Category Archives: Tech

We’ve been kicking butt with the doc challenges so far this year. Lots of work is getting done to clean up our handbooks. I really want to thank everyone who is chipping in, even if only for five minutes. Every little bit that we do makes it just that much better for everyone. This month’sContinueContinue reading “Docs Challenge April: tagging pages”

In my post last week I mentioned that we had a professional cat herder, Cindy McCourt, for the Toronto Drupal documentation sprint and that the entire approach was a bit new and different for us. It was certainly different than anything I’d done before, especially in the Open Source or Drupal world. I should startContinueContinue reading “Professional cat herder = win”

This past weekend (March 21-22) several folks from a variety of backgrounds in the Drupal world got together to hammer on high-level documentation issues. Angie Byron, Neil Drumm, Emma Jane Hogbin, Lee Hunter, Cindy McCourt, Todd Neinkerk, David Strauss and myself gathered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, holed up in a hotel for the weekend, andContinueContinue reading “A different kind of doc sprint”

As much as my cohort and friend walkah takes digs at sprints ;-), I myself am a huge fan, caught up in the giddy wave of “getting shit done” while hanging around with a bunch of geeks eating Pringles and ice cream. With the Knight Foundation awarding me money to make it happen in theContinueContinue reading “Let the games begin”

I know I’m a bit late on the monthly challenge this time around, but between the Usability sprint and Drupalcon I’ve been a bit too hectic to get a post written up. So this will be a short month, but hopefully we can rock it anyway. This month the focus will be on spiffing upContinueContinue reading “Docs Challenge March: Style guide review”

At the Drupalcon DC keynote I was in for a bit of a shock. After Dries had delivered the State of Drupal and its general rockingness, Jose Zamora from the Knight Foundation took the stage. He started talking about the Drupal proposals that were submitted last year to the Knight Drupal Initiative (KDI), one ofContinueContinue reading “Funding for Drupal docs gets real”

A grand tradition of Drupalcons is to end with a day of sprinting. Sprints are most often associated with a bunch of hackers chewing on code. Well, our community is more than code or coders. We are a rich community both in people and in the broader work we do to keep Drupal-land humming smoothlyContinueContinue reading “Sprinting isn’t just for code”

The Drupal Association (DA) is getting ready to vote on new members next week. We are looking for more people to help carry the Drupal community forward. But what does it mean really? I know when I was accepted last year as a Permanent Member, I had a very fuzzy idea of what I wasContinueContinue reading “The Drupal Association from the inside”

Aside from general docs work, like the monthly challenges and our current projects, my main priority the last few weeks (and into the foreseeable future) is getting a new Help system into Drupal 7 and making it kick behind. The patch to get the base system in is very close and we just need aContinueContinue reading “Help the Drupal Help system, help you”