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Drupal Association Board Election Results for 2011

Earlier this year the Drupal Association began a process to elect and build a new board. In July a call for nominations was made and the community responded with over 50 submissions. The nomination committee spent many weeks reviewing the nominations, following up with potential candidates, until finally submitting a slate of nominees, which was confirmed by the board.

Drupal 7.9 released

Drupal 7.9, a maintenance release with numerous bug fixes (no security fixes) is now available for download. Several critical bugs with the OpenID have been addressed in this release, among other critical and major bugs, and a few new API features. See the Drupal 7.9 release notes for a full listing.

Upgrading your existing Drupal 7 sites is strongly recommended. There are no new features in these releases. For more information about the Drupal 7.x release series, consult the Drupal 7.0 release announcement.

All the drupal 7 themes in one place (think themegarden)

I've put a Drupal 7 instance with all of the Drupal 7 themes available on drupal.org. Seems this is easier for me to try out stuff than installing different themes on various sites and then removing them.

You can find them here: http://bit.ly/sbL2RJ

My plan is to update them at least once a week.

Cheers,

\@matthias

Drupal 7 Social Networking - New Book Published

My third Drupal related book has just been published by Packt Publishing, entitled "Drupal 7 Social Networking", so I thought I'd post it on this forum for those who are interested. I'm very grateful for the feedback received on the previous version for Drupal 6, and feedback on this version is of course most welcome. Please feel free to contact me on my personal email (mkpeacock@gmail.com) with any questions.

Packt, the publishers, have kindly provided a discount code for anyone from here who purchases the book, to receive 20% off: Drupal7Social20.

For those of you who don't know, Packt also donate a percentage of sales from their Drupal books to Drupal.

About the Book

Drupal 7 Social Networking provides careful instructions and clear explanations to take you through the setup and management of your social network site, covering topics from users, to marketing, to maintenance. It will help you create your own social networking site, suitable for whatever audience you choose!

Starting from the very basics of both Drupal and Social Networking, right through to more complicated aspects, you will progressively learn how to add to and expand your social networking site and add more features. You will learn how to secure your social network, deploy it on the Internet, and keep it running and well maintained. As social networking sites rely on the participation of their users, this book helps you to structure your site in such a way so that users can easily and enjoyably contribute, thus creating a powerful social network.

A complete walkthrough for creating, developing, growing, and maintaining a Social Networking website using Drupal 7.

One Week Left to Submit Sessions to DrupalCon Denver

Session proposals are still being accepted for the next DrupalCon, being held at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver, March 19 -23, 2012. The conference theme is "Collaborative Publishing for Every Device" and the deadline to submit sessions is October 26, 2011 23:59:59 UTC/GMT -7.

DrupalCon Denver will be focusing on 8 significant areas of expertise and of particular interest to Drupal users and developers alike. Preference will be given to session ideas that examine the following tracks and how they relate to the conference theme:

When Drupal founder met Wordpress founder, what'll they be talking about?

Not to be missed:

Schipul‘s Creative Director, David Stagg interviews the​ founder of Drupal, Dries Buytaert, and founder of WordPress, Matt Mullenweg on the subject of Open Source software and community for the first time ever at SchipulCon 2011 in Houston, Texas. (Video description from the page).

http://wordpress.tv/2011/10/16/drupal-wp/

Get it while it's hot :))

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