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- It's on! DrupalCon 2007 at Yahoo!
Calling all Drupal geeks!
The next DrupalCon will be at the Open Source CMS Summit hosted by Yahoo!. This will take place on March 22 and 23, 2007 at Yahoo! campus in Sunnyvale, CA.
We are now accepting session proposals. Please:
- register an account.
- submit a session proposal.
- rate the existing session proposals.
- register for the conference.
- Don't forget to plan around the adjunct events - including a Performance and Scalability session (fundraiser for the Drupal Association) and Drupal Hackfest!
Fri, 09 Feb 2007 21:48:10 +0000 - Drupal 5.1 and 4.7.6 released
Drupal 4.7.6 and 5.1 are available for download. These are maintenance releases that fix problems reported using the bug tracking system, as well as a security vulnerability.
Upgrading your existing Drupal sites is strongly recommended.
Download
- Drupal 5.1 can be downloaded from http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/drupal/files/projects/drupal-5.1.tar.gz.
- Drupal 4.7.6 can be downloaded from http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/drupal/files/projects/drupal-4.7.6.tar.gz.
Mon, 29 Jan 2007 19:15:37 +0000 - SavannahNOW wins innovation award
SavannahNOW, the online arm of the Savannah (GA, US) Morning News has been awarded the 2007 Digital Edge Award for Most Innovative Visitor Participation.
The Digital Edge Awards are the U.S. Newspaper industry's highest honors for online publication.
The site runs on Drupal 4.6. Using Drupal as the core platform let us develop rapidly and experiment with new approaches.
On a similar note, Drupal regular and evangelist Steve Yelvington won the Online Innovator award for his work pushing change in the newspaper industry.
To join the discussion of Drupal in the newspaper industry, drop by Drupal Groups.
Mon, 29 Jan 2007 15:04:31 +0000 - Great Drupal Introduction Video
If you are new to Drupal, want to know how to configure a site or just learn what features are in Drupal, you might want to take a look at the screencast made by Robert Safuto of Awakened Voice.
It is a 22 minute long tour of Drupal 5 (QuickTime, 22 min, 77 MB) that shows off the installation, the configuration and how to build a nice rich media site with for example podcasting.
If you want to play with a local install on for example your Windows machine, grab a copy of the latest version of Drupal, read how to install it on Windows box and play with it.
Once you have seen the light, you can help others or ask for help in the forums and start to contribute for Drupal. Welcome aboard, Bon voyage!
Wed, 24 Jan 2007 13:55:05 +0000 - Washington DC January Meetup + Drupal's 6th birthday Party + Drupal 5.0 Release Party
The Washington DC monthly Drupal meetup is scheduled for Wednesday, January 24th, at the Science Club (1136 19th Street, NW). We'll be in the basement again and will be throw a heck of a party (Bonnie is making cookies for the Birthday vibe). We'll of course tie some presentations into the fun.
The line up includes:
Earnest Berry from NOAA about MSSQL Drupal integration
Mike Haggerty from Trellon about 2nd life
Ted Serbinski from Lullabot will give a quick update about 5.0 and cool things being developed for 6.0 (about 5 min or less -- it'll be the Drupal community monthly update :).
Tue, 23 Jan 2007 02:20:07 +0000 - Personal battle plans for Drupal 6
With Drupal 5.0 out of the door, it is time to start talking about the next version of Drupal. If you plan to work on something, or if you are going to contribute to Drupal in one way or another, please share your "personal battle plan" in the comments. A "personal battle plan" is a summary or itemized list of things you are going to work on in the next couple months.
Important guidelines
In this thread, we are only interested in what you plan to contribute, and not what you'd like other people to work on. Please, do NOT post personal wishlists and refrain from theorizing or sharing your grand vision. This is not the place to request features, to talk about implementation details, to discuss Drupal's general direction, or to debate about version schemes. This thread is meant to be a collection of things people are actually going to work on. If you are not going to contribute, don't post any comments at all. Comments that violate these guidelines, in part or in full, will be deleted. Thanks for your understanding.
Sat, 20 Jan 2007 14:56:27 +0000 - Drupal experiences on university sites
Well, it's been over a month since we deployed our new Drupal-backed site, so I decided to share it and general experiences & problems we've had with a migration to Drupal for a higher education website. We deployed two separate websites; first, the BYU Computer Science Alumni Association website, which we deployed several months ago as a 'test' website, and then the main BYU Computer Science Department website. The department website had previously been running an old conglomeration of scripts that had been accumulating from the various webmasters over the years (some stuff was created back in the days of PHP 3!) There was no concept of CMS whatsoever, but there were a TON of legacy custom utilities (mostly private for faculty and staff) that needed to also survive the migration.
We chose drupal after evaluating various alternatives (including Joomla). The main influences on our decision were A) The module and theme system appeared to be the easiest to customize to our needs. B) The sheer amount of documentation. Drupal is definitely one of the best documented open-source projects we've seen.
Fri, 19 Jan 2007 23:50:26 +0000 - Drupal 5 is out!
It's been a long cycle, but Drupal 5 is finally here. See the official announcement. Thanks everyone for your bug reports, patches, documentation and testing. We couldn't do it without you.
Comments are disabled on the announcement, so feel free to post your cheers, comments and response here. If you encounter any problems, submit them through the issue tracker.
Digg the announcement using the widget up left, and snack on some Drupal cookies.
Mon, 15 Jan 2007 12:33:53 +0000 - Drupal 5.0 released
After 8 months of development we are ready to release Drupal 5.0 to the world. Today is also Drupal's 6th birthday, so the timing could not be more perfect. Drupal 4.0 was released in 2002 and finally we feel confident to increase the major version number from 4 to 5.
Drupal powers sites across the web, ranging from the personal weblog of Tim Berners-Lee, podcast sites like TWIT.tv, community driven sites like SpreadFireFox.com, artist communities like Terminus 1525 to large media sites like TheOnion.com, MTV and even sites for NASA.
There have been over 492 contributors to the Drupal 5.0 release submitting 1173 patches, which is 150 more people than our previous record with Drupal 4.7. These new contributions are seen in the major usability improvements, a new Drupal core theme, a web-based installer, and expansion of the Drupal development framework that will afford themers and contributing developers even greater flexibility and power.
Download
http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/drupal/files/projects/drupal-5.0.tar.gz
Mon, 15 Jan 2007 12:23:58 +0000 - Drupal Theme Garden closed after 5.0 release
After a few final attempts to get new volunteers or other forms of help, I decided it is time to put the Drupal Theme Garden to rest; I simply don't have the time and the interest to be its responsible maintainer. And after these attempts (a few mails and requests on the infrastructure and theme developer mailing lists), it seems no one else has that time to spend or is interested in taking over. I posted a longer and in-depth story on my blog about the reasoning behind this action. In short, I have decided to discontinue the Drupal Theme Garden with the release of Drupal 5.0.
Just to be clear: this is not a call for volunteers. However, if you are seriously interested in taking over its maintenance, you must convince the infrastructure people, not me, to make you the new maintainer. In order to do that, you must be really serious and have serious time to spend on it: it makes little sense if someone takes over only to find that he or she loses interest after a month and to find ourselves back where we are right now.
Thu, 11 Jan 2007 13:27:40 +0000
