Better Drupal marketing to the 16 000 subscribers of Planet Drupal feed
Hello, new Drupal association board member Narayan Newton, just calculated that there are 16 000 subscribers to the Drupal Planet feed. Unfortunately, the marketing team lacks a way to get Drupal marketing messages out to those bloggers.
If you are one of these bloggers, please subscribe to this group. If you know one of those bloggers please leave a comment on their blog asking them to subscribe to the Drupal marketing group.
Read moreWhat's new in Drupal 6 (composing a marketing "brochure")
Last updated by jensen0 on Wed, 2008-01-30 11:16
DO NOT EDIT! The "final" version of this text is at http://drupal.org/drupal-6.0, even if it is not published yet. Editing on this page is not carried over to there. Thanks for all the input!
Goba: I think that we should build up a "what's new in Drupal 6" page for the final release. I am submitting text from the beta 1 announcement here for a starting point, although it needs to be highly worked on. I think of having a page like http://en.www.mozilla.com/en/firefox/features.html or even more like http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/300.html (looks compact and interesting, has images, highlights topic groups properly).
Below is the latest version of the copy. Almost done!
A demo of how this will look is here: http://www.yoroy.com/elders/drupal/D6-features/whatsnew.html (visual demo, the text is not up to date)
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Musings on a Data API
I have been pondering the question of a data API for a while, as have a lot of people. Much of the recent discussion has focused on an Active Record approach to a data API. Now, Active Record is a very powerful architectural pattern. It maps nicely from storage to interface, it can be fairly self-documenting, and it is conceptually simple and approachable.
It is also, I believe, insufficient.
Read moreDrupalcon Boston, March 3rd-6th
The Drupal Association
is pleased to announce that the next Drupalcon will be held in Boston, Massachusetts, USA from March 3 - 6, 2008 in the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center.
This Drupalcon represents two big advancements for Drupalcon.
- Larger capacity. The last two Drupalcon's have sold out, capped at 450 people. Depending on final arrangements we may be able to handle 700 at this event.
- Community expansion. Drupalcon is being held at the same time/place as AIIM International Exposition & Conference, the largest content management technology conference in North America. Though technically independent of each other, the Boston team is working to arrange some cross-event access. The goal: introduce Drupal to thousands of potential new Drupalers.
The Drupalcon Boston 2008 team is working hard to finalize conference details before opening registration and the session proposal system. We are also just now finalizing sponsorship packages. Watch boston2008.drupalcon.org and the drupal.org home page (rss feed) for future announcements. In the mean time, start making your travel arrangements and gathering your session proposal information.
The Drupal Association encourages potential organizers from the community to start preparing proposals for the fall 2008 Europe Drupalcon and the spring 2009 North America Drupalcon. We are also interested in hosting Drupalcons in other parts of the world.
Contact the Drupalcon Boston 2008 team
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Now on Drupal - HamptonRoads.com and PilotOnline.com
Hello all,
I wanted to introduce myself, and our now-powered-by-Drupal sites, PilotOnline.com and HamptonRoads.com. I'm Jeff Anderson, and I work as the product development manager for the interactive division of The Virginian-Pilot newspaper based in Norfolk, Virginia. The Pilot is a top 50/60 U.S. daily newspaper by circulation size, and PilotOnline.com was one of the first newspaper websites to go online in the early 1990s. Along with its sister site HamptonRoads.com, a local portal focused on entertainment, community and local guides, we recently ranked No. 6 in the U.S. in terms of the percentage of users in a local market who use a particular locally-focused site. On December 10, we re-launched both sites on a customized Drupal 5.x platform.
Read moreSlogan Proposal Wiki!
If you submit a slogan on this page, put any motivation or link to explain it in the "Log message:" field and not in the body.
If you have to explain a slogan by linking to some other site it's probably bad, but linking to other sites adds extra information so it can be a good idea. If we want to reach consensus it's important to add references.
Can D7 handle enterprise-level change management features?
Now that Dries has concocted a business model that leverages core, I wonder if this is a good time to begin talking in earnest about making D7 into a manageable, upgradeable system with built-in change management features? Dries is one of only a few people with core commit privs in CVS, and as such, he's now perfectly positioned to listen and act on revisions to core that would make everyone's lives easier, but especially his new company's options or desires.
There's a need for small changes to Drupal that allow big business to leverage it to create and manage a system while being able to upgrade that system in a live setting.
Read moreGHOP Task suggestions
Note as of 2007-12-11:
This thread is now closed.
Please post task ideas to the drupal.org GHOP issue queue instead.
Guidelines: How to Propose Tasks
- Tasks need to follow the guidelines/template from of http://code.google.com/p/google-highly-open-participation-drupal/wiki/Ho... and have clear descriptions and deliverables, not be vague ideas like "Well what about something with such and such module?"
- Tasks should be scoped such that they take a 13-18 year old
between 2-5 daysone week to finish. - Tasks can be about pretty much anything: coding, documentation, user experience, translation, etc. Just bear in mind that we only have
102200 of these, so we should aim for high-impact tasks that will help the project as a whole (and also look good on a college application :)). - Students eligible for the contest
are not allowed to propose tasks (sorry!)ARE allowed to post tasks, but can't claim tasks that they propose. - Before you actually create a task on Google's task tracker, please read our directions on how to propose (and review) new tasks.
- Head over to #drupal-ghop on irc.freenode.net if you want to discuss ideas in "real time."
Call for Help; Improve usability in drupal 6
Chris Messina's (aka Factory Joe) review of drupal 6 is a big contribution to drupal usability. I have highlighted about 50 actionable issues that have been raised and/or discussed through this review. Most of them are trivial changes for drupal 6, but are key usability improvements. Many are simply improving the help text. Some are larger tasks that require more work and changes and should probably wait for drupal 7.
Read moreCivicSpaceOnDemand provisioning OpenAPIs
Hello, as a step towards getting the support to open source
CivicSpaceOnDemand, we have further opened up the CSOD APIs. This
time we have exposed the provisioning system and everything that is
involved in setting up and configuring databases, mail servers, dns
servers, file systems, web server configurations, Civicrm files,
Drupal files, etc.
Please note that this system is entirely developed in PHP and MySQL and is compatible with Drupal coding styles. It has been in production for almost 15 months and deployed hundreds of sites.
Provisioning system:
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