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Documenting DrupalCamp England: A Behind-the-Scenes Story

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Covering an event like DrupalCamp England requires extensive preparation, collaboration, and immense support from dedicated individuals.
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Honoring the Visual Storytellers: Ensuring Fair Image Attribution

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Transparency and accountability are core values we uphold at The Drop Times (TDT). Every image used in our articles, interviews, and event coverage captures moments that define the Drupal community.
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Drupal CMS Launch Party—Are You Game?

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Drupal is turning 24, and the community is gearing up for a global celebration on January 15, 2025, with the official launch of Drupal CMS! The much-anticipated platform, designed to make Drupal more accessible and user-friendly, will be revealed through a global live stream and over 56 in-person events worldwide. Want to learn more? Check out the FAQ, interviews with key contributors, and event listings on the official Drupal CMS landing page. Register now for the live stream and be part of this milestone moment!
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The Storytelling We Are Passionate About

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The DropTimes is a news website with the vision of contributing to the growth of a vibrant community of users and contributors around Drupal through the process of covering and promoting everything happening around Drupal.
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The Process of Interviewing Explained: TDT Way

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Interviewing is an art form. Live interviews are very much so.
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Drupal's Innovation and Future: Share Your Perspectives!

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Drupal's success story is written by its community and its users. As the web landscape evolves, understanding the Drupal community's vision for ensuring Drupal remains innovative, adaptable, and inclusive is important. To get a pulse on where Drupal is headed, The Drop Times is launching a special project to gather insights directly from people in the Drupal community and Drupal users. Your perspectives will shape a series of articles focused on "Drupal's Innovation and Future: 2024 and Beyond." In our first article, we connected with diverse experts exploring challenges and opportunities. Now, it's your turn!
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Behind the Scenes: Drupal's Footprint in Top Universities

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A walkthrough of the behind-the-scenes tasks executed (with code examples and the tools we used in this exercise) to generate the preliminary dataset for analyzing Drupal usage among the top 300 universities. This blog covers everything from selecting the university ranking to generating a CSV file with the universities and their Drupal usage.
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Drupal Usage in Top Universities Worldwide: A Progress Report and Seeking Support

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A statistic on drupal.org states that 71% of the top 100 universities use Drupal, but the page lacks precise data or references to support this claim. Given that the education sector is one of Drupal's largest adopters, we at TheDropTimes have embarked on a project to validate and substantiate this claim with proper evidence. This initiative was suggested by Kevin Reynen (University of Colorado). While attending a Higher Education Conference, he noted the frequent citation of this statistic and its lack of supporting data. He proposed a broader definition of Drupal usage in universities, encompassing not just their homepages but any of their websites. Prompted by Reynen's observations, TheDropTimes began a project to collect data on the top 300 global universities, as ranked by QS, focusing on their use of Drupal.
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How TDT Is Evolving: Change Records from Late 2023

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At The DropTimes (TDT), we constantly evolve. The formative steps for us were challenging. We might be just out of infancy, but still in childhood. That does not give us any excuse not to be a better version of what we were yesterday.
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The DropTimes: Reflecting on a Year of Insights, Milestones, and Enriching Content

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In a year packed with insights and extensive coverage, The DropTimes marked 2023 with 54 interviews, 163 events, and insightful articles, elevating readers' tech awareness. Dive into the complete article to explore the depth of TDT's impactful contributions.
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Celebrating a Year of Growth and Community: The DropTimes 2023 in Review

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As we step into 2024, it's time to reflect on a remarkable year at The DropTimes. In 2023, the content we published is studly increasing.
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Way to Lille: How TDT Remotely Covered DrupalCon Lille 2023

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Looking from over 5,000 miles away in a small state in the southern part of India, Lille and DrupalCon Europe seemed like an unfathomable journey. Covering DrupalCon Lille without our team being physically available at the venue presented a substantial challenge.
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Growing Together in the Drupal Land: The 'Learn Drupal' Initiative

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One of the goals we have at TheDropTimes is to get more people to learn Drupal, and to reach this, we have initiated a project called "Learn Drupal."
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Join the Adventure with The Drop Times at DrupalCon Lille 2023!

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Hey Drupalers, We are super excited to share that The Drop Times is now the official media partner for DrupalCon Lille 2023! This blog talks about how you can participate in this journey with us.
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How We Built a Newsletter System on Drupal with Mailchimp Integration

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Learn how TheDropTimes successfully implemented a newsletter system for their editor's pick and jobs newsletters on their Drupal website, integrated with Mailchimp's RSS to Newsletter feature.
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Launching TheDropTimes with Drupal and Thunder Distribution

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We're excited to announce the launch of a new blog series that takes a behind-the-scenes look at TheDropTimes and the technology that powers it. In this first post, we focus on the decision to use Drupal and the Thunder distribution to launch TheDropTimes quickly.
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