Category: media
Matthew Tift: Contribution Recognition and the Drupal Project
Contribution Recognition and the Drupal Project Image mtift Mon, 07/12/2021 – 13:00 This article was co-authored with Tim Lehnen, CTO of the Drupal Association, and cross-posted on Drupal.org. Sustaining open-source projects is the challenge of this decade. Understanding how contributions are made—by volunteers, sponsored by an organization, or both—can create incentives for ongoing support. The…
Drupal Association blog: Contribution Recognition and the Drupal Project
In this retrospective post, guest author Matthew Tift of Lullabot reflects on Drupals contribution recognition system, how it has impacted open-source sustainability, and how it might be standardized and adopted by other open-source projects. Matthew is a Lead Engineer at Lullabot. He has been involved in the Drupal project since 2010, helping to organize multiple…
Evolving Web: Mastering Drupal for Content Editors
Do you work with web content? Are you just getting started with using Drupal to publish your site? Our team has written extensively about the different things you’ll need to navigate in order to successfully deploy your content strategy with Drupal as your CMS. We broke down this guide into five key themes: Demystifying Drupal…
Drupal Association blog: Drupal Steward now available to all
After several years of hard work, the Drupal Association and the Drupal Security team are pleased to announce that Drupal Steward is now available to all. What is Drupal Steward? Drupal Steward is a web application firewall that bridges the gap between the time when a security release is announced and when your site is…
Web Wash: Create Infinite Scroll pages using Views Infinite Scroll in Drupal
Infinite scrolling is a technique used to show more content as the user scrolls down a page eliminating the need for the user to click to go to the next page. This is commonly implemented in popular social media apps. This tutorial will demonstrate how to use the Views Infinite Scroll module to achieve this and…
Drupal Association blog: The Discover Drupal 2021 Cohort Has Officially Launched
I’m pleased to share that after over a year of work and planning, our very first cohort of Discover Drupal students is starting July 1st! Discover Drupal, a pillar of our new Drupal Talent & Education program, is designed to unlock opportunities for people who have been underrepresented in the open-source community. With the generous…
Tag1 Consulting: Does your content speak for itself? A fireside chat with Preston So, author of Voice Content and Usability – Part 1
For thousands of years, much of the content that fills our books and today lines our websites has been rooted in the written word. But in recent decades, voice interfaces have grown in both performance and popularity as users begin to seek novel ways to access information, especially through the uniquely human medium of spoken…
Jacob Rockowitz: How should we encourage organizations to sponsor the Webform module’s Open Collective?
In January 2021, I started writing about my work situation. As that aspect of my life (and my blog) evolved, I gradually started focusing on improving the sustainability of the Webform module for Drupal. Last month, I began expensing the Webform module’s maintenance to the Webform module’s Open Collective. Getting compensated for my time has…
Mediacurrent: Risks of Staying On Drupal 7 After Its End of Life
Drupal 7’s end of life is scheduled for November 28, 2022. Up until then, the Drupal Security Team will continue to provide patches to Drupal 7 core and contributed projects should any security threats arise. After that point, however, the Drupal Security team will no longer support Drupal 7. Is it Safe to Stay on…
Web Wash: Generate Twitter Card Meta Tags using Metatag in Drupal
When someone tweets a link from your website, Twitter can use Twitter Cards to attach rich photos, videos and media to Tweets. By doing some minimal configuration changes on your Drupal site using the Metatag Module and the Twitter Cards submodule, users can see a “Card” added below the tweet that contains neatly formatted information coming from…