Drupal 7 Release Party

Posted by RockSoup on December 20, 2010 at 7:03pm

Start:

2011-01-07 (All day) UTC

Organizers:

RockSoup

Event type:

User group meeting

Location: Elliott's Oyster House starting at 3pm

Between 3pm and 3:30pm CivicActions will buy the first 7 dozen oysters!

Ready and able to drive your most demanding project with ease.

Built for both high-end performance and ease of use.

A new era for open source content management is here.

It's that good.

Tell me more

After two and a half years of development by over hundreds of contributors, we proudly present Drupal 7: the best version of Drupal yet. With a refined and more intuitive user interface and hundreds of enhancements under the hood, Drupal has never been more powerful.

Easy to use

A totally revamped administrative interface lets you and your audience navigate functionality with ease.

Update modules and themes directly from within admin.
Flexible content

Define your own content types with the new Field API.

Add custom data fields not only to content but also to users, comments, taxonomies and more.
Images and files

Drupal 7 supports image handling out of the box.

You can mix private/public files and store things directly on alternative filesystems such as S3.
Built to scale

Support for advanced caching, master/slave replication, reverse-proxy and content delivery networks.

Handle more anonymous traffic with lazy sessions.

Time to party!

The release of Drupal 7 will be celebrated around the globe on the same day: January 7 2011. From large commercially funded parties to livingroom bring-your-own parties: the fun is everywhere.

Comments

World wide map of D7 release parties

Posted by jdwalling on December 31, 2010 at 3:45am

World wide map of release parties - http://www.drupal7releaseparty.org/
195 parties planned in 79 countries.

Confirmed Drupal 7 release date: January 5th, 2011 - http://drupal7releasedate.com/

According to regression analysis, there will be a negative number of critical bugs on Jan 5. http://drupal7releasedate.com/graph.php
Notabene: Fixing negative number bugs will require special debugging techniques involving tequila con gusano and jalapeño poppers,

postscript:
A lone voice predicts D7 bugfest http://buytaert.net/comment/reply/2061/31386
What say you?

Seven improvements for end users in Drupal 7

Posted by jdwalling on January 7, 2011 at 9:02pm

Seven improvements for end users in Drupal 7
from the Krimson team, Antwerp, Belgium
http://krimson.be/articles/2010/12/31/seven-improvements-end-users-drupal-7

postscript (Jan 7)
7 x 7 improvements in Drupal 7
slide presentation by Kristof Orts (Krimson)
http://prezi.com/vanymbi8z0vy/7-x-7-improvements-in-drupal-7/

Location

Posted by jhodgdon on January 4, 2011 at 3:48pm

To save everyone else the trouble of looking this up:

Elliot's is aparently at 1201 Alaskan Way, Pier 56 | Seattle, Wa 98101, a few blocks south of the Aquarium (at University Street or so).

See you Friday!

And regarding the bugfest prediction - I just have to say, having been involved in the development of Drupal 7, that this release has been MUCH more thoroughly tested and vetted than any Drupal release in the past. I am certain that there are bugs -- there are even some that we know about. But Drupal 7.0 is likely to be a much better and much more bug-free product than any of the 6.x releases, from the very beginning. This Hector person has no idea what he's talking about.

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