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Drupal is a 2008 Open Source CMS Award Finalist

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 03:20:30 +0000

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Last year Drupal won 2007 Best Overall Open Source CMS. That was before we released Drupal 6.

This year, Drupal 6 was nominated for best CMS in two categories. Please help us by voting for Drupal in both of them:

“Following six weeks of intense voting, Packt can now exclusively reveal the Content Management Systems that have made the final of the four different categories. With the final voting stage opening on September 1, the competition is likely to be strong with new CMS’s joining some of the more established names in each category to compete for a share of the $20,000 prize money.”

“As usual, judging comes from a panel of experienced and respected figures from the Content Management and Open Source industry. They will be selecting their top three based on a number of factors including performance, usability, accessibility, ease of configuration and customization, scalability and security.

The final judge is made up of votes from customers and visitors to www.PacktPub.com. You have the chance to support your favourite CMS by submitting a vote when the final five are announced.”

Original post by Amazon and software by Elliott Back

Drupalcon Szeged ends, North America begins

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 15:26:34 +0000

Another amazing Drupalcon has come to an end. Thank you to everyone that made the journey to the beautiful town of Szeged, Hungary. We truly turned this city into DrupalTown! Drupal folks covered every part of the town making it difficult to get away from them but who would want to! The amount of talks, connections, and learning that happened at this conference was amazing. This community is truly awesome!

We’re not stopping! Drupalcon North America has been decided and will happen in the March/April timeframe in the United States. At this time we are not announcing the location or exact dates until the final contracts are signed. Start planning now!

Did you attend Drupalcon? Couldn’t make it?
Tell us how it was or why you couldn’t attend in the
Drupalcon Szeged 2008 Survey

Original post by jredding and software by Elliott Back

Pro Drupal Development ships for Drupal 6!

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:34:29 +0000

The much-anticipated second edition of Pro Drupal Development has shipped! Newly updated and revised for Drupal 6, it includes more than 200 pages of additional content covering the Actions API for automating complex operations, the Batch API tools for managing long or complex processes, and other new tools. As with the first edition, it covers important foundational issues like building modules, working with FormAPI and the node system, using Drupal’s search tools, and more. Purchases of the book made through its web site also benefit the Drupal Association.

When Pro Drupal Development was first released in 2007, it was a runaway success, hitting the Amazon.com top 100 in just a few days. As critical tools like Views, CCK, and Drupal are shipping for Drupal 6, the book’s release should help give another important boost to the Drupal development community.

Original post by Eaton and software by Elliott Back

DrupalSN.com - Drupal Social Network

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 20:11:41 +0000

DrupalSN.com (Drupal Social Network) is a Social Network website about Drupal and built with Drupal. It is engineered from the ground up by thomjjames with a tiny bit of help from BioALIEN in getting this write up polished and published on the Drupal front page.

What is it?

DrupalSN is essentially a Drupal showcase both in terms of the site itself and also as a place where Drupal developers and designers can showcase their Drupal projects all in one place. I hope Drupal developers and designers will use the site as a way to gain exposure to complement their portfolio.

It’s also meant to be a fun place where people can interact and see how Drupal can effectively be used for a social network. I hope the site can compliment Drupal.org and Groups.Drupal.org in a fun and different way but ultimately the goal is to promote Drupal!

Original post by BioALIEN and software by Elliott Back

Drupal in Libraries

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 15:50:04 +0000

“Drupal in Libraries” is the subject of the May / June edition of Library Technology Reports. (http://www.techsource.ala.org/ltr/drupal-in-libraries.html) Authors Andy Austin (aaustin) and Chris Harris (cgharris) present an overview of Drupal for the library audience hoping to show why and how libraries can get started using Drupal.

Library Technology Reports is published by ALA Techsource, a unit of the publishing department of the American Library Association. The ALA Techsource website also runs on Drupal.

Click To Play

Original post by aaustin and software by Elliott Back

Thrive Learning - A Step for Success

admin — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:59:27 +0000

The key factors for a succesful business is the complete knowledge about that business. But no one has a complete knowledge about the business when he starts the business. He needs help of some expert to set up his business.If he gets that help at the right time than his business touches the new heights,and if not then it suffers. This facility is provided by thrive which is a learning institute. Anyone can take advantage of this education. All what you need is an Internet facility and you can take admission in this institute and attend online classes.This type of internet consulting regarding business removes the obstacles in the progress of business. In other words thrive learning institute helps you in growing the seeds which will give rise to a big plant. The thrive learning institute’s main principle is to combine the conventional business tactics with the innovative ideas to achieve good results in business. The thrive information system is a result of a lot of research in the business field, so if this information is applied to a business it guarranty sweat results. It provides a way to the beginners to achieve their goals. The faculty of Thriveli is quite experienced and therefore it has a strong impact on business. Tou can call these experts anytime to sort your problems. You can use any medium of communication. You can contact with them by means of chat, phone and e - mail. You can spread your business globally with the help of thrive Learning institute because you need an international marketing strategy for that and this strategy is provided by their experts. Thrive has an e - library which remain opened throught out the year from where you can get the business tools. These tools are so simple to use that a common computer user can use these tools.

Support Drupal: Sponsor Drupalcon Szeged

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 15:52:13 +0000

Looking for a way to show your support for Drupal? Easy: sponsor the upcoming European Drupalcon. You’ll be helping to fund critically important work–and increasing your exposure and profile in the community at the same time.

Drupalcon sponsorship: mainstay of the Drupal Association

Drupalcon is the single largest source of revenue for the Drupal Association, the non-profit that supports Drupal. Sponsorship revenues make it possible for us to tackle key Association priorities, from protecting the legal integrity of the Drupal codebase to improving the infrastructure driving drupal.org.

Revenue from past Drupalcons is directly funding pressing projects like our top priority this year: improving the drupal.org website. Sponsoring Drupalcon is a direct and concrete way to financially support the Association’s work.

Profile and Benefits

Sponsoring Drupalcon is not just a way to support important work promoting the Drupal platform. It’s also an opportunity for exposure and profile in the Drupal community.

Original post by Dries and software by Elliott Back

Drupal 6.4 and 5.10 released

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 00:58:05 +0000

Download Drupal 6.4
Download Drupal 5.10

Drupal 6.4 and Drupal 5.10, maintenance releases fixing problems reported using the bug tracking system, as well as critical security vulnerabilities, are now available for download.

Upgrading your existing Drupal 5 and 6 sites is strongly recommended. There are no new features in these releases. For more information about the Drupal 6.x release series, consult the Drupal 6.0 release announcement, more information on the 5.x releases can be found in Drupal 5.0 release announcement.

Original post by Heine and software by Elliott Back

Mark Boulton Design named redesign partner by Association

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 23:57:05 +0000

The Drupal Association is pleased to announce the selection of a design partner in its Drupal.org redesign efforts. Through a competitive process, UK-based Mark Boulton Design Ltd. was selected. Their proposal stood out because of their work on Coolspotters and the upcoming Standaard.be (launching Q4 2008), their agile design approach and their highly-experienced project team including Mark Boulton as Creative Director and project lead, Leisa Reichelt as Information Architect & UX Research and Carolyn Wood as Content Strategist.

Original post by farriss and software by Elliott Back

Show your support for Drupal at South by Southwest!

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 23:25:41 +0000

South by Southwest (SXSW) is an annual festival and conference held every spring in Austin, Texas, dedicated to bringing together creative indviduals from around the world for a week-long celebration of music, film, and interactive technology. The interactive portion of the festival features over 150 panel discussions on cutting-edge topics in the new media industry and culture, as well as a trade show, Web Awards Competition, video game tournament, and some great after-parties.

Not only was the main SXSW Web site recently redesigned and relaunched in Drupal, but there are a number of really great Drupal-related panel proposals suggested for the interactive festival, which which will be held March 13-17, 2009. We need your help to make sure that Drupal is well-represented at SXSW because it offers an opportunity to reach out to a lot of new people who are not part of the traditional developer community. This past spring’s festival included a Content Management System Roundup panel with George DeMet and Tiffany Farriss of Palantir and Jeff Eaton of Lullabot that attracted more attendees than all of Drupalcon Boston.

You have the opportunity to register your support for these proposals by going to the Interactive Festival Panel Picker, which is a Web site that allows you to review, vote for, and comment on all of the more than 1200 panel proposals that were submitted. The festival’s organizers take feedback from this site into account when making their decisions for which panels are included in the final program. You can create an account and register your opinions regardless of whether you’re planning to attend or not. The Panel Picker will be open until August 29, and the final panel selections will be announced starting in October.

If you’re interested in having Drupal represented at SXSW, providing positive feedback for these session proposals is a great and easy way to show your support:

Original post by gdemet and software by Elliott Back