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For those interested... I present to you, Drupal IRC - [EDIT ax: link removed because it is a spam site now]

It's still buggy since it can't connect to irc.freenode.net. But it will work, eventually.

enjoy.
Marcel
[EDIT ax: link removed, see above] - also coming soon

Hi,

Recently two modules have been released, the audio.module and the playlist.module. The former defines an audio node, and the latter lets users organize audio into sortable playlists, generating m3u, pls, and XSPF feeds of the playlist. Testers are wanted for both, you can either install the modules yourself, or play around on a demo site:

Try out a demonstration

Audio Module

With emphasis on geo databases/geotagging I think this would be a great thing for Drupal to take part in. Anybody have the time to show up and promote Drupal plus find out how to get complete data for the location module?

We are proud to announce the first Public BETA release of AstBill
the Brand new Billing, Routing and Management software for Asterisk totally written in DRUPAL.

http://astbill.com

AstBill DEMO: http://demo.astbill.com

AstBill is open source software licensed under the GPL, and is maintained and developed by a community of users and developers. AstBill is free to download and use. If you like what AstBill can do for you, please work with us to expand and refine AstBill to suit your needs.

AstBill is not only a web-based, user-friendly interface to Asterisk. It is also a Asterisk configuration tool and a standardized implementation of Asterisk using REALTIME and static configuration as you please.

Here are some of the features of AstBill:

User-friendly End User Web interface gives access to a range of functionality:

• Personal Contact Directory with Categories
• View SIP, IAX and Virtual Accounts
• Virtual Accounts (Lets you forward your calls to any extension you want also time based forwarding)
• Credit Control on outgoing calls
• Show Balance, Expenditure, Payments and number of Calls on each account

On my blog, I just finished a post that links to a download for a pre-configured web site designed to support one class.

The site is based on 4.6.3, and comes with several contributed modules installed and configured for academic use. The site uses the Taxonomy Access Control module to limit access to specific areas of the site, and to prevent anonymous users from viewing any student-created content.

It just came to my attention that the website for the Spring Framework, a really nice IoC container for Java, runs on Drupal. This is pretty interesting, especially since Spring+Webwork is one highly promoted and praised method for making dynamic webapps in Java. It makes one wonder why they didn't feel like chowing their own doggy treats. I can understand, though. They build a framework with lots of nice tools, but it's not like you install Spring and have a website, ready to go.