drupal.org - Community plumbingDrupal.org is the official website of Drupal, an open source content management platform. Equipped with a powerful blend of features, Drupal supports a variety of websites ranging from personal weblogs to large community-driven websites.Drupal Licensing FAQ published- June 21, 2008 For the past year or so, there have been periodic questions raised about Drupal's licensing status. Is it GPL version 2 Are we moving to GPL version 3 Could we even if we wanted to Is it OK to write a module that does something weird As a member of the Drupal Association Board of Directors, I made it my task to sort out the answers to those questions. Understanding licensing, and the differences between licenses, is more important than some realize. Open source is not the same as public...http://drupal.org/node/272652 Search on Drupal.org disabled during high load- June 19, 2008 When the site gets too busy, the infrastructure team sometimes disables the built-in search function. When this happens, you can use Google to search by putting site:drupal.org in with your query. There are also a couple of unofficial sites mentioned in the comments below. The issue to discuss how best to handle providing an alternate search is here. Comments have been disabled on this post because they were becoming unproductive. If you are able to help with the problem, please do so via that..http://drupal.org/node/272591 Registration for Drupalcon Szeged is open!- June 13, 2008 This Wednesday we opened the registration for Drupalcon Szeged 2008 and some of the early birds are already in! If you sign up before the end of June you will be able to buy your ticket at the extra discounted price of 80 EUR. From July the price will increase to 120 EUR, from August on to 160 EUR and just before and during the conference it will be 200 EUR to attend. We also help you get a hotel room and buy shuttle bus tickets until July 24, so if you'd like to go the easy way, make sure...http://drupal.org/node/270093 The Vintage Aviator - Build Story- June 6, 2008 Last week, I released thevintageaviator.co.nz. It was probably one of the most challenging Drupal sites I've ever done, but also the best so far. It's a presentation of a local WW1 Warplane workshop, containing build stories, reference material, and thousands of great images of plane reproductions and archive materials. The build story is a long one, mostly because the requirements shifted along the way quite a bit. This story is targeted at current Drupal site developers who are...http://drupal.org/node/267393 Vote for Drupal on SourceForge.net!- June 6, 2008 SourceForge.Net is a site which strongly believes in Open Source and what it stands for, in much the same way as the Drupal Community. Every year they host a competition where their community votes for their favourite packages and this year is no different. After reading through the Program Information I cannot see any reason why we shouldn't try to get Drupal up there ("Any open source project of any kind can be nominated by anyone (yes, that means you!) to be a finalist in any category" -...http://drupal.org/node/267469 Worldwide map of local Drupal groups- June 6, 2008 In preparation for a web seminar with Drupal local group organizers in the North and South American time zones on Monday June 9th 5PM PDT, I've updated a map with Drupal local groups. Full Map Real map after the break. read morehttp://drupal.org/node/267405 |