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.Announcing a New Book: Drupal in Education and E-Learning- September 15, 2008 Bill Fitzgerald, of FunnyMonkey, has written Drupal for Education and E-learning, due out from Packt Publishing in late October. Targeted for Drupal 6, this book covers how to set up community sites to support interactive teaching and learning. This book gives an overview of the functionality of Drupal core, and then gives precise instructions on using CCK, Views 2, Organic Groups, and a range of other contributed modules to extend the functionality of your site. This book is written with..http://drupal.org/node/308925 The Do It With Drupal Seminar- September 12, 2008 Lullabot is pleased to announce the largest independent Drupal event ever. Do It With Drupal is a 3-day seminar focused on the configuration, architecture, and processes behind building successful Drupal websites and communities. The event is geared at attendees with a wide range of Drupal experience. For new developers and decision-makers, DIWD will offer a great introduction to Drupal and the Drupal community. For more experienced Drupalers, DIWD will offer a great chance to pick up tips and..http://drupal.org/node/307660 Raincity Studios Releases Improved Bryght Drupal Hosting Platform- September 10, 2008 Some of you may have noticed we recently gave the Bryght hosting system a facelift and added some functionality under the hood. Bryght Drupal hosting combines a custom install profile with a tuned hosting environment, incorporating best practices used on Drupal.org, to make a fully functional, out-of-the-box VPS. read morehttp://drupal.org/node/306624 Knight Drupal Initiative monthly proposal review -- 11 September 2008- September 10, 2008 After a week of delay due to DrupalCON related travel, it is time for our monthly open review meeting. We will meet for the next round of proposal reviews on Thursday, September 11th at 14:00 Eastern (US) (18:00 UTC). The meeting will be held in IRC drupal-dojo on irc.freenode.net. (See http:drupal.orgirc for information about using IRC.) We will meet for 1:30 with the following agenda: read morehttp://drupal.org/node/306582 iCitizenForum.com Case Study- September 9, 2008 At the end of 2007, Aten Design Group worked with The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation to deploy iCitizenForum.com, a Drupal website about Citizenship. The following case study documents some of the factors that led to choosing Drupal, and outlines the technical approach for the project. Background The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation operates the world's largest living history museum in Williamsburg, Virginia. The foundation preserves and interprets a 301-acre Historic Area; operates museums,.http://drupal.org/node/305625 Drupal.org redesign officially underway- September 8, 2008 Now that everyone is (hopefully) recovered from Drupalcon Szeged, I wanted to create one more front page post with a roadmap for the portion of the redesign project involving Mark Boulton Design. Mark and Leisa provided insight into their approach to the redesign in their keynote and really built up excitement and enthusiasm for the project. I highly recommend it to anyone even a teensy bit interested in the redesign process. Over the next three months (September 2008 December 2008), ...http://drupal.org/node/305743 Drupal is a 2008 Open Source CMS Award Finalist- September 4, 2008 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: Best Overall Open Source CMS Best PHP Open Source CMS "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...http://drupal.org/Packt-2008-Open-Source-CMS-Award-Finalist-Drupal "Drupal Essential Training" seven-hour video course released by Lynda.com- September 2, 2008 Drupal Essential Training with: Tom Geller (Publishers bio) ...is now live in the Online Training Library at Lynda.com! Contact me privately via email or comment here if you have a well-known site and would like to publish a review of the full series, and I'll do my best to get you a DVD or free site pass. (It's normally $25month for access to all their videos, which I think is a really good deal.) read morehttp://drupal.org/Drupal-essential-training-lynda-com |