News and announcements

Check out this video at Sun developer network about Drupal:
Sun Headlines: What Makes Drupal Special?
and a little gadget you might need after a night working at your Drupal site ;)

The Ad Bard Network is a LAMP-based advertising network built exclusively for free and open source projects. The goal is to build a friendly and useful advertising community that allows FOSS projects to earn income with relevant, non-obnoxious advertisements, staying in full control of all content served and all information collected. We are now actively seeking new Ad Bard members, offering a simple and free sign-up process starting here.

As a long-time Drupal-user, running KernelTrap.org with Drupal since February of 2002, I'm reaching out to the amazing Drupal community first. This is especially appropriate, as the Ad Bard Network is powered by Drupal and the Drupal Ad Module, the latter which I actively maintain within Drupal's contrib repository. Drupal is an excellent choice, as we're confident in it's ability to scale and perform.

The Infrastructure

Hi, I would like to announce, that my book about Drupal is available. The name of this first Czech book about Drupal is "Drupal - podrobny pruvodce tvorbou a spravou webu" (Drupal - detailed guide for creating and managing websites).
Sample in PDF is available together with some more information at http://knihy.cpress.cz/knihy/pocitacova-literatura/webdesign-tvorba-www-...

The nice book about Drupal 5 programming - "Pro Drupal Development" translated to Russian and published soon by Ukrainian Williams Publishing House. This is the first book about Drupal in Russian language.

Bruce Perens is trying to get elected to the OSI Executive Board. The board is self-electing so he needs to have demonstrable community support to have a chance.

Bruce Perens created the Open Source Definition, released the first open source program, and created the rule-set that is used by OSI. He wants to 'help solve the over-representation of vendors' and work on reducing 'the number of different licenses in general use.'[techp.org/p/7]

The Open Source Initiative, OSI, is the organization that certifies Open Source software licenses.