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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 of… Continue 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 smoothly… Continue 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 was… Continue 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 a… Continue 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 stay… Continue reading Docs challenge February: cleaning comments

I had a great time at SANDcamp this weekend. It was great to catch up with friends I hadn’t seen in a while and I met lots of cool people. Most of the time I was trying to suck them into the Drupal community. 😉 My keynote was “It’s the people, stupid!” and I’ve attached… Continue reading SANDcamp: It’s the people, stupid

This weekend, I’m headed out to sunny San Diego for my first Drupal event of the year, SANDcamp. I can’t wait to see my friends, meet new people and generally geek out for a few days. I’m excited for a lot of reasons and while basking in the warmth of SoCal is definitely something to… Continue reading Going to play at SANDcamp

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 glimpse… Continue 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 to… Continue reading Docs Challenge January: tending the queue

We wrapped up Do it with Drupal (DIWD [dūd] to those in the know) a few days ago and after slogging through email and catching up on the rest of life, I’ve had some time to begin digesting it all. Spoiler: it was awesome. I say that as an attendee and as a worker-bee. On… Continue reading My Brain is full from Doing it with Drupal