News and updates from the Drupal Association.

Still looking for help implementing the Drupal.org redesign

Last year, the Drupal Association hired Mark Boulton Design, with financial support from the community, to work with the Drupal community and re-design Drupal.org. The final design deliverable is the Drupal.org website style guide.

Webinar: Search Engine Optimization for the Drupal.org redesign

Webinar to educate implementers about drupal.org SEO

Next Wednesday, Dec 9th, at 12PM EST we will be hosting a webinar to help educate the re-design implementers on Drupal.org SEO techniques. All interested members of the Drupal community are welcome to register and attend the webinar.

Getting the drupal.org re-design implemented: Drupal companies please sponsor a section

For the last year the Drupal.org redesign has progressed quietly and steadily. Almost 200 people have participated in the redesign by commenting, discussing, reviewing, testing, designing, theming, or writing code to get it done. We have had 6 re-design sprints (2 in Europe and 4 in the US) and built significant infrastructure to get the redesign development and staging ready for the community to make the final push. We are now asking Drupal consulting shops to step forward and help us implement one section of the redesign.

Building the Drupal.org re-design community infrastructure: Administrators wanted

One of the biggest challenges in working in a large community like the Drupal community is removing bottlenecks. All too often the community can seem to come to a grinding halt on just one issue that can only be managed by one person. On Monday Dries gave a presentation at MIT and talked about how some of the Drupal community’s biggest problems have helped create some of our best solutions. In particular, he cited how our drupal.org server melt down in 2005 lead to the creation of the Drupal association to proactively manage and plan for our infrastructure growth.

More computer power

The Drupal Association has used some of the money that it acquired thanks to the Drupal community and its sponsors to buy more computing power for the infrastructure that all services of drupal.org are hosted on.

Oh no, we have too many links!

Once in a while I log into google to look at their webmaster tools and what they say about drupal.org.

Yesterday, I did that again, after a hiatus of several weeks. I noticed, that google had sent me three mails which didn't make it to my inbox because I hadn't configured email forwarding.

After fixing that I looked at the mails.

One was abotu their services, they want me to use Adwords and offer some free budget. The other two were almost identical and they probably had sent the second one after I didn't react on the first:

2009 Budget

After months of hard work defining goals, getting price quotes, setting priorities and building working teams the Association is ready to announce our 2009 budget. The Association is an all volunteer ran organization made up of and supported by the Drupal community and is excited to share our budget with the community. We want to keep you informed as to how your donations are being used.

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