Who said that Drupal sites are ugly? Take a look at 70 outstanding sites a an inspiration and a proof that Drupal can be beautiful.

http://mogdesign.eu/blog/70-beautiful-drupal-sites/

Lets write all Drupal core and module features, benefits, requirements and success stories as information material to potential Drupal site owner and/or content editor. Module names are for internal reference only, they are to be deleted if this is presented to non Drupal people, since they don't care.

Users

Nous étions finalement 4 ! pour ce lancement :
- Géraud SCHMIT
- Jean-Baptiste INGOLD
- Nicolas ENGEL et moi

C'est peu surtout suite à l'engouement lors du DrupalCamp et aux inscrits sur Doodle.
Il faudra peu-être organiser la prochaine réunion durant les heures de travail comme certains l'ont proposé.
Merci de votre retour sur ce point.

Cela dit, nous avons bien avancé sur les objectifs du groupe marketing.

Are there any other awards that Drupal has won?

Webware 100 - 2007, 2008, 2009
Packt Publishing 2008 Best Overall Open Source CMS
Packt Publishing 2008 Best PHP Open Source CMS
Packt Publishing 2007 Best Overall Open Source CMS

When I say that Drupal is getting a strong reputation in France.

Read in le figaro.fr :
» Son vocabulaire. François Fillon fait dans l'ensemble preuve d'une grande maîtrise dans l'usage de termes techniques, évoquant avec la même aisance «le CMS open source Drupal» et les flux RSS. De plus, c'est le premier ministre qui revendique spontanément être un «vrai geek», et vouloir «essayer toutes les nouveautés».

" Francois Fillon, in his vocabulary, masters technical terms, even speaking with ease of the open source CMS Drupal."

Read in svmlemag.fr :

Bonjour,

Je profite de cette belle journée ensoleillé pour annoncer le lancement du chantier Marketing. Encore désolè pour l'horaire qui est en dehors des horaires de bureaux !

Le thème principal de cette réunion sera l'organisation de définir les grands axes du chantier Marketing et notamment :
* Rassembler les planches existante (François et anglais)
* Elaborer un document type pour :
o Les études de cas
o Les planches de présentation de Drupal
o ....

Heure de démarrage :
19h30

Lieu :
27, rue de Berri
75008 Paris

Bonjour,

En temps que responsable commercial dans une SSLL Open Source je suis
confronté à la vente de projet autour de CMS Open Source comme Drupal.
Dans ce cadre, j'ai constaté un manque important (comme dans beaucoup de
projet Open Source) d'éléments marketing (Slides, références client,
business cases, positionnement produit sur le marché ...) autour de
cette solution. C'est donc suite à ce constat que je propose de monter
le groupe de travail Marketing.

Pour commencer sur des actions concrète et dans l'optique d'avoir de

Drupal has been chosen to present in the open source pavilion at Open Source World. The spaces were limited so we are really excited to have been granted a booth. We have a strong community in the Bay Area, and would appreciate having people staff the booth to answer questions. We often need upwards of 6 people at the booth to answer questions during the rushes.

You can volunteer for different time slots, but we should have more people at the opening of the show and during the busy periods.

Hello, I am looking for examples of Drupal sites used by citizens to engage their government and government sites to engage citizens.

http://centerforinvestigativereporting.org
http://www.cirm.ca.gov/?q=node/8 California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Public Section

Can anyone recommend some good examples?

Hello, I am looking for examples of sites that are in production on windows. If you've got examples or know of some please get in touch.

Kieran

The Horizon Interactive Award results were announced today, and once again Drupal had a pretty good showing. We had five sites recognized at Palantir, and it looks like PingVision and studio:module were winners as well. There may also be other Drupal sites that I didn't see on my first pass through the list: http://www.horizoninteractiveawards.com/2009_winners_list.htm

Drupal is one of the most powerful open source content management system, voted by community and professionals as the best Open Source CMS in last two years. I have built many websites with Drupal, and found it a great solution for almost all kind of websites from simple blog to large corporate presentations.

Here is an Ultimate Drupal tutorial collection http://mogdesign.eu/blog/ultimate-drupal-tutorial-collection/

I just saw my latest Drupal article is now published on Adobe.com, and this is the first in a series I have produced.

"Read on to see how you can set up a Drupal site in just 10 steps. Learn about adding content, altering menus, modules, and themes, and how to get your site ready for search engines and users."

Read the article now at http://www.adobe.com/devnet/dreamweaver/articles/drupal_site_in_10_steps...

Packt Publishing is running an Author of the Year Award for books published in 2008. They've been big supporters of Drupal, and published a half-dozen books on Drupal last year (with at least that many coming out this year). The Open Source Acquisitions editor tells me that they are really enthusiastic about Drupal as a rising star in the Open Source world.

hi guys,

This is just a quick "heads up" post. If you're not familiar with spotify, I recommend you try it out, if it's available where you are. It's probably the cleverest and slickest music app I've seen online since liquid audio (which became itunes music store).

Anyway..the heads up is that they've opened up to developers with a libspotify (C API package).

The following is from the spotify site:

Per Moshe in post http://groups.drupal.org/node/20725#comment-75055 "I think some static FAQ pages and such are perfectly reasonable and much needed. I don't think anyone is married to the current homepage for that matter. Please do forge ahead."

And with that the topic is raised.
What benefit can we gain from having front-page links to static content on GDO? Currently all we have is a "about this site" link at the bottom of every page. Beyond that, all pages are reached only if you enter through a group or a search result.

Hey "Local Users Group Organizers" gang! (and a few, select, cross posted groups)

If Spring is a season of rejuvenation in your part of the planet, then I hope yours is going better than it is here in Indiana. As the rains come and the grey clouds loom, I look forward to seeing the sun again AND to making efforts to grow the Local Drupal Users Group in my city.

Last year Hostingcon was in Chicago, and the event was a success. We met a lot of hosting companies and helped to explain how Drupal is a top application for hosting companies. We educated hosting companies on what was possible with Drupal and how they could help users make the most of their Drupal sites.

So, the Herron School of Art and Design web site has been nominated for Best School/University Web site on the Webby Awards. http://pv.webbyawards.com/nominee/entry/324 And the AIGA Chicago website got an Official Honoree as well. See http://www.palantir.net/blog/webbys-love-us for the full story on those two sites.

What other Drupal sites got nominated or Honoree'd for the Webby Awards?

Once we've got a list, we should create a front page post. Voting ends April 30, so we’ve got a little time.

Open Source is about collaboration and modular enhancement of the core product. Do CMS end users debug and improve existing modules or do they write their own modules? This survey is being conducted to determine how much code Drupal implementers actually write. The advent of modules such as CCK, Views, Organic Groups, Workflow, Ubercart, E-Commerce, Panels and Actions along with a dozen or so other modules has a empowered web developers with the ability to create sites writing little or no custom code. Is this true? If you are Drupal user please take the survey at http://www.mahalasoft.co.za

Simon from our office attended DrupalCon DC and came back with a present for me, the Lullabot video "Understanding Drupal".

A great way to build Drupal's presence in your region is to start a Google Map of everyone in your country using Drupal.

G'day from Em Space in Australia.

As Drupal becomes a popular CMS choice for business, government and education, Drupal skills are becoming hugely valuable, both for inhouse staff and freelancers. Unfortunately, there's a real shortage of great Drupal developers in our region. After quite some thought about solving the problem of our sparse supporting eco-system, we realised we needed to offer training here; a rare beast indeed throughout Australia and New Zealand. So, one of our goals now for 2009 is to help Drupal flourish here by developing more talented techies.

http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/03/25/2020226&art_pos=4

Please join the conversation.

How can we make more people familiar with Drupal?

The Swiss Drupal User Group is organizing the Drupal Media Camp with a special focus on the media and Drupal in Aarau, Switzerland. It will be covering:
- how Drupal can be used to develop complex web based media solutions and
- what is happening in the Drupal community in the media area.
We are interpreting the term media to mean all web media including video, audio, pictures, publishing, communities etc.

The conference is targeted towards:

I wanted to kick of a discussion about some Twitter strategy. @WordPress has almost 24K followers, and we've got a handful of non "official" accounts here and there.

Hi, if you wonder where all the suits in open source are, they are at OSBC here in San Francisco, March 23rd-24th. Dries will be giving one of the keynotes.

http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/survey-intro.zgi?p=WEB228TLMZKZ3N

Disclosure: Acquia with our VC North Bridge are sponsoring.

I just posted http://drupal.org/node/376327 about some of my thought about Drupal promotion and also about how I became a member of the great Drupal community.

In it you will find some quick research info using Google and some ideas I have about how we should use new sites launched by big name companies and organisations to get more press cover about Drupal.

There is a lot of teaching content out there, but there is no central place that can get you to all of it.

Yesterday we had a discussion about the future of resources aggregation and moderation for Drupal (e.g. videocasts, recordings, audio, write-ups,...). I've got a part (the first 30 minutes are missing) transcript of the IRC session at http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dgtrwwgw_1dtmqc5c2

There were basically 3 use cases:
1) Drupal Dojo where people come to teach and learn - sort of social network for learning and mentoring
2) A Drupal materials aggregator - that collects everything and that is community moderated
3) A moderated content list - where a list of comprehensive materials is made available

There are several good comparative reviews of Joomla and Drupal available on the internet. However, many of these reviews are out of date. None of the reviews I’ve seen rely on the opinions of broad selection of experienced professionals. Usually the reviews are the personal reflections of one well informed individual. Still, a lot can be gained by gathering the opinions of a large group of professionals, and seeing what patterns emerge.

The CMS Report link is: http://cmsreport.com/content/joomla-vs-drupal-opinion-survey

The Drupal User Group Switzerland will be hosting a Drupal stand for the second time at the OpenExpo (http:://openexpo.ch), Switzerland's largest Open Source fair and conference:

The next OpenExpo takes place on April 1st and 2nd, 2009 in Bern, Switzerland. Next to the company and project exhibition there will be a two-day open source conference targeting three different audiences.

The Business Track is relevant for CIOs, IT managers and project leaders in SMEs and large enterprises, the Government Track is targeted towards politicians and leaders in public administration, and the Technology Track is most interesting for software engineers, system administrators and community members.

Does anyone know of academic institutions offering classes or courses which cover Drupal?

Both face to face and/or online?

NB: Not courses using Drupal as a medium, rather: Drupal as the subject matter.

I would love to hear from lecturers who are planning courses, or who have taught Drupal in their courses. I would like to see examples, how they fit in to the existing academic programmes in their institutions, how they promote it, and what the outcomes have been.

Thank you!

Hi,

This week sees the release of iteration 11.

http://drupal.markboultondesign.com/iteration11

This week we have made lots of some smaller changes throughout the whole prototype, items that were delayed from iteration 10. For this release, we've paid particular attention to several pages:

1. Marketplace

2. Download and Extend

3. Modules landing page

4. Themes landing page

5. Search_by theme

6. Home page

7. Dashboard

There has been a lot of great feedback on the iteration 10 post, thank you all for your valuable input.

The Open University recently launched a platform based on Drupal.

The site is here: http://www.open.ac.uk/platform/

And a nice write-up of the site is here.

Hi,

This week sees the release of iteration 10 in the Drupal redesign prototype.

http://drupal.markboultondesign.com/iteration10

We're currently working with the Drupal Association to further define an advertising strategy for the redesigned d.o. Therefore, we've included a few more ads, but it probably isn't indicative of the final strategy.

Hi,

Iteration 8 is now available for you to browse and comment on. Last week the redesign took a pretty drastic change in direction so this week's release isn't as massive as we have worked to consolidate changes to the IA, reacting to feedback from the testing and to trends we have established in the community feedback.

Last week Leisa posted her thoughts on why we have moved in this direction and you can read her thoughts here:

http://www.disambiguity.com/drupalorg-redesign-iteration-7-for-your-revi...

Leisa will also be posting again shortly to further discuss our thoughts and reasons for recent changes as well as talking specifically about the modules section.

The link to the latest iteration is below:

http://drupal.markboultondesign.com/iteration8

When the Knight Foundation announced the Knight Drupal Initiative at DrupalCON Boston, we entered a partnership with the Drupal community.

Our goal was to establish an open, ongoing grant application process for the purpose of creating better open source web applications.

The last six months have been phenomenal. Too successful, in fact. We currently have six proposals under funding review, with over $600,000 (USD) in potential grants for Drupal projects.

Via this story, I see that GoDaddy now has their own auto installer, called Hosting Connection.

It installs Drupal amongst other scripts, and also includes a rating component.

We should:

• reach out to GoDaddy and see how Hosting Connection is run and updated with Drupal out of the box
• encourage people on GoDaddy to rate Drupal highly

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7657150.stm

For future reference:

http://www.mais.blog.br/dcore/
http://drupy.net/

Hi All,

The redesign has made great progress over recent weeks and we would really like to share this with you!

Below is a link to the latest iteration of the redesign prototype. Please take the time to look through the pages and feedback your thoughts and ideas in this thread.

http://drupal.markboultondesign.com/iteration5

We also welcome comments on the initial design and visuals, and as with previous weeks, all posts here will be read and fed back into the redesign process

Just found this article and I´m wondering what Drupal would be worth . . . any suggestions :-)

I'm wondering if there's any official policy regarding crediting sponsors on G.D.O. - Could an individual credit sponsors in such a way as is displayed here?. Obviously there would have to be some guidelines if such a thing were allowed.

Just want to lay out the goals/objectives/resources from the various learning groups and see if we can identify some common goals and ways we can interface. I'll post this as a wiki in the hope we can collectively add resources, revise, and organize.

Inspired by heather's post here's a wiki to help collect ideas for sources of Drupal "stuff" to hand out at a user group, camp, or conference.

Marketing Materials (bring your own printer)

1. Acquia Event Organizer Kit http://acquia.com/drupal-event-organizer-kit
2. Marketing directory in cvs
3. The Marketing Resources section of the handbook

Software Licenses

1. ActiveState Komodo IDE License

Books and training resources

We're planning a Drupal event here in Ireland. The "biggest Drupal event in Ireland- ever". We have about 40 people coming so far - and 2 coming from the DrupalUK user group too. (30 attendees are coming from MSc programmes planning to attend en masse). And we expect the numbers to rise in the next few weeks. Many of these attendees will be "curious" and not necessarily Drupal users (yet, muhuhaha).

This will be the first time they are seeing Drupal in action.

We have a zero budget: all volunteer efforts with a fully donated venue and catering from a local college. (YAY!)

Several months have passed since the Dojo lost it's way a bit when some noble ninjas attempted to create a great deal of good for the Drupal project. In a group of 1500+ members, there is no way to achieve any sort of consensus to why it stalled, how it could succeed, or what the purpose was in the first place. There are, however, a lot of indicators that the concept/ideal of an open learning/mentoring group is solid and is worth reviving.

Hi All,

This week we are calling on feedback on the first iteration of prototyping.

To view the prototypes in their current form please go to: http://drupal.markboultondesign.com