General discussion

Following talks about our recent domain donation to the upcoming Drupal Foundation, Dries suggested we also post a link here to an article we wrote about the reasons for our "defection" from Mambo to Drupal. So here goes, hope it proves useful for someone contemplating between these two excellent content management systems:
http://xaneon.com/content-management-systems/drupal-vs-mambo.html

There's also a forum topic about our switch on the Open Source Matters forums, the new home for Mambo's ex-Core Team and much of the community that followed them to create a new "rebel Mambo" after sponsoring company Miro's recent hostile takeover of the project:
http://forum.opensourcematters.org/index.php/topic,1676.0.html

For those wondering "Xaneon, who?", which probably includes most the readership of drupal.org at this point: our Xaneon Development Team is quite well-known in Mambo circles for a popular open-source SEF (search engine friendly) add-on we wrote. That add-on has just been renamed OpenSEF and will take on a life of its own since we've stopped development for Mambo and Mambo's yet-to-be-known successor.

The Summer of Code projects are starting to get completed, and as they roll of the production line, I'll be asking people to please test them and put them through their paces. The first project is the Upcoming.org API that was written by Stephan Jaensch. The idea is that upcoming.org has a great way to store events information, including venues. For example, I can get all the events happening at the Hollywood Bowl here:
http://upcoming.org/venue/156/

And can subscribe to an RSS feed for events at the Hollywood Bowl here:
http://upcoming.org/syndicate/venue/156/

Upcoming.org offers a REST API[1] that lets websites communicate with upcoming.org and add or extract event/venue information. What Stephan has done is nothing short of revolutionary; he has made it so that every Drupal site can be capable of doing the same thing as Upcoming. That means, we now have the same API they do, and we can share event information not only with Upcoming.org, but with other Drupal sites. Let your imagination run free.

BUT! Stephan needs help testing. Grab the download here:
http://drupal.org/node/27953

Install it and try it out. You can post questions here, or contact Stephan[2], or use the issue tracker when you find bugs[3]. Thanks for your support!

[1] http://upcoming.org/services/api/
[2] http://drupal.org/user/24940/contact
[3] http://drupal.org/node/add/project_issue/upcomingorg

If this isn't a gig for Drupal, I don't know what is:

$3M SOCIAL NETWORKS MEET THE TOWN CRIER
WHO: Jim Lussier, Norwest Venture Partners, Palo Alto
WHO HE IS: A former exec at Accenture and Beyond.com, Lussier handles software and services for Norwest, which manages $1.8 billion in venture funds and won big with investments in PeopleSoft (PSFT) and Tivoli Systems. Lussier led recent deals with travel-services company G2 Switchworks and P2P radio broadcaster Mercora.
WHAT HE WANTS: A kind of souped-up Craigslist for every neighborhood, everywhere. Just type in a zip code, and this website will present not just garage sale listings and classified ads, but headlines and photos from dozens of local news sites run by busybodies willing to provide free content and keep it constantly updated.
WHY IT'S SMART: The idea taps into the same social-networking allure that helped make Flickr a $35 million Yahoo (YHOO) acquisition -- that is, user-driven content, organized so that all visitors get a slick stage to showcase their stuff. In this case, the stuff isn't just photos but local knowledge: updates on a rash of burglaries, say, or a ranking of preschools. (The most popular contributors might receive a small percentage of ad revenue.) The site could also offer a marketplace for everything from baby-sitting to tree trimming. Sure, a number of regional websites already offer something similar, but this site would aggregate the content under one umbrella and provide a platform to scale it across the nation. If all goes as planned, Lussier says, paid ads could bring in as much as $100 million a year.

Can't see the node being displayed whenever I try to preview an issue I'm about to submit in bug report and/or feature request. (Submitting the node works though.)

Hi All,

I am starting a web based dating company - which has some interesting [ never before] features.

I was looking for towards giving my users an ability to:

1. create forms, read and send posts, receive emails etc
2. have their own blogs... photos and videos
3. subscribe to newsletters
4. chat thru a web interface [http chat]

I ahve many more functionalities.. some of them are not covered in any of the preconfigured CMS etc

Why not just use the native auto-increment capabilities of databases?