.o redesign
Agenda for panel workshop at DrupalCon Boston about the d.o redesign efforts:
http://boston2008.drupalcon.org/session/drupalorg-redesign-panel
Panel presenters
Angela Byron
Tiffany Farriss
Kieran Lal
Daniel Zhou
Nedjo Rogers
Derek Wright
Revised agenda
Here is a revised agenda based on Tuesday evening's discussions with the modification that Kieran will be there. We'll leave the previous draft below because it contains useful details.
- Aims and leadup – Nedjo Rogers, Drupal Association
- Scoping – Tiffany Farriss, Palantir
- Progress so far – Angela Byron, DA
- Identified pieces
* Aiding module evaluation with pivots, Daniel
* Improving developer toolsets, Derek Wright
5. Fundraising – Kieran Lal, DA
6. Getting involved
Improving online documentation from O'Reilly
Andy Oram recently posted a very interesting article on the O'Reilly Radar on how to improve online documentation. It's a very insightful analysis of the problems that face those writing documentation.
He suggests two tools should be implemented on any online documentation effort:
- Quizzes
- Cross-reference management
He recommends each documentation page include a simple quiz at the end. This is to help monitor quality. If readers aren't answering a question right, this probably means that section of the documentation needs improved.
Read moreIssue Tracker Comparison: Project issue tracking module vs. Google code tracker
For the past two months, I have been acting as one of the administrators of the Drupal side of the Google Highly Open Participation program (GHOP for short). Briefly, this is a contest that is sponsored by Google in which secondary students (ages 13-18) can claim and complete short one week tasks created by the Drupal community for cash prizes. One of the requirements of the program is that everyone has to use the Google Code task/issue tracker for tracking the "official" progress of the students throughout their tasks. As I have been pretty involved with development of our own issue tracker (the Project issue tracking module used on drupal.org), I thought it would be useful to provide a comparison of the features of these two different systems and make some suggestions of how we can improve the Project issue tracking module to make it even better than it already is.
I'll start by giving an introduction to the main issue tracking features of both the Project issue tracking module and the Google code tracker. I'll also give a description of the administrative user interface from an individual project owner/maintainer's perspective. Next, I'll provide a feature comparison and point out the pros and cons of both systems. Finally, I'll provide some recommendations on specific areas where we can add or improve the Project issue tracking module to make it better than it already is. I want to point out that I am not mentioning any of the features of either tracker that allow it to interface with code, releases, or repositories since we did not use any such features for the GHOP program and thus I would not be able to make a fair comparison.
Read moreLet's rock in the 9th International Free Software Forum (FISL) with Drupal!
Last updated by eriksencosta-gdo on Mon, 2007-12-17 17:26
Hi drupallers!
UPDATE: The submissions ends on 14th january now!
What I want here is to take some community ideas for a good proposal in one of these tracks: "Development: PHP" or "Cases/Solutions" at the 9th FISL (International Free Software Forum). One of my ideas is to promote Drupal for the general brazilian developer community as a good solution for content management issues.
The FISL is one of the world's biggest open source meeting and is the biggest in Latin America.
Read moreDrupal monthly newsletter -- building a massive email list
Greetings,
the #1 best idea from this post: http://groups.drupal.org/node/6943 is the monthly newsletter. Learn more why.
There is already a newsletter page, but we could do it way better: http://drupal.org/newsletter (Note I don't talk about mailing lists, there are very good mailing lists here: http://drupal.org/mailing-lists. I am talking about building an opt-in EMAIL LIST. This means that only Drupal can send emails to all the list members, but no other member can send an email to others. Also only Drupal sees all the members, and the members are unable to see each other.)
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Drupal Store / Drupal Shop - for Drupal Association
Hello fellow Drupalers,
Bence (http://groups.drupal.org/user/13320) has a point. Ironically I was on IRC tonight storming up this idea with amazon and webchick. Personally, the whole thought stemmed from wanting a Drupal coffee mug as a gift, much like http://buytaert.net/drupalcino. After asking around on IRC I was informed Boris has a site on cafepress (http://www.cafepress.com/drupal). That storefront should be on Drupal.org to generate more sales etc leading to a bit more funding for Drupal Association.
Read moreDrupal shop
Greetings!
I only found this as Drupal shop: http://drupal.org/node/15101
But this node says: "Drupal does not have any official merchandise"
Why would we launch a better Drupal shop? Because it will generate more income, and it will be a great marketing resource for Drupal.
Look at these shops of other open source communities:
Joomla - http://shop.joomla.org/
Ubuntu - https://shop.canonical.com/
Mozilla - http://store.mozilla.org/
Creative Commons - http://support.creativecommons.org/store
Wikipedia - http://www.cafepress.com/wikipedia
IRC meeting
IRC meeting to review work for the "Request for Proposals" for the redesign of Drupal.org
Hello, the rfp wasn't quite ready for the board to vote on at the board meeting on Monday. Fortunately, we are scheduling a new meeting and will be submitting an improved RFP at that meeting. I'd like to review what can be done to improve this RFP. Depending on when the board meeting is going to be, we might try another working IRC meeting after this.
These two documents need the most work
http://groups.drupal.org/node/7070
http://groups.drupal.org/node/7071
Cheers,
Kieran
Three copies of Drupal.org available for redesigning: Documentation, Information Architecture, Projects
Hello, we are going to make available three sites for teams to redesign.
1) Redesign of Drupal documentation. Documention on Drupal.org is one of the main areas for improvement according to the "State of Drupal 2007" survey. Fortunately, there's been a lot of work in Drupal 6 on the handbook module. We are going to make available a copy of Drupal.org that will be upgraded to Drupal 6 so we can start exploring how to make the handbook easier to work with. Please talk to Steven Peck if you are interested in redesiging this handbooks with Drupal 6.
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Project Quality Metrics on Drupal.org (meta document)
According to a survey of over 1,000 Drupal users, the most requested feature for Drupal.org is a recommendation system for the modules section. With the exponential proliferation of Drupal modules it's certainly easy to imagine why.
Because the discussion about this subject has been splintered into so many places, it was suggested (see here and here) to create a thread within the D.O. Redesign group in order to centralize the brainstorming, mockups, proposals, etc for this initiative.
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