Here's a thread we can all use to post our synopses of DrupalCon Brussels, Day1, for the folks who can't be here. :)

I say synopses because there are several tracks and no one went to all of the presentations. ;)

We have put together a simple 13 question survey that will help us understand who you are and how you use Drupal. If you have ever wanted to voice your opinion, now is the time. Step up and spend five minutes to help the Drupal community.

Click here to take the survey

Over the summer the APC (Association for Progressive Communication) "Action Kit" team engaged Web Networks to generate a report on the usability of the Drupal content management system.

The report has been ready for a little while now, but we wanted a green light from APC to release the document to the wild. The document is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License.

The report can be accessed via http://www.web.net/support/DrupalUsabilityReport.pdf

We are pleased to announce the latest release of CiviCRM - version 1.5.

Special thanks to the dedicated folks who contributed to this release by testing the alpha and beta revisions - and to everyone in the community who provided new ideas, feedback (especially critical feedback), and patches.

CiviCRM is the first open source and freely downloadable constituent relationship management solution. CiviCRM is web-based, internationalized, and designed specifically to meet the needs of advocacy, non-profit and non-governmental groups.

New to CiviCRM? Read more at http://www.civicrm.org

We are having our next Washington, DC, Meet-up on Wednesday, September 13th at 7 pm. This time it will be even easier for folks coming from work downtown to stop by - we are meeting at the Science Club at 1136 19th Street, NW. We have the entire second floor reserved so it will be a whole lot easier to do formal presentations.