News

If you were wondering about the North American DrupalCon selection process for 2013, wonder no more! The Drupal Association has assembled a committee to make a recommendation for the board's consideration and the committee is excited to kick off the community engagement process next week on June 1.

This committee will:

This isn't exactly news, but I was always assuming that Drupal people are a bit more honest and reliable. Turns out that I am pretty naïve.

The map on the home page of Drupal.org is one of the most-noticed new features. It started with the prototype, which was just that— a Flash-based idea for what might go there. During implementation, we had to figure out what exactly it would be and how it would work.

First, we needed to know where people were. Drupal.org has the advantage of an audience who is more-likely to be using modern browsers, and we don’t need everyone’s location. I decided we should use the new Geolocation API, but didn’t find any existing modules. I wrote a small HTML5 user geolocation module to add a share location option to your profile page. For privacy, it is opt-in and rounded to the nearest 0.1 longitude/latitude. Over 5,000 have shared their location, less than 1% of active Drupal.org users, but still looks impressive on a map:

Some of you may have noticed it, but most probably have not:

the old DrupalCon sites that are still running Drupal are not accessible at the moment, they are locked by a htaccess script.

This is an unfortunate development, but in the end I didn't have any choice but to do this.

The reason for this is quite simple: the sites are unmaintained. With the associated DrupalCon, the various webteams dispersed and software updates weren't done anymore.