Due to a lot of feedback the teleconference has been moved back to the 17th to avoid conflicting with SXSW, we're still looking for people interested in speaking at the Develiconference, so, get those subjects in!
SXSW Interactive is only a few weeks away, March 9th - 13th, so mark your calenders. It would be great to have a large Drupal group organized to meet up do a little networking, a little learning and maybe even grab a drink or two. Come join us at the SXSW Interactive Drupal Group so that we can get organized.
It's on! Google Summer of Code 2007 has officially been announced! Drupal has been an enthusiastic participant in the SoC program for the
It's on! Google Summer of Code 2007 has officially been announced! Drupal has been an enthusiastic participant in the SoC program for the past two years, and we want to make sure that SoC 2007 will be better than ever!
Past Drupal Summer of Code participants have gone on to enjoy great careers as professional Drupal developers and have continued to contribute great and exciting code to the Drupal project long after SoC has ended. Thanks to all the students and mentors, and especially to Google, for making this such a great program.
Over at Collaboration Loop you can find a very nice article about Drupal. Apart from the fact that it is well written and very positive about Drupal, the thing that I liked the most is the fact that the author (Larry Cannell) directly puts Drupal head to head with The Big proprietary systems.
The core developers also incorporate significant user contributed innovations into the platform itself enabling the development of the next generation of extensions that continue to outpace offerings from competitive products such as those from Microsoft and IBM.
Not only Larry puts Drupal head to head, he also thinks Drupal is better then most of the proprietary systems out there.
There is probably nothing in Drupal that products from the big vendors can't do and may have implemented somewhere. The difference is companies using Drupal are meeting customer needs faster and cheaper because they are sharing innovations within the community.
This is the 4th drupal site I've built, and I think my best one so far. I started a video podcast dedicated to the new Nintendo Wii. Please let me know what you think of the site.
Aside from the core modules I also used CCK, Views, ConTemplate, and ImageCache. Even though the site was built with Drupal 4.7 I'm probably going to be porting it over to 5 very soon.
Don't forget to plan around the adjunct events - including a Performance and Scalability session (fundraiser for the Drupal Association) and Drupal Hackfest!
