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Lullabot is pleased to announce the largest independent Drupal event ever. Do It With Drupal is a 3-day seminar focused on the configuration, architecture, and processes behind building successful Drupal websites and communities.

The event is geared at attendees with a wide range of Drupal experience. For new developers and decision-makers, DIWD will offer a great introduction to Drupal and the Drupal community. For more experienced Drupalers, DIWD will offer a great chance to pick up tips and tricks straight from the experts and a chance to connect and socialize with other Drupal professionals.

The Do It With Drupal Seminar will feature the following highlights:

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Con más de 2,5 Mb de archivos modificados se presentó Joomla! 1.5.7, versión que incluye entre una gran cantidad de modificaciones un importante parche de seguridad para vulnerabilidades críticas y de nivel medio. Con todo esto esta de más decir que hay que actualizar cuanto antes.

Enlace | Joomla! 1.5.7

Some of you may have noticed we recently gave the Bryght hosting system a facelift and added some functionality under the hood. Bryght Drupal hosting combines a custom install profile with a tuned hosting environment, incorporating best practices used on Drupal.org, to make a fully functional, out-of-the-box VPS.

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After a week of delay due to DrupalCON related travel, it is time for our monthly open review meeting. We will meet for the next round of proposal reviews on Thursday, September 11th at 14:00 Eastern (US) (18:00 UTC).

The meeting will be held in IRC #drupal-dojo on irc.freenode.net. (See http://drupal.org/irc for information about using IRC.) We will meet for 1:30 with the following agenda:

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Para quienes aún están usando las viejas traducciones al Español de b2evolution, les comento que ya se encuentran disponibles los archivos actualizados para la última versión de este sistema de blog. Los mismos pueden ser descargados en el área de Language Packs del sitio oficial.

Con interesantes novedades se presentó recientemente Dotclear 2.0.2. Esta versión incluye un sistema de instalación y migración mejorado y mucho más simple. Además se agregaron algunas nuevas funcionalidades y correcciones. Este es un mes en el que tres versiones fueron lanzadasy esto muestra la intensidad en el trabajo de los desarrolladores de esta aplicación.

At the end of 2007, Aten Design Group worked with The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation to deploy iCitizenForum.com, a Drupal website about Citizenship. The following case study documents some of the factors that led to choosing Drupal, and outlines the technical approach for the project.

The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation operates the world's largest living history museum in Williamsburg, Virginia. The foundation preserves and interprets a 301-acre Historic Area; operates museums, outreach programs, and the John D. Rockefeller Library; and carries out important research and archaeology pertaining to the origins of America. In accordance with its mission, "That the Future May Learn from the Past", the foundation is concerned not only with recreating the 18th-century experience, but with facilitating education about the idea of America–both in its beginnings, and in its relevance for the future.

iCitizenForum.com, a website that promotes discussion around the topic of Citizenship, is a fitting extension of this core mission.

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The Industry Standard, aka thestandard.com, is using Drupal. The Industry Standard features news and analysis that covers emerging technologies and companies, venture funding, acquisitions, site launches, and other developments in the internet space. This system is built as a prediction market, intersected with a reputation-based social network. The site is part of the IDG network, which includes sites like Computerworld, Infoworld, JavaWorld.com, Macworld, PC World, and more.

Like most big Drupal sites, they use CCK, Views, memcache, and a master-slave database configuration. Two noteworthy items are the fact that they use Apache Solr for search, and Mollom as their spam deterrent.

Hagen Graf has written his second German Drupal book: Drupal 6: Websites entwickeln und verwalten mit dem Open Source-CMS published by Addison-Wesley. The book also comes with a German Drupal 6 training video. And for every copy sold, 1 EUR is donated to the Drupal Association Thanks Hagen!

@Hagen, next time take a picture of your book on my website? ;-)

The book talks about Mollom!

Now that everyone is (hopefully) recovered from Drupalcon Szeged, I wanted to create one more front page post with a roadmap for the portion of the redesign project involving Mark Boulton Design. Mark and Leisa provided insight into their approach to the redesign in their keynote and really built up excitement and enthusiasm for the project. I highly recommend it to anyone even a teensy bit interested in the redesign process. Over the next three months (September 2008 – December 2008), the d.o redesign team will be tackling:

• User research
• Revised information architecture
• Content audit and editing
• Wireframes
• Usability testing
• Brand style guide
• Finalized design .psd

To be sure, they have a lot of work ahead of them. No worries – they’re totally on it! However, it also should not be underestimated how much work is ahead of us, the community. Again, I’m not worried, but it’s important that everyone is clear that the scope of the work we’ve contracted MBD to do is only the beginning.

The community will be the driving force in the redesign of Drupal.org and the Redesign Group will be the central hub for all interested. Be a part of it.

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Si quieres ayudar en el rediseño de Drupal.org en disambiguity.com ha puesto como

Y para no hacer el post tan corto pongo también un enlace a un resumen de la presentación que hizo Mark Boulton en la DrupalCon

Drupal es finalista en dos categorías de los premios que convoca packtpub.com: El Mejor CMS Open Source y el mejor CMS Open Source en PHP

El año pasado Drupal ya ganó en el mejor CMS de software libre y si quieres que vuelva a ganar tu voto tendrás que dar. Yo, Carlos, ya he votado.

Visto en Cambrico

Siguiendo con las tareas de mantenimiento del sitio les comento que acabo de habilitar los trackbacks y quisiera que alguien me de una mano testeando esto. Le agradecería a quien pueda hacer trackback a algunos de los artículos de este sitio así veamos si esto realmente funciona.

Les comento que estoy realizando algunas tareas de mantenimiento que tenía pendiente hace unos días así que no se sorprendan si cierro el sitio momentaneamente o si encuentran algún mensaje de error en alguna parte del sitio; de hecho, si lo encuentran estaría agradecido que me lo informen. 

¡Muchas gracias!

Building powerful and robust websites with Drupal 6 is an update to David Mercer's two year old book Drupal: Creating Blogs, Forums, Portals and Community Websites.

Just like David's previous book, this book is geared towards people who are new to Drupal and that have little or no experience in website design, PHP, MySQL or HTML. If you want practical advice on how to get a Drupal site up and running, this book is for you. Unlike David's first Drupal book, this book also caters to the intermediate Drupal user as it talks about Drupal's content construction kit, actions, triggers and even jQuery. Reading this book won't make you a Drupal expert, but it will give you a solid base from which to build.

Matt Butcher's Learning Drupal 6 module development book an great introduction to begin developing on Drupal. It is not for the die-hard developer, but it looks like a must have for new Drupal developers. Thanks for for putting this book together, Matt!

Last week at DrupalCon Szeged I gave my traditional state of Drupal presentation. The video of the presentation is provided below, and you can download a copy of my slides (PDF, 11MB) as well.

The presentation discusses the results of the recent survey that I conducted; the survey ran for 30+ days and collected more than 1300 responses so it should provide a good idea of the community's current thinking. I'll provide more color and details about the survey results in a number of follow-up posts.

Anticipando un poco lo que se viene con la elección de los mejores CMS del 2008 realizado por PacktPub, acabo de habilitar un formulario de encuesta, una suerte de Open Source CMS Award 2008 de Planeta CMS. 

I finally had some time to take out my copy of Lullabot's Understanding Drupal DVD for a quick photo shoot. This DVD provides a broad overview of Drupal, and covers all the terminology and fundamental concepts of a Drupal site. It is great for people that are new to Drupal. For people that have Drupal experience, it might be too introductory, but those should certainly wait for the next DVD in their series.

Lullabot also promised to make a donation to the Drupal Association for every copy sold. Thanks 'bots!

Last year Drupal won 2007 Best Overall Open Source CMS. That was before we released Drupal 6.

This year, Drupal 6 was nominated for best CMS in two categories. Please help us by voting for Drupal in both of them:

• Best Overall Open Source CMS
• Best PHP Open Source CMS

"Following six weeks of intense voting, Packt can now exclusively reveal the Content Management Systems that have made the final of the four different categories. With the final voting stage opening on September 1, the competition is likely to be strong with new CMS's joining some of the more established names in each category to compete for a share of the $20,000 prize money."

"As usual, judging comes from a panel of experienced and respected figures from the Content Management and Open Source industry. They will be selecting their top three based on a number of factors including performance, usability, accessibility, ease of configuration and customization, scalability and security.

The final judge is made up of votes from customers and visitors to www.PacktPub.com. You have the chance to support your favourite CMS by submitting a vote when the final five are announced."

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