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.Drupalcon Szeged ends, North America begins- August 30, 2008 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! But we're not stopping! Drupalcon North America has been decided and will happen in the...http://drupal.org/node/301935 Pro Drupal Development ships for Drupal 6!- August 27, 2008 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...http://drupal.org/node/300614 DrupalSN.com - Drupal Social Network- August 26, 2008 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.http://drupal.org/node/300255 Drupal in Libraries- August 24, 2008 "Drupal in Libraries" is the subject of the May June edition of Library Technology Reports. (http:www.techsource.ala.orgltrdrupal-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...http://drupal.org/Drupal-in-Library-Technology-Reports Support Drupal: Sponsor Drupalcon Szeged- August 14, 2008 Update, August 20: After some more sponsors have come forward (thank you!), Drupalcon Szeged now needs about 10,000 of new sponsorship to meet costs. 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..http://drupal.org/node/294392 Drupal 6.4 and 5.10 released- August 13, 2008 Download Drupal 6.4Download 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...http://drupal.org/drupal-6.4 Mark Boulton Design named redesign partner by Association- August 13, 2008 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..http://drupal.org/node/295037 Show your support for Drupal at South by Southwest!- August 12, 2008 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. read morehttp://drupal.org/node/294523 New "Getting Involved" docs handbook coming!- August 11, 2008 There has been a lot of work going on in the Docs team lately and we want to share that with the larger community. The biggest news that will impact everyone is that we are in the process of creating a new top-level handbook to be added to drupal.org, called "Getting Involved." It will be listed along with the other handbooks on the main Documentation landing page as well as be the new target for the Contribute tab. We have also been working on other plans and ideas to collaborate on the docs...http://drupal.org/node/293455 Gbor got married yesterday!- August 10, 2008 I've been working with Gbor for almost 5 years. First as a contributor to Drupal, next as my Drupal 6 co-maintainer, and more recently as a co-worker at Acquia. Yesterday, Gbor got married, so needless to say, a number of us traveled to Hungary to attend his wedding. In the picture below, you can see some of the Drupal people that were present. read morehttp://drupal.org/node/293563 |