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Hi all!
As a part of my course on Usability Design at the University of Leuven (Belgium), I'm doing a user and task analysis on Drupal.
I have started a user survey to collect useful data on the users of Drupal. With this data, I will create user profiles and personas to reflect some typical user groups of Drupal.

The survey can be found here: http://drupalsurvey.vanisterdael.be/index.php?sid=76524

After 3 months of intense work... I'm proud to announce first stable release of Organic Groups Subscriptions ! now available.

Special thanks to gustav, he is a wonderful mentor and project lead.

Hope you enjoy it...

Demonstration screencast coming soon at g.d.o

Hi,

Professionally as well as in my leisure time I am working a lot on the concept “web 2.0” and “enterprise 2.0”. My interpretation and use of those buzzwords is community-based websites, either for business or entertainment purpose.

From those experiences I have a couple of, though I say so myself, super ideas which I would like to concretize. I couple of years I started building an interactive website where people could hire and rent goods and services. I really believed in the concept, but I learned that the creation of and marketing around a business idea differs drastically from the development of it. That was also the reason why I gave up. Today there is a successful site zilok.com, built around exactly the same principle… Grrrr! :-)

Now I want to concretize my ideas! Thus I am searching a business partner to create together a new successful community-based website. We will be peers and determine together our strategy and approach. Initially you would be responsible for the technical and development part (since I am not really a programmer), but even about that part we can discuss. The most important thing is that you are motivated, interested and have the right drive to do some business. ;-)

Hi,

I am looking for Drupal Developer who can work and guide on completing of a filmy portal. Drupal based on Delhi will be prefered. He/she should have minimum experience of 2-3 years exclusively in Drupal. It is very very urgent.

Thanks,
Shailendra Vijayvergia
91-9811303373

Guys,

i proudly present the new Drupal book: Selling Online with Drupal e-Commerce from Michael Peacock. It will guide you from Drupal install to daily work on the store, focusing on configuring e-Commerce module to make your full featured store.

I did the technical supervision and i must say, as a e-Commerce module maintainer, that Michael's job was amazing. He will explain, thru a series of examples and screeshots, how to:

1. create your shippable and service products
2. make promotions
3. discount coupons
4. create an auction
5. get online payments
6. integrate it with other modules like CRM, CAPTCHA and even theming your store.

And as a good business book it will cover beyond Drupal: SEO optimization and viral marketing campaigns.

Its available on printed and ebook formats. If you want to be the next dotcom millionarie, this book from Packt Publishing is a must have!

In the Drupal 6.0 announcement Gábor stated

Please note that as of now, the Drupal 4.7 branch is no longer maintained, so switching to Drupal 5 or 6 is strongly advised.

This post is a more specific announcement of that fact so that people are more aware of it.

The 4.7 Branch Maintainer, Gerhard Killesreiter has done a great job maintaining 4.7 and I think I speak for everyone when I say thanks.