News and announcements

Over the summer the APC (Association for Progressive Communication) "Action Kit" team engaged Web Networks to generate a report on the usability of the Drupal content management system.

The report has been ready for a little while now, but we wanted a green light from APC to release the document to the wild. The document is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License.

The report can be accessed via http://www.web.net/support/DrupalUsabilityReport.pdf

We are pleased to announce the latest release of CiviCRM - version 1.5.

Special thanks to the dedicated folks who contributed to this release by testing the alpha and beta revisions - and to everyone in the community who provided new ideas, feedback (especially critical feedback), and patches.

CiviCRM is the first open source and freely downloadable constituent relationship management solution. CiviCRM is web-based, internationalized, and designed specifically to meet the needs of advocacy, non-profit and non-governmental groups.

New to CiviCRM? Read more at http://www.civicrm.org

We are having our next Washington, DC, Meet-up on Wednesday, September 13th at 7 pm. This time it will be even easier for folks coming from work downtown to stop by - we are meeting at the Science Club at 1136 19th Street, NW. We have the entire second floor reserved so it will be a whole lot easier to do formal presentations.

Over at dudertown.com you can find a nice set of articles with screencasts of howto’s / best practices when it comes to implementing and administrating a Drupal site. You can subscribe to the RSS feed of this section as well.