February

Congratulations to David Strauss, Four Kitchens co-founder and Drupal scalability guru, who was elected yesterday as a Permanent Member of the Drupal Association.

David’s goals as a member focus largely on improvements to infrastructure, community-building, and reaching out to other open-source projects. Details can be found in his his application:

What are the primary goals you would like to work on?

I would like to advance the infrastructure for development and sprints by working with the community to drive development and deployment of next-generation (read: not CVS) tools, both for issue tracking and version control. I would like to participate in discussions surrounding the membership software for Drupal Association membership, including CiviCRM (the current tool) and alternatives. I would like to work with major free culture and free software organizations to establish partnerships.

For me, my projects are code-based and, hence, mostly a collection of version-controlled branches. So, my “Projects” directory (located at ~/Projects) contains a smattering of branches organized into multi-level directory structures.

In my last post, I noted that shared branch storage is the key to fast branching, good offline access, and efficient disk usage. I even covered a quick way to get it rolling for Drupal branches. But it’s one thing to know how and another to know “best practices,” so I’ll share how I do things.

Assignment: New business cards for our staff.

Goals: A clean, professional, and friendly design with room to write on. (People like to make notes on business cards — namely, when and where they met that person.)