Drupal.org Improvements

I would like to propose an idea of having some Drupal module which can let some page to be exposed as a block.

Example : Let's say, we have a address-book page exposed through Drupal Commerce Profiles. And now, I want to functionality of that page to be available as a embedded block on some other custom page created for My account.

If I had some module that can let me expose any of route as a block then I might have simply considered using that.

Drupal Diversity & Inclusion advocates through SFDUG are hosting a Speaker Diversity Workshop to help speakers from underrepresented groups prepare to speak at conferences. This will in turn help local meetups, Drupal Camps, and even DrupalCons develop a more diverse speaker roster. The workshop helps folks bust through their impostor syndrome and develop a topic, title, pitch, bio, and outline. #DrupalSpeakerDiversity

The workshop covers:
- Impostor syndrome
- Finding a topic
- Better speaker tips
- Writing a great pitch
- Creating an outline
- Creating great slides

Should we move the community from IRC to Slack?

I used to be active on IRC, but noticed questions were getting less and less responses. After a while I figured out a lot of the community has moved to Slack instead.
Questions seem te be getting a lot more attention on Slack now.

Should we make an attempt to move the community from IRC to Slack?
A lot of pages on Drupal.org could use an update regarding this as well.

I also noticed that there is no Drupal.org webmasters group on Slack, maybe we should add that?

Please join us for an on-line meeting to discuss plans for updating and reorganizing the "Getting Involved" pages on drupal.org into a new "Contribute" section. All are welcome!

Details:
- The meeting will happen in the #documentation channel on Drupal Slack. For more information on Drupal Slack, see https://www.drupal.org/slack
- To find the meeting time in your time zone, see https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Drupal+%22Cont...

Just started a discussion about it here:

https://steemit.com/drupal/@develcuy/is-drupal-the-right-tool-for-drupal...

The promise of Drupal vs. the reality

The first thing you read when looking for 'drupal' in google is:

"Drupal is an open source platform for building amazing digital experiences. It's made by a dedicated community"

Are we making Drupal.org an amazing digital experience? You tell me...

Where should feature requests for Drupal.org be submitted?

I want to suggest that the project module list has another filter that allows people to filter out project modules that are merely in a development or alpha or beta stage for a particular release, e.g. version 8. There are currently 1,312 modules for 8.x, but a lot of them are only dev or alpha or beta, so that number is really misleading. For my 8.x site, I just want to know what modules have at least a release candidate or production release. Thanks to the version naming conventions, the filter shouldn't be too hard to implement, right? :)

I looked for a place to submit this idea but I could not find one.

Over in the webmasters queue I have started a discussion around a PR effort to get contrib module maintainers to add composer.json files to their modules.

Please join in and spread the word.

https://www.drupal.org/node/2547385

There's a new proposal to create a coherent, internationalized Drupal 8 User Manual, which Joe Shindelar (eojthebrave) discussed at DrupalCon Los Angeles recently. Because we want comments on the proposal, it's posted in the Documentation group (the Core group doesn't allow comments):
https://groups.drupal.org/node/470648

I thought some other groups might be interested, so I'm posting this quick note to let you know. Follow the link for all the details and discussions.

Next week, an international conglomeration of awesome folks will convene in Portland, Oregon for a D8 Accelerate-funded sprint on DrupalCI: Modernizing Testbot Initiative.

The main aim of DrupalCI is to rebuild Drupal's current testbot infrastructure (which is currently powered by an aging Drupal 6 site) to industry-standard components such as Jenkins, Docker, and so on, architected to be generally useful outside of Drupal.org. See Nick Schuch's Architecting DrupalCI at DrupalCon Amsterdam blog post for more details.

The goal is to end the sprint with an "MVP" product on production hardware, with integration to Drupal.org, which can be used to demonstrate a full end-to-end D8 core ‘simpletest’ test run request from Drupal.org through to results appearing on the results server.

You can read and subscribe to the sprint hit-list issue to get an idea of who's going to be working on what, and the places where you too can jump in (see the much longer version for more details).

This is a particularly important initiative to help with, since it not only unblocks Drupal 8 from shipping, it also makes available awesome new testing tools for all Drupal.org projects!

Go Team! :)

Here we are with Europe Friendly Times for the TestBot Initiative Public Meetings!

The Testbot team is conducting public meetings. Want to join & help them, need support or just talk to the team, join the meetings! Come and share what you did last week & the plan for the weeks ahead.

For those of you who can't, please note the meetings on alternate weeks at US Friendly Times.

The Testbot team is conducting public meetings. Want to join & help them, need support or just talk to the team, join the meetings! Come and share what you did last week & the plan for the weeks ahead.

To Know more about the testbot initiative checkout: https://www.previousnext.com.au/blog/architecting-drupalci-drupalcon-ams...

The meeting will be held as a Google+ Hangout (online video) at: https://plus.google.com/hangouts/_/calendar/cmFqYXJhbS5zaHlhbWFsYUBnbWFp...

Wednesday, Jan 28th, 2015: 2:30AM UTC

The Dev Tools team is conducting public meetings. Want to join & help Dev Tools team, need support or just talk to the team, join the meetings! Come and share what you did last 2 week & the plan for the weeks ahead.

Click here to know more about the team.

The meeting will be held as a Google+ Hangout (online video) at:
Tuesday, November 18th, 2014: 6:00PM UTC
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Getting setup on Google+

Better credit for organizations on Drupal.org

Recently we added a feature to projects on Drupal.org to help highlight the contributions made by supporting organizations. Maintainers of distributions, modules, and themes can give credit to organizations that have materially contributed to projects on Drupal.org using the new "Supporting Organizations" field.

Upcoming deployments

This week we are planning to deploy a solution for multiple values for listings of current companies and organizations, a fix for wrong 'open issues' count on user project page, an upgrade Fasttoggle to 7.x-1.5, and a few smaller patches.

Almost half a year ago, with the help of the Drupal.org Content Working Group and lawyers, the Drupal Association started working on a Drupal.org Terms of Service (ToS) and Privacy Policy. After a number of drafts and rewrites, we are now ready to introduce both documents to Drupal.org users. Read the announcement on Drupal.org for more information.

The Dev Tools team is conducting public meetings. Want to join & help Dev Tools team, need support or just talk to the team, join the meetings! Come and share what you did last 2 week & the plan for the weeks ahead.

Click here to know more about the team.

The meeting will be held as a Google+ Hangout (online video) at:
Friday, August 8th, 2014: 3:00PM UTC
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Getting setup on Google+

The Dev Tools team is conducting public meetings. Want to join & help Dev Tools team, need support or just talk to the team, join the meetings! Come and share what you did last 2 week & the plan for the weeks ahead.

Click here to know more about the team.

The meeting will be held as a Google+ Hangout (online video) at:
Friday, August 8th, 2014: 3:00PM UTC
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Getting setup on Google+

The Dev Tools team is conducting public meetings. Want to join & help Dev Tools team, need support or just talk to the team, join the meetings! Come and share what you did last 2 week & the plan for the weeks ahead.

Click here to know more about the team.

The meeting will be held as a Google+ Hangout (online video) at:
Friday, July 25th, 2014: 3:00PM UTC
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As part of my rapidly-finishing Master’s studies, and my work on the Drupal Community Tools Team, I'm conducting research into the experiences of Drupal community members, specifically in terms of contributing. Your feedback is needed!

You can take the survey here: http://bit.ly/1omhUpG. Thank you so much!