Packt, the publishing company behind the new Drupal book have released a website designed to give you more information about the book.

http://drupalbook.packtpub.com/ allows you to view content from the book and also read through summaries of each chapter. Chapter 2 "Setting up the Development Environment" has been made available in its entirety for free download.

With 75,000+ Drupal power websites and an emerging industry supporting over 150 professionals, the open-source Drupal project and community is exploding. At the heart of this community is an incredibly active and productive group of contributors. Creating contributed modules, themes, bug fixes, and core enhancement, these individuals define the course of the Drupal project and the ecosystem of users, tinkerers, and professionals around it.

Through this internship program we will attempt to train students from India the ins and outs of Drupal and help them established themselves as long term contributors to the Drupal project. Over two months the selected students will work closely with project mentors on real world Drupal projects; contributed modules, and core patches. They will learn the Drupal development process and gain extremely valuable experience interacting with a live open-source project. Students will be paid a stipend of 4,600 INR to 8,000 INR a month depending on the level of their contributions to the Drupal project.

My good buddy chx is coming to visit Montréal, Québec, Canada from Hungary at the end of July. To show him a good time, the folks from Koumbit are planning on sponsoring some food and drink for a Drupal Developer meetup where we can get together and do some core hacking, etc.

SavannahNow is the web arm of the Savannah Morning News, a print newspaper in Savannah, Georgia (USA). It's built on a customized 4.6.8 platform. Some statistics:

• We imported 160,000+ users from an existing system using the user_import module.
• SavannahNow gets about 2M page views per month

More details here at http://ken.therickards.com/2006/06/04/tech-notes/.

In celebration of Dries's state side road trip we are having a Drupal meetup in San Francisco this Thursday. Come to hang out with other Drupalers and buy some drinks for your favorite developers at the Zeitgeist bar and grill. They claim they can handle as many people as we can turn out so please come on by if you can make it.

When
Thursday, June 29th 2006
7PM - 10PM (or later)