A catch-all initiative aimed at accelerating innovation and increasing contributions to Drupal. Discover more about this initiative and find out how you can actively engage and contribute to the ongoing innovation within the Drupal community.
Drupal Starshot - Announced at DrupalCon Portland 2024
Drupal Starshot was announced at DrupalCon Portland 2024
The Starshot Initiative aims to build the new default version of Drupal that includes refined common features from the contrib ecosystem to create a great user experience out of the box. It builds on top of recent initiatives like Recipes, Project Browser, and Automatic Updates to take Drupal to new heights.
Goals
2xOrgs that are makers
3xStrategic contributions
The Drupal Innovation initiative is metrics driven, tracking the health of contribution in the Drupal community and measuring key indicators to see the impact of our work.
For 2025 The Drupal Association wants to double the number of organisations that are "makers".
We want to triple the contributions to Drupal strategic product innovation.
This is part of Drupal Association Strategic goals 2023, 2025, which you can read here. You can follow as well the latest on the Drupal Innovation Blog.
Measuring innovation
Contribution Health Dashboards
As part of the feedback from the Innovation Working Group Alex Moreno developed a series of queries and Drush scripts with the goal of getting a better understanding of the contribution ecosystem in Drupal, understand what needs changing and how any changes introduced in the ecosystem would be working (or not).
For 2025 The Drupal Association wants to double the number of organisations that are "makers".
Featured Initiative
Pitchburgh
At DrupalCon Pittsburgh 2023, we kicked off the Drupal Innovation initiative with a contest. People across the community were invited to submit short video pitches for tightly scoped, impactful projects, and the Drupal Association together we key partners created a pool of seed funding for this work. Together, DrupalCon attendees voted on the proposed initiatives, and the top selections were funded.
Increasing number of contributions
User onboarding improvements
The first contact a bit portion of our users have with Drupal is our drupal.org registration. Improving that process not only ensures that we are delivering the image and branding that Drupal deserves, but also we maximise the opportunities to convert those users from takers to makers,
We estimate 130,000 hours spent on contribution by our community each year. Imagine if by reducing contribution friction we can save 10% of that time. That would be 13,000 hours saved that can be reinvested in innovation.
Contribution blockers
Identify and address friction points in the contribution process
If something hurts innovation is an issue open for months or years. The long tail of the (Open Source) contribution pipe give us the opportunity to decrease that time to contribution, increase velocity in the Open Source project and speed up how Drupal is developed
Bounty program
Reward innovation
The Bounty program was a pilot program with the idea to solve a few common problems, the most important one, direct contributions where Drupal and the Drupal Association needs them more, which is, for example, to strategic initiatives and innovation projects.
The program was successful, it solve issues that were stuck for years, and it demonstrated the need of a soft steering on the right direction
