Fortunately following our call, many of you took the time to write up your ideas and frustrations about trying to set up multilingual sites with Drupal and other content management systems. The matter of fact is that many of the Drupal developers already went and done some content translation solution in the past (sometimes coupled with menu, categories and other translation possibilities). While we are brainstorming about what should be supported, we should also think about the connection between the frontend and the underlying technology.

JumpTV is -according to itself- "...the world's leading destination for online television" It offers nearly 200 channels from more than 65 countries, and it recently switched to Drupal! In a short interview we asked Tom Herman why they choose Drupal as their platform of choice and what caveats they found when migrating their old site to Drupal.

Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to the most exciting beta release of Drupal yet, Drupal 5.0 beta 1! It fizzes and it whizzes so grab a copy of it here:

http://drupal.org/files/projects/drupal-5.0-beta1.tar.gz

It comes with many new features, including a web-based install system, improved administration tools, and a shiny new theme! There are also tons of under-the-hood improvements, such as the inclusion of the jQuery JavaScript library, node access system improvements (ACL), and many improvements to the Form API.

Getting this beta nice and stable is essential to releasing Drupal 5.0, and to do so we need your help! Read on to find out how....

We both know that the most important impression you need to make is your first one. So after more than two years, Drupal has a new default theme. The new theme is called Garland and was created by Stefan Nagtegaal and Steven Wittens. Garland will ship with Drupal 5.0.

Better yet, we added a color picker that allows administrators to change the theme's color scheme without having to touch a single line of HTML/CSS. So not only brings this new default core theme raw beauty, it is actually the easiest to customize Drupal theme in existence.

A lot of hard work went into the creation and selection of a new core theme. Thanks to everyone who submitted candidates that weren't chosen in the end. We'll add (or replace) more themes in future versions of Drupal. Great job guys!

There will be a Drupal meet-up on Nov 10 at the Grad Study Area, Executive Education, The Maxwell School, Syracuse University.

People new to Drupal are very welcome, we will be talking about CMSes and Drupal in basic, before showing you cool things Drupal can do. It will be informal and casual. We want to meet people interested in Drupal and share their experiences.

The Event will start at 5:00 PM, we have the room for ourselves till 12:00 AM. We will talk to SU parking and try to get passes.

Please RSVP to drupal AT cjnepal DOT org so we can order the right amount of food.

The Event is being organized by Citizen Journalism Nepal. It is Nepal's first citizen journalism initiative, and we are proud to be powered by Drupal. CJNepal is non-profit and is supported by Syracuse University, and IFJ.

Click here for more information.

We are having a Drupal meet-up for everyone in the Washington, DC, area next week on Thursday, November 2nd at 7pm.



The folks at the Science Club (1136 19th St NW) have been gracious enough to get us a private space on the second floor again, so after some mingling we will take 20 minutes for three short presentation sprints and rock the mini projector :).