Supporters Call Q2 2014Megan Sanicki - Associate DirectorJosh Mitchell - CTO
HouseKeeping
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Coming Up
August 29, 2014https://drupal.org/learn-drupal
Agenda
● Supporter Benefits Update● Meet Rachel● Drupal.org Updates
PREMIUM SUPPORTING PARTNERS
SUPPORTING PARTNERS
SUPPORTING PARTNERS
PREMIUM TECHNOLOGY SUPPORTERS
TECHNOLOGY SUPPORTERS
HOSTING SUPPORTER PROGRAM
Supporter Program Updates
● Aligning Supporting Partner & Tech Supporter Benefits
● Drupal.org Web Ad Benefits○ Premium Supporters - 1 month free web ad○ Premium & Supporters - Web Ad discount
● Further segmenting the Supporter Program○ Hosting Supporter Program○ Offers a security test
● Job Board○ Free job posting
● Early announcements○ DrupalCon Latin America & Los Angeles Sponsorships○ DrupalCon Europe 2016 coming soon
Meet Rachel Friesen
Account Fulfillment Coordinator
Investing in Drupal.org
$1.2 Million Drupal.org investment
Hiring our Drupal.org team
● Since January we have added:○ CTO○ Infrastructure Manager○ Software Engineer○ Dev Ops Engineer○ Content writer○ .5 Support Specialist
● Hiring soon…○ Web designer○ QA Engineer○ Software engineer
New features and improvements
● User paths for all our users - drupal.org/u/joshuami
● CDN deployment - better delivery and page load speeds around the world
● Removing blockers to Drupal 8 - semantic versioning to allow us to release 8.0.x (e.g. 8.0.1)
● Modernization of our infrastructure for better performance and scalability
Reimagining of Drupal.org
● Workshop with Whitney Hess during DrupalCon Austin
● User research interviews - over 30 people will help us build out personas for helping us improve features on Drupal.org
● Working to improve our content and marketing materials for you to use in highlighting Drupal with prospective customers.
Drupal Jobs
● A professional job board to help our community grow
● Free for job seekers
● Affordable options for posting jobs and branded company pages to highlight your organization
● Powerful search tools for job seekers
● Elegant tools for employers to find out what posts are getting viewed
Questions?
Tell Us What You Need
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Coming Up
August 29, 2014https://drupal.org/learn-drupal
