Wim Mostrey Engaging Drupal

In just one month a lot of freelancers will be hitting a slow period. Last year Freelanceswitch did a great article on putting the holiday slump to work for your business, such as catching up with your paperwork and updating your portfolio. Here are a couple of useful Drupal-related things you can do to keep up the pace.

Help out with the drupal.org redesign. You can check Leisa's article on helping usability test Iteration 6 or provide comments on the different topics in the Drupal.org redesign group. The next couple of weeks will be really busy so be sure to chime in!

Work on your contributed modules. This might included working through bug issues, implementing new features, handling support questions and working on the Drupal 6 upgrade of your modules or themes.

Work through your bookmarks. If you bookmarked a whole bunch of articles from the Drupal Planet that were really great but you just did not have the time to read through them, now is a wonderful time to do so.

Blog. This slow period is also a great time to finally write down some of those great ideas you have but just did not have the time to write about. Did you write a small but ingenious new module, read one of the many new Drupal books out there or are you looking forward to the upcoming Drupal Assosciation elections (or you're perhaps running for candidate)? Blog about it.

So, what are your plans for December?