The Drupal Fit group, on Drupal.org infrastructure at groups.drupal.org/fit, is bringing Drupal community members together and provides support for getting and staying fit. This is especially important now that our community has grown to the size that it is.

Community-focused groups are needed in order to help us take care of our own. LGBTQI Drupal, Drupalchix, Young Drupallers and Drupalgängers are all great examples. These aren't traditional working groups or regional user groups but they're essential for fostering the health of the community.

That's what Drupal Fit is about. It started in spirit long ago at DrupalCons when community members met for early morning runs and group yoga.

  http://drupal.org/node/940058

I'm open to feedback on this post, whether it's constructive and helps improve the quality of the post or not. Either way, the fitness movement is here to stay and it would be a service to the community to have this post promoted to the front page.

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I think this is a really cool group, but isn't this story more appropriate for the home page of groups.drupal.org?

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christefano commented

Would this have an easier time being promoted if Drupal Fit was a site on its own domain? Currently, I'd like to keep Drupal Fit solely on Drupal.org infrastructure.

My bet is that Drupal Fit is of interest to the larger community. After promoting the Git with Drupal 7 event to the home page of groups.drupal.org, it was clear to me that not many people saw it.

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My question here has nothing to do with where the group is hosted.

It's just kind of unusual that a purely informational post about a group of Drupalers with a common interest gets posted to the home page. To use the examples from your post, we also typically don't promote stories informing the community that LGBTQI Drupal, Drupalchix, Young Drupallers, and Drupalgängers exist either.

Given that, I'd just like to see some additional justification for why this story is special enough to deserve home page promotion and some broader consensus that from the webmaster's team that we should start promoting these kinds of stories.

I'm not sure what your point is about the Git story as that did receive d.o homepage promotion: http://drupal.org/node/823524

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I think the point is that the story didn't receive attention while it was on g.d.o but then did receive attention from the d.o homepage.

For sure, the two are not equivalent in their audiences, not by a long shot.

I think George's questions are good: What makes this group, or this post, interesting enough to warrant promotion on the homepage when few other groups have been on the home page. The most recent one I could find is http://drupal.org/node/105542 about the Drupal Dojo from the original launch in December 2006.

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christefano commented

Thanks for answering that, greggles.

Given that, I'd just like to see some additional justification for why this story is special enough to deserve home page promotion and some broader consensus that from the webmaster's team that we should start promoting these kinds of stories.

There are other groups who have gotten coverage on the front page, such as Design for Drupal (D4D), the Drupal.org Redesign group, the Docs team (well, I admit this is a stretch) and the Drupal Dojo (as greggles noted), to name a few. Promoting the existence of a new group is not without precedent.

Should I resubmit the Drupal Fit announcement to the community spotlight forum instead? It says in the community spotlight guidelines:

A Community Spotlight can be focused on an individual, a team (e.g. a Drupalcon team or the D7UX team), or any project that extends Drupal (e.g. a module, theme, installation profile etc). We are collecting Spotlights in advance of the launch of the redesign.

My sense is that it might have been easier to have this promoted to the front page if Drupal Fit were an online magazine on its own domain, but I was hoping that having Drupal Fit solely on Drupal.org infrastructure would benefit everyone. In a strange way, having Drupal Fit on groups.drupal.org seems to be counting against it.

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heine commented

I see no value in frontpage promotion.

This group (like LGBTQIABCDEF, etc) is not even about _Drupal_. As it is so far offtopic, I don't see how it would be of interest to the larger Drupal community.

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Heine, the subject of "offtopic-ness" that you mention is being discussed at #805888: Denied group: Drupal Parents (Needs to be approved). Although that issue has been postponed, my reading of the thread is that the submission guidelines on groups.drupal.org are out of date and that groups like Drupal Fit are about Drupal, the community, even when they're not about Drupal, the software. My argument for the existence of Drupal Fit (and Drupalgängers, Drupalchix, Design for Drupal, etc.) is that strengthening the community strengthens all of Drupal.

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heine commented

The post is offtopic for the frontpage, which is what _this_ thread is about.

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christefano commented

The only person who's making the case for having Drupal Fit on Drupal.org infrastructure seems to be me. I'm wondering why no one has responded yet to whether Drupal Fit qualifies for the new community spotlight or if it has a better chance to be promoted to the front page if it were on its own domain.

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heine commented

If DrupalFit would be on its own domain and had an awesome showcase (showcasing Drupal, not the product) it would have a chance of frontpage promotion.

I'm a bit hazy on the community spotlight details:

Inspired by others in the Drupal community? Nominate and interview the people improving Drupal for the Community Spotlight.

A Community Spotlight can be focused on an individual, a team (e.g. a Drupalcon team or the D7UX team), or any project that extends Drupal (e.g. a module, theme, installation profile etc). We are collecting Spotlights in advance of the launch of the redesign.

So, should you or your team have organized some awesome activity on the DrupalCon (eg going outside (shudder :) in Chicago), the team might qualify for a community spotlight imo.

Frontpage promotion simply for the sake of the attention and benefit it would generate to your group is IMO a -1.

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Status: Needs review » Closed (won't fix)

Since there seems to be no clear consensus that this is front page material, I'm going to mark it "won't fix" for now.

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I've responded to the points that have been brought up so far and was hoping to hear back. It seems to me that there's more of a lack of conversation than a lack of consensus.

If DrupalFit would be on its own domain and had an awesome showcase (showcasing Drupal, not the product) it would have a chance of frontpage promotion.

Hmph. I really thought that having Drupal Fit on Drupal.org infrastructure would be a point in its favor and not a point against it.

Anyway, the Drupal Fit community spotlight continues. I think the community will like this one: http://groups.drupal.org/node/104789 (it's unpublished until it's reviewed by the interviewee.)