Dave Reid

Undoubtedly Drupal's biggest community asset is the Drupal.org website itself, which has been in need of a major redesign for quite some time. As our community has grown quickly, Drupal.org has not grown with the features and usability needed to match. The good news is that the redesign planning is nearly finished, but we are nearing a very critical task. We need to upgrade Drupal.org and all its modules to run on Drupal 6 before we can actually implement the redesign. With Drupal 7 coming up quickly in Q4 2009, and Drupal 6 released almost a year ago, we are still running our biggest asset on the much-less-awesome, nearing-end-of-life version 5.

Dries and the Drupal Association have started organizing redesign sprints over the next two months to concentrate effort and focus, the first of which is dedicated to the massive task of upgrading Drupal.org. Along with many other contributors, I've volunteered my time and effort to attend the sprint in Boston. But like myself, some of us aren't sponsored and require financial assistance to attend. Please consider reading http://drupal.org/node/356002 and donating to this important cause that will further expand Drupal's reach and to provide us better tools to communicate and collaborate.