Distribution packaging now fully supported on Drupal.org

Distributions provide one of the biggest opportunities for both the Drupal project and its ecosystem. Although there has been support for distribution packaging on Drupal.org since December 2009, there were many restrictions on what could be packaged for technical and legal reasons. By solving the underlying legal, technical, security, and usability problems, these restrictions have been lifted and fully-featured distributions are now enabled on Drupal.org! This move enables thousands of active developers to pursue distribution development with a consistent set of tools for managing version control, releases, issue tracking, collaboration, and documentation.

Funding for the project was generously provided by major distribution developers:

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Acquia Takes Drupal Success to the Bank With 150% Revenue Growth

Acquia, a commercial provider of Drupal CMS services and support, released 2011 financials that show nearly 150% revenue growth.  

Biggering
With almost 150% revenue growth in 2011, Acquia more than doubled its profits from the previous year. Further, the company tripled its client base, which includes big players such as Twitter, eBay, Maxim Magazine and Mercedes-Benz. No wonder the young company landed on the Forbes list of 100 most promising companies in 2011.
Last month, Acquia made it back onto KMWorld's 100 Companies That Matter in Knowledge Management list, and earlier this year, the company added two new members to its board.

With about 200 employees around the world and new offices in Oxford, the United Kingdom and Portland, Acquia is growing at such a fast pace that it launched Acquia U last year, a program to train and place Drupal developers and designers. In July 2011, Acquia scored US$ 15 million in funding, which supported the company's efforts to accelerate its international expansion.

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Commerce Guys Put Drupal to Work with US$ 5M Funding

French-American based Commerce Guys announced today an influx of US$ 5 million in Series A funding led by European venture firms Alven Capital, Espoo and ISAI.

A New Home

With the funding, the company behind Drupal Commerce announced plans to nearly double its current staff of 37 with an additional 30 members. The new hires will be split 50/50 between the company's US offices and European locations in Paris and the UK. The company's US operations are in San Francisco and Jackson, MI.

A Growing Proposition

This expansion could be the next step for Commerce Guys, whose open source framework is currently used by 10,000 sites worldwide and counting. The company currently balances both sides of the coin, pushing Drupal as the solution to Enterprise’s e-Commerce needs, while acting as a sponsor to past DrupalCons and providing patches to the greater Drupal open source community.

Drupal Commerce currently runs on the Drupal 7 platform, promising the flexibility that the multiple modules the Drupal community have built and the all important security for enterprise needs. It is a one step solution, though the complications that come with any custom built Drupal site can apply.

Will companies move past the myths of Drupal and embrace the open source framework as the solution to their Web CMS needs? Three firms are betting yes to the tune of US$5 million.

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ubmit and vote on your Drupal.org ideas

Two of the Drupal Association's 2012 priorities are to make Drupal.org awesome: both for site builders and for developers. We want to hear from you about what improvements you'd most like to see on Drupal.org.

Please let us know your thoughts at http://drupal-association.ideascale.com/. You can propose new ideas, vote on existing ideas, and also leave comments. When we have the more discrete list of things we plan to cover in 2012 and when, we'll share it with the community for feedback.

Important things to note:

1. Please don't limit yourself only to big things. The more high-impact, "low hanging fruit" we can fix, the better! :) All suggestions must have a correlating URL on *.drupal.org with more information.
2. Voting on an idea here does **not** necessarily mean it will get implemented, even if it's one of the highest (or even *the* highest) thing in the list. We are using this tool as a barometer to find out more about what our contributor community thinks is important, so we can factor this into our prioritization process.
3. That prioritization process will include needs of the Drupal Association itself (e.g. DrupalCon & membership-related tasks so we can perform our other necessary functions), the needs of the Drupal.org infrastructure team (keeps the servers humming), and the needs of the DA's sponsors (keeps the money flowing so we can fund more improvements!).
4. Unfortunately, no, this is not a Drupal site. If this fact appalls you, there is an idea in there that you can up-vote. :) It does allow data export capabilities though, so yay!

HUGE kudos to tvn for a tremendous amount of research on existing ideas that are out there, and jredding and kattekrab for several hours of brainstorming. :)

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