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Design 4 Drupal: Building Their Own Home

Posted on: Wed, 2009-09-23 10:19 | By: matt | In:

It's time for the Drupal web designers and front end developers to have their own home. This is the message coming across loud and clear at the moment.

Drupal.org was built for back end developers, programmers, and the community at that time. Over the years it was architected around those users and their needs to build a great product. But, times have changed and we have users with different needs. One group looking for their own place and set of tool is the web designers and front end developers. It's time to build it.

Back at Drupalcon DC we started to talk about what the need would be. We started a group on groups.drupal.org to get the conversation going. But, the groups system wasn't really built around the needs of the design for drupalers. It grew quickly but became stagnant. What was really needed was 2 things. A project management tool to manage the tasks of the group and a home built specifically for front end drupalers.

Project Management Site Up

After months of talk at conferences (like Design 4 Drupal Boston), conversations in IRC (we converted some front end folks to use irc), and on twitter a project site was finially setup to start manageing what needs to be done. Eating our own dog food, this is an Open Atrium site at http://project.designfordrupal.org.

If you want to be in on building the next place for web designers and front end developers please come join us here.

A Home For Front Enders

One of the first tasks is to figure out what needs to be built into a site for front enders. My hope is that this starts with a bit of a discovery phase to figure out what's needed and then we can build it. Much of that work has been done at conferences, in back rooms, and in IRC. Now we just need to gather our notes and get feedback. This is the top priority for the group at the project management site.

So, if you're interested in building something better for web designer and front end developers please join us at http://project.designfordrupal.org.