Drupal.org is our home. It's where we solve tough problems, it's where we innovate on creative solutions, and it's where we meet and interact with others in our community. It only makes sense then that our community should be able to actively participate in making improvements happen on Drupal.org, but the process to do so has traditionally been seen as a bit confusing and opaque.

This post attempts to outline the process of making changes to Drupal.org, and highlight some recent successes we've had putting this process into practice. This information is compiled from the Make Drupal.org awesome guide!

Step 1: Think it up

Have a great new idea for improving Drupal.org? Great! Search first, to see if someone else has already had your amazing idea and maybe started work on it. If not, begin by creating an issue in the webmasters issue queue to discuss, unless you happen to know the appropriate issue queue for it.

Hello from Jennifer and Ariane, your friendly Drupal Documentation Team co-leads! It’s time for a quarterly update on what’s happening in the Documentation Team—we've been working on some major restructuring of documentation and the Docs Team since our last update (June 28, 2011), and we'd like to get you up to date on our plans, and other events and news.

Docs restructuring

The big news for this quarter is that we are in the midst of some restructuring of the online Drupal documentation, as well as of the Documentation Team itself. Nothing has been completely settled yet, but here is an outline of our plans, reasoning, and links to more information and where you can get involved in the discussion.

Community documentation

The main issue we need to resolve is that the current online documentation on Drupal.org is way too overwhelming for one coordinator to manage. Having one coordinator is a single point of failure, and has led to several past Docs Team leaders getting burned out and leaving the post.

It's official, and now is the time to register for not just a noteworthy event, but your opportunity to connect with a world-wide community using Drupal to collaborate, connect and improve our online experience. Go ahead: register now!

Drupal Elevated!

git.drupal.org is scheduled for downtime, Thursday September 8th at 3PM PDT (2200 UTC). We will be performing standard maintenance on git.drupal.org and its associated services. We expect 20 to 30 minutes of downtime, but are reserving an hour for the maintenance window.

Thank you for your patience.

Drupal 7.8, a maintenance release with numerous bug fixes (no security fixes) is now available for download. A critical bug with the upgrade path, #1164852: Inconsistencies in field language handling has been addressed in this release, among other critical and major bugs. See the Drupal 7.8 release notes for a full listing.

Upgrading your existing Drupal 7 sites is strongly recommended. There are no new features in these releases. For more information about the Drupal 7.x release series, consult the Drupal 7.0 release announcement.

Denver, CO is hosting the next North American DrupalCon happening on March 19-23, 2012 at the massive, well-appointed Colorado Convention Center. The worldwide Drupal Community is what makes DrupalCon so fun and exciting, and Colorado's community is thrilled to be the home of "Drupal Elevated" -- tickets go on sale soon, so be sure to follow us on twitter and we'll tell you what's going on, @drupalcondenver.

DrupalCon is a world-class conference with a world-wide audience. If you or your organization actively use Drupal, or even if you never have but want to learn, DrupalCon is your chance to engage the community, learn from others, and share your experiences.

DrupalCon Denver is now accepting session submissions -- go to http://denver2012.drupal.org/ to submit your idea today! If you want to present in Denver, now is the time to start thinking about what this year's theme, "Collaborative Publishing for Every Device," means to you, and we're accepting sessions in the following tracks:

• Site building
• Coding and development
• Design and user experience
• Drupal community
• Business and strategy
• Mobile
• Commerce
• Nonprofit, Government and Education