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Agenda

Agenda? This is a town hall meeting, and the agenda is set by you!

The following topics are open for discussion:

  • Drupal.org Redesign
  • Git Migration
  • Hiring: The Association is hiring multiple full-time staff positions
  • DrupalCon!
  • <Your topic/>

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Improving the Quality of DrupalCon Programming

DrupalCon, We Have a Problem

As a community that has experienced rapid growth in a very short time, we’ve very quickly gone from conferences that consisted of a couple dozen people getting together for a few beers to international events that attract thousands of people from around the world. As DrupalCons have grown, not only have their audiences become more diverse, but their reasons for attending have changed as well.

Defining the Mission Statement and Purpose


DRAFT: Mission Statement

The Drupal Association fosters and supports the Drupal software project, the community and its growth.

DRAFT: Purpose

The Drupal Association does this by:

Get up early on Tuesday!

If you are like me, you probably weren't planning to show up at DrupalCon before Dries' keynote.

Here's a reason you might want to set your alarm clock early if you are attending DrupalCon Copenhagen.

We have managed at the last minute to get Scott MacVicar from Facebook to come to Copenhagen to talk about the HIPHPOP PHP compiler.

DrupalCon Website Request For Proposals

DrupalCon is seeking a partner to enhance the current DrupalCon website to prepare for the growth of DrupalCon events. Integration and development will use the existing code base as a foundation for adding or enhancing features as outlined in the RFP.

Help Us Pick the Location for DrupalCon North America 2012!

The DrupalCon North American Regional Organizing Group is looking for input from the Drupal community to help pick the location for DrupalCon North America in 2012 and beyond.

To do so, we’ve put together a brief “straw poll” intended to gauge community interest in various cities that have either expressed a desire to host a North American DrupalCon and/or been suggested as potential good locations by our event management company. This list is not intended to be exhaustive, and community members are welcomed to suggest alternative options.

You can make your voice heard by going to http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/drupalconstrawpoll now!

The poll takes less than five minutes to complete, and we’ll be accepting responses until 11:59pm PDT on August 4.

Facepalm

I've found some time to investigate some drupal.org server logs and found that while everything is generally working, there are some strange things happening.

Every full hour our access stats go up by almost 150%. I looked at the IPs that produce a lot of hits over the day, but they weren't responsible for these spikes. The spike is produced by a lot of different Drupal sites that request our update data when the hour strikes.

DrupalCon was awesome! Or was it?

The doors have closed on DrupalCon San Francisco and we have all recovered from our DrupalCon party hangovers. Well most of us have at least.

Here at the Association we learned early on how to deal with those post DrupalCon hangovers and we have lost no ground in planning the next two DrupalCon. DrupalCon Copenhagen, Denmark August 23-27, 2010 and DrupalCon Chicago March 8-11, 2011!

Our first step in planning the next conference is to evaluate how well the recent one was received. Yes that is right we listen to you, the Drupal community.

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