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- DrupalCon North America is April 12-16, 2021.
- Visit the Global Training Days group for upcoming training event dates.
Introductory Drupal training happening in locations around the world once per quarter. Learn Drupal or host a training. - Get the latest news from the Association on our blog or by selecting Drupal Association Newsletter on your Drupal.org profile. You can also find news in our newsletter archive.
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Feedback needed on Drupal.org office hours!
For the past few months, we have been holding "Drupal.org Office Hours" on Mondays, for people who want to contribute to the Drupal project by improving the tools, design, and functionality of the Drupal.org web site (and the other *.drupal.org sub sites). Lately, the office hours have not been well attended, and we'd like to find out why.
Please fill out this short survey to help us understand how to make office hours more efficient.
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Give DrupalCon attendees the option to update their registration using English characters
I have non-English characters in my name under my *.drupal.org profiles. However, at DrupalCon Denver 2012, these non-English characters couldn't get printed out on the badge; and it displayed "squares". Since DrupalCon is an international event, I believe I wasn't alone.
I suggest that for the future DrupalCon, if the printer won't be able to print out non-English characters, then DA sends an email to notify these attendees and give them option to update their registration using English-only characters.
Below is an email template from Google I/O:
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Dear ******(******),
Creating a new Welcome Email for new Drupal account holders
At this time, when someone signs up for a Drupal account, they receive an email from info@drupal... to confirm their email address. I think we have an opportunity to get more information to these new Drupal account holders about the project along with a welcome guide.
I propose we consider an email to go after the account email is confirmed. It would be a helpful guide that includes some (or all) of the following:
You have an account, Now what?
-Download Drupal
-Check out Documentation
-Get some modules
-Ways to Get Involved
-Join the Drupal Association
Idea: annual competition to design the Drupal Association t-shirt
While discussing membership renew with the DA twitter account I had an idea: I'd love to have an annual renewal on my membership for the t-shirt offer that was added last year; however, rather than ending up with a dozen identical t-shirts, how about running an annual competition to have the forthcoming year's design?
The first question: was there plans to change the DA's official membership t-shirt each year?
The second question: time allowing, is this something the DA would be interested in?
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DrupalCon Code of Conduct (Revised Draft)
Update November 28. 2016 - The finalized version of the DrupalCon Code of Conduct can be found in a template version at: https://www.drupal.org/node/2512690
Update July 6, 2012 - Final draft version submitted to the Drupal Association: http://groups.drupal.org/node/235308#comment-781048
Read moreMake Drupal Association more visible on drupal.org
One of the most important financial sources for Drupal Association are membership fees. They help fund community projects like DrupalCon scholarships, grants, Drupal.org improvements and more. Currently, there are 800,000 d.o user accounts and only 3,000 of them are Association members. We are looking for ways of increasing this number. If we can grow our membership we will be able to raise more money for various community projects, most importantly for Drupal.org itself.
Read moreCreate DrupalCon Code of Conduct (Old Draft)
The code of conduct draft has been re-written based on community feedback and is available for community review here: http://groups.drupal.org/node/235308 - we ask that you please offer your comments, questions, and suggestions on that page. Comments have been closed on this page.
The following is the proposed DrupalCon Code of Conduct that has been drafted by a group that includes past DrupalCon organizers, Drupal Association staff and board members, and other community volunteers.
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When should session submission close? (or any other call for submissions)
Drupalcon Munich has a great graph that shows the dates when people submit sessions. Unfortunately (for event organizaers) a lot of it happens at the last minute.
This is a problem for session track chairs because they don't know if they'll have enough good sessions.
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Upgrade Drupal.org to Drupal 7 Sprint!
The week of April 23 - April 27, the Drupal Association is sponsoring a sprint, hosted by the Oregon State University Open Source Lab, to upgrade Drupal.org from Drupal 6 to Drupal 7!
The sprint will be mainly focused on the following areas, and the following attendees will be there:
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Come to Drupal.org office hours to share what you're working on and help us come up with the weekly drupal.org hit list!
Stop by #drupal-infrastructure from 11am to 12pm Pacific Time (18:00 - 19:00 UTC).
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