Talking Drupal #408 - The Drupal Association

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