This group is a central place for the Drupal Association Branding and Marketing Committee activities and is open for anyone interested to participate. Read more about our focus, goals, and purpose in our charter.
Our work is organized into the major areas listed below. We use this group for discussions and issue queues on drupal.org for tracking individual tasks. Join us and let's help Drupal dominate the world!
Projects
The purpose of undertaking the branding of Drupal is to accelerate the adoption of Drupal. In order to achieve this, we are focusing on the following areas:
- Mission - Promoting the Drupal project to the public at large with particular focus on non-Drupal developers, CMOs, IT decision-makers and other project owners
- Branding - Coordinating efforts around the brand, logo, and other collateral
- Research - Ongoing marketing and competitive research
- Ideas - Ideas and opportunities
- Infrastructure - Organizational aspects of the Branding and Marketing Committee
- Supporting Events
A full description of the goals and detailed breakdown of associated tasks can be found on the Drupal Association Marketing and Branding Committee Charter.
Marketing Collateral wiki
A collection of Drupal marketing collateral from all over the community. It's a wiki so feel free to add your own:
Get involved!
Here's some ways you can get involved:
DrupalBAM Issue Queues
Infrastructure tools queue
- Videos/screencasts on how to use projects & issue queues
Drupal.org Content Issue Queues
- Services Listings Queue (Guidelines/Instructions)
- Training Listings Queue (Guidelines/Instructions)
- Case Studies Queue (Guidelines/Instructions)
Current Discussions
Please do join in the following discussions we are having about branding and marketing:
- Defining Success of Drupal Marketing
- What is it that Drupal does so well?
- Who are our "mindset" competitors that we need to overcome?
- Who are Drupal's competitors and what do they do particularly well?
- Who is Drupal's target group? What are their demographics? Psychographics?
Ongoing
The following are ongoing projects:
- Submit Drupal collateral you've discovered to the Marketing Collateral Wiki
- Designers - join in the Visual Branding of Drupal working group
Recent posts:
"DrupalCon Exposed" The Open Mic Podcast, Episode 3
The third episode of The Open Mic podcast is out now and available for download here - http://www.opin.ca/en/article/open-mic-episode-3-drupalcon-exposed.
The hosts discuss their experiences at past DrupalCons, and what they expect from 2016.
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Chapter Three Drupal 8 Release Party!!
Come celebrate the release of Drupal 8 with Chapter Three!
We're hosting a San Francisco Drupal 8 Release Party – be here when we usher in 8.0 and congratulate Drupal 8 Core Maintainer Alex Pott live!
Munch down on free tacos, margaritas, beer, wine and cider. Our first guests receive an exclusive Drupal 8 Release T-shirt!
Eat (tacos), drink (margaritas), be merry and Celebr8 D8!
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Drupal 8 Release party AT Drupak's Headquarter, Peshawar Pakistan
Over 4 years of active Development by 3,300 plus World Class Developers have developed the newer version of a Gigantic Web Development platform called Drupal which we all love. Congratulations to everybody involved. We at Drupak's office in Peshawar Pakistan, will be celebrating the occasion of Drupal8 release.
This party will be an effort to salute all the team involved in releasing the Drupal8.
Drupal Camp Peshawar 2015
We are proud to announce Drupal Camp Peshawar at FAST-NUCES, Peshawar on October 17, 2015
Alhamdulillah, after intensive venue hunt for quite sometime now, FAST Peshawar http://pwr.nu.edu.pk/home/ will be hosting us for Drupal Camp Peshawar on October 17 InshaAllah. All of Drupal Community in Pakistan is cordially invited. Website will soon be ready. Our excitement levels are sky high, so should be yours. Ideas are welcome.
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Design for Drupal, Boston 2015
http://design4drupal.org (launching mid May 2015)
Design for Drupal, Boston is an annual web design camp covering all aspects of design, UX, & theming for Drupal websites.
New location this year! Microsoft NERD Center at One Memorial Drive, Cambridge MA. Still in Kendall Square.
Read moreHow big is the Drupal market?
Hey, guys. How are you?
I am Brazilian and I have a Drupal Shop. I'm studying new strategies of action for my business outside Brazil. The question is: How can I measure the size of the Drupal market in the US and Europe? Where can I find informations about community growth, growth of Drupal Shops, acquisitions, investments etc?
Thanks in advance.
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Six Things We Learned About Drupal in 2014
What a year for Drupal.
There were triumphs and challenges to be sure. Taken together, they point to a very bright future for Drupal.
Here are six things we learned in 2014:
- There is no challenge too large or complex for Drupal
Feedback needed: what are some sites that belong in "Who's Using Drupal?" block?
The block at https://www.drupal.org/about of "Who's Using Drupal" is in need of a refresh. Do you have any shining examples of Drupal in action that you would like to see listed there? I plan to take your feedback here and work with the Content Working Group to get the block updated with the latest and greatest. Thanks for your feedback. Please comment before October 31.
Read moreNew Branding and Marketing Committee Chair Needed
Hi all,
Our former marketing and branding committee chair Betsy Ensley has changed positions and has stepped down as chair.
So we are once again looking for a new branding and marketing committee chair to help drive activities according to the committee charter. https://association.drupal.org/about/staff/marketing-branding-committee
The committee has set up this simple form where people can self-nominate to be chair: https://association.drupal.org/node/18958
Read moreInshaAllah Drupal Camp Karachi on January 8,9,10 2015 and Drupal Camp Peshawar on January 22,23,24 2015
Alhamdulillah , Drupak is proud to announce Drupal Camp Karachi on 8,9,10 January, 2015 and Drupal Camp Peshawar on January 22,23,24 January, 2015 .
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Proposed Security Focused Sub-Team: Drupal Security Media Relations
Hello!
The Drupal Security Team is considering whether and how to engage with the press to achieve our goals. We're looking for a few people who have experience with PR who can help advise us on possible strategies and likely benefits/drawbacks of those strategies.
If we do decide to go ahead with some form of press engagement, we would want to find a few volunteers who can help us manage that process. Likely requirements of these volunteers include:
* identifying potential journalists to contact
* reaching out to journalists and managing relationships
Bring the Drupal World Tour to one of the most influential Digital and Tech events bridging EMEA and Asia - The Global Webit Congress
Vote now for Drupal and for Ivo Radulovski to become the Audience Choice speaker of the most influential Digital and Tech event bridging EMEA and Asia - The Global Webit Congress. Share this post and/or vote now please and help to grow the Drupal Community!
Here you can vote: http://webitcongress.com/2014/speaker/241
Inspired by Jeffrey A. "jam" McGuire, Ivo has put together a session about profitablility of Open Source.
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Drupal CXO Executive event in Utrecht the Netherlands
On july 5th SDBN (The Dutch Drupal Business Association) is organizing the annual Drupal CXO executives meeting! This time it is organized in Utrecht, The Netherlands. The Drupal executives meeting is organized to share best practices in running a Drupal agency. The event is sponsored by SDBN, the association that looks after Drupal agencies in the Netherlands and promotes Drupal. With CXO's coming in from all over Europe, it's going to be an awesome CXO!
Read moreDrupal Camp Lahore Pakistan
Drupal Camp Lahore, 3rd May 2014 at Information Technology University Lahore. Visit www.drupalcamps.pk for all the details.
Read moreDrupal Camp Lahore Saturday,3rd May 2014
Alhamdulillah , Drupak is proud to announce Drupal Camp Lahore on 3rd May , 2014. Venue has already been decided and will be revealed shortly. Website for the event will be up shortly as well. Thanks for all those involved in arranging this event and the Drupal Community Pakistan is thankful to them. We invite all Drupal Gurus from the country to participate. More details to follow
Read moreBADAss Drupal 8 Commit Challenge
BADAss Drupalistas,
In case any of you hadn't heard, there's a new kid on the block and the name's Drupal 8!
Recently a site started up listing all the people who'd had mentions in Drupal 8 commits:
http://ericduran.github.io/drupalcores/
One Million Drupal Sites!: How You Can Help Spread the Word
Drupal recently surpassed an impressive milestone according to project usage stats: a million sites live on the web around the world! Project usage stats under-report actual Drupal site numbers, because the site has to have the project update module installed and turned on in order to be counted. Not every Drupal site does and it's difficult to know how many don't. BUT, we can say with authority that Drupal sites have surpassed one million.
Read moreWelcome Betsy Ensley!
Great news, we have a fantastic new Marketing Committee Chair! Following the process outlined in my previous post, the Drupal Association board has approved Betsy Ensley as the new Chair effective immediately.
Betsy has been an active contributor to the Drupal community for more than 3 years with experience coordinating Drupal Camps and events on the East Coast and Pacific Northwest.
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