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Let's see I guess I'm going to share there so don't mind me while I just push random buttons and oh goodness now I can't see what I want to push sorry I can never figure out zoom let's try that again perfect all right we are beginning thanks again for everyone joining hopefully you can see my screen we'll just start at the top here so this is the Q1 2017 supporter webcast we'll be doing this every quarter throughout the year your support really matters and helps us to fund Drupal.org infrastructure and our engineering teams that we could continually unite the community to keep building the software and also do some other special things such as promoting Drupal, Amplify and all the successes that you're having with clients through the front page and other sections on Drupal.org so let me go ahead and get started we'll just have a little bit of housekeeping if you could keep your channel muted that way we won't hear your background noise and it'll be easier for people to hear me we do have a chat window so if you have questions feel free to chat send the questions there and we'll look for it and then if there's anything you want to share with the world we just ask that you tag us at Drupal Association that's our handle and today we're just going to go over some Drupal Association news that we thought that you might like to hear as supporters as well as let you know some things that we're doing to support the community's contribution journey and also what we're doing to be good partners in the adoption journey and helping evaluators be informed and inspired about Drupal and connected to all of you before I get going I just want to say we're all in great company with amazing supporters we have the signature supporters as well as our premium supporters and then the supporters the supporter level which we're going to be changing that name to classic so that's not as confusing and as you know we also have not just digital agencies supporting us but we have technology companies that know that by working with Drupal they can we can go to market with stronger solutions and they know they're benefiting from this and wanting to give back as well and in addition to that we have our hosting supporters who understand that one plus one equals three and they too are really benefiting by being part of Drupal solutions and wanting to give back and so we have our premium and classic hosting supporters as well so why don't we dive in and I can cover some Drupal Association news you might have seen the banners on Drupal.org that community elections have begun we've been tweeting this out and putting it out in our newsletters we have a board that consists of 12 people their job is to come up with a strategic direction for the association and then staff's job is to figure out how to operationalize and execute on that there are 10 board seats that the board decides how to fill those but there are two seats where the community elects in a community member and that's really important because we want to make sure that the community has a say in what kind of voice is on the board to represent their needs our board members made up of all kinds of board members agency owners to gosh business managers at large digital agencies and system integrators and lots of different perspectives but this is the chance for the community to say we want this voice on the board and these perspectives to be part of the discussions and the strategy setting and so we are in the community election process we're in the we just completed the phase where community members self-denominate themselves we have 16 candidates and now until March 4th the community can go and review each of the 16 candidate profile pages decide for themselves which perspective they think is the most important to have on the board for the next two years and then we'll do the voting shortly thereafter there'll be March 6th to the 18th so we just encourage you to tell your employees to get involved all they need is to have Drupal.org profile page for at least a year and to be eligible to vote so we just ask that you get the word out so that we have a lot of participation the other bit of news is that we are working on the supporter program benefits we want to just create as much value as we can for you because it really matters that you're willing to support the funding of Drupal.org it's certainly more of an operational expense than a marketing expense in the sense that it's you're basically funding a tool like you might for Atlassian and your Jera license you know this is the tool that we all use to build the software and download it and it needs a lot of feed and care for it to continue on and be sustainable and keep improving as well however we want to make sure it has some some business value and there are some things that we're we're doing already you might have noticed that your position in the marketplace has changed we just evolved the contribution credit system and Tim Lennon will talk about that some more shortly but now the algorithm will look at your level of support for the association which level you are as a supporting partner and give you so many credits just to thank you and reward you for that because the whole community benefits and we'd like to make sure that there's some business value in that for you as well and hopefully that has helped you bump up a bit in the marketplace we're also looking at creating ways to highlight your successes um so we are looking at how to amplify case studies on the front page as well as sharing your business news in the news section on the front page as well we know technical evaluators are going to this part of the website and we want to do our job to help connect you and let you inspire and inform them through your your content so those are some some things that we're excited to be working on and we'll have more of an update for you before the end of this quarter another bit of news is we have our first camp supporting us that is Drupal Camp London we're so thankful that this camp has been successful and grown over the years and has the funds now to give back to the association as a premium supporting partner it's really exciting they've invited Delana Lang our account manager that many of you are working with to come out and speak at their business summit so she'll be there and we hope that if you're there too you'll take some time to sit down with her she's always an ear for what we can do more for the business community and us supporters and we are also in the process of releasing the Drupal Con Vienna sponsorship packages so she can answer any questions you might have about that and and what this event you know basically what this event will be focusing on and she can answer those kinds of questions for you too while she's there at that event so let me go ahead and start talking about some updates on both the contribution journey and the adoption journey side of uh of you know helping to make Drupal thrive this is a frame that I use often just to talk about our role in um in helping to get Drupal to be stronger both on the contribution side and the adoption side and we can't do it alone we always do it in partnership with the community but we want to be the best partners possible and obviously your funding's was allowing us to be the best partner possible so let me just kind of break it down on what we're doing to help make it easier for the community to contribute and also to give you air coverage in terms of promoting Drupal out into the marketplace so when I look at the contribution journey I break it down into three areas uh people process and technology I think about do we have enough people what skills do we need to be um attracting um do they have the right skill level and how can we level that that skill up um when I think about the process I think about how they are working together and what does that workflow look like and where's their friction that we could uh eliminate especially in the channels on Drupal.org and then lastly the technology of course are the issue cues and composer and Drupal CI and are we providing the right tools that you need to um to come together and build the software so I just like to kind of give you a little more insight into my frame as I think about how we can best serve the community on the contribution side uh one way that we are helping is with our community cultivation grant program um it's managed by three community members uh Mike and Nello uh oh gosh no I'm forgetting names uh I think it's Thomas Turnbull and Amanda Mates M-A-T-Z and uh we give them uh a pull of money community members who would like to do something to further Drupal apply for a grant um and if if it really makes sense and we really think that giving some money to this this person or this group will help amplify Drupal or accelerate um contribution and we we give them the grant and just recently we just gave some funds to um developer days in Europe it's where a lot of advanced Drupal developers come together the share in Spain uh to to move the project forward in a big way so we're really excited to be a part of that and to help this group of people um and there's there'll be other news about how we're using that grant money as well but I thought that was just something that was notable that just recently happened that I wanted to share um so we have a few other things on the contribution side I'd like to hand it over to Tim Lennon and Tim why don't you tell us a little bit about the contribution journey. Sure I'd be really happy to and first of all let me say thank you to um all of you among the supporters um for several of these things that I'm talking about people have reached out to me individually or called out on Twitter um their sort of appreciation and support for some of these new initiatives as well as their suggestions and ways that they think that we can continue to improve these so I really appreciate that feedback and and please continue to reach out um I'm at Tim Lennon on Twitter um in terms of the contribution journey and a big change that we've made um I want to talk about the contribution credit system as it relates to the marketplace so Megan alluded to this earlier um and let me I'll give a brief overview of the history and and talk about what we've done at the beginning of January here so back at Drupalcon Amsterdam uh that was in 2014 actually Dries laid out a vision for crediting users and their sponsoring organizations for code contributions to Drupal um so more than a year ago now we introduced our first iteration on that concept which is called issue credits which by now you're probably familiar with issue credits are a way for users in the issue queues to attribute any work that they do in a comment either as a volunteer or as sponsored by an organization or on behalf of a customer or an end user organization so um this edition kind of expanded on Dries' initial idea which was just supposed to be about you know get commit messages and made it something that applies to any kind of contribution that happens in an issue so that includes things like uh documentation and code reviews um and any any sort of work that happens um where people are contributing in the issue queues but that's not the only kind of contribution that we have um there's um you know we recognize that people contribute time they contribute talent they contribute treasure so it's always been our goal to expand the system and how it recognizes both individual contributors and how it incentivizes the economy of contribution in the marketplace so the big update that we made in January um was changing different types of contribution that are recognized and factored into the marketplace ranking algorithm so um sponsoring organizations are now well all organizations are now recognized for the following factors um firstly issue credits are still incredibly important um so uh moving with the project forward is still vital um and those code contributions are still important so issue credits are still the almost highly weighted factor in the marketplace um but we also weight those credits based on how widely used the project is that someone's contributing to and that way um projects contribute projects that are used by a wide part of the market uh receive a higher level of credit core receives the most um and that helps make that uh contribution to the most important modules the most important projects uh more highly incentivized um secondly uh we've added credit for Drupal Lake case studies um good storytelling about successful projects in Drupal Lake um helps improve the adoption journey and when evaluators come to Drupal.org and look at the case studies uh that we have there we want to be showing them the latest and greatest um stories about um ambitious projects built in Drupal Lake uh so we provide credit in the marketplace for each Drupal Lake case study that an organization has um as Megan mentioned we also provide a set of credit based on supporting partner level um so to recognize that the financial contributions that you all make support the association and support the work we do um we factor that into the credits based on the level of the supporter program and it can be pretty significant um finally um there's a concept of project supported where the maintainer of a project can say these organizations or this organization um make it possible for me to maintain this project on Drupal.org it's separate from the issue queues it's a way to recognize those contributions that might take place outside of issue queues that help uh further than the um advancement of a particular project or module on Drupal.org um and so we recognize that as well um so these new factors um have been put in place at the beginning of January and you've seen probably how that's changed the um uh the rankings in the marketplace um they're summarized in the side bar of the marketplace if you want to learn more about each of those ways to contribute and how to uh increase your own contributions um and we've been monitoring it carefully because there's some big changes and we know that we need to be careful with how we manage the economy of contribution but right now we're very pleased with uh with the result um so if you go to the next slide Megan um to talk about process and the contribution journey um there's a there's been a long standing issue um that some of you may be aware of in the community in that um anybody can come to Drupal.org and create what's called a sandbox project um it's a way to sort of start adding a code contribution in the form of a new module um but in order to make that a full project with full releases that's more visible to anyone else who comes to Drupal.org um you've had to go through a manual code review process with uh volunteer contributors and that process it's been in place for a good 10 years and it's cumbersome and dependent on the availability of volunteers so what we're focusing on um right now um is a revamp of that process that is going to eliminate the manual review um basically um what we're doing is allowing any user who's um on Drupal.org and opted into the terms of service uh to go ahead and create full projects and full releases uh we're changing the security review process to be an opt-in process to receive security advisory coverage for your project um and we're adding signals so that we preserve the sense of code quality. Drupal has a tremendous reputation for high code quality so we're putting in place more signals about which projects have opted into code review visible right on the project pages that's going to be visible in the update status page of any installed Drupal site as well um and lastly we're going to be designing a system to incentivize these peer code reviews not as a gate on creating new projects and new integrations for the technology use but instead as an opt-in process that might be part of ratings and reviews for projects on Drupal.org that's a future initiative that's a follow-up um as we do this project applications reading out but it's something we're thinking about um let's see and then lastly here in the technology section um we're pretty excited because we've made a few changes to um uh some key uh key sort of project infrastructure or project support technology that we as the engineering team have been building and supporting um and in the last quarter a lot of great things have happened so um composer the composer facade which allows um any uh developer to use the php composer tool to to to use Drupal projects and allows Drupal uh code to depend on external php libraries the support for that is now stable um as of this quarter it's no longer in beta megan you're you've got to pop up that's at our slide um so support for composer is now stable that means that we have quite a few um sites that are now using composer to build their sites is um becoming rapidly the standard workflow for uh large-scale Drupal sites and for managing some sort of enterprise level um Drupal sites and it's fully supported for both core and contrib we also have been adding features and improvements to Drupal ci um there are now more php environments we're now testing Drupal against um the most recent versions of of php7 as well against the as against the minimum supported versions we support testing uh Drupal ci with contrib projects that have composer dependencies and as you can see this accelerated for example the maintainer of commerce um with their work on that completing their port to Drupal 8 um and uh so we're really excited about that that's going to really help a lot of the contributed projects keep moving um and lastly we've added um with the help of community member mile 23 um megan are you still there can you hear us what we might need to do i'm going to try sharing screens since megan's internet connection may have dropped um i can see that megan's there she looks muted she's muted yeah i think she's she was saying her internet was flaky earlier so she might be frozen are you there megan would you like me to i'm here now sorry my apologies should i scare start sharing screen or sure okay uh is that showing up now it is okay so then the last um the last major thing is that with the help of community member mile 23 um he's just a great member of the community um we have code style checking so when you as you may know when um when your developers contribute code to drupal.org we have coding standards and now we can automate the review of that and in fact automatically generate patches to fix code style issues which will save the project a tremendous amount of time since that no longer is a manual process that volunteers have to do it can be something that can be uh done by our test spots um yeah so those are those are our sort of technology updates from the engineering team we really appreciate your support and that feedback that we see from you in our comments when we announce these features and on twitter so thanks very much for that i'll hand it back to megan to talk about the adoption journey great thanks tim and everyone sorry for little technical issues on my side i'm reporting live from florida i went to drupal camp florida over the weekend spoke there and now i'm kind of floating until i go to my next meeting which will be a border retreat in dc so um thanks for your patience but we're really excited to keep sharing sharing the news so let me talk about the adoption journey so tim if you don't mind advancing the slide so you might have heard the news already that we just launched drupal.org industry pages you go to drupal.org front page you'll see a new panel has been added that connects you to a page that's just dedicated to drupal and media and publishing drupal and higher ed and drupal and government we worked with end users in the industry each of these industries to come up with a story that helps educate and inspire potential end users in those industries and then to connect them with experts such as yourself to to learn more and to go further along in the adoption journey and the story is is quite simple it's something that i know all of you are sharing all the time with your clients which is um you know drupal has great success it's been adopted by great names in the industry we have the stats to prove it the brand names to back it and that drupal solutions come together because you're integrating drupal with third party technologies community contributed modules and the right hosting solution and that we have this amazing ecosystem around drupal that gives you flexibility and choice we highlight the different problem sets that drupal tends to solve in each of the industries and that came from the end users themselves they were telling us why they chose drupal and we also use the page as a way to connect the the visitor with some featured technology vendors as well as highlight case studies that were provided by agencies that sponsored the page and the work that we did um we hope it's um you know we know it's going to be a great tool to help the community um with their sales effort because it's a neutral site that has a good story to tell good content to share um it's also localized so if you're in europe you're going to be showing um european uh case studies so if it's government you'll see the city of london versus in the us it's the department of energy and then again for asia has their own as well so there's australian case studies and so we know it's going to be a great tool for the community we're getting excellent feedback and of course we're connecting visitors to agencies and and to the featured vendors as a lead generation opportunity for them but it's also a way that we could monetize this experience in in a way that's helpful and contextual to the visitor um and of course we do that because we need to pay the bills for druple.org and um our other mission work that we do so this is something that we're trying it's a six-month period that we're working with these companies and they're all partnering with us and sharing data so we can optimize the page for the best visitor experience possible um so we'll be learning a lot we'll be sharing our learning we are going to keep expanding these verticals um been working with um supporters to find out what would be the next ones we might want to consider um so we have healthcare and non-profit and e-commerce and finance um gosh you know i just have heard need and want for different verticals and of course there's the demand out there for them um and the other thing i just want to point out about these pages and and the sponsorship opportunity was this is a very limited sponsoring opportunity it's kind of unique and we definitely try to keep this um you know the lens of fairness and being neutral when it comes to these opportunities for example a triple con exhibit hall scales right we have maybe 80 vendors in there um and this is very very small so we wanted to be mindful about what's the right way to approach this opportunity and we said that we don't want anyone just to be able to buy in we um came up with the contribution ranking system where we could see who was providing the most code and was also a supporting partner and how long they were supporter uh and then we started to invite people based on that ranking um and so that's the approach that we use we we got some positive feedback from that saying thank you for you know acknowledging that i've given a lot and and that you know this is a nice reward to have this special invitation um it's also nice to hear from small companies that we're like hey we're not quite ready we haven't gotten into any verticals but it's nice to be considered for this opportunity based on our contribution some of them passed some of them took advantage of it but you know I just I don't know I think we might be on to something and I'm always open to your feedback as well um and so you know but what I really love about this um project is that it's it's not to me I certainly am glad that we had um good staff input end user input sponsor input community feedback and we used all of that to come up with these pages uh I'm just really excited to see where this goes and how we all benefit from it if you can go the next slide and then the other area where we're helping uh raise awareness for um evaluators um and doing our bit to inspire and inform and then connect them to you is at Drupal con um we are going to have Drupal con in Baltimore at the end of April it's our first time on the east coast in over five years so I'm certainly very excited as an east coaster myself but also just to make it easy for everyone on the eastern seaboard to come to to Baltimore it's really accessible and we're going to be on the inner harbor it's going to be a great week of Drupal celebration um but one thing that I want to um really emphasize is that we have an opportunity to reach beyond our community for this Drupal con and invite people to come in and learn about the power of Drupal and so we are investing in marketing and it's already started where we are going beyond our community reaching out and inviting people to come in um we are we had done research about what they would want to hear um so we are putting that kind of content together and making sure it's highlighted in our marketing materials we also want to make it easy for you to um reach out to your database of potential clients and existing clients and you're going to hear from us soon with coupon codes that you can use to bring them in um and create a whole experience for them and let them show um you can you know have the opportunity to show them that you are a trusted advisor in Drupal and um and you can give them a great experience you might want to take them out to dinner and have your clients talk to your potential clients and let them sell each other on Drupal and on your services so you'll get some more information about that but just wanted to really emphasize how we're reaching beyond the community for this Drupal content to invite more people to join us and learn about Drupal. One way that we're doing it is the vertical summits we started this a few years ago we're really leaning into into this this year um vertical summits are a one-day event on Monday where um peers come together they they talk about how they're using Drupal in a certain industry it's a great opportunity for you to send your your potential clients here to let their peers sell them on Drupal and show them how they can do more amazing things with the software uh so we'll have non-profit summit for the first time that'll be pretty big especially being in DC's backyard and again for the same reason we're going to have a government summit um and really reach out into the the DC markets and and pull people in but of course it's great for your your state governments and your your local government as well so we'll be doing marketing around that summit then of course media and publishing we started for the first time last year was success and we're going to expand that one higher end summit was the first one we've ever had and it is incredibly successful we're making it a larger space this year so more people can come in so that's a little bit on the summit it's a highly recommend that you check them out or have your clients check them out it's a great way for peers to sell peers on Drupal another thing that we're doing uh that's new this year is the supporter summit so as you may recall in the past we've had a business summit and you know there's um it really attracts the smaller newer business that is just starting to adopt Drupal and might have some questions around like how do I get involved and what is marketing and how do I handle finance maybe um five people and I want to go to 10 and what we heard was that many of our supporters have outgrown that um and they've come to the business summit it's good for networking but they weren't getting content value out of it um and many supporters said please create something for us so we're a little we're more mature as a business and understanding Drupal so can you create something for us as well and so we have a special event that will be on Monday called the supporter summit um it will be a four-hour networking breakfast followed by some programming like panels that will be some more advanced programming this will be led by Jeff Walpole at phase two um and and so you will be sending an email out shortly with what that programming will look like um the cost is $150 and um you'll you'll receive more detail shortly but we hope you'll join us um I think it'll be a good opportunity for for our supporters to network with each other so those are the main things that we're doing this quarter um for on the adoption side as well as the contribution side and at this time I'd love to just open it up for any questions I do see one question um and Tim this will be for you composer is great but what about issue credits and developing on github uh that's a really good question yeah there's still this um this this larger concern that right now the credit system of course is limited to activities that take place on Drupal.org itself and there isn't a a good way to um parse contributions that for projects that aren't hosted on Drupal.org anymore there are people who host their modules on github and do their issue development there um it's not a problem that we have a solution for just yet but it might be something where we take the um we take that original notion of parsing get commit information um and see if we can bring that back in in some way um as a way to do some kind of credit for external contributions to Drupal.org um it requires a little bit more thought and it's a little bit more complex um but we're uh we're certainly thinking about it as well good he said that would be great um and Tim the next question for you is does Drupal 7 case studies count towards the ranking or only d8 uh right now only Drupal 8 we'd like to incentivize the adoption of the new version of Drupal and so we made the decision when building the algorithm out that we'd like to offer that credit for the Drupal 8 case studies that people submit. Thanks Lucy's question is will we have new categories for industry verticals on Drupal.org and how will you decide which ones to open can we provide feedback and the answer is yes we are going to provide other verticals we do want feedback Lucy I saw your email and I'm I'm getting to what I promise so I want to hear your feedback I want to hear other people's feedback um the ones that I'm hearing so far range from non-profit e-commerce um health care health care thank you life sciences uh finance so I'm hearing quite a few um and I want to do this in bite size chunks so I'm learning from the three we have today and then once we kind of have a good recipe for success and I'll start rolling out the other ones one at a time um because it's quite a lot to coordinate with all the the the user research and the different types of content that we have to get from our sponsors you are so welcome do we have any other questions um okay unleash technologies would be interested in the non-profit opportunity as you're wrapping up the learning phase excellent uh should distros also have a place on Drupal.org yes one of the things that Tim and I are working on we want to understand the adoption journey on Drupal.org as a whole and actually we're using an agile process to um to do that study and also make the improvements we started with the redesign of the front page and started adding the content such as the case studies and tried Drupal and then we moved to the industry pages but as I mentioned you know we all recognize that Drupal solution is made up of the third party technologies and hosting and distros right there's this whole recipe that comes together and we really need to do a great job on Drupal.org of telling that story including distros I was actually just talking with Dries about his blog post recently where he even highlights open social in it as well as some other ones and and I think there's there's certainly some work to be done on distros the marketplace lots of the key places on Drupal.org as it relates to the adoption journey and should distros have a place in Drupal.org we always have trouble to balance exposure for the distro we support right so when we get to this section um and we start thinking about distros I'm going to reach out and we'll do some research and get feedback for sure and you are welcome all right any other questions okay well with that um you know I just want to say thank you again I feel like this association has just a nice list of deliverables that we've done in the last quarter I was very proud to be able to share them with all of you and we have much more coming down the pike and um have some more updates for you you're getting emails from Delana and Mark um that are giving you updates every month but we'll keep doing this webcast to keep you informed and please know we cannot do this work without your financial support so thank you um if you have any question or feedback for us we want to hear from you so you can see on the screen Delana and Mark's email one of them are your account manager and I am very accessible you can always reach out to me I'm Megan at association.drupal.org I'd love to hear from you so with that I'd like to conclude and just thank you for your time all right thank you everyone