Today we are talking about The Drupal Association with Tim Doyle.
For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/408
Topics * Tell us about yourself Tim
* Why Drupal
* What perspective do you bring
* Strategic plan
* Leadership
* Measurements
* Drupal the project vs Drupal the community
* Where will the DA be in 5 years
* Will Drupal be around in 20 years
* Favorite aspect of the strategic plan
Resources * Director of Philanthropy
* Burnout
* Pitch-burgh
* Alex Moreno
* New Core Product Manager
+ Lauri Eskola (lauriii)
* Tenure of ED/CEOs since formation of DA
+ Jacob Redding
- March 2010 - February 2013
- ~3 years
+ Holly Ross
- February 2013 - May 2016
- 3 years 3 months
+ Megan Sanicki
- May 2016 - September 2018
- 1½ years
+ (interim) Tim Lehnen
- September 2018 - June 2019
- 9 months
+ Heather Rocker
- June 2019 - March 2022
- 2 years 9 months
+ (interim) Angie Sabin
- March 2022 - October 2022
- 8 months
+ Tim Doyle
- October 2022 - Present (July 2023)
- 9 months
+ As of February 2026 Tim will be longest-tenured
Guests Tim Doyle - @TimDoyleMPA
Hosts Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan
John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi
Tim Plunkett - @timplunkett
MOTW Correspondent Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu
ActivityPub
- Brief description:
- Implements the ActivityPub protocol on your site, so readers can follow and respond to content on Fediverse sites like Mastodon, and in the future maybe Threads?
- Brief history
- How old: created in Feb 2019
- Versions available:
- 1.0.0-alpha17, works with Drupal 9.4 and 10, release in Mar 2023
- Actively maintained
- Minimally maintained
- Number of open issues:
- 43 open issues, only 2 bugs but 1 of those fixed in the past week
- Usage stats:
- 11 sites using it according to drupal.org
- Maintainer(s):
- Created and maintained by swentel, who also created a module for publishing Drupal content to the Nostr network
- Module features and usage
- Effectively allows your site to act as a Fediverse server: Mastodon, Pleroma, Picelfed, etc.
- Users who enable ActivityPub for their account have created @user@domain in the Fediverse
- At that point the Drupal UI provides some common features of a social client: notifications about subscribers, and so on
- Provides plugins to define user actions. Default plugins are ‘Accept’, ‘Follow’, ‘Delete’, ‘Undo’ and ‘Inbox reply’, but a site could add or enable others
- Based on the documentation it sounds like if you update an entity (e.g. change the title) you can trigger an Update activity, which is in stark contrast to a certain bird platform
- There’s quite a bit more in the module’s README file if anyone wants to better understand its capabilities