As many of you might remember, we setup a security announcement newsletter, a history of all security advisories, and an RSS feed with the most recent security advisories. We strongly advised Drupal administrators to sign up for the list. With the recent drupal.org survey we asked people if they are subscribed to either the Drupal newsletter or the Drupal security announcements, and if so, how. Turns out that a fair amount of survey participants were not subscribed to either mailing list (see graph, read more). Additional research showed that the security announcements page is not very popular in terms of page views and that, to date, only 850 people subscribed to the security announcements by e-mail ...

Three weeks ago, I launched a Drupal.org survey, the objective of which was to get feedback on the Drupal.org website and to prioritize the work we should put into improving it. The results of this survey are below.

The November issue of the Swedish computer magazine "Datormagazin" has a 5 page article on Drupal, entitled: "CMS in all its beauty" (Swedish: "CMS i all sin skönhet"). The translated introduction reads: "To edit a website can be super-tedious work, but also absolutely wonderful. Much depends on what tools one has available. With Drupal, which is a Content Management System, it all gets much simpler."

Cultural center 'De Brakke Grond' has been transformed from a quiet gallery into a bustling hub of all things Drupal for the Amsterdam Drupal Conference. Over 50 developers and users have already attended, and new faces continue to appear every morning. If you are nearby, please drop by!

Hot topic of discussion has definitely been the new forms API, which opens up a bunch of new avenues for modules and themes. End-user usability is another important point that many people are interested in.

Hello, in order to support user experience improvements which will be made during the upcoming Drupal 4.7 code freeze we have conducted over a dozen user experience interviews. The results of those interviews have lead to a web survey which will allow us to prioritize the Drupal Administration issues.

Here is the survey: http://surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=631841425065

On Tuesday the DrupalCON will start in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. More than 50 Drupal coders, administrators and enthusiasts from Chile to China and from South Africa to Estonia gather together, truly showing off the global strength of the Drupal community. We will share our thoughts, present new ideas and implement them in code during these three days.