News and announcements

Today I launched a new project that will port hundreds, probably thousands of Joomla, Wordpress and other CMS themes to Drupal.

3rdWorld Themes will become the home of a large repository of free, high quality ported-to-Drupal themes.

The idea has been nearly a year in the making. Phase one was the development of a highly flexible and extensible starter theme called Genesis. I needed a theme I knew like the back of my hand and that I could bend and twist to suit most themes. Unknown to most of you I also built a rather wicked grids based starter-theme but caught a lucky break when Ninesixty came on the scene. I mention these two themes because all the themes at 3rdWorld will be subthemes, either of Genesis or Ninesixty.

UPDATE: I have added both Zen and Blueprint themes as possible base themes for subthemes, this should open it up to more themers and provide some competitive spirit:)

Phase two was amassing a gigantic repo of free and open source themes that were not only free, but beautiful as well. I have around 500 to-be-ported at the moment but believe me when I tell you there are thousands, possibly in the realm of 3000+.

I just released a new version of the Mollom module for Drupal 6. The new Mollom 1.8 release does not contain significant new features, but contains fixes for several issues. Time to upgrade! The next release will hopefully add support for popular contributed modules like webform module.

Mother Jones recently collaborated with EchoDitto to launch a new online presence which facilitates community participation and allows Mother Jones to expand their award-winning investigative journalism.

Background

Mother Jones is a nonprofit news organization that specializes in investigative, political, and social justice reporting. There are currently two main "channels" of distribution: an award-winning bimonthly national magazine (circulation 240,000), and a website featuring new, original reporting 24/7. Though Mother Jones was one of the first magazines to embrace the web—first launching their site in 1993—in recent years the constraints of their old site proved too great for the quality and quantity of the content, not to mention the needs of an increasingly engaged readership.

Packt Publishing is planning to publish a new book on Drupal SEO and is currently looking for some technical reviewers to review it before publication. If you find it interesting to review this book and think that you have an eye for detail in Drupal, please write to me at kshipras@packtpub.com.

Kshipra Singh
Author Relationship Manager
Packt Publishing.

Hi:

I have a major source of RSS that merge 3 important pieces of data into one element: these include Date and Time, News Location and News story. Can I use any module - like FeedAPI, Element Mapper to tag into this single RSS element, and tear it into separate data and insert into 3 database fields?

thanks! Huj

Greetings All:
Should anyone be interested, there is a full time direct hire opening calling for Drupal development experience. The position is located in Silver Spring, MD. Please see the description:

Job Description: Seeking an experienced programmer with 4+ years of hands-on Drupal development. The candidate must be familiar with various development methodologies and have a clear understanding of the software development life cycle (SDLC).