Send "Happy Drupal Day" emails to users on their DrupalVersary

Well, this would have been nice. Sadly we missed it for 2014.

On the plus side though, we've got months to organize it for next year.

I do think having semi-regular reasons to send out alerts to people who signed up to Drupal is a good thing.

If we were sending emails every year (or maybe even more than that), we'd have a much better sense of how many of those 1 million users are really there.

I do think it is a good reason to celebrate and also great way to get folks to say answer a survey or remind people to tweet "Happy Birthday Drupal!" to their friends.

So do we send regular updates from DrupalCons to this list? Is the next big mailing going to be the next DrupalVersary?

I'd like to have more regular means to reach out to the membership and let them know that things are changing (for the better).

Anyways, totally good to have more eyeballs on this. Do we have a communications plan which outlines how often the DA communicates to the drupal.org users via email or twitter?

I haven't noticed a pattern thus far.

Hi all! I love this idea! Unfortunately, it's my understanding that we're still stuck in a situation where we can't email anyone anything other than required system messages because we do not have any email/opt-in process/policy. However - I think we could easily post a message on their profile on that day with a little "tweet your drupalversary" social media icon. Would that be a sufficient implementation?

0) That's great! Glad you like @kattekrab's idea too.
1) Is there an issue to set up a email/opt-in process/policy for drupal.org? I'd probably prefer for it to be opt-out vs opt-in, but
2) I don't know if posting something in their profile is sufficient. I don't know that I went to my profile page around then and may not have seen it. I think we could be using something like this though to convey regular messages to users #2193871: Create an Action Block for Short Messages for Users & Visitors. If this were StackOverflow they could just send a message to all of their users and have it on their in-site mailbox. I'd like something a bit more noticeable than just a block on a page most users rarely check though.

@Holly

I wonder if we could combine this message with a happy Drupal anniversary and a please change your password as it has been a year.

That's a good call @mlhess - might even give them a relative score for the complexity of their password.

It'd be nice if we'd also finally fix that X years 12 months strangeness, as adorable as it may be :)

Can we actually see when the day is? I'm getting this comical display which I presume I could/should create an issue for somewhere ;)

Note that you can use the drupal.org rest API to get the exact timestamp your created your account, for example: https://www.drupal.org/api-d7/user/99644.json

@CWG, is something you feel that should be done. This is in your queue but does touch on security.

I would think we would want some rules around it.

1) You must have logged in sometime in the last year and posted something in the last year.
2) If you have an elevated role and have not logged in, in the last year, the message should go to the sec team to remove the role.
3) I would want someone from the cwg to write the text of the message. It should end with a message about changing your password
4) The message should include a link to share to facebook/twitter (I think??)
5) Anything else?

#12 OOOHHHH! Thanks!

So awesome to see this issue is getting some attention!

kattekrab may have more context, but my understanding is that this is an idea that came out of a community summit at DrupalCon a couple of years ago as a way to build community pride and engagement, and that the issue got moved to our queue when the CWG was chartered because there wasn't another obvious place for it to go.

I don't think that the CWG has strong opinions on how this gets implemented or the specific wording of the emails that get sent out, but if there are specific questions or text that you'd like us to review, we can do so at our next meeting in early January. In the meantime, we're more than happy to let the community run with this.

It would also require prior consent in the EU to avoid spam rules.

Hi,

As we are looking to place more issues describing the governance of the CWG here (as opposed to the actual activity of the CWG), I’d like to do some “tidying up”.

Can you please describe what actions are needed to close this issue for you?

Thanks

Rachel, CWG

Moving...

Ta!

Moving to maybe a better project.

The security tag is for tracking public security issues on projects that do not fall under the security advisory coverage policy, and security hardening issues.

Probably an issue summary update with the specific rules. Is this a transactional mailing we don’t need more opt-in for, or should we send it via MailChimp and respect subscription to any of the lists? Do we mail people who haven’t logged in for years?

Personally, I don't think I’d want this email if I weren’t subscribed to a list, but I wouldn’t be too annoyed if I got it anyway.

this is a good idea

updated issue summary

re #13

1) You must have logged in sometime in the last year and posted something in the last year.
- nah.
2) If you have an elevated role and have not logged in, in the last year, the message should go to the sec team to remove the role.
- out of scope
3) I would want someone from the cwg to write the text of the message. It should end with a message about changing your password
- anyone can draft it. let's get a few people to review. not required to be cwg people, but could be.
4) The message should include a link to share to facebook/twitter (I think??)
- good idea

I'd like to see this happen. I think we should send to anyone who has logged in during the year (since last anniversary date) but keep the message short and sweet.
Here's a draft that I started to keep this moving. If I leave this open for editing until April 27 (2 weeks from now), and we finalize the message, then we can take next steps. https://docs.google.com/document/d/15BlQivggdkViTbukmYpibqLe_sscRTvoekfc...

Sounds fun and like a nice touch.

However, we'll have to finally resolve the leap year problem in format_interval() in D7 or d.o will send these emails on the wrong days. #109878: format_interval should support leap-year calculation was the original issue. Marked as duplicate with #2456521: Add DateFormatter::formatDiff() as a non-buggy alternative to DateFormatter::formatInterval() when the start and end of the interval are known but that was never backported. I don't think there's a good way in D7 to accurately do what you're talking about here. As someone with 2 or 3 leap years between when I opened my d.o account and today, I see this bug every year near my "Drupalversary" d.o is confused about when to display "12 years and 0 days". Beware. ;)

Cheers,
-Derek

p.s. Oh, the D7 backport issue is here: #2744597: Add format_time_diff() as a non-buggy alternative to format_interval() when the start and end of the interval are known ...

Matt Grill created https://drupalbirthday.fun/ (append your username to the URL). This of course only works if you actively look for your drupalversary.

If the leap year issue can't be resolved, the alternative I see is sending this message via the mailchimp list. This would mean that anyone who isn't receiving messages from https://drupal.us2.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=618af7a460cf93cf211231139... will not receive the message.

Would a simpler thing be... to just display the date someone first joined Drupal.org, and email them on that date?

Presumably once a day we could email everyone who joined 'today' in any year, mention the year they joined and a nice message etc.
However, that would mean that people who joined on 29th Feb would only get an email every 4 years, but maybe we could acknowledge that with a super special email :)

Sending by date is not too hard:

• When an email is sent, store the last anniversary email sent timestamp.
• Find users with an anniversary date in the next/previous 24 hours, without an email sent in the last 365 days. Adjusting the 48 hour window as necessary, maybe we want to send “Your Drupalversary is imminent” or “Your Drupalversary is today(ish)” emails.
• Run on cron, maybe a few times a day.

Risking sending duplicate emails due to time math or cron outages/etc isn’t something we want to do, so we keep track of what was sent and use that to keep track. Or if we go with MailChimp, I think this is a straightforward drip campaign.

Implementation aside, how is the important part, the content of the emails, doing?

This is launched for the Drupal Email list. We can revisit it anytime if it seems like the audience to receive the message should be larger. To avoid the issues mentioned in comments here (leap year making date of send tricky, not emailing to those who haven't opted in....) I set the message up to run on the Drupal email list via automation. The language is here https://docs.google.com/document/d/15BlQivggdkViTbukmYpibqLe_sscRTvoekfc... and to make sure you get your message, double check you are subscribed to https://drupal.us2.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=618af7a460cf93cf211231139... and select Email under Marketing Preferences.