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Robert Douglass initially crated a lot of buzz about this topic via his now famous Tweet several weeks ago. The purpose of the tweet was to croudsource a community response to a concept and to build tension for his upcoming presentation in Brussels about the topic.

I have posted a few changes and additions to the Prototype Git book and would like to do more, but I am having some frustration with the disorganization of the book.

In addition to a lot of duplication within the Git Book itself, there is a lot of duplication around the rest of Drupal.org's Getting Involved Guide.

For example, there are pages within that book for:

As our community grows, it is imperative that we preserve the what got us here. Namely, we keep Drupal a fun, welcoming, challenging, and fair place to play. IMO, we need to proactively state our shared ideals with respect to conduct. Think of this as coding standards for people :)

Our friends at Ubuntu have blazed a brilliant trail in this area. They use our CMS, and I propose that we use their Code of Conduct.

On the SEO project team for the drupal.org redesign we recently discussed doing more with analytics measurement of SEO goals and objectives.

After analysing the Drupal.org Google Analytics data we found no goals are specified currently. Neither does there seem to be any governance or
methodology.

To optimize drupal.org we need to take analytics serious. Therefore we have created a proposal of integrating online analytics into Drupal.org and
into the Drupal community. Not just for SEO; we need to improve user experience and gain insights.

The Boston sprint is dedicated to upgrading drupal.org's Drupal 5 platform to Drupal 6, in preparation for the redesign. During this week-long sprint at One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) offices in Kendall Square, Cambridge, MA, we plan to get a working upgrade path for the existing drupal.org databases, port the project infrastructure to Drupal 6, and implement Views, among other issues.

Please see the project issues list and email Susan MacPhee at susanemacphee@gmail.com to volunteer expertise on issues you can help resolve.

In your email, please include your level of time commitment, Drupal experience background, and which tasks you would like to help with.

If you have any questions, please contact Susan.

Upgrade drupal.org from Drupal 5 to 6 project issues lists:

http://drupal.org/node/362117

Sprint announcement from Dries Buytaert:

http://drupal.org/node/356002

hi all,

posted this on the dev list, adding it here in case some in this group don't watch the dev list.

i've been watching the inspiring work to integrate testing patches against HEAD at testing.drupal.org, and wondering if it would be useful/possible/desirable to have benchmarking integrated into d.o. as well?

like the testing stuff, but maybe opt-in?

i'd be willing to do some dev/sysadmin work, and i'd hope there would be enough dev resources, but we'd need some hardware dedicated to it.

thoughts? suggestions? flames?

cheers
justin

A user recently noticed there are no copyrights or TOS at d.o. Interested folks might want to weigh on on the Drupal webmaster's issue for Clarify Copyright status of content on Drupal.org's website.

Thanks,
Aaron Winborn

The slogan proposal wiki and no follow discussions got me thinking about more seo stuff related to Drupal.org

One big thing that's missing is a meta description tag. This doesn't affect ranking so much any more, but it's often used in results listings and sometimes relevancy. It's also a good place to put all the buzzwords we might not want to stuff into a slogan.

Here's a first run:

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See this node http://groups.drupal.org/node/7191 titled "Project Quality Metrics" in the Drupal.org redesign plan for the Drupal Association group. It looks like all that activity should either be here, or all the activity intended for this group should be there, i.e. duplicate efforts.

I asked more than 1,000 existing Drupal users (not Drupal prospects) what they would like to see improved on drupal.org. A prioritized wish list is provided below:

More ideas and suggestions might be available in the comments of http://buytaert.net/drupal-org-wishlist.