News and announcements

When I encountered the site of FreeOnRails, a provider of free Ruby On Rails hosting, I was very surprised to see that they're running on Drupal! According to the site's welcome message, this is why Drupal was chosen:

I must admit that I was quite reluctant to setup this site using Drupal as it wouldn't seem quite appropriate to some people to host a rails community on a PHP based solution. But, after having a look at Canadaonrails.com - which is indeed running Drupal, I decided to go ahead with Drupal. The main purpose is to get the job done. And if this works out, it'd never hurt to develop a rails based solution in parallel.

I've created drupalib (http://drupalib.interoperating.info/), a site for drupal implementors or potential implementors in libraries. drupalib is intended as a place for Drupal implementors in libraries to share ideas, configurations, themes, and maybe even to incubate the development of some modules that allow commonly desired functionality in library websites.

With some delay I updated Drupair at http://drupair.flevour.net to provide patches and archives to the latest 4.5.* and 4.6.* versions.
Use it and spread the word!

In an article titled Roll your own Bill Gates workflow for free, the downloadsquad site comes up with the best Drupal quote I've seen for a while:

Take a look at all the stuff Drupal supports (like the iCalendar format), and you'll wonder why SharePoint even exists...

w00t!

I've got a non-Drupal modification to that quote to share:

We're still looking for Summer of Code mentors.

Mentors

An SoC mentor needs to know a lot about some aspect of Drupal programming. You don't have to know everything there is about Drupal, but you should be really good at something. If you are really good at making themes, we need you. If you are an AJAX whiz, we need you. If you know the Forms API in and out, we need you. If you maintain Drupal modules, keep up with the patch queue, know the latest CVS commits, we need you.

We are aiming to have two qualified mentors per student. I want the students who sign up to work with Drupal to have the best experience possible, and I want Drupal to have the highest rate of completed projects possible. Therefore, we need lots of mentors. At the same time, mentors are busy people, and tending to student newbs' needs takes energy. Therefore, the more mentors we have, the lighter the load for each.

Sign up to join the Summer of Code group here:
http://groups.drupal.org/node/70

Once you are a member of the group, more instructions will be provided.

Projects

If you have interesting projects to propose, we need to get them into place ASAP. Read the projects that we've already got here:
http://drupal.org/node/58865

Follow the format of the existing projects and create child pages to the one mentioned above, and contact me when you've done so.

For those who are a CSS meister, phptemplate hacker and know something about usability, please checkout the evolt 2006 Themecontest since evolt is a Drupal site.

A beautiful design that showcases the best in current web development, and can be easily implemented into Drupal (ie within a day), with no further design discussion or database lifting required.