News and announcements

The Romanian community of Drupal users, developers and enthusiasts, announce the creation of Drupal Romania Association.

Read the complete press statement at http://drupal.org.ro/en/comunicat/2010-02-12/drupal-romania-association-...

Can you believe that there are only 64 days left until DrupalCon San Francisco?! Starting April 17th, more than a thousand (we think it will be more than two thousand!) people will be converging at the Moscone Center in San Francisco for a great program of Drupal sessions, and we are really looking forward to seeing what happens when the community gets together at another one of these fabulous events. Session proposals have been open for almost a month and there's a lot of great stuff in there.

If you want to submit a proposal but you haven't, you still have time! Visit the session proposal page, and put your hat in the ring, but you better act fast! After Monday February 15th, we're closing session proposals so that on the 16th, we can open up community voting and let all of you tell us which of the sessions you would most like to see. Voting will continue until March 1st, 2010. If there is a session that you really want to see at DrupalCon, rally support and tell all your friends to vote.

On March 1st the DCSF planning committee will begin work on session selections. Your votes will play a huge part in which proposals get the strongest consideration. Speakers will be notified on March 5th whether their sessions have been accepted or not. The DrupalCon daily schedule will be posted on March 15th at http://sf2010.drupal.org/conference/schedule.

Over the past year we saw two parallel community initiatives heavily influencing the development of Drupal 7: a huge effort in improving Drupal's usability that led to the introduction of solutions and features, radically changing the user experience in building sites with Drupal 7. At the same time, advancing on the direction taken with Drupal 6, many internationalization improvements were introduced in core and many more will be available through contributed modules.

Both initiatives were driven by key contributors of the community, to promote them and push them forward. Self-organized sprints were held both for UX and i18n improvements, which allowed people to know each other better, work together, drafting ideas, and participate in designing and developing ideal solutions.

As a natural consequence, we launched the Sabir proposal: a community-driven project which aims to produce a platform dedicated to communities with minimal technical expertise, allowing to easily share news in multiple languages.

I just released a new module, Password Require. It basically lets you make any form in Drupal password protected. When presented with the form they have to re-enter their password to make the form validate.

A password required checkbox gets added to each content type form.

We are building a new Online Community,

A new version of GetDrupalRecords is available, Version 1.2

Additions include automatic checking for updates and a link to the support website.

The software is available for download from www.strassner.com.

Get Drupal Records is a program that retrieves theme and module summaries
from Drupal.org’s web site and saves them either to a single HTML document or separate
HTML documents.

All options are present on the user interface.