Thank you to those who have offered to allow images to be considered for inclusion in the first edition of the Promote Drupal Image Library. We are now in a position where some draft guidelines have been written and many tens of candidate images have been gathered.
The next step is to moderate these images with the Promote Drupal team at their next meeting, this may also happen asynchronously via a Google Doc.
Kushneet → credited pdjohnson → .
Update: Following Promote Drupal call yesterday we have agreed that a set of ~30 images which represent "On Brand" will be selected (by me) from the Flickr Pools of DrupalCon and then reviewed by the Promote Drupal team. This will establish a set of example images which will
- Define the types of images we should proceed with seeking to source more of
- Help inform photographers as to what type of images we are encouraging and why
Example photographs will be made available on the new Drupal DAM (digital asset management) system so that those promoting Drupal can draw from the resource and photographers can use them as visual guidance.
The Drupal Brand Guidelines will in time be further updated to provide enhanced guidance for images.
Absolutely. I will certainly go and identify the photographers via the Flickr pools and approach them directly to make them aware of this initiative. It's great to see that the process of creating a pool continues and this will provide a rich source of high quality images.
Lille: https://www.flickr.com/groups/drupalconlille2023/pool
Prague: https://www.flickr.com/groups/drupalconprague2022/pool
Vimal,
I am so delighted to read your comment and the linked blog showing the methodology. Thank you also for making us aware of the work by Grzegorz.
During the Promote Drupal Evaluator meeting yesterday, which happens every 2 weeks, I suggested that we ideally want to seek people to take ownership of maintaining statistics Drupal references in brand story and official marketing. It sounds like you and The Drop Times may have already taken the first step in becoming that? What do you think?
We also posed the question of what rankings would it be valuable to track adoption rates for. This needs to be either at continent or global sector level perhaps. Those University rankings are an excellent example but it would be good to expand out into other rankings in for example Finance, Pharma, certain stock market indexes perhaps?
This is a new and very important area we are focussing on. I very much appreciate your making contact and look forward to working alongside you.
Paul
Attended the meeting, reported back on progress getting statistics source.
Volounteered to lead on the curation of images to be available for use with the slide deck
Subsequently written issue
https://www.drupal.org/project/promote_drupal/issues/3440289 →
and blog https://medium.com/@pdjohnson/help-us-create-a-promote-drupal-image-libr...
pdjohnson → created an issue.
pdjohnson → created an issue.
Hi Alex,
this is a great idea. Knowing the user better and monitoring trends would be invaluable. It has previously occurred to me how this gap exists. Here are a few of the types of persona I would imagine may register based on my experience working in agencies and with end users (clients) and others for good measure.
- Site owner
- Content manager
- Content strategist
- SEO
- Evaluator - someone looking at Drupal as a potential option as end user. Nurturing this type of visitor would be highly beneficial
- Journalist - surely the DA would love to spot these?
- Influencer
- IT manager
- Quality Assurance Manager
- Solutions Architect
- Student - another obvious person to target specific content for
- User Experience Designer
This and maybe other personas means you can be more granular, but group them into buckets for personalisation. Because you have the more granular detail, this can be used for other purposes yet to be realised. It's not exhaustive but hopefully it stimulates thought.
I'd be wary of using "Other non software related role" as this may infer that these are users we are not interested in. At the moment they are registering we want to create a warm welcome. This could be our next great contributor, you just don't know. That's why I have proposed the likes of QA, Content manager, Content strategist etc. As Drupal and the wider web has matured, these roles have become invaluable disciplines.
You might want to consider, if this is for content targeting, to ask another question "What is your level of knowledge with Drupal?" or "What is your primary motivation to register?" this could further inform content targeting.
Do we want to add the field to make available to existing users so we can retrospectively capture these insights?