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Papillion: A New Theme for Drupal!

A new theme for Drupal was pre-released here: Papillion: A New Theme for Drupal! get it while it's fresh.

Football World Cup tip game module

While everyone knows that getting exercise is good for your physical fitness it's sometimes hard to put this into action. So alone concerning yourself in sports is always a good start :) This is where the upcoming Football World Cup and this module steps in.

Description
With this module you can arrange a little game for your site users during the world cup. The aim is to predict the outcome of each match as close as possible and collect points for correct predictions.

Drupal reviewed on Newsforge

Drupal is a content management system (CMS) built on the PHP and MySQL combination (detailed requirements here). I've been working with the latest version since its release at the beginning of this month. Drupal 4.7 is a significant upgrade that brings major short- and long-term benefits to users and distributors of the system. It brings Drupal back to the cutting edge of CMS development.

Read the full article.

First world-wide Drupal Developer TeleConference to be held Thursday, May 25th

I'm pleased to announce the first ever world-wide Drupal Developer TeleConference! All Drupal developers, those wishing to become developers or just those with an interest in Drupal's development process are encouraged to attend. Also, all SoC students and mentors are requested to attend.

The conference line will open at Noon Pacific(GMT-7), 3PM Eastern, 4PM Atlantic for introductions and chatting, and the "official" conference will begin at 12:15Pacific and will last for approx. 45min. Dries will be talking about Drupal's beginnings and the future of Drupal, Karoly will talk about projects and code and Angie will be discussing SoC. There will also be a question period after each speaker.

Also Jeff Robbins from Lullabot will record the conference as a podcast which will be made available on drupal.org. Thanks Jeff & Lullabot!

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

Drupal gets a nod in SiteProNews

Minor news item here.

The articles is about best "blogging" software, but then goes on to community platforms. Slashcode and Scoop are named first, with Drupal listed third (though it's not an ordered list).

Miles Evans writes:

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