News and announcements

Drupal is going to be represented at LinuxTag in Karlsruhe, Germany, from the 23rd to the 26th of June 2004. We will be sharing the CMS-booth (H105) with Zope, Plone, sTeam, Caudium, and Pike.

There will be a Drupal poster, Drupal leaflets, and - if I manage to get one - me wearing a Drupal t-shirt. I'll also demonstrate Drupal using a projector. I hope to be able to convert all the Zope people to happy Drupal users so show up and give me support. ;)

An article posted at SitePoint discusses use of Drupal in the US political campaigns and walks new users through the installation and configuration process.

If you are new to drupal and you a used to the Movable Type look and feel you might want your new drupal website to look as much as possible like your old movable-type website.
For those people I created a template that looks like the "clean MT" look, plain black and grey with white backgrounds.
This theme is also meant as an example for your own MT template.

Screenshot here

It has been three weeks since we released Drupal 4.4.1 and some bugs have been fixed since then. No critical bugs were identified yet I'd like to release Drupal 4.4.2, a second maintenance release, shortly. It would be nice if you could help squash pending bugs as well as help test the DRUPAL-4-4 branch so we can start packaging Drupal 4.4.2 in one or two weeks from now.

my profound thanks to everyone in the Drupal development community.

late last year, I used the Drupal-fueled DeanSpace 1.0 to power http://www.tomformayor.org, a grass-roots-oriented web site for Mayoral candidate Tom Potter. I then left the campaign to start a Political Action Committee dedicated to advancing Potter's cause independently, GoPotterGo!-PAC. I used Drupal (currently 4.4.1) for its http://www.gopottergo.com/ site.

simultaneously, I worked on City Commissioner candidate Frank Dixon's campaign in the same May 18 primary, building http://www.dixon4council.com with Drupal 4.2.

last night, Tom Potter topped the poll -- a feat local pundits considered impossible. He spent $66,000, versus his opponent's splurge of almost $1,000,000. GoPotterGo!-PAC added about another $10,000 to Tom's effective total, more than 50% of which came via the web.

Drupal let me get a lot done, very very quickly. I'm impressed with its flexibility, relatively clean source (my previous CMS work was with PostNuke!), and especially by its rate of evolution.

I was able to evolve site content very quickly, and to extend functionality virtually as far as I wished (OK, I really want postcard functionality again, as soon as possible, please!).

Drupal helped Tom win election. and while Frank didn't quite make it to run-off, he put up a very creditable performance; many people last night and today are encouraging him to run for future elective office. his positive image was also enhanced by a simple, effective Drupal site.