Regionalized Planet Drupal

Existing Programs

• Drupal Planet: Latinoamericano was the first pilot for a regionalized Drupal Planet. Content is posted in Spanish or Portuguese, not English.
• Drupal Planet Chinese was the next regionalized Drupal Planet to be created. Content is posted in Traditional or Simplified Chinese, not English.

Potential for expansion

The language of the main Planet Drupal section still is and will stay English. However, Drupal.org users may create an issue in the Content queue to request a new regional section. These new regions may aggregate content written in languages of those regions, rather than English.

There are 4 other available regions. These regions are in part derived from the United Nations’s regional groups, and in part from Drupal.org 2015 demographics:

• Africa
• Asia-Pacific
• Eastern Europe
• Western Europe

To request a new regional Planet Drupal section:

• Open an issue in the Content queue
• Explain what the section would accomplish—the unique audience needs it would meet
• Provide examples of at least 5 Drupal-related RSS feeds that would be aggregated into the new section
• Identify at least 3 active Drupal.org users who would commit to moderating the section and adding new feeds to it

Implementation details

Any regional section—including Latinoamericano—will be created as a new category in Drupal.org’s Aggregator module configuration. Sections will also be added to the drupal.org/planet navigation.

These sections will still have to follow Planet’s guidelines (except for the language requirement). All sections and their feeds will be moderated via the Content issue queue. The title of an issue will need to specify which regional section of the Planet the issue is about.

However, in order to create consistent information architecture, if/when regions other than Latinoamericano are added, all regions—including Latinoamericano—will have to follow these guidelines:

• Section title (and thus category title) pattern: Drupal Planet: [regional designation]
• URL pattern: d.o/planet/[regional-designation] (e.g., d.o/planet/latinoamericano)
• Section feeds must be active—a section that is dormant for 2 months will be retired