Redesigned Drupal.org profile page: your feedback needed!
Hi everyone! We're in the process of redesigning the profile page on Drupal.org, and we need the community's feedback! You can find the issue at: https://www.drupal.org/node/2281763.
Specific feedback needed:
- Assuming that we're keeping the current theme, does the organization of information make sense on the page?
- Is there any new information we should be collecting on profiles? Since this will require refactoring several of the data elements in profiles, we have a great opportunity to allow users to show/share more about themselves.
Modernizing Testbot: Drupalcon Austin Update
Background:
"Modernizing Testbot" is a Drupal community initiative with the goal of rebuilding Drupal.org's Automated Testing / Continuous Integration infrastructure, leveraging modern practices and tools in order to enhance the capabilities and functionality provided by the platform and better meet the changing needs of the Drupal community. The initiative first took root with the vetting of a potential design and architecture during the DevOps Summit at BADCamp 2013, which then led to the development of a functional Proof of Concept during DevDays Szeged. DrupalCon Austin saw a number of further refinements to the model, and launch of the official project pages/repositories on Drupal.org. This post is intended to provide a snapshot of what was accomplished.
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All the sprints at and around DrupalCon Amsterdam
We have a great tradition of extended sprints around big Drupal events including DrupalCons and Drupal Dev Days. While there is a sprint day included in DrupalCons (usually) on Friday, given that a lot of the Drupal core and contrib developers fly in for these events, it makes a lot of sense to use this opportunity to start sooner and/or extend our stay and work together in one space on the harder problems.
DrupalCon Amsterdam is next up! DrupalCon and the Drupal Association continue to recognize the need for extended sprints as part of the schedule and are providing space on Monday, and helping organize space for the weekends before and after also! We are still looking for additional sponsors for the weekend sprints before/after to help with space, internet, coffee, tea and maybe food. There are already various sprints signed up including Multilingual, Drupal.org, Rules, Media, Content staging, Migration and Frontend. We are really friendly and need all kinds of expertise!
Now is the time to consider if you can be available and book your travel and hotel accordingly!
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Ready, Set, Code - GSoC 2014 Starts NOW!
Good luck to all students that have officially started coding today. August will be here quickly...make sure to get started ASAP.
Everyone else in the Drupal community, it is time to say hello to a few new faces. Below is a list of our projects and students contributing to Drupal all summer via Google's Summer of Code 2014.
*Build an Elastic search module for Drupal
++ xan_ps from India ( https://drupal.org/user/2830251 )
*Build a schema.org mapping tool for Drupal 8
++ sachini from Sri Lanka ( https://drupal.org/user/2831117 )
*Create sensor instances for Monitoring D8
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NYC Camp Media sprint report
New York city Drupal camp happened last weekend in United Nations HQ and there was, among numerous other things, Media sprint going on. Organizers did their best to bring some of the most active Drupal Media contributors on-site. We are very happy and thankful that they made this possible, as we managed to achieve some very important steps forward.
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Well ... it's been a few days since Drupal Dev Days wrapped up, and my Hungary experience is now coming to an end. Before I go, however, there are just a few things I need to wrap up.
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Conflict Resolution Policy and Process
UPDATE: The policy has now been adopted by the community working group. It lives here: https://drupal.org/conflict-resolution (now with pretty URL!)
For some time we've had a bit of unfinished business around the Drupal Code of Conduct around how we manage and respond to conflict.
The Community Working Group has drafted a policy and is now looking for community feedback over the next 2 weeks. Please check out the draft in the drupal-cwg issue queue.
Reinventing Drupal.org
Seven years ago this month, Dries presented the State of Drupal in front of a few dozen developers at the Open Source Content Management System Summit on the Yahoo! campus in Sunnyvale, California. Drupal 5 had just come out, PHPTemplate was all the rage, and everyone was abuzz about the news that the Nigerian Prime Minister was using Drupal for his blog.
Today, Drupal is used by the President of the United States and nearly every other government on the planet, DrupalCons are attended by thousands of people, and PHPTemplate will soon be replaced by Twig in Drupal 8. The Drupal project and community have grown rapidly in a very short amount of time.
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In early 2013 our fearless and benevolent leader, Dries Buytaert, formalised a governance structure and started a number of working groups for the Drupal project as a whole, and for our home on the Web, Drupal.org.
It was fun GCI, Welcome back GSoC
Our awesome community recently became a bit more awesome. Drupal was accepted into Google's Summer of Code 2014! Student applications started March 10th and are open until March 21st. It's not too late to become a student, mentor, or submit a project idea. Not available to join the GSoC fun...maybe you can send an email to your alumni university mailing list?
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