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A new release, v.0.22.1, of CK-ERP, has been posted at SourceForge.Net, http://sourceforge.net/projects/ck-erp .

This release features connectors for Moodle, Atutor, vTiger, XRMS, WordPress, b2evolution and e107. Nine modules have Spanish screen translations added. Special thank is due to Guillermo Patterer from Fiberair for providing the Spanish translation.

CK-ERP is an open source accounting/MRP/ERP/CRM system that runs on top of multiple middlewares. It comprises 22 modules - Administration, i18n, Contact Management, Customer Relationship, Customer Self Service, Vendor Relationship, Ledger, Bank Reconciliation, MRP, Warehouse, Inventory, Service, AP, AR, PO, SO, Quotation, POS for Cashier, POS for Manager, HR, Staff Self Service and Payroll. Operating platform can either be LAMP or LAPP. It provides accounting and back office functionalities to SMEs and utilizes the underlying middleware to administer accounts/groups. Please report error and suggestion to the discussion group / mailing list, CK-ERP-en(at)googlegroups.com or CK-ERP-zh_CN(at)googlegroups.com . General history and expected development is available at the discussion group's Archive.

Supported MiddleWares: eGroupWare, Horde-GroupWare; Zencart, CRELoaded, osCommerce; Drupal, Joomla, Mambo, e107, XOOPS, Xaraya; Moodle, Atutor; vTiger, XRMS; WordPress, b2evolution; TikiWiki; phpBB.

Soon there will be five books about Drupal available. These books are an excellent resource for people building sites with Drupal. The affiliate revenue earned from the Books about Drupal page go to the Drupal Association. Let your buying spree begin =)

http://drupal.org/node/42200

It might be any webmaster dream, but the 45 millions euro Italian government spent on the Italian Official Tourism Portal, http://www.italia.it are a bit too much. But even more annoying is the fact that this site, that took over 2 years for its completion, is fairly old-fashioned: an intro page, heavy flash animations, too much clicks to get to the target page. It looks like all Italy's contradictions are mixed up and served in this web cocktail: the nicest ingrendients, but the slowest, complicated and of course expensive recipe. If this might be acceptable for a Gucci's handbag or just a dish of "pasta", it's definitely not for a website, especially now where lightweight, user-centered design and webstandards are the common ground for any developer.

For this reason, a group of Italian or Italy-based web-savvy people - information architects, php programmers, designers and writers - have given life to the "Ritalia.it" project, where the leading R means everything from Remake to Resurrection. Of course, better.

The target of this project is to rebuild the italia.it project with its full features in the shortest time possibile and at the lowest cost. Thus, Drupal platform has been taken into consideration as the starting code base and although no decision has been made yet, it comes as a great statement for all Drupal project contributors.

Hey, I was at the DC meetup and I had a lot of fun -- That was the one was in the begining of February I think, or maybe the end of January. Is there going to be another one soon - I thought it said somewhere it was monthly.

Andrew

How about integrating their login with Drupal? This would be a great combination!

http://code.google.com/apis/apps/