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At the recent Drupal Association retreat, the Association established that its number one priority for 2010 was to complete the Drupal.org redesign. Read the report.

The Drupal Association has been keeping tabs on the progress of the all-volunteer effort. After a review of the efforts to complete the redesign, the Association identified 5 resource-constrained projects which were preventing the volunteers from being able to complete the redesign.

At the recent Drupal Association retreat, the Association established that its number one priority for 2010 was to complete the Drupal.org redesign. Read the report.

The Drupal Association has been keeping tabs on the progress of the all-volunteer effort. After a review of the efforts to complete the redesign, the Association identified 5 resource-constrained projects which were preventing the volunteers from being able to complete the redesign.

The Association is posting 5 contracts that require specialized skills, or significant amounts of work that are unlikely to be completed in a timely manner by the current volunteers. These contracts will be managed by Jacob Redding.

These contract positions will not replace the volunteer effort driving the Drupal.org redesign, nor will they replace the volunteers who manage the Drupal.org infrastructure and software, but instead they will complement their efforts. Other organizations have funded work on Drupal.org in the past and this is a continuation of the hybrid volunteer and funded development and management model.

We are hopeful that members of the community will continue to step forward and volunteer to help improve Drupal.org, the Drupal community's home. The home for the redesign effort is the Redesign Implementers group.