Improving Drupal.org download process with web analytics

In the month of June we enabled Google Analytics on Drupal.org as part of an effort to build a user experience toolkit. The toolkit was designed to provide insight on: what users were searching for, what traffic patterns and workflows vistors were following, and what usability feedback we can get from field studies. If you are interested in Drupal.org analytics you should attend the web conference on key performance indicators tomorrow.

Drupalcon Boston Videos ready, now we just need to map files to sessions

UPDATE: We finished off in no time. Thanks to Webchick, MediaDoneRight.

The Drupalcon videos are done being processed, mostly. We need some help watching the first 20 seconds of the videos to figure out which video is which Drupalcon session. If you've got a particular Drupalcon session you missed and really want to see, and your willing to put in a little work, I'll give you links to 5 videos files and you can let me know which Drupalcon sessions they are. We should be able to crowd source this very quickly.

Drupal.org re-design business kick-off meeting

Last week we had a business kick-off meeting for the Drupal.org re-design. The purpose of this meeting was to start two important efforts: establishing business objectives for the re-design, and begin the re-design request for qualifications and request for proposals process.

How to Have a Successful Social Strategy

Two weeks ago I attended a joint Web 2.0 (conference) and Web2Open (unconference) two part session on building a social strategy for your business. Web 2.0 and social software luminaries Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff presented a session " how to have a successful social strategy" based on their extensive research and book "Groundswell".

Pragmatist

Drupal association reaches 500 paid members

Yesterday the Drupal association added it's 500th paid member. 350 individuals paid 22 Euros for an individual membership and 150 organizations paid 73 Euros for an organizational membership. In total the association has received $21 448.45 from paid memberships.

Why hasn't my paid association membership shown up in the directory yet?

First let me thank almost 500 people who've purchased a Drupal association membership. Your support makes it possible to hold Drupal events like Drupalcon North America, Europe, and soon hopefully a Drupalcon Asia. It's also allowing us to purchase the hardware we need to run Drupal.org and help prepare for a redesign.

There's been a backlog in processing memberships and we are working to fix this problem. Let me give you a bit of a technical explanation and then explain what we are doing to fix this.

Announcing Drupalcon Szeged 2008

After several months of searching for an appropriate city, venue, and team to host this year's European Drupalcon we are happy to announce that Drupalcon will be in Szeged, Hungary! Gábor Hojtsy and Kristof Van Tomme, teamed up the local event planner/travel agency, C&T, are heading up our Drupalcon Europe team and they are doing an outstanding job at organizing this year's conference.

We are expecting a thousand Drupal enthusiasts from around the world; which means that we'll be turning the picturesque student town of Szeged into Drupaltown for almost a week!

Drupalcon has been a major success for the Drupal community, with every conference reaching out to more and more people. Like Boston, Drupalcon Szeged will again provide ample opportunities both for business people, developers, themers, designers, and users in the community: there will be a code sprint, plenty of space for BOF sessions, a job fair and, of course, plenty of opportunity for networking. Start planning, buy your tickets early and be prepared to meet your Drupal community in Szeged, Hungary; Drupaltown!

For more information please read the official announcement on Drupal.org and stay tuned to the official website at szeged2008.drupalcon.org (or drupalcon.org for short)

Drupalcon 2009? We are currently planning the 2009 Drupalcon in North America and Europe. Please submit your proposals and ideas now.

Community Plumbing: Why RDF fits for Drupal

Coming out of Drupalcon in Boston, there's a lot of buzz in the community about RDF and Drupal's future. RDF was a prominent theme in Dries' keynote address. Boris Mann and I were chatting at Drupalcon about RDF and Drupal and I thought I'd jot down these notes while they're fresh in my mind.

From the start, Drupal has focused on enabling collaboration. The quintessential Drupal website is not based on a single central authority; it's a collective enterprise.

Getting rid of slow queries

If you run a popular Drupal site, you'll sometimes find more queries in your MySQL server's slow query log than you really want to.

Sometimes the unruly queries can be eliminated easily by adding an index or two. Sometimes, they can be avoided alltogether (for example, the query in theme_forum_topic_navigation can be avoided by overriding the function with an empty one in your theme).

Drupalcon Boston feedback survey, wiki, and now public organizing group

Aspiring Drupalcon organizers may be interested in understanding what went into organizing the conference content and coordinating volunteers. We've stripped the emails and private information from the Boston 2008 group so you can now take a look at one part of the organizing effort.

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