February 16, 2012
Last weekend, we held a sprint at the Acquia offices for the Web Services and Context Core (WSCCI) Initiative for Drupal 8. This was an important sprint for the future of Drupal. This blog post provides a high-level overview of what was discussed and agreed upon; the different sprint participants will be laying out more technical details in follow-up blog posts.
Overall, a wide range of experience levels, skill...
February 15, 2012
Last summer, I blogged about how I think about Drupal release date planning, tying it to the Gartner hype cycle and the corollary Drupal mood cycle.
January 30, 2012
We're proud to present a new design for the Mollom.com website.
We first launched the Mollom.com site in 2007. For more than four years, Mollom.com was using the same design. As we grew Mollom, we wanted to address some of the issues that we've been stewing over since our original design. We have been planning to redesign the site for over a year now but work on the Mollom web service and developing...
January 25, 2012
Like at previous DrupalCon's, I'm co-organizing a Core Conversations track at DrupalCon Denver.
The Core Conversations track is a place for people actively working on Drupal or Drupal.org to meet and plan the future of Drupal. Each session is either two 15 minute or one 30 minute presentation, followed by 30 minutes of discussion.
I know a lot of you contribute to Drupal or want to start contributing. If so, Core...
January 19, 2012
When we designed a new governance structure for the Drupal Association last year, we decided that most of the board is selected through a nominating committee with the goal to carefully balance many factors like needed skills and geographical and sector representation. However, it was also deemed important that we have directors chosen directly by the Drupal...
January 6, 2012
2011 was another excellent year for Mollom. We ended the year having blocked 630 million spam messages, up from 352 million spam messages blocked in 2010 -- and that doesn't even count some of our largest customers like Netlog and other large social networks. And, as in 2010, we ended 2011 with a spam classification efficiency of 99.95%, meaning that only 5 in 10,000 spam messages were not caught by Mollom.
The number of active sites protected by...
January 5, 2012
2011 was a tremendous year of major growth for Drupal, and also a year that kept me very, very busy.
Drupal 7
At the beginning of the year, thanks to the efforts of nearly 1,000 contributors, we released Drupal 7, celebrating the event together as a community with over 250 parties in over 90 countries. An incredible achievement for all of us.
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December 21, 2011
December 12, 2011
It's no secret that I travel around the world, evangelizing Drupal to new audiences and connecting with local communities, as well as contributors, from all over the world. In 2011 alone, I traveled more than 400,000 km (250,000 miles) and talked to thousands of Drupal people. Every day, I answer questions that many in the larger community would benefit from knowing as well.
To help facilitate holding these discussions on more of an international scale, I’d like to experiment with...