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 wins 2008 Webware 100 award- April 21, 2008 Congratulations to Drupal for winning a CNET Webware 100 award in the publishing category. The 2008 Webware 100 Awards recognize the best Web 2.0 sites, services, and applications on the Web today. After receiving more than 5,000 nominations for inclusion in the Webware 100, CNET's editors selected 300 finalists. But the Web's users decided the final cut, voting nearly two million times to select the 100 top products--10 each in of 10 categories--from our list of 300 finalists. We hope that..http://drupal.org/Drupal-wins-2008-webware-100-award Announcing Drupal's Summer of Code 2008 projects and students- April 21, 2008 We are thrilled to announce that Google will be sponsoring 21 Drupal projects for Summer of Code 2008. We'd like to extend our sincere thanks to Google, who are making more than a $100,000 investment in the Drupal project. This year particularly, there were many more projects that we would've liked to accept than we were able to (probably due at least in part to changes Drupal made to its SoC application process this year). The mentoring team deliberated fiercely over the past two weeks, and...http://drupal.org/node/249455 Businessweek picks Dries Buytaert as a 2008 top innovator- April 18, 2008 The business world is certainly starting to notice Drupal, as evidenced by this article in Businessweek naming Dries as a top 30-and-under innovator for 2008. Make sure you have a solid business plan and you've done your homework and are passionate about what you are doing, and people will recognize your potential. --Dries Buytaert, in Businessweek Businessweek talks about Drupal and Acquia, and mentions many of the great sites that have been built in Drupal. They cite the number of...http://drupal.org/node/248321 Drupal 6.2 released, fixing security issues- April 9, 2008 Download Drupal 6.2What's new in Drupal 6 Drupal 6.2, 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, but we fixed some notable performance issues too. For more...http://drupal.org/drupal-6.2 Announcing Drupalcon Szeged 2008- April 7, 2008 Szeged city view from the Tisza river At this year's Drupalcon we're turning Szeged, Hungary into Drupaltown! The Drupal Association is pleased to announce that the next Drupalcon will be held in Szeged, Hungary from August 27 to 30, 2008 in the Library and Conference Center of the Szeged University. With a thousand Drupal enthusiasts expected we'll be turning this picturesque student city into a true Drupaltown! Drupalcon has been a major success for the Drupal community, with every...http://drupal.org/node/243688 New Drupal Book Published: Building Powerful and Robust Websites with Drupal 6 by David Mercer- April 7, 2008 Given the success of David Mercer's first Drupal title for beginners, Packt has published a new and improved edition to go with the latest release of Drupal. The new book, still targetted at beginners and intermediates, builds on its predecessor to provide a steeper launching ramp for everyone who still feels they're not yet a pro. Changes to the new version include: Slimmed down writing, to provide faster flowing and more concentrated information Updates to all the original text to reflect...http://drupal.org/node/243594 Spirit Library - complex panels 2views based drupal site- April 5, 2008 Spirit Library is library of spiritual messages and information. It contains thousands of articlesmessages from spiritual speakers and authors which are filterable and sortable in different ways. The site extensively uses the excellent Panels 2 modules alongside Views. This is the third incarnation of the site, and the one that finally gets very close to where we wanted to be with it. The first version was launched 18 months ago as a Plone site, as that was the CMS i had most experience with,..http://drupal.org/node/242993 SonyBMG Launches MyPlay on Drupal- April 2, 2008 Myplay.com is a redesign and re-branding of Sony's Musicbox site which showcases SonyBMG's artists, providing free access to their videos, music and photos. Users can create lists of their favorite artists as well as review their music and embed widgets of their favorite artist's content into other sites. Sony Musicbox was originally implemented by the Lullabots who provided the base framework for this redesign. Thanks to their diligence and teaching as well as excellent tools provided by Earl.http://drupal.org/node/241344 Mollom, my content monitoring startup- April 1, 2008 After several months of private beta testing, Benjamin Schrauwen and I are happy to unveil Mollom, your partner in automated content monitoring. Mollom's purpose is to dramatically reduce the effort of keeping your websites clean and the quality of their user-generated content high. Currently, Mollom is a spam-killing, one-two punch combination of a state-of-the-art spam filter and CAPTCHA server. We are experimenting with automated content quality assessments, but these are still in an early.http://drupal.org/node/241211 |