News and announcements

Feel free to check out a screencast overview of Drupal 5 at http://learn.awakenedvoice.com/2007/01/21/drupal-5-tour/. I created this screencast using a site that I've just begun developing on the new Drupal 5 platform. Created while in attendance at DrupalCampNYC2.

Networkworld is running a front-page story on the "7 Hot Technologies for 2007" in it's latest edition.
Open Source is hot technology number 4 according to them. (we all know that should be #1...). Network-World categorised Drupal under the "Growing" open source projects for collaboration alongside with Zope.
Take a look at the article: Networkworld 7 Hot Technologies

There's a nice interview with Dries on DevX.com where he talks about the Drupal 5.0 release and Drupal's future. Here's the link to the Digg article.

A small group of people from different organizations (Environmental movements, Esperanto movement, The Earth Being Association and the Open-source movement), including people with some experience in web programming, brainstormed and created the Contact Center project.

This project aims to help people meet groups and find environments in which they can make their projects come true and promote their positive personal values. Broadly speaking, projects would be related to social justice, nature, health or community (including cultures and language).

The Contact Center's structure

The Contact Centre is a virtual meeting place where the users - groups (organizations, ecological farms, new projects or others) and the individuals involved or interested to volunteer - can get together. The basic concept is as follows: each user will have a personal profile, where all relevant information will be stored. Moreover, the profile has an area that explains the links that the member has (or had) with other users of the Contact Centre. The links between the users come with personal comments, which are used to specify the nature of the relationship between the users. Theses comments are references for other people who would be interested to contact the user. It is also suggested to include a Local Exchange Trading System (LETS) in the Contact Center.

Hi all,

Just came across this today. Very nice of the folks at Joomla!.

With Drupal 5.0 out of the door, we wanted to give everybody a hands-on experience of it. At drupalsite.org, you can create your own Drupal site for free. We plan to extend this offerening, adding new modules and features in the future.

The site is made possible by a new autosite module we are working on which uses MySQL5 database views, triggers and a lot of ugly messing around with primary keys to create a multisite environment without copying files around.

Olav