Comments on: DRAFT: Drupal.org Experience Strategy

By: Where’s the vision | dancingmango

Where’s the vision | dancingmango — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 20:58:40 +0000

[...] is this important? (Via Leisa Reichelt), Peter Merholz shows how Google started out with a vision for their [...]

By: bob oconnor

bob oconnor — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 17:58:11 +0000

I have been using Drupal for about 6 months now and my issue is with finding modules (and themes) to do what I need to get done. AND finding modules can be timeconsuming… The Advanced search needs an option to sort by date so I can see what’s been happening within the past two to four months and not years ago with v4.7 which I never used… Even searching for v6.x should sort by most recent stuff FIRST. ALSO there should be a download hit counter for MODULES and THEMES to give a hint at popularity. AND a second number download hits in the past 3 months to show recent activity. Thanks and keep up the great work.

By: In the eyes of Robin Monks » Drupal wordmark

In the eyes of Robin Monks » Drupal wordmark — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 11:36:56 +0000

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By: Links from lunch « Mrs Kelly Hartner & Associates

Links from lunch « Mrs Kelly Hartner & Associates — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 08:56:32 +0000

[...] vision for how we see the site having to work – bullets not sentences. http://www.disambiguity.com/ http://www.disambiguity.com/draft-drupalorg-experience-strategy/ (experience strategy [...]

By: Kieran Lal

Kieran Lal — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 17:48:00 +0000

We are getting in the neighborhood of 1000000 unique visitors per month to Drupal.org and roughly 3.5% of them log in every month. The future of the Drupal project and the success of this particular design effort depends on increasing the participation in the Drupal project. This design effort is doing many things to reach that goal, but it might be worth explicitly stating increased participation is the desired outcome.
–Experience Strategy for Drupal.org
Bullets 3 & 4 addressing home and project management might better as a single bullet that addresses the goal of increasing participation through our home and PM tools.

What we believe:
“The Drupal product is a market leading CMS solution”
-CMS is a 5B industry. WebCMS is a 750M sub-industry. Drupal is a rising star, but it’s lost in that sea of competition (http://www.cmswatch.com/CMS/Report/Vendors/). Our inability to define what Drupal the product is, is the root of the branding and design problem. We are not a traditional CMS, we are much more, we are not a framework, we include one, but it’s not a framework. I believe we need a new category. Drupal is a social publishing system. Defining what a social publishing system is key to our branding. It’s a blank slate, like our redesign and we should use it.

One of the explicit goals of the redesign effort was the economic sustainability of Drupal.org. I’d like to see us address that economic sustainability not only from a Drupal.org revenue standpoint but as a economically sustainable community. Sustainability might be another part of the merging of point 3&4.

Keep up the good work.

Kieran

By: joon

joon — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 20:12:46 +0000

Hello Leisa, Thanks for the heads up.

This looks great and I look forward to the redesign. I hope I can give some useful input where I can.

I’ll be looking forward to the change in IA since I think that is what will matter most. The ability to navigate with ease will speak volumes towards how we define our community.

By: In the eyes of Robin Monks » Gets your thoughts for the drupal.org redesign in!

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 19:20:26 +0000

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By: Robin Monks

Robin Monks — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 17:11:49 +0000

I kinda think a lot of the social aspect is groups.drupal.org, and probably forums should be transitioning there. I see drupal.org as more of a develop/document/distribute site, rather than a social site.

Robin

By: links for 2008-09-16 at Ip’s.

links for 2008-09-16 at Ip’s. — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 14:42:41 +0000

[...] disambiguity – » DRAFT: Drupal.org Experience Strategy "The redesign project for Drupal.org will be guided by an experience strategy that will inform our decision making in all aspects of the redesign and which will, we hope, be able to be used as ‘a star to sail our ship by’ (as Jesse James Garrett would say) – as a clear objective to design towards." (tags: design webdev usability CMS website process redesign draft drupal) [...]

By: John Forsythe

John Forsythe — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 01:15:58 +0000

Wordpress I can understand. Mark uses Expression Engine! :O