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.

Over at dudertown.com you can find a nice set of articles with screencasts of howto’s / best practices when it comes to implementing and administrating a Drupal site. You can subscribe to the RSS feed of this section as well.

Here is a little experiment I'd like to conduct: can we use Flickr to make it easier for people to provide feedback on Drupal's UI/usability? Here is how you can participate and how it would work:

1. Create a Flickr account. It's free.
2. Take a screenshot of a Drupal (administration) page and tag it with the keyword drupalui (which stands for 'Drupal user interface'). It's important to use the drupalui tag as that is the tag we'll use to pick up your feedback.
3. Annotate the screenshot by adding notes: use the notes to explain what you would do differently, what confuses you, what can be explained better, what is missing, etc.

An overview of all the annotated screenshots tagged with drupalui can be found here:

• http://flickr.com/photos/tags/drupalui/ (RSS feed)

As you can see, I submitted one example screenshot and annotated it with two notes:

• http://flickr.com/photos/dries/233551753/ (move your mouse over the screenshot to see the notes)

So start annotating Drupal screenshots on Flickr, and we'll try our best to include your feedback in Drupal 5.0.0.

The Packt Open Source Content Management System Award is designed to encourage, support, recognize and reward an Open Source Content Management System (CMS). The winning CMS will be awarded $5,000. First runner-up and second runner-up will not go away empty handed, taking away $3,000 and $2,000 respectively. Today, Packt announced the five finalists that will be put forward to the final voting stage:

With the current feature freeze of Drupal 5.0, it seems a good time to startup some marketing actions. A lot of people give presentations about Drupal in their country. A couple of these people work for a company that is delivering a service based on Drupal and hence will use a presentation template based on their corporate style. But a lot of us are presenting Drupal to a wider audience while not having a standard presentation or even a standard template (layout).

You are dedicated to Drupal and willing to help fixing bugs by coding, testing or documenting.

We are the creators of the best CMS in the world: Drupal.

Compensation

Eternal glory awaits the contributor who helps fixing core bugs: you will get into the Core CVS messages.

Workplace is #drupal-bugs on irc.freenode.net