Drupal.org main organizatory weakness

Wolfflow - August 31, 2008 - 02:58

Drupalcon Szeged have ended. A lot of new announcements about core, contrib and new markets where announced.
but is there something that happened and was planned for Drupal.org site?

The main problem of Drupal.org site is the weakness of it's organization. We have a Drupal Association with it's responsible members that have to take care of all organization and structures divisions of what we all Drupal members call: "The Drupal Plumbing Community".

In almost two years of taking part of this great open source adventure i spend almost 3 to 9 hours a day on the relevant and affiliate Drupals sites. I cannot stand here and not try to give my 2 heavy cents to the community and speak from the deep of my heart.

The main weakness of Drupal.org site is that almost every member of the Teams that try to manage the site have the mind focused in so many different fields. Some of them are self programmers and developers and with right they all look to develop further Drupal. Some of them have company to lead and to follow their own business (see Dries Buytaert, - Acquia, Mollom, etc...) in the Drupal Market.

So we have something about 350.000 Drupal members that are hungry to learn Drupal and to get as much and as fast as possible skilled in using Drupal and implement in the almost undefinable amount of fields. IMHO we all members of Drupal.org have to handle and take over the organization and push the developing and implementation of an organizational plan to make Drupal.org the powerful instrument for the community.

My self have from the beginning started to provide my Feedback and focus on many very old problems that the Drupal Community have to suffer when having to search and find and even get some improvement of organization on the site.
If we are not fully engage to provide the Drupal Association to handle fast and competent one Day Drupal.org will be replaced or even worst it will be no more needed.

. Do you want this?
. Do you want to see all the work of 10.000 members vanish in the bits and bytes of the world wide web?

We have many Team Members that are devoted to the Drupal Community and try to do the best to help out. What I saw is that the only field were everything is just boosting at light velocity is the development of code. We see how fast Drupal 7 is going to be another technological and programmatic wonder.

We love all of that but we have to admit that the Drupal.org site is at risk if there will be not taken action to engage the great potentiality of individual resources that is just waiting to participate to the success road of Drupal.

I'm only 1 of the 350.000 and every day growing community that is asking to build "Teams" that are devoted to the existent field on Drupal.org and get them to give their support in supplying a rational and effective overview on the "Work to be done" on Drupal.org.

Establish clearly what Team are responsible for and what they aren't responsible for. Build a Team the exclusively can take the control overview of the quality of Members that want to belong and help voluntary on Drupal.org and classify them.

I could be the first one that will be fired out of the Community and I will be happy about if this appeal will finally burn under the ass's of them that have the capabilities and functionality to start over in doing and not continuing only spreading posting, working groups and what ever
and them everything is going worst on Drupal.org.

Kind Regards

Wolfflow

Unbelivable

Wolfflow - August 31, 2008 - 15:23

@to ALL Really I wonder always when Drupal.org members give answers like

Let me remind you that everyone here is a volunteer. If you want solutions and others aren't providing them, then it's time for you to step up and help to provide them yourself.

without any previous investigation to whom they are answering !!!!
Unbelievable !!! an example (one of thousands) here

Cheers - Wolfflow
If you look at word and nouns you do not clearly understand take a look at Common Terminology, Feel free to propose missing Terms

FYI: I have resign from the

Wolfflow - December 8, 2008 - 19:08

FYI:

I have resign from the doc team as a site maintainer, as to not create more conflict inside the drupal.org teams. I have started a site about Association Developing Advanced Code_of_Conduct for Community Site with the intent to find good compromises for a better approach plan for all interested in improving quality of Online Community and Management.

Kind Regards

 
 

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