Discontinue drupaldojo.org?
Note this is about the .org site, NOT the main .com site.
I am currently hosting the drupaldojo.org website on one of my servers. I am in the process of consolidating and moving all of my sites to a new VPS. I am perfectly willing to move dd.org to the new server but before I go to all that work I would like to propose that we stop using it. dd.org has never really gained any traction and hardly anyone uses it. the few things we started on it have completely fizzled and died. I think we are better served to use the d.o issue queue, g.d.o and dd.com for our work. Having 3 places is already quite spread out and I see no advantage to a fourth, neglected satellite site.
I propose that we take down dd.org and redirect the domain name to point to dd.com. If enough people really want to keep using dd.org and have good reason then I will go ahead and move the site to my new server. I don't consider it a burden at all to maintain the site (it uses very little space or bandwidth), I simply think it is spreading us out a bit much in terms of info and organization.
Read moreDojo Lesson #9 -- Getting Started with Drupal Development
[Bumped --joshk]
Arising out of the Coffeetalk yesterday we are seeing that while we are making some breakneck pace in educating about the basics of drupal, we might not be so hot on keeping people up to speed on how the drupal dev community works, what projects are, and how to best work on new code with your fellow devs, and such.
CoffeeTalk Wiki
Hey folks, we had another CoffeeTalk this Sunday. There was a lot of ground covered, but still more than we had time for. So we were thinking that it would be good for people to chime in about the topics they would like to discuss in future meetings, as well as follow-up for this past talk. Once we get the topic(s) sorted out on the page, we can then use it fill out important notes about what is discussed live during the CoffeeTalk. If any of the discussions warrant their own thread afterwards they can just be copied in to a new page of their own. So PLEASE CHIME IN!
Read moreWhat to do with drupaldojo.org
I think the idea and direction for .com has been pretty well hashed out and there have been snatches of discussion re: .org in various places but we really need to have a "central" discussion on its use. I have set up a basic site so that we can begin using it as a work environment for the SoC Getting Started guide (just a top-level book has been created for it). There has also been some discussion regarding what kind of "projects" we might use it for in this thread: http://groups.drupal.org/node/2772#comment-7788 .
Read moreCreating a "Getting started with Drupal development" guide
Note: we have now set up a book at docs.drupaldojo.org to work on this. Please refer to this comment for more info.
Summer of Code is just around the corner, and that means an influx of new Drupal developers. These are typically folks that already know PHP, but have little to no experience with Drupal itself, nor its API.
Read moreDiscussing Growth: DrupalDojo.com/net/org?
UPDATE: I made a mistake and had comments turned off. Please comment on this! I want your feedback and discussion!
In just six weeks, this group has really taken off, and I have been extremely pleased and excited by the response from the community, and by people's willingness to jump in and help out.
I think we're doing a lot of valuable work. We've got an excellent core group and a process for having "lesson" events that seems to really provide value, especially given the excellent work that so many of you have done to create screencasts and written documentation after the fact. So thank you all once again for your participation.
The topic of the day is growing pains. There was much discussion of this in Sunday's CoffeeTalk discussion, which I was thrilled to see take on a life of its own without my participation.
There are several points I would like to cover, not least of which is what (if anything) to do with the domains drupaldojo.com, and .org, which Squidster took the initiative to acquire, and .net which is owned by Senpai. Read on for my thoughts on this, including a pretty graph!
Read moreDiscussion from February 11 online meeting
We should carry on the discussion from today's online meeting to help nail down things that were discussed and bring those that could not make it up to speed. This is a VERY brief rundown of the highlights and I'm sure the recordings will be available soon for those that want to follow the whole thing. If I'm off-base on any of this (which could easily be the case) please correct/discuss in comments.
Two big topics that were covered were 1) the idea of a separate scratch site to experiment and work ideas out in and 2) how to work with d.o handbook and get improvements into it. Sepeck was kind enough to stop in and really hash out these ideas, give guidance and be involved in the discussion.
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Dojo-based projects? Paid? Not Paid? How could this work?
[02/26/2007 -- Senpai: I stumbled across this post and felt it was quite relevant to what's going on this week regarding the potential ideas for our drupaldojo.org site. I tagged this post with 'documentation', 'drupaldojo.com', and 'drupaldojo.org', as well as the wide-seeking 'CoffeeTalk' tag. There may not be any content in this here post, but the comments below it are golden for our current state of affairs!]
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