News and announcements

Update: The Drupal association posted an advertising policy on Drupal.org and the Drupal association website. We continue to try to expand the advertising program where it is contextual, useful, and relevant. We are working with over 100 hosting companies and over 70 companies who have requested information about the advertising program. As we roll out ads in new areas of the site, we work closely with partners who contribute a large amount of time to adjust and tune their ads so we can see if the ads are effective. These are not exclusive deals but trials so that we can get data to see if some forms of advertising are effective.

The Drupal association has agreed to a 60 day advertising trial on only the main handbooks page, and only the hosting and paid-services forums of Drupal.org. Approximately 35 parties submitted advertising proposals indicating they would like to advertise or how they thought advertising could be implemented on Drupal.org.

Update: November 10th, 2007 - we are now trying Google Ad sense. Please contact the association if you have any feedback.

• All ads will have a feedback link soliciting opinions from the Drupal community about the ads.
• The ads will be tuned based on clicks, revenue earned, and feedback from the community.
• All ads will be text based ads, there will not be any image ads.
• Advertisers can budget based on time or money.

The Drupal association conducted a membership pricing survey to determine if, and how much it could charge for membership for the Drupal association. The survey was posted on the front page of Drupal.org and was open for approximately 6 weeks. The survey had almost 1200 responses, indicating a good sample size of the 120 000 activated and used Drupal.org user accounts.

Results for the individual membership price: 22 Eur ($30)/annually, graph of individual results
Results for the corporate membership price: 73 Eur ($100)/annually, graph of corporate/organization results

I just deleted the Neighborhood CCK project (and I'm also deleting the module from the repository). If you're looking for it, it's moved to Embedded Media Field. Sorry if that confused anyone. This note's here in case someone installed it during the four hours it existed last month before I put the notice on the project page about the upcoming name change and wondered what happened. (See discussion here).

Thanks,
Aaron Winborn

I am pleased to announce the release of the home module. The home module allows users to create home listings, search for homes, upload pictures, and more.

Download and view a demo: http://pointhomes.com