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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 ofContinue 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 smoothlyContinue reading “Sprinting isn’t just for code”

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 aContinue reading “Help the Drupal Help system, help you”

Thanks to a whole slew of people, we rocked the socks off of the January challenge and got the Documentation issue queue down to a svelte 125 issues. Keep in mind that includes all new issues that came in for the month too, so BIG thanks to everyone that helped out. Hopefully we can stayContinue reading “Docs challenge February: cleaning comments”

This year is already shaping up to be busy and challenging in a lot of ways, but one the biggest challenges I’m chomping for is in the world of documentation. By “world of documentation,” I don’t just mean Drupal docs either; I’m talking about all Open Source docs. Here is a bit of a glimpseContinue reading “What would a rockin’ docs year look like?”

With the start of the new year, I’ve decided I’m going to run a monthly “Docs Challenge.” I’ve got another post coming down the pike that lays out my long-term goals and the big pieces of the Drupal docs puzzle for this year. One of those goals is to find ways to make contributing toContinue reading “Docs Challenge January: tending the queue”

Nice menus is a great little module for creating dropdown and flyout menus in your Drupal site. My time to be a good maintainer for it varies wildly so it often sits dormant for long periods. Last week, during the Thanksgiving holiday, I dove back into the issue queue and after fixing a few bugsContinue reading “Nice menus getting nicer”

I have finally finished my formal grant proposal to the Knight Foundation to fund documentation sprints for Drupal. (You can read the original community proposal on the Knight Drupal Initiative group page.) The basic idea is that there is a lot of work to be done and getting people together throughout the year, around theContinue reading “Sprints moving Drupal forward”

Last Friday Dries announced that Steven Peck (sepeck) had decided to step back from his leadership role on the documentation team. Steven and Dries asked me to step into those big shoes and I accepted. All I can say is that I am glad that Steven isn’t going away. 🙂 I’m honored that two peopleContinue reading “What Drupal documentation means to me”

I’ve been involved with the Drupal Documentation team, at varying levels of time and interest, for a while now. It was my first foray to getting involved with the community and I think it is a common entry point for many “non-coders” and people that may code but are hesitant to jump into the frayContinue reading “Drupal docs on the move”