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.

Interviewing is an art form. Live interviews are very much so.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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."

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.

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.

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.