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Drupalcon Boston 2008 is now sold out. If you are not listed as an attendee or you have not received an invoice and/or email from the Drupalcon organizers you will not be able to attend Drupalcon Boston. We apologize. The organizers thought that doubling the Barcelona capacity for the next conference 6 months later would have been sufficient. Silly us.

Funny, sad, or serious excuses for missing Drupalcon registration will be reviewed by the Drupalcon organizers, but cannot result in admittance.

Original post by Amazon and software by Elliott Back

Drupalcon Boston 2008 is now sold out. If you are not listed as an attendee or you have not received an invoice, or email from the Drupalcon organizers you will not be able to attend Drupalcon Boston. We apologize, we thought doubling the capacity for the conference in 6 months would have been sufficient. Silly us.

Funny, sad, or serious excuses for missing the Drupalcon registration deadline will be reviewed by the Drupalcon organizers, but will not result in admittance.

Original post by Amazon and software by Elliott Back

Download Drupal 6.1Drupal 6.1, a maintenance release that fixes problems reported using the bug tracking system, as well as security vulnerabilities is now available for download. The security issues identified were in code new to Drupal 6, and are therefore not applicable to sites running on Drupal 5.

Upgrading your existing Drupal 6 sites is strongly recommended. There are no new features in this release. For more information about the Drupal 6.x release series, consult the Drupal 6.0 release announcement.

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Original post by Gábor Hojtsy and software by Elliott Back

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If you are looking for a web hosting company to fit your needs you have to do some research but McKremie is your one stop shop for all your web solution needs. They also offer web design for you new business owners and a re-design if your website is a bit outdated. Feel free to browse their portfolio; if you have any questions please call or send us an email. They look forward to providing you with the best quality customer service and want to host your future. Many hosting companies may offer a more competitive price but don’t offer you around the clock technical support, so please feel free to shop around but no one can offer you the satisfaction that we can

The recent explosion of social networking sites has led to a rush to tap into new markets. A case in point at ISL (Insight + Strategy + Logic) is Red Room, an online community for writers of all stripes. The project is the brainchild of entrepreneur Ivory Madison. The goal of the site is to be the premier destination for authors to congregate with fans and discuss their books and ideas. Many high profile authors including Maya Angelou, Amy Tan, Khaled Hosseini and Salman Rushdie have been on the site since day one.

While the Web has plenty of sites on which you can buy books, there is a paucity of places geared toward building dialogue about the books beyond what is necessary to move product. On many book-related sites, the authors themselves have largely been left out of the picture, leaving them to either establish their own limited Web presence or do without. This is a shame when you consider what could be on a good author website — who better to blog than someone that makes a living spinning a good tale? Red Room offers every author the opportunity to easily build a presence to interact with their readers and with each other.

The client came at us with a list of features: blogging, comments and reviews, biographies, information about published works, event listings, streaming video, and podcasts. They required a robust, moderated, and extensible backend, with tagging and search tools to allow the user to navigate the large volume of content that thousands of writers would pump into the site. Most importantly, the site’s content generation tools needed to be easy to use by authors that wouldn’t necessarily have experience using technology.

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Original post by ladylolauren and software by Elliott Back

Letter from the Editor

We’ve all been waiting for it! After a year of development, Drupal 6 has finally been released. The general consensus among developers is that once CCK (nearly done) and Views (in progress) are complete, it will be ready for deployment on most sites. A large number of contributed modules depend on these two workhorses, which is why large chunks of CCK have been moved to core, and there is ongoing discussion around moving parts of Views there as well. Meanwhile, with Drupal 6 off their plates, developers are working around the clock to get your favorite modules ready for launch.

Boston DrupalCon is also around the corner. It would probably be enticing enough to attend just to hear Dries Buytaert’s highly anticipated State of Drupal address (see last year’s). But we have three stellar keynote speakers (Dries Buytaert, the original developer of Drupal; Chris Dibona, the open source program manager at Google; and Brian Aker, the director of architecture for MySQL)

this year, and dozens of amazing presentations to choose from to create a rock solid line up.

With nearly a hundred volunteers, the Drupal Newsletter Team is committing itself to continue to bring high quality news and announcements from the world of Drupal. I have recently stepped up as an editor to help organize the effort, and we invite you to be part of this fantastic and dynamic group. March’s newsletter is already in progress, so if you want to help contribute to that issue or join on an on-going basis, feel free to join us. We’d love to see your name in the bylines. As a sidenote, the Newsletter Team is also looking for a Druplicon mascot. We have a competition open at http://groups.drupal.org/node/8442, for any aspiring artists!

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Original post by Robin Monks and software by Elliott Back

Note: This post assumes that you are aware of the Googled Highly Open Participation Contest. If not, see that link.

The GHOP contest officially ended on February 4, 2008. This contest was an absolutely amazing success, and resulted in a number of new contributors to the Drupal project. If you’re interested in learning more about the contest, there was a recent Lullabot podcast about GHOP, and there will also be a session on GHOP at Drupalcon if you’re interested in learning more about the program and what has been achieved in the past two months, and would like to talk to a few of the students face-to-face.

• Peter Cawley (Corsix) was selected as Drupal’s GHOP grand prize winner, and will receive a paid travel to Google campus in Mountain View, California in early May, along with the GHOP winners from other projects. Peter completed a whopping 15 tasks, his greatest accomplishment being the creation of the awesome new Flexifilter module, which allows site builders to create custom input filters without having to write code and/or install a new module for each new filter. This module was envisioned by fellow GHOP student cwgordon7, and mentored by a Drupal contributor too young to take part in GHOP, dmitrig01. Way to go, Corsix!!!
• Peter will be accompanied on his trip to Google by Adam Light (aclight), who did a tremendous job handling the administration of the GHOP contest, as well as helping students and mentors alike with GHOP tasks.
• We’d also like to extend our congratulations to everyone who participated, including our equally-as-awesome winners, Charlie Gordon (cwgordon7), Edward Z. Yang (ezyang), Jimmy Berry (boombatower), Wilson Lee (kourge), and Dmitri G. (dmitrig01) (who was too young to participate in GHOP, but helped a lot with mentoring and administration, and so was named honorary winner :)).
• A total of 130 tasks were completed, ranging from new and upgraded modules, enhancements to existing modules, much-needed documentation, helpful videocasts, beautiful marketing materials, and more. Almost half of those were completed during the last month of the program.
• We had a total of 54 awesome student participants during the course of GHOP, or which 65% are brand new contributors who came to the Drupal project because of this contest. Amazing!
• The leaders in terms of raw task numbers were Corsix (15), boombatower (12), ezyang (10), cwgordon7 (9), and kourge (9), but we also benefited from several students who took on only a few tasks and knocked them out of the park. Most of our GHOP students are planning on remaining long-term contributors to the Drupal community.
• Thanks to everyone for all of the great community support we’ve received during this contest! Your help made it possible for these students to experience the power of an awesome open source community, and gave the community a big boost in the number of contributors.

What comes next, now that GHOP is over? DROP! Read on to find out more, and also to see a list of the tasks completed since our last status report.

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Original post by cwgordon7 and software by Elliott Back

Drupal is one of the most robust, easy to use, open-source content management systems (CMS) currently used by programmers. The following paragraphs talks about some crucial Drupal SEO tips that could help Drupal pages increase their page rankings substantially.

1. Contents of the <title> tag: Put useful information in the title tag. For better results, put different contents for <title> and <h1> tags as Google bots search both so Google index to Drupal website will be easy.  

2. Install Sitemap Module: It will keep the sitemaps updated. Sitemaps tell the search engines about the pages of a website alongside the metadata describing each URL.  

3. Create paths that are meaningful and easy to read. In other words, create clean, short and informative paths for the pages. The Pathauto module is one such tool that helps to automate the process of generating clean and relevant paths. However, don’t use it with older sites, as it’ll change their paths as well.

For those who need Content Management System or CMS that has loads of features, Drupal is an obvious choice and it is also especially useful to webmasters who know how to use PHP. If you are a publisher you can use the admin interface to add website content and load it with different features including checking of spelling, showing banners, chatting and more.

Drupal is a Content Management System that is written in PHP and is free to use after downloading it. However, you need to be sure that the web host can support PHP, MySQL database and also cron jobs.

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Today technology is extremely leveraging and one needs to be updated all the time to sustain in this competitive business world.

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Original post by Dev-SEO and software by Elliott Back

The release of Drupal 6 isn’t the only big news in February — this week also marks the launch of a newly redesigned, Drupal-powered FastCompany.com! Fast Company Magazine has covered cutting edge business and tech industry news since the heady days of the early 90’s, and the massive redesign of the magazine’s site was a major undertaking for its publisher, Mansueto Digital.

The new site combines the magazine’s print content with web-exclusive features, integrates the social features of Fast Company’s long-running Company Of Friends business network, and gives members tools to filter through the web’s river of news to find business topics they’re interested in.

How was it built? Teams from Lullabot, Achieve Internet, Advomatic and Tree House Interactive worked together with Mansueto’s internal development team to translate existing specs and wireframes into a working Drupal site. Views, CCK, BuddyList, and Organic Groups form the backbone of the site’s structure, and a host of off-the-shelf contrib modules were used to add additional functionality. Examples include Views Fastsearch, used to build customized search screens for specific sections of the site, and the SimpleFeed module, which pulls in the content for each user’s customizable news feed.

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Original post by Eaton and software by Elliott Back

After one year of development we are ready to release Drupal 6.0 to the world. Thanks to the tireless work of the Drupal community, over 1,600 <!– reference: http://drupal.org/project/issues?projects=3060&versions=97368,219510,216… –> issues have been resolved during the Drupal 6.0 release cycle. These changes are evident in Drupal 6’s major usability improvements, security and maintainability advancements, friendlier installer, and expanded development framework. Further, from bug fix to feature request, these issues follow-through on the Drupal project’s continued commitment to deliver flexibility and power to themers and developers.

Today, Drupal powers sites including the homepages of Warner Brothers Records, The New York Observer, Fast Company, Popular Science, and Amnesty International and project sites by SonyBMG, Forbes, Harvard University, and more. Drupal can be used to create personal weblogs (Tim Berners-Lee), deliver podcasts (TWIT.tv), connect online communities (SpreadFireFox.com), form artist collectives (Terminus 1525) or inform the masses (The Onion).

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Original post by Gábor Hojtsy and software by Elliott Back

Download Drupal 6.0 After one year of development we are ready to release Drupal 6.0 to the world. Thanks to the tireless work of the Drupal community, over 1,600

Drupal 6.0 Beta-1 available.This is beta version.Please Dont use it for production websites. Continue reading »

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