The first Hungarian Drupal conference is going to take place in Budapest on the 30th of September 2006. Dries Buytaert is our guest with an overview and visionary presentation. Chx and other Hungarian Drupal developers and translators are going to present. Dries is going to speak English, others will do their presentations in Hungarian. Registration is required prior to attendence, only signups at drupal.hu are accepted. More information available in Hungarian at http://drupal.hu/konferencia/2006

In one month from now, we'll kick off DrupalCon Brussels. We're happy to announce that the conference program is now online at http://drupalcon.org/schedule. Check it out!

We'll have more than 30 presentations (including tutorials and trainings) by outstanding Drupal community members. Clearly, DrupalCon Brussels will go into history as one of the most important Drupal events to learn and network together.

If you are attending, make sure to register and to indicate which presentations you are likely to attend. More information about the registration and sign up process is available at the DrupalCon announcement. A list of all registered attendees (fill out your profiles!) is available at http://drupalcon.org/attendees.

Note also that we'll have a Drupal booth at EuroOSCON, taking part in their Dot Org Day. Many of us are going to camp out at GovCamp Brussels and BarCamp Brussels. You have to register for these events separately so don't forget to do so if you plan on attending. Lastly, if you want to join some of us at EuroOSCON you can use the special registration code (euos06nnd35) for a 35% discount on EuroOSCON fees! Thanks O'Reilly!

The Boston users group is meeting for the third time. We are privileged this time with an outstanding speaker and a world class host location. John Resig will present an overview of his jQuery javascript library. This library is poised for inclusion in Drupal core. Jquery will help us all write cleaner, more powerful javascript which leads to more usable and even AJAXy web pages.

With less than a week to go before the end of Summer of Code 2006, most of the results are in and ready for testing! This year we are seeing an exceptionally high completion rate. At the mid-term evaluation, every project was deemed likely to finish, and now it seems that most will finish ahead of time and with excellent results.

Here is a list of the projects, including links to the various project pages and documentation for how to use what has been done. It is time for Drupalites everywhere to now dig in and start exploring and testing the amazing work that these students have accomplished this summer. Have fun, and report your experiences back here or in the various specific groups that have been created on the groups.drupal.org site.

I'm still very new to Drupal and at the start of the rocky learning curve i had to confess to questioning my journey with this CMS.

Being a long time user of other CMS systems i had certain ideas i wanted to implement from the get go and Drupal didn't seem to have those in place (i mean a forum in drupal isn't quite the forum i had come to expect in Vbulletin). I'm glad to say that appearances are incredibly deceptive and i have, on numerous occassions had my jaw well and truly dropped.

Our website is just 13 weeks on now and i'm amazed not only on how it looks, how it functions, but by the shear wealth of options that i've managed to make available to my members.

We've seen explosive growth in 2005 and 2006 based the ability for Drupal sites to rapidly deploy new features that meet real world customer needs, not just fulfill technical requirements. This project aims to increase consultant and site administrators ability to effectively manage releases, security, versioning, issue tracking, and feature deployment into customer ready production environments. By directly improving the Drupal.org release and project management infrastructure we will speed up the life cycle for meeting customer and user requirements and ultimately improve the ability to manage Drupal web sites. Donating to this effort provides funding to accelerate volunteer contributions the Drupal.org project maintainers have made over the past 8 months.

Overview

• Contributions will have real releases and version strings, just like Drupal core itself
• Security announcements will refer to exact versions of modules that are effected
• Issues will be tracked by the exact version number of the contribution where the bug is present
• Development branches for any given version of the Drupal core -- maintainers can add new features to their module or theme without endangering the stability of other code that is compatible with the same version of Drupal core.
• All contributions will be clearly identified with the version of Drupal core they are compatible with
• Users will be able to subscribe via email or RSS to all releases of any project on drupal.org (including Drupal core)

Current total: $1,808.61 (27.8% of total needed) (Last updated: 2006-09-30) Digg this proposal