We've just posted the 21st episode of the Drupal Podcast! It is an interview with JQuery author, John Resig. We talk about what JQuery is, how it works, and how it will fit into Drupal.

Past episodes of the podcast include an interview with Leo Laporte about his Drupal site, TWiT.tv; an interview with Drupal founder, Dries Buytaert; ecommerce maintainer, Gordon Heydon; Karoly "CHX" Negyesi; and lots of Drupal news, tips, and information.

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.