DrupalCon is seeking a partner to enhance the current DrupalCon website to prepare for the growth of DrupalCon events. Integration and development will use the existing code base as a foundation for adding or enhancing features as outlined in the RFP.
The Drupal Association is proud to announce that several of the previously-announced contract positions to help facilitate the Drupal.org redesign and the CVS-to-Git migration effort have been filled. These positions will serve to supplement the ongoing volunteer efforts around these initiatives.
Sam Boyer has been hired as the Git Migration Lead. In this position, he will be responsible for helping migrate Drupal.org from CVS to Git, and making all adjustments necessary to existing Drupal.org collaboration tools to support our existing centralized, patch-based work flow. You can learn more about Sam's approach to this process on his blog, and find out how you can get involved by joining the Drupal.org Git Migration Team group and following @DrupalGitGremln on Twitter.
Achieve Internet has been contracted as the lead Solr developers for the Drupal.org redesign. They're tasked with enabling Drupal.org visitors to find the information they need by implementing Solr search applications as specified in the redesign.
3281d Consulting has been contracted to provide development on the project, issue and release management systems to enable new functionality for the drupal.org redesign and the migration to Git.
Look forward to a full update on the progress of the Drupal.org redesign in the coming days, as well as further updates on additional hires.
The Drupal Association is proud to announce that several of the previously-announced contract positions to help facilitate the Drupal.org redesign and the CVS-to-Git migration effort have been filled. These positions will serve to supplement the ongoing volunteer efforts around these initiatives.
Sam Boyer has been hired as the Git Migration Lead. In this position, he will be responsible for helping migrate Drupal.org from CVS to Git, and making all adjustments necessary to existing Drupal.org collaboration tools to support our existing centralized, patch-based work flow. You can learn more about Sam's approach to this process on his blog, and find out how you can get involved by joining the Drupal.org Git Migration Team group and following @DrupalGitGremln on Twitter.
Achieve Internet has been contracted as the lead Solr developers for the Drupal.org redesign. They're tasked with enabling Drupal.org visitors to find the information they need by implementing Solr search applications as specified in the redesign.
3281d Consulting has been contracted to provide development on the project, issue and release management systems to enable new functionality for the drupal.org redesign and the migration to Git.
Look forward to a full update on the progress of the Drupal.org redesign in the coming days, as well as further updates on additional hires.
I've found some time to investigate some drupal.org server logs and found that while everything is generally working, there are some strange things happening.
Every full hour our access stats go up by almost 150%. I looked at the IPs that produce a lot of hits over the day, but they weren't responsible for these spikes. The spike is produced by a lot of different Drupal sites that request our update data when the hour strikes.
And why? Because we tell them to! In line 239 of our INSTALL.txt we instruct people who install Drupal to request our update stats at precisely that time. A classical facepalm.
Thanks to Varnish and the generally robust drupal.org infrastructure, this isn't an actual problem, but with the continued growth of the number of Drupal sites it might become one.
The doors have closed on DrupalCon San Francisco and we have all recovered from our DrupalCon party hangovers. Well most of us have at least.
Here at the Association we learned early on how to deal with those post DrupalCon hangovers and we have lost no ground in planning the next two DrupalCon. DrupalCon Copenhagen, Denmark August 23-27, 2010 and DrupalCon Chicago March 8-11, 2011!
Our first step in planning the next conference is to evaluate how well the recent one was received. Yes that is right we listen to you, the Drupal community.
Welcome to the first of what we hope will become a series of regular updates on recent Drupal Association activities! This installment covers March and April of this year:
On March 2, Drupal Association elections were held, resulting in the addition of several new members to the General Assembly and one new board member.
In early April, the Association purchased two new Dell PowerEdge R610 servers for the Drupal.org hosting infrastructure. These servers have now been configured and deployed into the production environment.
At DrupalCon San Francisco on April 28, members of the Drupal Association presented a session explaining the organization's roles and responsibilities and answering questions from the community. The video of this session is now available on the DrupalCon San Francisco website.
During the closing session of DrupalCon San Francisco, the next two DrupalCons were announced. DrupalCon Copenhagen will be held August 24-26, 2010, and DrupalCon Chicago will be held March 8-10, 2011. The Drupal Association will be providing business and logistical support for both conferences.
After DrupalCon, members of the Association's General Assembly met for a full-day retreat to discuss the mission and goals of the Association and determine areas of focus for the next year. Angie Byron posted her report on the Association site.
At its retreat, the Association identified completion of the Drupal.org redesign implementation as its top priority for the coming year, and made the decision to hire several individuals and/or companies to supplement the work of the volunteers who have been working on the project and assist with the migration of Drupal.org's version control system to Git.
In late April, the Drupal.org redesign theme (known as "Bluecheese") was rolled out on the Drupal Association site. If you're interested in helping out with the Drupal.org redesign, you can find out how to become involved at the Drupal.org redesign implementers group.
Welcome to the first of what we hope will become a series of regular updates on recent Drupal Association activities! This installment covers March and April of this year:
On March 2, Drupal Association elections were held, resulting in the addition of several new members to the General Assembly and one new board member.
In early April, the Association purchased two new Dell PowerEdge R610 servers for the Drupal.org hosting infrastructure. These servers have now been configured and deployed into the production environment.
At DrupalCon San Francisco on April 28, members of the Drupal Association presented a session explaining the organization's roles and responsibilities and answering questions from the community. The video of this session is now available on the DrupalCon San Francisco website.
During the closing session of DrupalCon San Francisco, the next two DrupalCons were announced. DrupalCon Copenhagen will be held August 24-26, 2010, and DrupalCon Chicago will be held March 8-10, 2011. The Drupal Association will be providing business and logistical support for both conferences.
After DrupalCon, members of the Association's General Assembly met for a full-day retreat to discuss the mission and goals of the Association and determine areas of focus for the next year. Angie Byron posted her report on the Association site.
At its retreat, the Association identified completion of the Drupal.org redesign implementation as its top priority for the coming year, and made the decision to hire several individuals and/or companies to supplement the work of the volunteers who have been working on the project and assist with the migration of Drupal.org's version control system to Git.
In late April, the Drupal.org redesign theme (known as "Bluecheese") was rolled out on the Drupal Association site. If you're interested in helping out with the Drupal.org redesign, you can find out how to become involved at the Drupal.org redesign implementers group.
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.
As the Drupal project and community have grown rapidly over the past few years, the mission and responsibilities of the Drupal Association have changed as well. To ensure that the Association continues to effectively meet the needs of the Drupal community and project, and to plan its efforts for the coming year, nearly all permanent members of the Association met after DrupalCon San Francisco for a day-long retreat.
Topics discussed included:
an overview of the DA's budget and resources
an exploration of the DA's mission and responsibilities
defining the DA's top priorities for the coming year
defining the organization's staffing needs
improving the DA's decision-making processes and communication both internally and with the wider community
Coming out of this retreat, the Association identified five areas that it will focus on in 2010. The DA will work on other initiatives as well, but these items were deemed to be the ones that had the highest priority:
Completing the implementation of the Drupal.org redesign
Continuing to build a sustainable model for DrupalCons
Improving internal processes and decision-making
Hiring permanent staff to help the DA better execute on its initatives
Improving the technical infrastructure of drupal.org
Below you can find an in-depth explanation of the process.
As part of its efforts to better serve the Drupal project and community, the Drupal Association recently took the step of hiring its first full-time staff member. Longtime Drupal contributor and Association Treasurer Jacob Redding has been retained as the Association's interim General Manager, tasked with the responsibility of setting process in place and making it possible to hire more staff members over time.
