Drupal.org Maintenance: June 18th 3PM PDT (June 18th 22:00 UTC)

Completed!

Drupal.org will be affected by maintenance Wednesday, June 18th, 15:00 PDT (June 18th, 22:00 UTC) and ending Wednesday, June 18th, 16:00 PDT (June 18th, 23:00 UTC).

In preparation for our CDN deployment on Drupal.org, we are moving Drupal.org to www.drupal.org. The name switch should be seamless and only take a few minutes to update in various places.

About Today's Board Resignation

Today Morten Birch Heide-Jørgensen stepped down from his role on the Drupal Association's Board of Directors. The Drupal Association's Board of Directors supports Morten’s decision. The Drupal Association and the Drupal community value inclusivity and diversity, and our leadership must demonstrate those values as well.

Drupal.org Maintenance: June 16th 4PM PDT (June 16th 23:00 UTC)

Completed!

Drupal.org will be affected by our ISP’s maintenance window starting Monday, June 16th, 16:00 PDT (June 16th, 23:00 UTC) and ending Monday, June 16th, 18:00 PDT (June 17th, 01:00 UTC).

Our ISP will be upgrading the firmware on the customer aggregation routers, and we expect to see a 10‒15 minute disruption in traffic sometime during the maintenance window.

Please follow the @drupal_infra Twitter account for any issues encountered during the maintenance window.

Thanks for your patience!

Drupal Association Adds Two New Board Members

May 2014 – PORTLAND – The Drupal Association, the nonprofit that helps the Drupal open source project flourish, announced that two new members are joining the organization’s board of directors. The new members are Mike Lamb of Pfizer and Rob Gill of NBCUniversal. They are the first members of the Drupal Association board to bring the perspective of large end users of Drupal.

Four “So What” Research Findings about the Drupal Community

This is the second in a four part series discussing the results of a survey of the Drupal community. Find the first part of the series here. 

2013 Audited Financials for the Drupal Association

The phrase "audited financial statements" does not usually bring joy to the hearts of children or wake slumbering people from naps. However, if you're me, audited financials are pretty darn exciting. Firstly, I love them because they give us a baseline to measure against year afer year, and I love metrics. Secondly, audited financials are the cornerstone of a larger objective - openness and transparency in all our work.

The Business Side of Drupal: A Research Journey

chartJonathan Sims is Assistant Professor of Strategy at Babson College. A 2013 PhD graduate from the University of Texas at Austin, he wrote his dissertation on entrepreneurship within Drupal.

Drupal.org team week notes #26

Upcoming deployments: improvements to comments

Next Drupal Association Board Meeting: Live and in-person at DrupalCon Austin

Twice a year we get the opportunity to hold our monhtly Drupal Association board meetings live and in-person! We are more than excited to get to Austin to greet old friends and meet many new ones. While we're (mostly) all there, we hope you'll join us for the June board meeting. We'll be in room 10B on the third floor of the Austin convention center at 11:45 am. Lunch will be served there, so no need to battle the lunch lines downstairs before you join us.

Calling All Design Firms: DrupalCon needs you

 

DrupalCon on etch a sketchThe Drupal Association is seeking two creative and innovative design partners to create the web and print designs for the 2015 and 2016 DrupalCon events. We’re looking for people who understand that each DrupalCon is a singular expression of the Drupal community, DrupalCon location, software innovation, and extreme nerdiness, and know how to turn this into compelling designs that are functional, fun, and make people look twice.

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