Apply for designation as a Digital Public Good

Thank you @hestenet for continuing to keep this on the radar!

I was finally able to look at this!

First of all, thank you for preparing an application.

After review, I only see upside to submitting our application, and no downside. In fact, this sounds exciting to be part of!

I reached out to Tim Lehnen and Tim Doyle from the Drupal Association in email to coordinate how to submit the application.

Thank you, again!

I have the application about 75% filled out in the submission portal now, and am working with DA CEO Tim Doyle to finalize.

Woohoo! Thank you and happy Friday!

The application has been fully entered into their online portal and submitted for review!

I will keep this group updated.

Very exciting! @hestenet, did they have a confirmation message that estimated low long to expect for a response?

@andileco - they did not, but I'll be keeping an eye on it for sure. :)

hestenet → credited Tim D. → .

The Digital Public Goods Alliance has approved the Drupal project's application as a Digital Public Good.

Now that we're approved we should be showing up on the registry any day now: https://digitalpublicgoods.net/registry/

This is extremely exciting! Thank you to everyone here who helped make this happen.

The Drupal Association is working to coordinate a press release - so look out for that sometime in the upcoming weeks.

Thank you for sharing the great news @hestenet! Thanks to everyone for their contributions!

Congratulations!

Great news. Congratulations to all behind this. It is there in the registry now - https://app.digitalpublicgoods.net/a/10499

This is absolutely fabulous.

Drupal agencies should rally behind this. All commercial Drupal organizations, who have the ability to send out press releases, should send out a press release saying this and also cover this in all of their newsletters going out and also on their websites.

Drupal can emerge as the platform of choice for all Government organizations across the world. That would be a huge win for the Drupal community.

Thanks specially to @Daniel for taking that first step and also putting in all the effort through the collection of data for the application. Thanks also to Tim Lehnen, Tim Doyle, Von Eaton, Kristin Romaine, Rachel Norfolk and all the anonymous contributors who have contributed towards the application process and also to Dries for supporting and taking this through formally. Thanks to Tim Lehnen and Tim Doyle for taking this through the formal application process both at DPGA and within DA.

Adding these links:

https://www.drupal.org/association/blog/drupal-officially-achieves-recog... →
https://dri.es/drupal-recognized-as-a-digital-public-good

For the Sustainability → page, how about adding a paragragh to the end (under the existing statement about the SDG's) that states:

Continuing our commitment to the SDGs, Drupal is now officially a Digital Public Good (DPG). Our community applied to the Digital Public Goods Alliance's (DPGA) DPG Registry, and were approved. Digital Public Goods are ones which create a more equitable world and help attain the United Nation’s SDGs. DPGs represent an opportunity for everyone to access cutting edge features, drive their own digital transformation, and grow local ecosystems. As open source solutions, DPGs can be the basis for community building, knowledge sharing, and joint approaches. Local adaptations and iterations can be shared back with Drupal to help continuously improve it and ensure its long term sustainability. All digital public goods meet the DPG Standard.

Good idea, @mgifford. I've added that paragraph to the page.

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