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I have put together a free course to help people get started learning Drupal module development. It starts off with fundamental concepts and then walks you through creating your first module with some common tasks.

Who is this for?

It is aimed at Drupalistas with some site building experience who would like to start learning how to develop their own custom modules. It is also suitable for those who are new to Drupal and would like to dive into to module development.

The Drupal Association Board of Directors has committed to significantly improving Drupal.org in 2014. As a result, we are staffing up, working with contractors, and improving volunteer engagement paths so that we can really accelerate change on the site this year and keep the momentum going into next year.

What's next for Drupal.org?

The primary imperative outlined in our 2014 Leadership Plan and Budget is to make Drupal.org shine. Here are the things I am going to be focused on most immediately to that end:

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Update: downtime window has been shortened from 2 hours to 30 minutes.

Drupal.org will be going down for up to 30 minutes starting Tuesday, April 29th, 17:00 PDT (April 30th, 0:00 UTC).

We will be performing backend switch maintenance for up to 1 hour starting Thursday, April 24th, 17:00 PDT (April 24th, 0:00 UTC).

This maintenance window will be used to install a new backend network switch for Drupal.org. All services have been migrated away from the switch being replaced and we do not expect any outages or downtime to occur during the switch installation.

Feel free to follow the @drupal_infra Twitter account for updates.

Description : This is a short course/book on how to install , configure and administer a Drupal site .

Content:
Lesson 1 Introduction to Drupal ;
leson 2 Basic Concepts and Features ;
Lesson 3 Installing Drupal ;
Lesson 4 Adding, classifying and viewing content ;
Lesson 5 Administration overview ;
Lesson 6 Basic back end administration ;
Lesson 7 Drupal Taxonomy ;
Lesson 8 Moving a static site to Drupal;
Lesson 9 Backing up and Migrating ;
Lesson 10 Performance and security

Just wanted to let the community know that the 2014 Blue Drop Awards are underway.

If you're interested in sponsoring, volunteering, or nominating, we're more than happy to welcome you aboard.