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
