 Hello folks, good morning to those of you on the west coast of the states and good afternoon and good evening to those of you Who are in other places? This is Holly from the Drupal Association And we're gonna get started with our support call update in just a couple of minutes So I just wanted to give you a heads up that we'll switch over shortly But thanks for your patience in the meantime, and we'll talk to you in just a couple There we go Joe and Josh and Rachel and Carrie just let you guys know I open up your lines so that You can control when you're muted and when you're not on your own As I go through the agenda Sure, you want to mute yourself if you have background noise now And I think we're ready to go anything else to see or do you think we're ready to go also I Think we're good Okay Excellent. Well, thanks everyone for joining us today for the supporting partners call for the Second quarter of 2015. I don't know how we got here. I don't remember having a first quarter But here we are So again, my name is Holly Ross and the executive director over at the Drupal Association And I just want to thank all of you for for being here and for your support the association and Drupal and everything that we do It's just a walk through a couple of housekeeping announcements and then we'll we'll get to some of our content for the day. So a couple of things If you are listening from your computer In your audio controls, you should have mic and speakers there Go ahead and make sure that mic and speakers is selected as the audio so that you can hear everything But also if you have a question and we're able to unmute you later That's the way we're going to be able to hear you But during the call you guys are all muted We're going to keep it that way just to keep the background noise to minimum But we definitely do want to hear from you. So you should have in your control panel a questions section So feel free at any time to go ahead and throw your questions in there and I'll be keeping an eye out and Fielding those as they come up. So Go ahead and use that questions feature and that way we can answer anything that you guys are thinking about And then also, you know, hear anything interesting today that you want to share feel free We're at Drupal Assos on Twitter feel free to use that Twitter handle and share what you're hearing today But mostly just thanks for being here Also want to remind you that we have a couple of things coming up in on the agenda here for the association Obviously, we hope we'll see all of you at Drupal con Barcelona That's from the 21st the 25th of September and early bird pricing for Barcelona does end on Friday So go get your tickets. We'll get them right now Make sure that you've got got your staff booked for that Global training days is coming up on the 21st the 22nd of August Depending on where you are in the world. It's on one of those days And if you are interested in holding a training you can check out the details and sign up at Drupal dot org slash learn hyphen Drupal And then we are all really excited that in 2016 in February. We will be holding triple con Asia in India So that'll be our next con coming up after Barcelona if you're interested in Helping sponsor or attend that triple con definitely reach out to the team here and be happy to talk to you about what we're doing there But we're really excited about that one So that's what's coming up for us What we're going to talk about today is just some of the the news coming out of the Association Some Drupal dot org improvements that have been made in the last quarter Sharing some news about new advertising programs that we've launched on Drupal dot org Drupal jobs and how we're marketing Drupal. So we'll cover some of that for the last quarter And I'm going to go ahead and kick us off just by saying thank you To our first signature supporting partner coming in at the highest level of support Wunderkraut just became that first first Signature tier supporter for the association and we're just really excited to have them on board at that level and Showing their support for the work that we're doing With the community for Drupal. So thank you so much to Wunderkraut. I have lots of wonderful Puns, but they're not that good Joe's better at puns. So maybe when we hand it over to him, he'll have some puns for us But that that's really exciting news. And of course, we're really thrilled that so many Companies across the Drupal universe all around the globe are supporting the Drupal Association and the Drupal project We have lots and lots of folks who are Part of our supporter programs whether that's Drupal shops in the supporting partner programs or technology supporters who are You know, not necessarily Drupal shops, but they have complimentary technology products And then of course our hosting supporters as well who do so much for us so thanks to all of our supporting partners and Just wanted to share with you some of the faces that you can find around the Drupal Association that are new So First we have Mark Brandsetter So he's a new account manager for technology and hosting partners So if you are one of those technology or hosting companies and you haven't yet heard from Mark You should soon or definitely feel free to reach out and talk to Mark And he can help you find out what's going on at the Association and all the ways you can support the Drupal work And then we're really excited because just a couple blocks up the street from From the Drupal Association office is an exciting technology training company called Epocotus and Joaquin from metal toad one of the shops here in Portland did a great job of convincing them that they had to do a Drupal training So they did they put together. I think there's a 15-week course for Drupal Java and other related technologies And those students then are have been placed all over the US in internships and Think shout It's been a great partner with the Association and they're helping to sponsor two of those interns here So just join us in welcoming Daniel toad and boyana sketch who are interning here at the Association And I think shout over the next next few weeks. So we're excited to have them on board as well And we're just really excited to see more Drupalistas being put out in the world So if you haven't heard of Epocotus, they might be worth checking out if you're looking for Drupal talent They're gonna be doing another course and we'll have more interns to put out into the world shortly. So Excellent, so those are some of our new faces and now I'd like to get into some of the other exciting stuff that's happening around the Association, so I'm gonna turn things over to Rachel Friesen who's our events manager Rachel you want to give us a little bit of a Drupal unwrap? Great, thanks Holly. We had a great turnout for Drupalcon, Los Angeles so we had about 3,100 3,200 people show up which is about where we were with Austin just slightly under and What was most exciting was we maintained our high level of sprint turnout So we had 442 attendees come out to the sprints to kind of keep pushing D8 forward And what was kind of completely thrilling was to see that we totally ran out of room in the first time sprint workshop so we had a ton of people showing up eager to learn how to contribute and We're actually looking at possible ways of either running the workshop multiple times at future cons or finding ways to keep people coming in And learning how to contribute Additionally our extended spread spaces and the the coder lounges on site were really well received And we had 84 commits during the week. So that was really great From a programming standpoint. We had a couple new Programming features. We had our first-time attendee social one thing that we'd heard in the past and in Attendee feedback was that it's a little intimidating going to your first Drupalcon So we created this social hour that was really intended to get people to kind of meet a couple new faces You have some of their early Drupalcon questions answered What is a boss, you know, where are the program or where the tracks at? And so that was a really really well received event that had a pretty high turnout So we're definitely going to keep that going forward and possibly look at ways of kind of tuning up even more What we can do with that event Also, we had a new summit this year. We had a higher ed summit, which was great. It was Sold out and then sold out again We ended up increasing the headcount and then we even had a few crashers show up on site So we had to kind of manage at the door So that was really encouraging that some of those vertical summits could be a really great way to to bring the community together And then the little sneak peek so The august public board meeting will be going over all of the data and Financials from Drupalcon, Los Angeles, but our highest attended session was better tools for content creators And our highest ranked session was creating a culture of empowerment So thanks to all of you for coming out to Drupalcon, Los Angeles for sponsoring sponsoring Drupalcon, Los Angeles And just continuing to promote the the great work that the Drupal community is doing Thanks, Rachel. I mean do you have one question from the call? I mean it's verbatim Fascinating. I'm sure that's how Chris was saying it. Fascinating What does it mean that the highest rated and attended sessions don't really have anything to do with Drupal development? Creating culture empowerment and better tools for content creation You know, I think one of the interesting things about our community is that it's diverse, right? so there's people that have a variety of interests and You know, we got a really lot of really great feedback about what he has his keynote, which is you know about kind of other other aspects within the tech world, but I think that people are hungry for content that not it is not only just kind of, you know Developer focus but things that developers are also, you know influenced by so I think that's something that we're actually We got a lot of feedback about the sessions and content from Los Angeles And so our team internally and also working with kind of our global Leads and tractors and things like that. We're all looking at ways to just continue to refine the The content that we provide at Drupal con LA or excuse me at Drupal con and the great thing is is it's all community provided and community Selected so we have community members that pick the sessions that get to present So it's kind of interesting to see what resonates and how that changes over time Yeah, I like to see that Yeah, I like to see that the developers are looking to be, you know, well-rounded It's not just about Drupal be curious to see if we could talk about related technologies more at cons as well But I you know Chris, I'd probably also add that You know, this is where we're at in our product development lifecycle as well, right? So there's there's not a ton more to say Necessarily about Drupal 7 so I think that might be part of it too But but I agree mostly with Rachel that it's you know, it's great to see that Developers have lots of things they want to talk about not just Drupal And I think that's great because that just makes you a better overall developer. So Awesome. Yeah, and as Rachel mentioned, we will be tackling with Drupal con Los Angeles in depth at the August board meeting So feel free to sign up to attend that for all of the all of the Gordon details Um, and we'll be recording that as well. So you can always watch recording or review the materials on your own All right, so moving on from that, we also want to just give a quick update about Drupal 8 accelerate As you I'm sure are aware We launched the fund early this year so that we could positively impact the release date of Drupal 8 Try to speed that up goals to raise $250,000 to be handed out in 2015 And those requests can come from a couple of places One the branch maintainers themselves are able to recommend Certain kinds of grants. So if they know a certain set of issues need to be prioritized and they fall into the The wheelhouse of a certain set of developers. They can say hey, let's give these guys a Grant to get this work done Also community can make requests as well So they can use them a self-nomination process to say hey, I would really like to tackle these critical issues so Both types of processes have been used throughout the program and we've actually Made 27 grants so far about $85,000 has gone out the door there's That number will bump up in the next couple weeks pretty significantly as well And it's resolved a lot of critical issues if you go to the link on the page there We have every grant we've awarded listed with the issues that it addressed So it's been it's been great to see those issues get ticked off And as you I think are probably also where we're finally really getting into the the home stretch We're in the teens in terms of number of Issues that are still that are release blockers for us to solve Which is great And the the D8 program has gone really pivotal in helping make that happen Just over what was a holiday weekend in the u.s. Some folks got together in europe some of the key Core developers got together in europe and were able to bring that number down significantly through their work And and that was really Exciting to see and just a couple of example of kinds of things have been funded We got a beta to beta upgrade path through the d8 accelerate granting process And and that was huge because now people can actually work on the beta You know put put develop a site on a beta and then be able to upgrade it to the next beta without having to redo all Of you know redo everything So that that's helping us actually, you know get more users who are testing the betas We also have gotten dribble ci updates Through this process as well It's been great to see those improvements Happen in the you know collaboration with the association staff and the volunteers who've managed that for a long time. So We're excited to get that out the door as well. So Um, lots of great stuff happening around there We're at about 230 230 thousand dollars raised of our goal, which is pretty amazing And we'll be doing a push for that publicly just before we get to barcelona As well to get that last bit of money raised for it Even if we haven't spent all the money by the time that triple eight has a release candidate You know, we're still pledging that money to go towards triple eight development. Um, and know that the team will be able to fund, you know, significant work around Turning the release candidate into an actual release and then You know potentially work on Helping out with some of the key modules that are important to dribble eight adoption. So Lots of good stuff happening there. Um, and I know that many of you in addition to your supporting partner Roles have also kicked in dollars to the triple eight accelerate fund I just can't thank you enough for doing that. It has been a A really important. I think just wind in the sails for the core core contrip folks To to make all this happen. So thanks for that again all right speaking of Making things better Let's uh, let's switch things up. Um, and let's talk about triple dot org and what the team has been working on here And josh, uh, you want to Share what's been going on You bet So I have four things that I wanted to call out from the last quarter that I think are Are pretty significant changes to dribble dot org that you all need to be aware of First and this one is the one that I think is going to have the biggest impact for organizations like you Is issue credits these issue credits allow developers who are doing work in the issue queues To attribute their work to the organizations that funded them or gave them the time to do that work. So That could be their employer. That could be their employer on behalf of a customer That could be as a volunteer on behalf of a nonprofit organization There's a lot of different ways that developers can give that credit out And what it does is it begins tallying up For every issue that is closed We tally that up and show it on your user or org profile and so One of the things I wanted to call out in this and this is just make sure that your developers are attributing their work If it's appropriate And then also most of you probably have some issue credits showing up on your organization profile So go ahead and check that right now. We're showing the last 90 days worth of issue credits on the profiles And our hope is in the next few weeks. We're going to be styling that up making it look a little bit sharper And really trying to highlight the organizations that are doing the most for the dribble ecosystem Eventually what this is going to turn into is one of the key components to an algorithm that determines how organizations are sorted in the key views on dribble dot org that that show the That show the organizations working in dribble So a good example of this might be the marketplace being listed Instead of by alphabetical Being listed by the organizations with the most issue credits and the ones that give the most back to the community through things like sponsoring a dribble con or Being a supporting partner or running a camp We're looking at all the ways that organizations can help make that ecosystem better So if you haven't really gotten your developers down the path of issue credits, I'll let them know about it so that they can start Um attributing their work in that way Um the other thing that's big right now Hey, josh That um, I wouldn't Hey, josh, holly Sorry one one question about that that came in So chris wants to know can the credits be applied retroactively? If someone forgets at the time the actual commit can they can they go back and do it? um Our focus right now is on recent credits going forward And because we're showing on organizations. We're showing the last 90 days instead of the full history of credits The goal is to to really have a focus on who's contributing now Rather than historical contribution We may look at whenever we're doing We're going to do a process where we do Um Importing of all the commit history that's in and get um and getting individual credits out of that they get pulled in But I think what we're going to end up saying is it's it's really going to be focused in terms of how we display it And how we highlight it It's going to be focused on what is the recent activity of that organization or user and we may play around with it A little bit. I don't know if 90 days is quite enough It may get closer to like six months What's the last six months look like because I know a lot of Organizations are able to cyclically contribute to camps and things like that and we want to be able to highlight that as well So um at this time, we're not really focused on doing backdated information and pulling that in Um, but if we figure out a good way to do it, we will certainly let you folks now so that you can um Work with us to try to pull in some some back commit um and and back involvement as it relates to Contributed code and review and that sort of thing Excellent. I think the question was just a little bit different though and that is so like let's say at the time of the commit you forgot to Add attribution in the right way and then a day later you're like, oh right attribution Oh, yeah. I mean if you if you add a comment to an issue Um at any point that someone adds a comment and They're adding attribution for their organization or have the opportunity to add attribution to the organization And it doesn't trigger as an issue credit until a maintainer of the project Actually saves the state of the the issue And changes it over to closed So it's it's perfectly possible to you know kind of pick up a credit A day or so after just Be be polite and don't uh don't have your developers. Just go through and add plus one for uh for credit To every issue they're working on but as long as it's a meaningful comment back to the issue queue Um that can be picked up after the fact All right, and I don't see the questions Others let me know Yeah, one more We're on the orc profile can folks see this Did you meet yourself josh? We lost josh Oh, I feel okay. Hang on. He got muted, but now he is unmuted josh. You're back Apologies for that. I got uh bumped off the the call for a second It basically lost audio and at the same time kind of kicked me off Could you repeat that last question because I I didn't hear uh, I didn't know what to say Ironically, I'm sitting like 20 feet from holly, but I'm behind a wall. So I know it's hilarious The question was where on our profile, uh, where on the or profile will you see the issue credits? Right now it's showing up just below The orc description. So if you if you look on your profile, it's towards the bottom of the page We're going to be styling those to move up near the top Uh putting a real emphasis on both individual profiles and organization profiles On objective data that we've collected through drupal.org rather than user Submitted data that shows up on drupal.org and that's that's a change you can be looking to see in the next couple months Any other questions That's it. You're free to carry on. All right, sweet Um, so the other big thing that I wanted to talk about briefly was the content strategy work If you haven't had an opportunity to go to uh, um, the drupal.com la site and look at the presentations that were done on the content strategy Uh process that we did with forum one and with community members I highly recommend watching those particular presentations and kind of reviewing what is going to the changes that are going to be coming down the road for for drupal.org There's some really exciting changes in the content strategy around How we structure content on drupal.org how we improve search by by making content types that Are easier to filter on and facet on in our in our search strategy And there's some really exciting things about introducing A lot of the functionality that's in groups dot drupal.org Directly into drupal.org so that you can begin showing the relationships between users And their work and the the code on the project or in design or in review on the project And their work in organizing and and doing things in the community by the groups that people want to and so There's some really exciting work coming out of that. I highly recommend reviewing that in a little bit more detail Because it is Some exciting stuff Holly, can you do next slide? Yep Oh, we skipped one so Drupal ci how we mentioned this just a little bit and I wanted to give a A bit of an update for those of you who aren't familiar with drupal ci ci stands for continuous integration it's The project that basically Won out from a community support standpoint For doing testing on our our drupal code Codebase so what happens is every time you commit a patch Or every time you submit a patch you can you can run tests against that patch In the issue cues This is particularly important for core where for drupal 8 we have over 94 000 assertions These are little tests that have been written by the developers to make sure that we're not introducing regressions into the codebase And those tests are constantly being run against a set of environments that represent the kind of minimum requirements for for drupal so Right now we we have drupal ci working on drupal.org. It's launched and in production And it's testing things like combinations of php plus my sequel combinations of sequel light plus my sequel Or i'm sorry php plus sequel light and combinations of php plus postgres And this is really important To the community and it's been a really important thing for us to get out So that our core maintainers can get closer to a release candidate with confidence that they're not breaking important parts of the Of the system So um, we were really excited in the in the past month working with community members to kind of shift that into Let's get this into production And the early review is has been done with core maintainers. They're really excited about it We have a couple features that we want to get into place and then we'll be releasing that for contrib projects as well. So Drupal ci a huge example of the community building a really robust solution for testing and Then working with the staff here at the Drupal association that you're all are helping fund To get that into production because that that production piece has been um Quite the quite the challenge, but the team has been doing some great work on it um One other thing that we did in the last quarter was we we did a move to prepare ourselves for a much more flexible pre-production environment, so Right now whenever someone wants to contribute to Drupal at org and They're they're not a part of the team here at the Drupal association We can set them up with a dev environment and they can begin developing on that environment And then create patches and send them off to the team in order to get reviewed and pushed up the chain um Those dev environments take about two hours to build They are a little bit time intensive and we want to make that process better. So During the the last quarter We had this opportunity to move our dev environments over to something that allowed us to scale up and down Which is the amazon web services environment um And it's given us a lot of flexibility to uh to begin expanding how we do that This is really exciting because it um it really Builds upon the community ethos of people being able to contribute back to the project in the way that they're most passionate about And gives an opportunity to work with us on drupal.org and the related system. So I was a big move in q2 that not a lot of people saw but uh is going to have big impact down the road um I also want to briefly how if you could go ahead and next slide Briefly just touch on the roadmap many of you know that uh over the Over the first few months that I was here at the association I began working with the working groups to put together what would be the roadmap for drupal.org These are the the key initiatives that we've been worked on They they've kind of expanded over time. One of the things that we've noticed is there You know things like drupal ci weren't on our roadmap because the community were working on it But then when it needed to go to production Um because it was a drupal 8 blocker it immediately comes into the roadmap We're going to be doing some updates with the working groups over the next two months Refining this list of of key features that we're working on making them a little bit more Compartmental as well. So it's easier for us to mark off when they're done And you'll be seeing a lot of changes this in the near future But I like to highlight the things that these are the things that the team is focused on improving And so if you're wondering what the drupal association staff are focused on these are the key initiatives that we want to tackle And lastly if uh holly you want to pop up the next slide I just want to put out another thank you to all of the supporting partners. Um It's your generous support that's making this impact on drupal.org It's allowing us to to put new features out there that make our developers faster that help grow the community That help make sure that we have new developers coming on board and that they're getting the right information the content and the right tools To make them better drupal developers and drupal contributors And it's it's thanks to the support that your companies are providing us. So again from the bottom of my heart. Thank you And holly that's stuff that's something Yeah, thanks for that Awesome. So that's what's going on drupal.org From the development standpoint. Um, and I know josh your team is Working so hard. Um, and it's always tough when you have a priority list that then gets you know added to so You guys have juggled a lot. I really I really appreciate that. So Um, lots of stuff going on there. Um, and then carry Maybe you could tell us a little bit more about what's happening. Um in advertising on drupal.org Sure. Uh, thanks holly. I am going to talk about some of the new Advertising products that we created on drupal.org and q2 including try drupal and a new home page sponsorship That's about to launch in july So the association's goal is to create mission driven revenue programs That helps support the community and grow the adoption of drupal So holly if you could move to the next slide Uh, first off you may have noticed a brand new try drupal block on the home page of drupal.org which we launched back in april This is a brand new program that we created with our premium hosting supporters to make it easier for cms evaluators to Test and work with drupal. Prior to launching this program. There's actually no way to do that on drupal.org So this is actually a pretty big win The program showcases a selection of our of hosting companies where a user can sign up for a free trial drupal of Of demo or excuse me a treat free drupal test site So we've worked really closely with our partners to make sure that the demo site includes pre-installed modules and themes That'll really show off the best of what drupal can do And the the goals of the program are for evaluators to have a simple and positive try trial of drupal But also to highlight and drive leads to our premium hosting supporters And so far we've gotten some really great feedback from the partners who launched with us back in april And we have about four teed up so far and they're getting a lot of leads and A lot of good Signups from the program And then next up We are launching a new homepage sponsorship this july that will highlight partners who give back to the community through drupal supporter programs So the the sponsorship will display in the 300 by 250 ad block that already exists on the homepage And we're going to display the partner's logo a blurb about the company The supporter badge and then eventually we'll be able to pass in any applicable org issue credits that josh touched on earlier Into the sponsorship placement The program is going to be sold in one week increments during which the supporter receives 100 percent of Impressions which means no other ads will rotate during that time It's a very high impact opportunity. It's a really great chance to shoot showcase new services or product updates because it's going to receive a ton of eyeballs Like I said, the sponsorship will start mid july and it will be available through the end of the year And then also just a quick reminder about some existing programs that we launched in q2 We launched a dedicated email program So the association has a list of about 3000 plus users And that list is growing as we continue to promote the sign up Who've opted into receive special offers from our partners? and the We will send out an email on behalf of a partner with a dedicated message meaning it's a hundred percent your message There's not going to be any other content in the email And it'll include some kind of special offer for our users Then lastly we are still offering Our audience extension product. I probably touched on this before This is the program where you can programmatically reach the druple.org audience while they're visiting other websites Through and networks and exchanges. We've partnered up with a Third party called partner connect to help us facilitate the campaigns for us For any of these programs you can contact your account rep at the association for details or further questions about the programs And then i'm also going to talk a little bit about druple jobs So we're continuing to see a lot more positive growth for the job board We have over 1300 active job seeker profiles and over 2000 job postings since we launched the site back in august of last year We had a chance to speak to some druple jobs customers at druple con la There's a link to their full video testimonials, which you can view later But just to summarize some of the great feedback we got from them One partner said that they received 150 applications in 30 days from their job postings They said that everyone they hired for their positions came through druple jobs versus a similar posting on linkedin And then another partner told us that Two featured Job postings produced 50 candidates and three hires and they said that of all the candidate generation tools that they use They got the best druple candidates from druple jobs So we really love to hear that kind of positive feedback about the site Thanks to chris at chromatic and erin at civic actions for chatting us chatting with us and telling us about their experience with Drupal jobs And thanks to all the partners who support the association and druple jobs And that is it for me Thanks, kerry Yeah, and if you if you folks having a chance to um to chat kerry listening as she's been here since late last year She's been a really great partner in helping us think through how to diversify our revenue streams With druple.org at the association That's been hugely important to us for a couple of reasons first as many of you probably know the The association's primary funding source for a very long time has been the druple cons and That is fine But there's a couple of issues that that raises one is that You know if you have all of your financial aches in one basket It's not exactly the best risk management strategy So diversifying our revenue, you know just as a safer bet for the organization, but but mostly what's important to us is that If all of our revenue is you know dependent on druple con performance It means we're not allowed to take risks with druple cons or Make choices that aren't you know that don't make financial sense, right? So by diversifying our revenue, you know, it just is going to free up the druple con team to be even more Innovative in what they do in the cons to try new things and to really be able to focus on on the customer Even more than the the bottom line, which is great. So that's one goal And one thing that kerry's really been helping us to do which is great The other thing that I think is really wonderful about this this whole line of Services is that You know, they definitely generate revenue, but we we're really excited that these are you know These are all very mission-based activities as well. So helping connect job seekers With folks who need to make hires that helps the druple place workplace, you know flourish So we're we're excited about that and and really really happy to have triple jobs out for that reason The tri-druple program You know One of the things that we heard when we did audience When we did a lot of audience interviews for a for a drupal.org Earlier in well, gosh, I guess that was in 2014 now You know, we heard time and time again that folks just didn't know where to start or they wanted an easy way to try things They weren't sure what to do And tri-drupals really made that very clear on the home page and it's you know creating real drupal drupal user so Sure, it's an advertising program, but it also is a great mission fit. So We're really excited about these programs and Carrie you're doing a great job being really thoughtful about what it is that we roll out for the community So thank you And we did have one other question about the job bar, which is how many of the jobs are remote versus onsite I don't think Carrie that we have those statistics off the top of our head But I can tell you that there are a good number of jobs that are are remote And so if you do go to jobs.drupal.org You can use some facets to filter down You can look for jobs that are available anywhere Anywhere is the this or the facet you would use to find out how many of those jobs can be done from anywhere so Yeah, I would guess it's about 20% off top of my head, but we can Show those stats out afterwards Okay, awesome cool, so um, those are uh, those are some of our um revenue programs from from Drupal.org and I think we also want to talk about what are we doing because You know Drupal 8 is going to come out how are we going to help support that so Joe Saylor our CMO you want to share some of that news? Sure, can you hear me? Can you hear me Holly? Yes, you can hear me Joe. Okay. Thanks. Just want to make sure So, um, I wanted to highlight a couple of pieces of new content that we've published recently We have launched a content marketing effort in the last 45 days or so And the first couple of pieces of content that have come out have been really well received So we're we're taking a couple of tax One is to highlight the Drupal ecosystem And Drupal as a lucrative business opportunity for um for all kinds of companies not just shops and agencies but also hosting companies and software vendors That offer complimentary software applications and tools etc and of course highlighting the the platform itself and As Holly mentioned we're down in the teens for criticals for Drupal 8 so we're going to be ramping up more efforts to develop content Helping folks prepare for Drupal 8 so we'll be trying to help not only developers but Excuse me non-technical folks content admins Themers so all types of folks who touch Drupal get ready for Drupal 8 Which hopefully will be released soon Also wanted to Mention coming soon will be Releasing a new Drupal jobs Job market survey Last year about this time we released a Drupal job market report that highlighted things like market demand for Drupal talent What kinds of talent folks are looking for? And this year we will plan to Ask those same questions so we can compare them year over year with last year's survey This year we also plan to introduce salary information so Information about You know how much developers Are making at various levels And you know, hopefully that will sort of help You know shops and agencies and other businesses, you know sort of gauge the market On that kind of thing so keep your eyes out for that survey It should be coming out in the next two weeks And if you're not subscribed to our email lists or our social media, that's where we'll be promoting that survey so It's it's great if you're subscribed to those because that's where you see those those opportunities So we're very excited about that other content coming down the pike As I mentioned definitely more Drupal 8 content in the form of papers We will be launching a webcast series soon That will focus on Drupal 8 and getting various roles ready for the release Things like infographics, etc. So Keep your eyes open for that And I mentioned this on last quarter's call, but wanted to highlight it again. We will be exhibiting Drupal at a couple of european events the demexco event in Cologne, Germany, which will be happening september 16th and 17th And festival of marketing which will be happening in london In november, so we'll have a Drupal presence in the exhibitor area Drupal collateral Case studies, etc. It is a co-marketing model So we're looking for Businesses to come in help fund the booth and then in return The companies that fund get a person in the booth and they get to highlight some of their Their own services and case studies Inside the booth and there are still some opportunities for both of those events. So if you're interested in that Please do contact johanna birdman and at the her email is there you you may have her address anyway, but I definitely contact her. It's going to be a great way to highlight Drupal to Some of these audiences digital marketers Cmo's And you know these audiences that are sort of at the intersection of it and marketing which is definitely a sweet spot for for drupal obviously And finally just wanted to Highlight again the drupal newsletter, which we've been Publishing now for a couple of months. It is syndicated Version of the weekly drop newsletter, which you may have seen before It is starting to gain some great traction The subscriber numbers are are really increasing nicely the open rates The click-through rates And it's really encouraging. This is really our technical marketing vehicle for More of a technical audience. So it's really encouraging to see the engagement and and things like open rates and and Click-through rates increase on this as well as the subscriber numbers There is an advertising opportunity in this newsletter. We do not manage that that's that's managed through Bob Keppford at the weekly drop, but there is an advertising opportunity there as well. Also if you do Advertise on drupal jobs There are drupal jobs featured in this newsletter as well. So it's sort of an extra Push for your your jobs on drupal jobs And that is it from me unless there are any questions No, I think you're in the clear job excellent All right. Well, uh, thanks again for for joining us today just a couple of A couple more reminders and I just want to say that One of the things I love the most here is Having conversations with folks in the community. So I really appreciate all the ways that folks get in touch with us and start those conversations. So Let's just remind you how you can do those things. So just You know, tell feel free to tell us what it is that you need and what you're thinking and what you're hearing out In the community and and you can do that in a variety of ways on our site at association.drupal.org We've got a blog where we put news So definitely feel free to respond to those those posts And and start a dialogue with us there We do have the association newsletter. Um, which is not a great way to start a conversation But at least you'll get our news and then We also have Our open public board meetings. Um, and if we're not to update this slide They're actually in the third Wednesday of each month at noon pacific But on the association site to go to the board section You can see the the upcoming meetings posted there and sign up to attend those But again, we also make all those materials available after the meeting Also on the board section of the site including a recording of the board meeting as well. So That's where you can get lots of information about what's going on here Are that? um, and if you have questions about anything that You are You know anything you've seen here today about how to get more involved Your account managers their email addresses are listed right here. So Jenner and mark are focused on our ISV technology hosting partners yohana more focused on shops But feel free to reach out to anyone. We'll make sure that you talk to the right person And and get what you need. So definitely feel free to reach out How do you sign up for the newsletter? Somebody asked There's a couple different ways to do that. I mean you do it from the association homepage. There is a Subscribe box. You can also do it right from your Drupal dot org profile That is one of those profile improvements that josh was talking about You can sign up for the Drupal association newsletter as well as the weekly drop Drupal newsletter that joe just referenced All of those are available in your Drupal dot org profile as well So definitely feel free to reach out keep the conversation going just a reminder again We hope we'll see you in Barcelona at global training days at Drupal con asia in india If you have questions about those let us know Otherwise we'll see you at the next quarterly update, but don't be a stranger until then and thanks again for your support And for being here today