Hi, software platforms like Drupal are often evaluated by the additional components they have. Today Drupal's contributed modules are plentiful but the value of the modules is hard to discover because the modules are hard to understand. This can be fixed in 3 ways. First, we need to categorize modules so that they can be quickly discovered. Second, we need to evaluate modules to rate their quality. Third, we need to make it easier to understand contributed modules. CivicSpace Labs with a lot of personal contributions from Nedjo and Dries have extended the project module to allow modules to be categorized. This new categorization can be seen on the Drupal.org beta site: http://scratch.drupal.org/project/Modules We are looking for volunteers to help us discover what the logical categories for modules on the Drupal platform is. We are starting with the developer community who know the modules best. In the long run we are likely to conduct a card sort usability experiment to confirm that modules are well categorized for web site developers, and Drupal administrators. We know from recent surveys that installing new modules is one of the most common tasks and therefore represents one of the biggest usability improvements for Drupal. We are looking for volunteers to wade through the modules and attempt a first pass at categorization. There are 4 groups of modules we could evaluate with the total modules increasing in each category. The larger the group to categorize the more work. 1) Most downloaded modules about 40- http://drupal.org/node/46109 2) Modules with administration help documentation. http://drupal.org/ handbook/modules -about 80 3) Modules with project pages http://drupal.org/project/Modules- about 200? <-has the advantage of allowing us to categorize all the project modules 4) Modules checked into the CVS contributions directory http:// cvs.drupal.org/viewcvs/drupal/contributions/modules/- Several hundred? The goal is to get this categorization done for the upcoming Drupal.org upgrade. I'll moderate this thread to coordinate volunteers and help to come up with some top level categories. Please suggest some top level categories for module project pages. Cheers, Kieran