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I think it would be good to give an extra visibility to the proposed sessions in media related field for the next DrupalCon in Paris.

It's time to register http://paris2009.drupalcon.org/user

Once registered :

You can register your vote by clicking on the link "I may attend this session" under each writeup. It will help for the final choice of the sessions in case we have too many proposals http://paris2009.drupalcon.org/schedule.

Or you can make a session proposal to share your latest media related achievements http://paris2009.drupalcon.org/node/add/session :

Hi everyone,

We've just launched a new news-site using Drupal. http://www.theblogpaper.co.uk/. We aim to publish the first free user generated newspaper in London UK by the End of August/ Beginning of September 2009.

So the concept in a nutshell basically is that users of theblogpaper.co.uk can upload articles, photos and engage in discussions. The highest rated and most discussed content will be promoted to the printed version of the blogpaper. Our intention is basically to create a weekly review of what has been going on within the blogging community, and what the community found worthy to be printed and is read by potentially more. Our main goal is to create a platform for bloggers, citizen journalists, photographers and other "content creators" which allows them to get further exposure and maybe reach out to new readerships.

Hi!

I am glad to share with you all that we recently launched a science fiction site http://kalkion.com which runs fully on GLAMP server and is powered by Drupal. I trust this is the first science fiction site running on powerful drupal. We tested Joomla, Wordpress and many more, only Drupal came out as winner. Thanks Drupal for enabling us in achieving our dream and goal.

Hi all! I was just introduced to this group by Ken Rickard from Palantir. I posted a case study for the Saint Louis Review, a local Catholic diocesan newspaper with an audience of about 500,000 Catholics in the metro area on my website: Case Study: St. Louis Review.

The Georgetown Hoya (http://www.thehoya.com) recently made the transition to Drupal about a year ago. We're now looking to upgrade to Drupal6, but wanted to get some feedback from the development/drupal community on the progress we have made so far. Please let me know your thoughts!

Hey everyone,

Just wanted to hear your feedback on our newspaper website, The Harvard Voice, that was built entirely on Drupal. This is still a "beta" version,
with a lot of things, like our video player, yet to be finished. But we'd love to hear what you guys think about it.

Check it out here:
http://www.thehvoice.com/

Thanks!
M.

I posted a brief announcement of http://beta.cjonline.com/ to the main Drupal site's showcase forum:

http://drupal.org/node/390118

We anticipate replacing www.cjonline.com with the new site Thursday, if all goes well.

We'll need to do a more thorough writeup soon explaining what we're learning as we move all of our newspapers to Drupal.

Hello Everyone,
We are moving our newspaper site to drupal 6 and I would like to add our entire archive of stories from our Archive Ique to our new Drupal archive as well. Has anyone here had any experience with this or other transfer options? I am somewhat new to drupal so any tips on creating the archive, transferring stories from Baseview/Mediaspan archive, or the like would be so helpful. I am glad to be a part of this group and will post a writeup on our methods, setup, modules, success and pitfalls after this whole process is done. Lots o' learnin to do yet. Thanks Eric.

I am not a developer but a very hands-on subject matter expert.

Having been badly burnt by poor performance in the past, I am trying to pre-empt performance issues. Please suggest what is the ideal way to build the site: through taxonomy, content types (CCK) or what?

Expected load:
50-500 users logged in. Approximately 10 times as many anonymous. This may increase further.

Taxonomy:
1500 terms with ten or so cross references:

For example:
Vocabulary 1: all animals
Vocabulary 2: all countries

I've previously mentioned that we at Morris have been working on a standard configuration to support moving all of our newspaper sites to Drupal. We began by jumping into the deep end of the pool with our biggest and most complicated problem (oops, I mean newspaper): the Florida Times-Union. We threw the switch Wednesday morning and made the new Jacksonville.com site live.

We do plan to release code, templates and configurations, but we're not nearly ready to do that yet. We have to move on to rebuild the Topeka Capital-Journal's website, CJOnline.com, and evolve a standard setup that we're happy with. Meanwhile, I've been blogging about some of the details, and you can follow along.