News and announcements

After countless hours of development, experimentation, API referencing, and good ol' fashioned beating our heads against our desks, the team at Ubercart.org has finally put up an initial release of the Übercart module package. This is being considered an alpha release, with the official 1.0 release being many development hours away as we build on and flesh out some of the core systems. However, the module package as it stands is able to run e-commerce sites and is already being used in live sites. Everyone is welcome to showcase their Übercart site in our forums!

In short, Übercart is a module package designed to let administrators run an e-commerce store on their Drupal sites. For more information, you can view the project page. This package has been developed to address a different set of needs and accommodate some different design goals than the current e-commerce module package. We hope to build a comparison and contrast page on our site that store owners can use to compare feature sets, and we look forward to getting some input from the e-commerce experts and developers experienced with other open source e-commerce solutions!

Questions for the presenters can be asked in #drupal. All conference participants are urged to join that channel if possible.

I'm pleased to announce the second Drupal Develiconference! Everyone who is currently involved with, or interested in Drupal development and the development process is encouraged to attend. There will be a Q&A segment after the presentations.

The conference lines will open earlier this time, at 9AM Pacific(GMT-7), Noon Eastern, 4PM London. I'll try to keep the mute off until the conference begins in case anyone wants to chat, but last time there was alot of noise on the line (more like a train derailing) so please use your phone's mute feature or Skype's "mute microphone" feature until you want to speak.

The "official" conference will begin at 9:15AM Pacific and will last for approx. 45min. The call will be recorded and published on Drupal.org for those not able to attend, the recoding will be done by our conference provider this time, and the quality of the call should be significantly better.

For more information about how to attend this conference, including the free Skype number and call in numbers for the US, UK, etc, read on...