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2007 Drupal Summer of Code results

Aug 20, 2007 marked the end of the 2007 Google Summer of Code. Below is a table of this year's students, their projects, along with links to download and (where available) try them out. Please help test and provide feedback!

Please note too that we'll be having a Summer of Code wrap-up call on Sunday, Aug 26 from 11AM - 2PM Pacific (US) time, for students to talk about their projects, share lessons learned, etc.

Help shape the future of Drupal!

Each Drupalcon, I try to provide a State of Drupal presentation to communicate our current Zeitgeist and to share my ideas about what I think is important for Drupal. Next month's DrupalCon Barcelona is no exception.

Enter Knight News Challenge, win awards to help improve Drupal!

It's time to enter this year's Knight News Challenge, a contest run by the John S.and James L. Knight Foundation. This contest awards big
money for innovative ideas using digital experiments to transform community news. Last year's winners won awards ranging from $15K to $5 million, and $200,000 was allocated toward projects with a Drupal connection.

So if you have an interest in using Drupal to help revolutionize news delivery, you're encouraged to apply! The deadline is October 15, 2007.

DrupalCon Barcelona: final call for presentations

As many of you know, DrupalCon Barcelona takes place in about 30 days! Currently, we have about 50 proposals for presentations and about 300 attendees. Looks like we're in for a blast, eh! :-)

We have a big venue that can host more than 300 people, so it is not too late yet to register. In fact, there is still room for more presentations as well, so I'd like to invite all of you to take part and to submit a presentation. Feel free to use the comments of this post to swap ideas, to request presentations about certain topics, to team up, etc. Best to submit your presentations' abstracts before September 1st as we have to start compiling the final conference program real soon now.

If you've never been to a DrupalCon before -- don't be afraid to present. Everyone is encouraged to participate and all sorts of presentations are welcomed. These can include deeply technical presentations (Drupal 6 menu system internals), fun presentations (A history lesson in Drupal flamewars), tutorial style presentations (How to theme your Drupal site), beginner sessions (An overview of the best Drupal modules), brainstorm sessions (How could we make Drupal easier to use?), best practices (How to use Drupal for a personal blog), panel discussions (How to run a successful Drupal company?), show cases (How we built site ABC for company DEF), meta talks (How to be a successful community manager?), etc. Not all talks have to be about Drupal per se -- you can talk about MySQL, PostgreSQL, Rich Internet Applications (RIAs), webservers, jQuery/AJAX, search engine optimizations, PHP, new standards, community management, things we can learn from other projects, emerging web development trends, you name it.

Drupal used for full code press competition

Just thought I would let people know that full code press is running at the moment www.fullcodepress.com. It is a competition to develop a standards based design for a charity in 24 hours.

One of the teams (the aussie one) is developing in Drupal. Keep an eye on the site - you can watch it progress over the next 24 hours.

http://drupal.aussie.fullcodepress.mbcomms.net.au

Nonprofit uses

I'm looking to gather success stories for non-profits using Drupal.

If you're running a non-profit and use Drupal, please leave a comment. I need:

1) The URL

2) Why you chose Drupal?

3) The size of your organization.

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