This page should aggregate resources and information for anyone completely new to, curious about, or making decisions about using Drupal. It should explain things in plain language that business users, content managers and administrators can understand. This page is an opportunity to provide links to all the "basics" so new folks don't have to stumble around for these various pieces of information.

1. General suggestions:
a. add navigation (see issue http://drupal.org/node/947386)
b. more links to the about content should be included
c. see last few paragraphs of Drupal History as seen by Dries page for some good overview text
d. rearrange content so it is ordered by relevancy to new folks

2. INCLUDE/ADD
a. 2-3 sentences on History w links to history pages
b. What Drupal Is - see Mission & Principles pg "Drupal is...
c. Drupal CMS Features - Remove this section from top (see REMOVE below). Add succinct list & link to Drupal CMS Features ( /features)
d. Open Source Software - more links to ethos & values of oss (on Drupal.org?)
e. Community - add links to getting involved in community pages
d. Is Drupal right for you? Or, Why Drupal? - People often ask what the advantages are over another system, and I haven't seen a succinct answer. Some info from Sites Made with Drupal could be referenced here.
e. Security - flesh out description w links to about/security-team pages
f. Getting Started - see UPDATES below
g. Who's Using Drupal - see UPDATES below
h. Commercial Services
i. Technical Requirements

3, UPDATE
Getting Started
a.- Add link to Get Started w Drupal /start
b.- Add link to key begginer documentation
c.- Shrink large Download button or make plain text, no one will read anything else with that there
Who's Using Drupal
d. - link to Sites Made with Drupal page
e. - indicate which links are taking user off drupal.org, or open in popup
f. - ensure categories & links here reflect those on Sites Made with Drupal page
Community Support
g. - make this part of "Community"

4. REMOVE
a. - Drupal Content Management Features section
b. -- move content to /features (audited w issues already flagged by lewisnyman) child pages for each corresponding topic accessible in right side nav
c. -- add more links in Drupal Content Management Features content to related pages within section
d. -- replace Drupal CMS Features landing page with the top section from About page

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Thanks for this... See also http://drupal.org/node/947176

Would def like to improve the current About page! I"m going to review these suggestions in detail; in some cases we might need to work on them in separate (already existing?) issues.

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Project: » Drupal.org customizations
Version: » 6.x-3.x-dev
Component: About » Miscellaneous

Oh and the redesign project is deprecated.. moving

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Issue tags: +needs drupal.org deployment, +drupal.org content audit, +communications/marketing

I'm calling this a "first pass" :)

I've incorporated many of the other suggestions to the About and have committed them (it will deploy soon). I don't want to take time to address each point individually, but if there are some additional suggestions for copy, content etc, please add them here.

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Status: Active » Needs review
Issue tags: -needs drupal.org deployment, -drupal.org content audit, -communications/marketing

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Issue tags: +needs drupal.org deployment, +drupal.org content audit, +communications/marketing
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Issue tags: -needs drupal.org deployment

I deployed some code changing the about page, but I'm not sure if that gets everything here. Leaving open for Lisa to review.

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The changes deployed are a great first pass. I'll leave it open a bit longer for BluPomplemous to review too.

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I'm not sure what happened to the about page, but it strike me as odd that there's no talk about what Drupal does on the about page. Is the assumption that people already know what it is when they arrive at about? Or is the single small link in the midst of all of the rest of the text supposed to be enough to guide people to the features page?

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There's "Drupal is a free software package that allows you to easily organize, manage and publish your content, with an endless variety of customization." at the top, but it's not very noticeable. I'd really love to see this page become a node (could this improve our SEO too?)

Issue to make this a node #1009636: Update "About" page to be a node.

In the meantime, suggestions for text improvements would be great.

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Project: Drupal.org customizations » Drupal.org site moderators
Version: 6.x-3.x-dev »
Component: Miscellaneous » Textual improvements

This is no longer a development issue, so moving. Maybe it should be in the documentation project.

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Project: Drupal.org site moderators » Drupal.org content
Component: Textual improvements » Other
Issue tags: +Usability

I still think this page needs work

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Ok, this looked nicer back in 2011 - https://web.archive.org/web/20110703102041/http://drupal.org/about

Than it does now https://drupal.org/about

Starting from the summary:

  • How do we rearrange content so it is ordered by relevancy to new folks?
  • We have the https://drupal.org/principles but nothing about a mission, should that be listed?
  • I'd love to see more links to ethos & values of oss on Drupal.org - maybe on more than the /about page #2205597: Add Quotes to Help Inspire Behavior ?
  • Really like the idea of having links to key beginner documentation, not sure what that would be though.

Many of these issues from the summary can be crossed off as done though.

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Status: Needs review » Postponed

I'm setting this to postponed because there is content strategy work happening and you can see the beginning of that work at https://www.drupal.org/news/content-strategy-update-february-2015 and https://www.drupal.org/node/2463205

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Status: Postponed » Closed (duplicate)

The new 'Why Drupal' Section of the site, which is currently under development will include updated about page and other pages to address ideas/suggestions discussed in this issue. Therefore marking as duplicate. #2516956: Create 'About' Section