Commerce Guys, a company specializing in Ubercart based commerce solutions, has been chosen by the Drupal Association to run a Drupal branded online shop. Commerce Guys will receive a 1 year license to run the shop which will take it's place among the family of *.drupal.org websites.
The Drupal project has been doing user experience work for several years but the pace has really picked up in 2008. This year alone we've have already completed two studies, both for Drupal 6.
Over the last week Leisa Reichelt, from Mark Boulton design has continued her user experience studies with iteration four of the redesigned Drupal.org site. In testing iteration four here's what the team from Mark Boulton design found.
As part of the redesign we will be developing some new branding for Drupal.org. Once we settle on a new brand we are going to want to start promoting it. Part of that effort will including buying branded merchandise via Drupal.org with profits going to the Drupal association.
If you are organizing a Drupalcamp you are probably finding that you are thrust into a fund raising role. As the Drupal association fundraiser, let me offer you a quick tip for raising money to meet your Drupalcamp expenses.
First, follow the rules of BarCamps and keep everything as simple as possible. Don't try to provide too many comforts. Instead, communicate what you need and then what ever you get provided with is what you will have.
[Update] Carey at the consumerist updated the article, including our explanation.
You might have seen Bert Boerland's piece indicating that Drupal just got some bad press, and is currently on the front page of Digg.com for that bad press.
I just got off the phone with Justin Jilg from GoDaddy.com and we are now working together on a joint response. He is reviewing what's going on with his security and his public relations team.
select count(login) from users where login > 0 and from_unixtime(login) > '2008-08-01 00:00:00' and status= 1;
+--------------+
| count(login) |
+--------------+
| 34626 |
+--------------+
That means that 10% of all drupal.org user accounts are actively used. Not that bad at all.
133257 is the result for the same query if you change the date to 1st of January. That is over50% of the accounts that exist on drupal.org and have been used at least once. Quite impressive.
Or, The Project Module and the Deadly Sins of Drupal Development
Forgive me, Drupal, for I have sinned. It's been many months since my last confession.
At the Drupal Association we've set upgrading drupal.org as our top priority this year, and much of that work depends on project.*.
The Project module and kin are some of the most important pieces of drupal.org--and some of the most difficult. Six months after Drupal 6 came out, drupal.org still is still running Drupal 5, in large part because project.* is not yet upgraded.
Last night I met with Tiffany Farriss and Drupal association board member Larry Garfield at the Palantir offices in Chicago. I was in town for HostingCon. We reviewed the six proposals we received from 6 design firms.