 Ooh, I can't see anybody okay. I won't be able to see chat. So just let me know if anyone That's Okay, I'm ready cool All right, well, thanks for joining This is the supporters webcast The third one of the year and I'm Megan Saneke the executive director It's my first webcast in this new role. So I'm pretty excited about that with me is Rachel Friesen who oversees Drupal Khan our events program and Tim Lennon who oversees our engineering department and we are being supported today by Brendan who is I think his picture is gone, but Great great teamwork here and we wanted to come together and tell you some great happenings that are going on at the association What we're doing for the community So just a little housekeeping We just asked that you remain muted during the call So that way we have a good quality But we do want to take questions. So please use the chat window to do that And if you hear any news you want to share, please go ahead and you could even Tag us on Twitter at Drupal Association We have a few news items From the association that I'm going to cover and then Rachel is going to give an overview of Drupal Khan Dublin and Tim will be giving an overview of some improvements that have been happening on Drupal dot oh Drupal dot org over the last couple months and As you probably know Drupal Khan Dublin's at the end of September And we also have a global training days coming up in September as well So these are two programs you probably want to check out if you want more information reach out to me or anyone at the Association and we're happy to help you get involved And of course before I get started, I just want to thank all of the supporting partners So you can see that our programs really been growing. We have more companies stepping up to support the association and this program's fees go to fund Drupal dot org improvements and They are really invaluable and it made a real impact on what we've been able to do. So thank you So let's dive into the Drupal Association news It's always good. Just you know us starting as a new executive director to Really make sure you're clear on the mission because this is what my job is to make sure we're serving it So I wanted to just share this again with all of you You know in short the association is here to unite the open source community So we can help build and promote the software and over the last several years We've been doing a lot to help build the software help the community build the software Sorry about that and we've been doing that With investments on Drupal dot org with lots of tooling that you can see such as Drupal CI and composer and On the Drupal con side. We've we do a lot there from training up talent so people can contribute more Getting them into sprints and giving them workshops to learn how to contribute back to the project with mentors We have core conversations so we can you know get the right people together in a room to talk about What needs to happen next for the project? So just a lot that we've been doing to help The community build the software and that was a really important investment so that we could play our part to get Drupal 8 out the door into the marketplace and We're going to talk a little bit about what we're doing on that build side of the mission But I also you know what focus a little bit on the promote side Because in the past we've done we've definitely done some things to promote Drupal No, we started jumping more into issue cues To approve case studies and get good case studies up on Drupal dot org and at Drupal con we have higher ed summits and That's a great one-day customer event where those that are using or want to use Drupal for higher ed or Non-profit or media come together and they do peer-to-peer networking and get education on how to push the envelope with Drupal So those are some great ways that we're promoting Drupal Oh as well as helping support the community promote the Drupal 8 launch So that was a another big thing that we've done So as we move forward we want to really You know put emphasis on the promote side really expanding what we do Because there's a lot more that needs to be done now that Drupal 8 is out the door And so I want to talk a little bit about some of our focus for the next couple of months So on the unite you know the community to build the software on that part of the mission What we have decided to do is to sustain the work that we're doing Not taking anything away Obviously we still want to make sure you have all the tools and all the training that you need to get the Community together and keep building the software But we're kind of putting hitting the pause button on doing a lot of new features to Support this part of the mission and that's because well two things one we did have a reduction in staff So that was something we needed to do just to align our expenses with our revenue And now that we're we've done that We have a smaller team on the engineering side that Tim's managing We're still doing a great job and pushing a lot out to help the community But we do have because of the smaller team we do need to Focus on sustaining what we have Meanwhile, what we're doing is studying Where we want to go next we want to have a holistic overview of our architecture To make sure that that developer experience the tools that we have Are the right ones There's been a lot of changes where people are used to a different kind of developer experience And so we want to just really look at that to make sure that we're providing the best Experience ourselves modernizing tools where we can and also looking to see where It makes sense to try different kinds of tooling so we are going to a study And then as we grow our funding back up, we'll know where we need to invest and start making changes So that's what's happening in terms of our support for the developer community. Certainly won't see any Any decrease there? We're just going to do some studies to see where we grow in the future on that front And then on the other side of the mission where we unite the community to promote the software What we want to first start with understanding the customer so I've been with the association six years We've done a lot of work over the time to understand the developer community and what their needs are and then also the web development agencies and what their needs are and actually I'm doing interviews to continually Stay up to date on changing needs And but we have never really reached out to the customer or the perspective customer to really understand what their needs are Or to bring them into the community And so we're going to start there I'm actually doing lots and lots of calls to customers that you have any customers. You'd like me to talk to please let me know and So with that kind of information we can understand how we can do a better job promoting Drupal and One way we want to do this is through Drupal.org It is very much a site for our developer community that we do have aspects that can help You know provide an adoption journey for customers and prospective customers, but it needs to be tightened up and You know, it means There's just nice needs to be a nice refresh on that So we're looking at the front page to start with to see how we can use this as a Great adoption journey to really explain. What is Drupal? Why you should adopt Drupal start highlighting case studies Letting them know we're to go next to get information connecting them to Drupal shops if they're looking for some help right away and So we're starting some work there and the interviews with the customers will let us know what will really resonate So that's gonna be a great way for them to contribute back to the project is helping us in that way Some other things we're looking to do is create a Solution section off of the main navigation where we will have different pages about Drupal as a solution So you'll notice that most of our content over the years has been very developer focused So you see a lot of content about what's the top 10? Drupal modules or how do you do this or how do you migrate whatever, you know, very developer focused Whereas a customer wants to hear about solutions as I'm sure many of you know And so we're going to start creating pages about Drupal for higher ed Drupal for nonprofit Drupal for gov and That way Anyone from any vertical will be able to start seeing content That can help them understand how other companies like theirs Had their problem solved or new opportunities created by Drupal working as part of a bigger solution So I'm really excited to start working on on that front And then of course at Drupal con we want to Focus more on ways to promote the software and we do a lot already The you know actually Drupal con itself is a bit of a sales tool I've talked with some customers at the executive level that said well My developer is the one who told me about Drupal and he started to get involved and he told me to come to Drupal con And I saw how people were so engaged and so passionate in this open source project that I knew this is this is the way to go like there are this many people this excited to make this great project That I want to be a part of it. I want to I want to thank my career on this And I've heard that from several customers, which is really exciting So I mean Drupal con itself is a sales tool. It just shows the power of Drupal But we are doing things already to bring in customers So that they can either deepen their footprint With Drupal or decide to use Drupal, you know start, you know, maybe they're Evaluating and we do that through the summits those one-day summits that I mentioned earlier And they're really successful the higher ed summit always sells out. We just brought in the government summit and the Media summit which did really well and we want to see how we can expand that Expand that too and so we're just really talking with these customers and interviewing them to see what really makes sense to them You know something's I'm hearing is you really want peer-to-peer networking. You really want to hear how their peers Push the envelope with Drupal to solve their business problems. How do they do that? And So, you know, we're just seeing how we can bring these types of customers and prospective customers into the fold and Make sure we have the right content for them So we're doing lots of research right now and then of course we want to use all of our other channels It's really important that we start amplifying all the successes that we have so that we can attract the right people to Drupal.org and Drupal con and one way to do that is to take your case studies and amplify them through Twitter and so you can see here the University of Chicago's case study was posted on Drupal.org and Now we're amplifying it through our social media feeds and If you received our newsletter in the last 24 hours Then you'll see that we're highlighting these case studies in the newsletters as well So if you have a great story, please put it on Drupal.org. Let us know so we can start amplifying it And then of course we want to start telling our stories through our webcast program We just did a really great one with Lingotek who's a supporting partner and they do translations and It was a great case study around Princess Cruises and how they're using Drupal and Lingotek to better serve their customers Really powerful story and we want to get more of these out there. It's definitely a unique position that the association has Is to really amplify all the all the successes that you're making out there in the marketplace So that's just one of the big areas that we're focusing on Under my you know new role as an executive director then our my next steps with the team is that we're interviewing customers and Really making sure we can update our Website and our events to better serve them and then we also want to partner with web development agencies and I should say the hosting companies and Third-party software really want to partner with all of you to make sure we have great content For this audience and I think if we all come together we can tell some pretty amazing stories and Again, please let me know of your latest win. I really want to start amplifying the stories being the community excited about These successes it really Rejuvenates them and sees that they're working towards these great Adoption, you know adoption of their software And then of course it just helps attract more customers perspective customers into the community And hopefully as we start working on Drupal con programs I can partner with you we can invite your customers and prospects to Drupal con You can use that again as a sales tool in a way to really connect with them in a meaningful way So if you have any questions Go ahead you can put them in the chat window. I can't see that so be you'll just have to let me know if Anything comes up But if there aren't any questions, then I would like to hand this over to Rachel Friesen And she can tell you a little bit about Drupal con Dublin great Great, so we have a lot of stuff going on in the next couple weeks actually with Drupal con Dublin So the sessions should be published by the end of the month, which is always really exciting We also have training sessions that should be announced very shortly And one thing I really want to point out is the early bird tickets that discount will expire at the end of next week So at midnight Dublin next Friday the ticket prices go up 100 euro So it's important to get your tickets before then and save a little extra money There are still sponsorship opportunities for Drupal con and you can email us there at sponsor at Association dot triple dot org if you're interested in different ways that you can support Drupal con or the Drupal community There's a bunch of different ways that that people can join in the fun there And one thing I want to talk about specifically is something new that we're offering this year, which is our devops summit If you go to the next slide So the devops summit came about because we've heard quite a bit of chatter around devops especially in the Drupal community and We are really excited that bastion is leading the charge on this We have some more information on the website and when you send out the slides There'll be I added links in here to find out more about Bastion and also about the event Including a more detailed agenda, which should be out in the next week or so But essentially the event should focus or will focus on tearing down the imaginary wall between operations and development teams So basically finding ways that people can work together to share knowledge and best practices And really do some great pure learning Go to the next slide So who should come this is a great question to ask so and essentially anyone that's interested in how they can implement devops principles So sending technologists sys admins Developers even CTOs anyone who's interested in devops and kind of where that's headed and what people have learned in the last year A year and a half the tickets are on sale now for a hundred and ninety nine euros, which is a great price And we expect this event to be very popular So I'd recommend grabbing tickets sooner rather than later and then one other thing that's happened since I made these slides Which is really exciting as we have announced our community keynote. So on Thursday morning You may know I'm on D dot oh as as Enzo But in real life Eduardo spent the last few months traveling the world visiting various triple communities We're really really thrilled that he's going to be presenting on what all he learned from his time Traveling different communities going to different summits or camps or meet-ups or whatever that he could find along the way and His recommendations on ways we can expand and grow how connected our community is so should be very exciting. I Think that's it for triple con That's great. Well, I'm really excited about your new edition with devops on it I think that's a great way to make that developer or better even stronger Yep. Yeah, okay excellent. Well, thanks Rachel Well, then why don't I turn it over to you Tim? You can talk about The recent triple dot org improvements. Sure There's kind of a lot of stuff to talk about over the last quarter So I'll be giving some updates on some work that we had started in the previous quarter as well as things that are completely new in the last couple of months and Just a by way of introduction You may also know me if you're on triple dot org I am Hestanet and they'll see me in the issue queues and updating our roadmap And I'd be very happy to hear from you if you have any thoughts on Our roadmap on these items if you'd like to get involved or if you have developers who work with you would like to get involved in the work we're doing so to Kind of start off the The big milestone in April was the release of triple 8.1 This was the first release of a new six month release cycle for Drupal the software so the community came together and established a new practice for our release cycle for Drupal where in every six months there would be a point release a New minor release of Drupal and this would include major features and API changes and this means that Drupal can evolve much more quickly than during the Drupal 7 development cycle there's now a Pattern for introducing these new features these new API changes and for ultimately Transitioning deprecated API's into new API, so it's a it's a really big deal for the project in terms of Creating a faster pace of change and moving towards an evergreen Drupal That is modern enough today. So To support this there was actually quite a bit of work on triple org to manage Just the the project management side of taking all of the issues opened against core Migrating them to the 8.2 branch if they're not complete providing support for development branches for these minor releases and a number of things the team did a lot of work just to enable that for the core developers and We should be seeing the next Point release triple 8.2 in October again coming with new new important features and APIs for the software If we move to the next slide One of the other things that we introduced was JavaScript testing for Drupal We added phantom.js support to Drupal CI This is important in a number of different ways Basically, it helps us test JavaScript interactions in Drupal in the software and if you look at the next slide That's going to enable Several of the major initiatives these are these are the d8 initiatives that trees presented at New Orleans as Kind of coming up in the point release cycle for Drupal and several of these initiatives the data modeling initiative the blocks and layouts initiative and the media initiative in particular are dependent on Rich user experiences, which will be driven largely through JavaScript and having that ability to test JavaScript interactions in the software is going to mean the ability to iterate on that and start improving the user experience of Drupal Which is an important priority for increasing adoption We go to the next slide as was I believe mentioned in the last update we had just begun work on Providing support for composer repositories composer is the command-line the dependency management tool for php projects and Last quarter we were Moving towards an alpha release of composer as of right now. We have released the beta We're moving towards stable. It's just a matter of bug fixes essentially at this point the beta implementation of composer is in you in production use at enterprise scale we are Aware of a number of customers who are already using it to manage hundreds of websites Oops Lost our slide there a little bit So we're really happy with this It's it's a great feature. It helps make Drupal part of a modern php work well And we're kind of excited to see where it goes One of the areas that you might see activity on in the future is using composer based workflows for distributions for example So moving on One of the other things we did is we communicated a little bit about the visual language that we've been using as The basis for any work that we do that touches the design on Drupal dot org so this is This is not a specific feature release, but this is just to show you How we are going about Creating a more consistent and coherent Sign experience and visual experience of using the site to try and make it more user-friendly You'll see a couple little sneak previews in this slide for example the user icon up in the upper right corner A better user menu is about to Be released You see the documentation pages Being kind of previewed here if we go to the next slide In the past quarter we had been working on developing a new documentation system for Drupal the old Book page format was getting along in the tooth a little bit clunky and hard to navigate and so We've finished the majority of that development release the features to Drupal that'll work and with a volunteer We've been assembling a volunteer team to start migrating documentation So you'll start to see this new documentation format with its improved navigation Around the site very soon maintainer Documentation now has the concept of maintenance Like like projects do so that we can have dedicated community volunteers who ensure that the documentation has good editorial Has a good quality standard and it's kept up to date So there's a lot of good things happening there and at this point It's it's largely a community effort to move forward that migration process. So Continue Another thing we did is we released some small updates to the issue credit system Since the initial release of issue credits on Drupal.org This is the ability for users who who work on issues on Drupal to attribute that work to an employer or customer Since we've seen that introduced we've seen kind of an incredible revitalization of the contribution economy I'll say around Drupal a lot of shops and end user organizations all Getting excited to have their developers start making those attributions. We use it as the Ranking system for the marketplace based on issue credits and it's it's just been a really remarkable change So we want to continue caring for that system And making careful changes that help improve it and keep it a clean system So we introduced two new tools that the maintainers who grant credit can use They can grant credit to users who might maybe haven't come to them the issue And that means that if there's internal teams working on an issue But only one of them is actually updating it on Drupal.org They can still credit those users if someone is helping out an IRC and Slack at sprints In a channel other than the issue queues they can still be credited in their organizations can still be credited for the work But they've done to support These contributions We've also taken some steps to prevent gaming the system in terms of Just some tools that let the maintainers control Patch submissions that aren't actually contributions or are other ways that people might be trying to gain the rankings because we want to protect the integrity of those people Out there who are really making important contributions To continue to the next slide we also added a couple very small things along the way That will hopefully have a pretty decent impact. So there's a supporting technologies listing in the marketplace now which lists Organizations that are supporters of the association, but that provides services that we haven't Explicitly highlighted as a category in the past. These are complementary technologies to using Drupal These could be things like CDN providers monitoring providers all sorts of technology providers whose tools are Tremendously useful to anyone who is working with Drupal But it's not a feature of Drupal directory So we wanted to find a place to promote their services and that complementary technology We've also just made small improvements to have a navigation for project releases go Friendly pathway leases and we've done some work to prevent spam account registrations on Drupal.org Because it's an efficiency drain both Someone on our team as they kind of curators and caretakers of the community and on their community volunteers who have to Either manage spam or work around it as they're doing the other work They're doing in the queue. So we put together a couple a couple tools to have actually dramatically Impacted the ability of up Spanish from even creating accounts on the site. It's a really good improvement We continue I think that's most of the update I Want to say thank you from the engineering team because we get a lot of support from the community and from organizations Individually people reach out to me on time to thank us for the work that we're doing. I want to add one more thing We have a community initiatives program where Community volunteers or even Organizations who want to drive forward a particular idea Create these community initiative proposals and use them to work with us And and create improvements So one of those initiatives that's under actually in fact adding composer support began as a community initiative But one of those other initiatives has been to Improved the project application process Try not to get into all the weeds But basically there's a manual peer review process before a new contributor can make a full module release on Drupal.org And that's something of a barrier to contribution right now So we have worked with the community and we have a way to remove that barrier entirely and we're excited to implement that As we heading towards Dublin That's great. Well, thank you Tim Definitely an impressive amount of work you guys have been getting done especially as a smaller team. So, thank you Okay, well that is our update for this quarter I'd love to hear from all of you about Other bits of news you'd like to hear about or if there's other topics you want us to cover Or do you have ways that? We could better support you. I'd love to hear about that as well. So please know you can reach out to me anytime you want to Stay connected you can also just make sure you're signed up for our newsletter and of course our social media at Drupal asos And I know you have Account managers you can reach out to so Delana if you are a web development agency Or mark if you are a hosting company or third-party software, so please know you can reach out to them anytime and And we'll get your questions answered or just help you in any way So thank you so much for your time and all of your support really excited what we can do together So if there are any questions you can send them through the chat and We can let me know of any come in sure thing. We don't have any so far, but we'll give them a minute to type and Go from there Great. All right. Well awkward pause there. I'm gonna assume there are no questions So I'm just gonna bring this home and and say once again Thank you for everything that you're doing to support the community and especially for supporting us and looking forward to Giving you another update in Q4. Thanks again Thanks everyone