Project messaging channel in core initiative

Related initiatives

• 🌱 Proposal: Composer Support in Core initiative Fixed (Precursor for auto updates and site builder initiatives)
• 🌱 Automatic Updates Initiative overview and roadmap Active
• #2940733: Site Builder Tool/Project Browser initiative →
• 🌱 Telemetry initiative Needs review
• Project messaging channel initiative← this issue

The vast majority of Drupal users do not have accounts on Drupal.org, and likely do not regularly follow Drupal project news, or engage with communications channels that promote important updates, news and events, or support for the community and association.

Project messaging channel initiative

The goal of this initiative is to provide a channel for messaging about the Drupal project within the administrative interface of core. This channel could provide information about upcoming releases, new feature highlights, events like DrupalCon, and promote support of the project via Association membership or other programs.

This initiative was inspired in part by the recent experiment with making certain contrib modules depend on the 'Contribute' module → .

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Usecases we are targeting to improve:

• Visibility about the Drupal project itself to end-users who are not regular members of our audience/community.
• Visibility of community support programs and the Drupal Association, to end-users who are not members of our audience/community.

Usecases we are not targeting to improve:

• We are not trying to put this information in the face of any end user where it would take away from their ability to reach the important technical information about their Drupal site.

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Sign-offs given:

@Dries has endorsed this idea in a call with DA staff, core maintainers, and community volunteers.

Here is the slide deck from the check-in between Core, the DA, and some interested community members about these initiatives.
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Meet the initiative team

TBA

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How we are working

TBA

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How you can help

Contribute your time and skills. Below are the main planning issues that link off to individual tasks that can be worked on:

TBA

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Design Assets

Community Alerts Desktop Design v1:
https://www.figma.com/proto/Ws4Gk0ImaripDb4NAlTvCBtZ/Community-Alerts---...