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Overview This module integrates the Hierarchical Select and User Terms projects to display the vocabulary elements as user friendly hierarchical select boxes on the user edit form.

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I have been writing a series of guest blog posts at GovFresh on Drupal in open government. GovFresh works to inspire government-citizen collaboration and build a more engaged democracy through Gov 2.0 best practices, open gov news, guides, TV, tech, people and official U.S. government feeds, all in one place. This month, I discuss how Drupal is close to being the perfect Gov 2.0 solution for savvy agencies – and soon perhaps a default solution for open government web initiatives in my post today entitled Drupal: The New Gov 2.0 Site Builder? Last month I wrote about how Drupal supports five of the most effective open government sites in Five Government Sites Using Drupal Effectively for Open Government Initiatives. Let me know what you think of these posts and what else you would like to see written about on this topic.

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The preliminary DrupalCon San Francisco session schedule was released yesterday, and I wanted to get an overview of all of the sessions and so I created the following graphic: As with every year, the schedule is bound to change a bit between now and the actual DrupalCon as there are still some conflicts and sessions to be confirmed, but this will at least start to give you an idea of some of the sessions that will be happening. For more details on these, then be sure to check out the full schedule here.

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Todd Nienkerk of Four Kitchens explains the concept of CSS grid systems and gives some tips on how to get started with working with the 960 grid system. He talks a bit about the 960 Grid System Drupal theme as developed by dvessel, who was actually able to get some of his content-first innovations ported back into the 960 framework. He also briefly mentions the 960 Gridder module that sets up a javascript overlay to verify that your design is properly lining up. He talks about the general trends of CSS grids and some specific resources that help with getting started on creating a grid-based design.

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Provides a TinyMCE plugin to provide an indented, syntax-highlighted (colorized) HTML source view. Much nicer than the built-in TinyMCE HTML source editor. Depends on the Wysiwyg module (http://drupal.org/project/wysiwyg), CodeMirror library (http://marijn.haverbeke.nl/codemirror/) and a correctly configured TinyMCE editor (versions 3 and up). Read INSTALL.TXT - you need to download the latest CodeMirror library before enabling the module. A similarly named project - Wysiwyg syntaxhighlighter integration (http://drupal.org/project/wysiwyg_syntaxhl) provides syntax highlighting that will be shown to end users - i.e. code snippets in <pre> elements. This one highlights the syntax in TinyMCE's HTML source view.

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Coming back from an excellent time (and an excellent talk, updated slides here) out at SxSw Interactive, I've been thinking once more as always about what it really takes to get Drupal "to the next level." Clearly there are multiple fronts we are proceeding along as a community. The amazing development work being done in core and contrib is obviously key, as are the boundary-pushing efforts to integrate more and better infrastructure for enterprise-scale use-cases, as is the continuing drive to test everything in an automated/continuous basis. However, I wanted to throw out yet another thing we should be thinking about as a development community: monitoring. Now to be clear, I'm not talking about what you can get out of Munin (although that's nice). It's good to know your server load, but what I really care about is my page execution time, my per-bootstrap memory consumption, my most-frequently run (or longest running) queries. Many of the pieces are there in terms of code already written into the devel module and others, but we don't have anything to compare with what other platforms are doing to expose the internal metrics of their application:read more

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The D7CX movement is based around the idea that while it's really important that we launch Drupal 7 by finishing off the critical issue queue it's also enormously important that we have our many contributed modules ready to go the day that Drupal 7 is launched. Drupal core is an amazing piece of software, but Drupal core without the many wonders of contributed modules and themes is nowhere near as much fun. GVS Hosts D7CX Sprint Day So, April 4th we are hosting a D7CX Sprint Day here at our office. We will provide power strips, internet, coffee, camraderie. You should bring your laptop, and some skills in testing out and upgrading Drupal's contributed modules. The sprint will run from 9:30 AM until about 6:00PM - but you are welcome to show up for any part of that time. Some possible tasks:read more

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NAT-ng comes from NAT module, a helper module used to maintain node-term relationships, i.e. when a node is created a taxonomy term is created automatically using its title and body in any associated vocabularies. This module also attempts to preserve hierarchical relationships where possible. Installation Unpack the nat_ng folder and contents in the appropriate modules directory of your Drupal installation. This is probably sites/all/modules/ Enable the NAT-ng module in the administration tools. If you're not using Drupal's default administrative account, make sure "Administer NAT-ng configuration" is enabled through access control administration. Visit the NAT-ng settings page and make appropriate configurations For 6.x: Administer > Site configuration > NAT-ng For 7.x: Administer > Structure > NAT-ng If you are moving from NAT module to NAT-ng you should rename 'nat' table to 'nat_ng' by executing this SQL query: RENAME TABLE nat TO nat_ng;

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Dive into Drupal a 1-day Seminar in Denver Presented by Growing Venture Solutions Date April 3rd 2010 9:30 AM - 5:30 PM Class Location The GVS offices 209 Kalamath St Unit 25 Denver, CO (Free parking) Class size To ensure a high quality class and a great student/teacher ratio, class is limited to 20 students. Cost Early Bird Price: $80 if you register and pay before March 23, 1010 Regular Price: $100 if you register and pay after March 23, 2010 Recommended Your own laptop with wireless internet capability.read more

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This module provides a new widget for the userreference CCK field type. Features Single autocomplete input for userreference field with multiple values Works similarly to taxonomy's free-tagging autocomplete (comma-separated) Credits This modules was created by dixon_ from NodeOne.

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This module uses the api of the tweet module to display a link to identi.ca Currently you need http://drupal.org/node/744712 to make this module working. Sadly this is on needs work

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As I've blogged about this before, work on localize.drupal.org's improved functionality was going on heavily in the past weeks. We launched a staging site with interface improvements almost a month ago, and kept adding small improvements on top of that. Given all the great feedback on the new user interface, it was time to finally launch it on the live site. Here is a rundown of the most important improvements. read more

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I recently created a module that uses the Google Analytics API to capture the top ten nodes of various content types by day, week, and all time. This is a great option for any site that needs to use caching, and can’t use the Statistics module. read more

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Wed, Mar 17, 2010 by Scott Page Content People on a mobile device are not ‘browsing’, but rather they are looking for a specific piece of information. Use the clearest and simplest language instead of a discursive style for site content. Divide pages into usable but limited size portions. If pages are too large they will take a long time to load. There are limitations on some mobile devices as to the largest page they can accommodate. Also, we don’t want our users taking a big hit on their (sometimes) limited data plans. On the other hand, if a page is too short then the user may require multiple page requests to read the relevant information. Scrolling The layout of the page should be such that the user can use a simple repeated scroll. The majority of mobile sites scroll vertically, so elements should be “stacked” in this way. Some content requires a secondary scroll, such as maps or some images, but should be avoided wherever possible.

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Turns Drupal into a multi-group email list. OG Mailinglist allows users to start new discussions by email and post comments on existing discussions by simply replying to emails. You get the best of both worlds: a browser-based discussion site and an email-based list. See the INSTALL.TXT file for system requirements and prerequisites. EXAMPLE: Suppose you have implemented Organic Groups and have three topical groups: "Web Programming", "Technical Help", and "Politics". Users normally go to the group page and click "Create Story" to start a discussion. With this module, a user simply emails "web-programming@yourserver.com" to start a new discussion. The subject becomes the story title, and the body becomes the story body. Using the regular Drupal notifications framework, all users in the group get an email telling them of the new discussion. These users would normally click the link to make comments. With this module, a user wanting to post a comment simply hits Reply and sends his or her comment. The reply mail also goes to the "web-programming@yourserver.com" address. In many ways, your Drupal site becomes a mailing list manager. Users never have to visit the site to start or participate in discussions. The module automatically detects new or deleted groups and is always up to date. SECURITY: read more

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I recently agreed to take on two new roles in the Drupal open-source project: maintainer of the core Search module, and documentation volunteer coordinator, specifically for the in-code API documentation that’s displayed on api.drupal.org. I’m excited to be part of helping Drupal 7 come together, but to make it really successful, we need your help to get Drupal 7 documented! We need to get the API and Module Update Guide documentation fixed up, so that module developers can make their modules available for Drupal 7, and we need to get the Handbook updated for Drupal 7 so that less expert users can figure out how to use it. Pretty much anyone can help in this effort. To get you started, we have a page listing what needs to be done, and both Ariane (arianek) and I (jhodgdon) are often available on IRC (#drupal-docs or #drupal-contribute). So feel free to jump in at any time! Also, if you’re headed for DrupalCon San Francisco in April, please consider coming for the Sunday or Thursday sprint days. We will have documentation sprints going on, and people available to get you started, point you to tasks, etc. Thanks!

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DXMPP creates a themeable browser chat client for an XMPP server. At its core, it uses the Strophe library to connect via long AJAX pulls (aka Comet) to an XMPP server. Users are automatically registered and associated w/ Drupal users, and it also automatically synchronizes User Relationships. By default, the themeable chat sessions are displayed via JavaScript in a fixed bottom position on the page. The roster expands, and an icon (via ImageCache, if enabled) representing each user will expand a chat box next to it. I've successfully gotten the module to integrate with ejabberd, although there are other alternatives, such as OpenFire, both licensed under GPL. After enabling and configuring your XMPP server, you'll also need to copy the Strophe library somewhere in your /sites/all/libraries folder. The module will automatically discover its location. Look here for more helpful links and documentation for the set-up and configuration, which can be difficult at best, especially when you're first starting out with XMPP. You may also consider joining the Drupal XMPP group. read more

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With Drupal developers becoming very popular on the job market, the demand for guidance of developers from other technologies becomes high. Last week, with the publication of the article Becoming a Drupal coder: a wise carreer move a clean document guiding to all Drupal information resources online and offline was published. It happens to be I'm doing a presentation this week targetted at developers working with another technologies. So I decided to publish my presentation slides. read more

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The list of selected sessions has been posted for DrupalCon San Francisco. We're frantically working on ironing out a few last conflicts in the schedule and confirming a few last speakers, but you are welcome to view our selections now. In a few days we will be allowing everyone with a DrupalCon ticket to create a personal conference schedule. You will be able to 'Sign Up' for your favorite sessions and design your ideal conference experience. If you haven't bought your ticket yet, Register now before ticket prices go up!

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One of the recurring requests in the Views Bulk Operations issue queue is to create a downloadable archive of files attached to nodes. While the general case is not trivial to solve, I was recently hired by research on BLOGS to write a more specific action: create a Zip archive of all images stored in imagefields. read more

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Jacine Rodriguez of Gravitek Labs talks about the Skinr module, which is a module that allows a Drupal theme to define a set of reusable and modular CSS styles and makes them available through the user interface. The Skinr module was inspired by the Block Theme, but extended to be more flexible. The Skinr module is the basis for Top Notch Themes' Fusion theme, which is demonstrated in some videos here. And since the recording of this podcast DrupalCon Paris, TNT has released a new website of Fusion-based themes at: http://fusiondrupalthemes.com

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ImageField Archive exposes a new action that integrates with Views Bulk Operations to allow downloading Zip archives of ImageFields contained in selected nodes. The admin has control over the naming scheme of the Zip archive, and of each file inside the archive - using the Token module. The user can choose which ImageCache preset(s) to download, including the original image. Sponsored by research on BLOGS.

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Make Garland Super (Keep the Garland brand) Supersede Garland (Time for something new)

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Use views to create lists of content in Drupal 7. This screencast demonstrates creating a view that has multiple displays, using the whole node or just fields in the list, customizing the way fields are displayed, and changing the HTML formatting of the list using the user interface. Video #6 in this Intro to Drupal series. read more

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We are going to perform some exciting updates on localize.drupal.org tomorrow, on March 17th, 2010, from 8am to 10am UTC (expected). In this timeframe, all of localize.drupal.org services will be down and inaccessible. None of the other drupal.org sites are affected, the main site, groups, api, etc. will be fully functional. We are sorry for any inconvenience caused, and thank you for your understanding.

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Start:  2010-05-08 09:00 - 2010-05-09 17:00 Europe/Berlin Organizers:  danielnolde reglogge Drupal Developer Days 2010 will be held on the campus Lothstr. of the Munich University of Applied Sciences from May 7 (pre-registration) until May 9 2010. Munich University of Applied Sciences is the official co-sponsor of our event and has made sure that the walls are painted in a very nice drupalish blue! (not true). Central location, connected and top modern: We are looking forward to welcoming you to the Campus Lothstraße of the Hochschule München from the 8th to 9th May 2010. The very modern location of our Co-Organizer offers all your conference needs. What you can expect from us are: technical up-to-date conference rooms for sessions and discussions, seminar rooms for Ad-Hoc-sessions, code-sprints and practical workshops as well as a welcoming foyer in a typical Drupal blue for the social part of the event. More at http://www.drupal-dev-days.de/ http://www.drupal-dev-days.de/en/infos/ http://www.drupal-dev-days.de/en/infos/accomodation Outside Eating place Inside Regional conference AttachmentSize Outside40.04 KB Eating88.51 KB Inside117.71 KB Luxembourg

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This is the best book I've reviewed for Drupal yet! This is a book that is bigger than the title gives it. Drupal 6 Attachment Views by J. Ayen Green will extend your Drupal foo to at least blue belt! read more

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Here at DrupalCon planning headquarters, we are getting really excited about the event. We are getting double digit increases in registrants daily and excitement is building. As we look at our schedule it looks like the programming is going to be awesome too! It will be the biggest DrupalCon so far, in a beautiful city. As we get closer to the conference, we have noticed that a number of you are members of the site, but have not yet bought your conference ticket. Ticket prices go up to $220 on the 26th of March, so make sure you complete this step!

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Video #5 in this Intro to Drupal series, I cover how you can create content types in Drupal 7 now that the field system is in place. read more

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I'm about to meet with a group of eight or nine IT administrators in the Faculty of Science at UBC, about collaboration on areas of mutual interest via common open-source platforms. Since the adoption of Drupal at UBC has in the last few years skyrocketed, I imagine that this will be one of the first opportunities for collaboration. Many individual and departments have of course been well-aware of the benefits of open source software, but it feels like the time is right to try for some economies of scale in terms of inter-department sharing and collaboration. The following is a list of actions I'd like to see happening over the near term. I'd love to hear from anyone are engaged in similar projects, about things that worked, things that didn't work so well, or anything else you read more

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This modules allows for the creation of two dimensional (2D) QR barcodes using the Google Charts API. QR codes are a popular type of two-dimensional barcode. They are also known as hardlinks or physical world hyperlinks. QR Codes store up to 4,296 alphanumeric characters of arbitrary text. This text can be anything, for example URL, contact information, a telephone number, even a poem! QR codes can be read by an optical device with the appropriate software. Such devices range from dedicated QR code readers to mobile phones. Learn more at http://code.google.com/apis/chart/docs/gallery/qr_codes.html. The module exposes an API for creating your own barcodes, a theme function for returning an image, and a block for displaying configurable node data. It plays well with Imagecache and Token. Credits Developed by Level OS in conjunction with ThinkShout. Client sponsorship to appear here when the site launches.

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This project is modeled after the CAS project to allow single sign-on integration with Atlasian's Crowd application. Requirements PHP 5 is required. This module also requires the use of the Services_Atlassian_Crowd PEAR package, which is available at http://pear.php.net/package/Services_Atlassian_Crowd/docs/0.9.5/. You must download and install this package in order for this module to work. Installation instructions are provided at the URL referenced above.

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Hey planet, Something strange happened where only I could see the embedded youtube video of the demo. Sorry for the confusion. If you were interested in a demo of the currently in progress media module, I've added a link to the demo. (It's' at the bottom): http://jacobsingh.drupalgardens.com/content/media-mania-multimedia-solution-drupal-7 Apologies, my webmaster will be flogged appropriately.Tags: drupalmediaplanet

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If you're thinking of taking my online seminar, "Setting Up, Customizing Drupal" on 29 March, use the discount code "DRUPALTOMG10" to get 10 percent off! Here's a direct link to get the discount. The discount code also made me realize: You can't spell Tom Geller without OMG!

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This modules allows you to display search results in real-time based on a custom query you provide. Search result sources may be from blog posts and comments, twitter messages and other online media outlets. This module utilizes Collecta's widget application and was developed by Plecco Technologies, Inc. for use by the Drupal community. Installation Please see current README.txt file Make sure to grant the proper user permissions. Assign block to a region. Configure the module (i.e. Site Configuration -> collecta). Credits Maintainer: Jason Stokes (jpstokes)

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This module is FeedAPI addon that adds ability to grab attached files from feeds. Grabber files are saved as node attachment using core Upload module. Module is plug and play and it has no settings or configuration page. Dependencies FeedAPI Grabber 6.x depends on the FeedAPI Upload module (Core optional) Installation 1. Copy FeedAPI Grabber folder to your sites/all/modules directory. Make sure you have enabled Upload, FeedAPI and FeedAPI Node modules. 2. Enable FeedAPI Grabber module in admin/build/modules. 3. Create new Feed from source which has attached files and they will be downloaded and saved as local attachments Credits Developed by Tamer Zoubi and Sponsored by Prosite

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Laura Scott of PingVision talks a bit about her DrupalCon Paris presentation on Functional Interaction Design in Drupal.

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Mon, Mar 15, 2010 by steve Many of us are using the 'LAMP' system (Linux, Apache, Mysql, and PHP) for web development. Session is usually used by websites to keep track of various user related information across some period of time. PHP provides session garbage collection mechanism that ensures old unused sessions to be cleared regularly. This will help to prevent performance degrade due to filling up of session data and to reduce the risk of session hijacking as well.

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What Does It Do? Headup enriches your content. Headup automatically identifies and highlights the important topics in your content. When your users mouse-over the highlights Headup displays articles, images, videos, Tweets, etc. related to the highlighted topic. Your Benefits: Increased Engagement - Nearly 10% of users interact with the widget 1.6 times/visit Longer Visits - Users engaged with Headup stay on your site an extra 1:19 minutes on average More Page Views - Customize Headup to show your related articles or content from your partners. Increased Brand Awareness - Customize Headup to display your logo, display your content, and match your design. Testimonials: „I'm very satisfied with Headup, its got amazing amounts of content“ Dameon Nelson - PWRshow.com „I love the widget. One of the coolest things I've come across, and so useful!“ James F. Riley - HorrorView.com „I like Headup so much, I’ve been getting my blogger friends to try it“ Dave Sztypuljak - HeyUGuys.co.uk „Headup has increased my hits and enhanced my reader's experience. I highly recommend it.“ Dan Brickley - HitDanBack.com „A must-have....It helps readers understand terms without having to leave the site“ Ruhani Rabin - RuhaniRabin.com „From the feedback thus far, everybody loves it“ Manny Brown – 7OutOf10.co.uk Version 1.9 Freshness- One of the most important changes in Headup’s performance has to do with how often we refresh the widgets that appear on your site. With this new version Headup is updated on your home-page every 2 hours, and on all your other pages, every day. Maps - Behavior of maps for location related topics has been improved. Headup shows maps for location related topics. Widget Customization - The positioning of your logo in the widget has been fixed. Data Improvements - Entity Extraction Capabilities improved. Translated into English this means we make less mistakes about what we choose to highlight, and how we refer to it. If you’re interested in this kind of stuff you might enjoy visiting our website’s spanking new Technology section: http://headup.com/Technology.php Visit our website at http://www.headup.com. For support tweet us @headup or email support[at]headup[dot]com. read more

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This module allows users that are assigned the permission 'forward to identi.ca', 'forward to status.net', 'forward to twitter' etc the ability (later option) to have their post title & url posted to any number of accounts on the sites identi.ca, [sitename].status.net, twitter.com microblogging services Development is supported by Appcoast.

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Importer module provides an easy way for creating database tables from various files.All variants of delimited text files are supports, and with an external class .xls files are also supported. With this module the user can also insert new data into the existing table, provided that the number of non-PK columns in the table match the number of columns in the file. If the ordering of the columns is not matched, the user can alter the ordering in witch the data is inserted. Types of the appropriate columns in the table and the file are displayed as means of ensuring that no sql error is generated (unintentionally). If the user has a field in the data that should serve as a link to files on file system, the procedure is as follows: - upload the data to the database ensuring that the appropriate field contains the file name of the file to witch it should point - zip all the files that are relevant to the table - upload the files to the server using "Batch file upload" feature of the module, making sure that appropriate table and field is selected After this, the data in the chosen field should be updated with the relative path to the uploaded files on the server. The uploaded files are put in the directory of user choice under the files/ directory (it has to be created by this module). read more

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The plural formula configurator sets sensible defaults for plural forms when adding languages and lets you edit the plural formula for all languages on the web interface. Drupal does not expose these fields for editing due to the complexity of plural forms. You should make sure to only give permissions to edit language details to those, who will likely not screw up your plural formulas.

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The Theme Rules module provides actions to switch themes. See: #417664: Action: switch theme for related discussion. See: #463820: Condition: browser user agent for an example use case. Credits: Madhusudhan Srinivasa of QED42 is the co-creator of this module.

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Start:  2010-03-27 09:30 - 16:30 UTC Organizers:  Joyita develCuy Regional conference english below DrupalCamp Perú Verano 2010 se llevará a cabo éste 27 de Marzo, de 9:30 a 16:30, en el Auditorio Ollantaytambo de la Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad Ricardo Palma, Lima - Perú. ¡ Ésta vez en dos auditorios, No puedes faltar ! Costo: Llevar snack o gaseosa ¡ INSCRÍBETE YÁ ! Programa Instalando Drupal en Ubuntu y Windows - Freddy Cahuas Cómo hacer tu primer módulo en Drupal 6 - Fernando P. García ¿Qué es eso llamado Drupal? - Freddy Cahuas Drupal para hacer empresa - Cesar Soplin Sanchez Drupal, Scrum y CMMI - Juan José Cárdenas Formación en Drupal, contribuciones y otras hierbas - Ricardo Chang Primeros Pasos: desarrollo y mantenimiento de módulos en Drupal - Danny Montalvo Administración de Portales con Drupal - Juan Camilo Lema Como construir un "Feature" para Open Atrium - Ian Ward Principios y estrategias de la colaboracion - Luis A. Nuñez Sistemas de eventos en Drupal - Nicolas Borda Creación de una galería de fotos al estilo "Facebook" - Pedro Pachas Personalizando la apariencia de cada tipo de contenido en Drupal - Pedro Pachas Más información Auspician Social Media SAC Softwin Perú BusinessTech Organizan LINURP Drupal Perú Apoya Datanoia.com ¡ INSCRÍBETE YÁ ! -- ENGLISH VERSION -- DrupalCamp Perú Verano 2010 will be held March 27, 2009, 9:30 to 16:30, at the Ollantaytambo Auditorium of Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad Ricardo Palma, Lima - Perú. ¡ This time in two rooms, You can't be absent ! Cost: A snack or soda bottle ¡ SUBSCRIBE NOW ! Agenda Installing Drupal on Ubuntu and Windows - Freddy Cahuas How to make your first module in Drupal 6 - Fernando P. García What is that thing called Drupal? - Freddy Cahuas Drupal for doing enterprise - Cesar Soplin Sanchez Drupal, Scrum and CMMI - Juan José Cárdenas Instruction in Drupal, contributions and other herbs - Ricardo Chang First Steps: development and maintenance of modules in Drupal - Danny Montalvo Administration of portals with Drupal - Juan Camilo Lema How to build a "Feature" for Open Atrium - Ian Ward Principles and strategies of collaboration - Luis A. Nuñez Events system in Drupal - Nicolas Borda Creation of a photograph gallery as in "Facebook" - Pedro Pachas Customizing the appearance of every content type in Drupal - Pedro Pachas Sponsors Social Media SAC Softwin Perú BusinessTech Organized by LINURP Drupal Perú With special help from Datanoia.com ¡ SUBSCRIBE NOW ! Local User Group Organizers

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The WFS module will aim to provide a Web Feature Service implementation around Views and Drupal-stored geodata, akin to how the KML module exposes data. This is interesting for users who must display many points on an OpenLayers map or complex data that would be poorly rendered with SVG/Canvas/VML. Essentially, GeoServer can pull node data from Drupal via WFS and display the points as a rendered image. Then the user can interact with the map by clicking and making WMS/WFS queries for point information.

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Module integrating Polish payment system Dotpay.pl with Ubercart. Dotpay (http://www.dotpay.pl/index.php?content=&newlang=en) is one of the major payment gateways in Poland. It supports both companies and individual clients.

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Backport of some Drupal 7 APIs and features to be used by Drupal 6 modules. It will allow to start using that API for new Drupal 6 modules and a much easier migration to Drupal 7. Note: As some people pointed out there are already other modules like DBTNG and Drupal Queue. This one may become a wrapper for that APIs. Currently available: Database API (PDO) Code registry Queue operations API drupal_static() Entity API This module will allow to start using some of the best of Drupal 7 enhancements from Drupal 6 modules, like the new Database API or the code registry. Function names are basically the same as Drupal 7 but when a name conflicts with a Drupal 6 api function it will be prefixed with d7_. Example: d7_db_query(), db_select(). It will parse your module's files declared on the module info by using files[], just as Drupal 7. Then you can just use the classes and interfaces. read more

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This module adds the possibility to evaluate PHP code as a Context condition. Notes Note that module only should be used in rare cases where a custom condition module doesn't make sense. Keeping code out of the database is always best practice! Also note that giving users the possibility to administer contexts is also giving them the possibility to execute PHP code. So use this module with caution! Dependencies Context 3.x Credits This module is maintained by dixon_ from NodeOne. Credits also goes to vgarvardt for the initial version of this module over at: #724586: PHP code as condition.

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Rawr is a growl style notification for Drupal messages. To implement, you need to add the html for the Drupal messages into your theme and then simply turn on the module. Add the following to your page.tpl.php:   <?php if ($show_messages && $messages): ?>    <div id='console'>      <?php if ($show_messages && $messages): print $messages; endif; ?>    </div>  <?php endif; ?> Now you have a nice way to get the status messages out of your design. Similar modules Here is a comparison chart outlining the featuresets of several modules similar to Growl Messages: http://groups.drupal.org/node/51088 This project is sponsored by Slantview Media

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Drubuntu is a Drush script that sets up a highly functional pre-configured Drupal development environment on Ubuntu, and allows you to rapidly add, install and remove platforms and sites. read more

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This module is a Views style plugin. It works as image gallery and display images as Space Slide Show. It integrates Spacegallery - jQuery plugin. The good practice is to use this module with a view that displays image fields ( with unified image presets ).

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For now the dev version should be pretty stable. Will look at making a release in a bit. This seems to only work with primary and secondary links. As of right now this seems to be a limitation of drupal. This module will set the active-trail class on menu items if the menu items link falls within the current url. For example if you are at http://yoursite.com/guides/category/guide1 Menu Items with these paths will get the active-trail class on them. guides guides/category guides/category/guide1 Thanks to Menu Trails from where I took a lot of this code from. To add this functionality for menus other than primary and secondary links you can add this to your template.php file in your theme. <?php /** * Generate the HTML output for a menu item and submenu. * * @ingroup themeable */ function phptemplate_menu_item($link, $has_children, $menu = '', $in_active_trail = FALSE, $extra_class = NULL) { $class = ($menu ? 'expanded' : ($has_children ? 'collapsed' : 'leaf')); if (!empty($extra_class)) { $class .= ' '. $extra_class; } $link_array = explode('href="', $link); $link_array = explode('"', $link_array[1]); $link_path = trim($link_array[0], '/'); $current_path = drupal_get_path_alias($_GET['q']); if (substr($current_path, 0, strlen($link_path)) == $link_path) { read more

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The Drupal.org redesign continues to progress. This is great news and a morale boost for everyone involved. Since our front page post on February 3... Over 20 enthusiastic new volunteers have come forward to lend their expertise. Several experienced professional Drupal project managers have been added to the project management team We have produced two new theming documentation. This will help the theme implementation teams standardize their implementations. See details further on. Contributors can sign into the new *.staging.drupal.org subsites (groups, association, api, localize, etc.) in additional to the main site now. We continue to need expert resources with knowledge of drupal.org data sources to assist with custom Solr development Trellon has checked in an alpha dashboard and we now have a beta version of the main Download and Extend page. Once the major blockers are cleared, we will push forward with engaging the MVP implementation volunteers that signed up last year. Our next sprint will be on Friday, March 19th from 8am PST/4pm GMT to 12pm PST, 8PM GMT. We aim to focus on theming, and completing the search generated blocks. The sprint will be held on IRC in #drupal-infrastructure. read more

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Kind of a minimal green/black on white design, table-less, CSS driven, 3-coloumn, fixed 1024 size, centered theme that aims technical sites. Interactive elements (links, buttons...) are very visual responsive. Do not use it with more than 6 (or so) primary menu entries. Originally written for a community project on Google's Go language in Germany, now contributed to the community. You find a live installation at http://www.gommunity.de/ read more

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A blue-green alga like design, table-less, CSS driven, 3-coloumn, fixed 1024 size, centered theme that aims news sites. Originally written for a political project in Germany, now contributed to the community. You find a live installation at http://www.poliblogger.de/ read more

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"Shaken, not stirred" theme is nice, clean and modern drupal theme. It was designed and developed by ADCI LLC team for Drupal community and every member ;) Fixed width (870px) Tableless (css based) Tested in firefox 3+, chrome, opera9.x, safari3, ie6+ View "Shaken, not stirred" demo

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This is a port of the popular jQ theme from Wordpress. jQ is a clean theme with a div based, fixed width, 2-column layout (content+right sidebar). The original wordpress theme was created by devolux.nh2.me. The drupal port was developed by Zyxware Technologies. The theme has been tested in Firefox 3.5, Chromium 5.0, Opera 10.5 (all in Ubuntu). The theme is fully XHTML 1.0 and CSS 2.0 compliant. Let us know the compatibilities in other browsers and we can update the list here. You can report all issues related to the theme here at the issue queue and we will take it upstream with the original theme developer.

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This is a port of the popular iCandy theme from Wordpress. iCandy is a clean theme with a div based, fixed width, 2-column layout (content+right sidebar). The original wordpress theme was created by nischalmaniar. The drupal port was developed by Zyxware Technologies. read more

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yaSt is a Framework subtheme. yaSt is a Facebook look theme, clean and minimalist. yaSt es un subtema de Framework, limpio y minimalista con un aspecto parecido a Facebook Features yaSt features: Sidebars can be placed on several modes: only left bar, only right bar, left and right bars, two bars on the left or two bars on the right. Sidebars and container width can be customized. Support for: Logo Name Slogan Mission Node user picture Comment user picture Search Favicon Secondary links Primary links Regions: Left sidebar Right sidebar Header Footer Content Suckerfish primary links menu (dropdowns menus) read more

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"News" is a theme we have been working on for a while now. It aims to be a blank but finished newspaper theme that works best with the panels module. The theme features a white layout with black text, aim is to be entirely and only black red and white although this is easy to change with css. Hopefully this will be a great starting theme for newspapers to use. News is currently only 1 column because it completely depends on panels. That however might change in the future as the project grows.

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Technorati and Ingboo have partnered together to provide an all new kind of subscription experience for Technorati content, including tagged posts. Look for a blue Ingboo icon for a full range of subscription options. Feeds are also available for: Hottest Blogosphere Posts Latest Original Articles from Technorati The Technorati Blog We also have channel feeds, writer feeds, and editorial tag feeds, which can be found on their respective pages.

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Download Drupal 6.16 Download Drupal 5.22 Drupal 6.16 and 5.22, maintenance releases which fix issues reported through the bug tracking system, as well as security vulnerabilities, are now available for download. Drupal 6.16 also fixes other smaller issues. Upgrading your existing Drupal 5 and 6 sites is strongly recommended. There are no new features in these releases. For more information about the Drupal 6.x release series, consult the Drupal 6.0 release announcement, more information on the 5.x releases can be found in the Drupal 5.0 release announcement. Drupal 5 will no longer be maintained when Drupal 7 is released. Upgrading to Drupal 6 is recommended. read more

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Drupal 6 Attachment Views, by me, J. Ayen Green, is my second title from Packt Publishing. It is aimed at Drupal web site developers who want to build more functionality and interaction into their views, but aren’t ready quite yet to take on panels. As a reader of drupal.org, you can receive a 15% discount (see below) and benefit the Drupal Association! I wrote this to be a fun, informative, hands-on learning guide. It uses actual case study that was developed in parallel with the book’s writing. This guide presents purposeful and interactive examples that build on each other. Clear, concise instructions and practical examples help you to learn quickly to use this exciting feature of views. read more

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This minimalist Drupal theme inspired by Vigilance theme of thethemefoundry.com. Minimalist theme is clean and very minimalist; with two columns and fixed width layout. Minimalist theme running perfectly in every browser; very suitable for blog site, although not close the possibility for use other than the blogging purposes. Features: Two column layout Tableless design for SEO Fixed width layout Four regions (Content top, Sidebar, Content bottom and Footer) CSS 2.1 and XHTML 1.0 validated Supports custom logo and favicon (logo could be a banner that extends the length of about 930px) User picture in profile, comments and post Very fast theme Customizable Theme developed by Danang Probo Sayekti.

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Start:  2010-03-13 08:00 - 17:00 America/Chicago Organizers:  jlmeredith dougvann Regional conference Drupal Camp Nashville registrations are open! Come join us for a full day of Drupal goodness! Capacity is limited, so sign up now! More details coming soon!! We are also seeking sponsors for the event. We have three sponsorship breakdowns at $1000 / $500 / $250. We are tight on time as we are only 2 weeks out, but the need is small! We only need one of each to meet the needs of the camp. If you can help, please get in contact with us by visiting http://drupalcampnashville.com/contact . http://drupalcampnashville.com/ Missouri

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Over 400 session submissions have been submitted for DrupalCon San Francisco, which will be held April 19-21, 2010. We need your help in deciding which of those sessions will be included in the conference program. Please come review the list of sessions and vote on the ones you'd like to see most. Voting ends Monday, March 1st at 23:59 PST. DrupalCon is a community-driven event. You've shared with us a vast array of exciting new ideas, proven recipes for success, case studies, best practices, new solutions to old problems, and other gems of knowledge. Now help us narrow down the selection. Your opinions are what shapes what happens at DrupalCon. Remember, every vote counts! If you're a business, organization, or individual interested in helping to sponsor DrupalCon San Francisco, opportunities are still available. Contact us via the Web site, via e-mail at fundraising@drupal.com or phone at 415-894-9320 today! read more

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The Augusta Chronicle, the flagship newspaper of Morris Publishing Group, recently relaunched its website on the outstanding Drupal framework. Morris first began using Drupal in 2005 with the launch of BlufftonToday.com, a blog-centric community website coupled with a free daily newspaper. In 2006 it adopted Drupal for both news and blogs at SavannahNow.com, the website of the Savannah Morning News. Both newspapers won Digital Edge awards for innovation in user participation. Since then, the digital media arm of Morris Communications, Morris DigitalWorks, has developed a robust digital newspaper platform built on Drupal 6, to eventually power all 13 of its daily newspapers. Morris also uses Drupal for its radio stations and Skirt.com, a national specialty site for women. Reader Participation Morris has made a commitment to make their online platform a dynamic arena for reader participation and contributions. Readers are encouraged to comment on stories and blogs, and, on some papers, are encouraged to create their own blogs on the site. Journalists are expected to post news online immediately and to interact with the public, and they need to be able to do it without learning HTML or tools such as FTP. These requirements made Drupal a natural choice. read more

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Drupal 7 is moving along nicely, and is becoming increasingly stable. We just released a second alpha release, fixing a number of critical bugs, following our initial alpha release in January. Alpha releases are to give Drupalistas something to download and test, so they can report and help fix bugs. When will we switch to betas? We will switch to betas when the upgrade path from Drupal 6 to Drupal 7 is working. Once we hit beta, we will become increasingly strict about accepting any more changes and we'll also commit to making HEAD to HEAD upgrades work. Finally, we'll start rolling release candidates once the number of critical bugs is zero (or close to zero). To help us focus on critical bugs, we're working on adding a 'major' severity level to our ticketing system, making the options 'critical', 'major', 'normal' and 'minor'. 'Major' bugs would be really bad, but not necessarily block a release. For example, bugs that don't prevent Drupal from working, or that only affect a fraction of the Drupal population would be prioritized for fixing in follow-up releases. Critical bugs are those that badly break Drupal, or that are a major regression compared to Drupal 6. read more

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In early 2009, the Archdiocese of Saint Louis determined that it needed to upgrade its website, mostly for security concerns. After investigating a move from Joomla! 1.0.x to Joomla! 1.5.x, the Archdiocese determined it would be more cost effective and a more future-proof decision to migrate the over 49 individual Joomla! sites that comprised www.archstl.org into a single Drupal installation. This upgrade/migration provides many benefits, not the least of which are a better end-user experience, a better administrative experience, and much improved page load and search indexing performance. In addition, Drupal's structure and content presentation provide much greater flexibility in design and information structure, as well as SEO (search engine optimization) than other popular CMS frameworks that were investigated. read more

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Our first Drupal 7 alpha version was released just over a month ago. Today, we're proud to announce the release of the second alpha version of Drupal 7.x for your further testing and feedback. The first alpha announcement provided a comprehensive list of improvements made since Drupal 6.x, so in this announcement we'll concentrate on how you can help ensure that Drupal 7 is released as soon as possible and is as rock solid as the previous Drupal releases that you've grown to love! The most notable change for developers is moving $form['#field'] to $form_state. This makes field forms more resilient to form_alters and debugging became a lot less tedious. Comment body became a field and new fields can be added to comments through the field UI module. And congratulations to the docs team and associated helpers for their outstanding work in enhancing and correcting lots of API documentation this release. We've also fixed a number of issues since the previous alpha, most importantly one that caused all files to be deleted after six hours. Oops. :P This is a great time to reiterate... It is important to note that this alpha version should not be used for production sites. We've resolved most errors reported so far, but there are outstanding known issues (including security issues) and most likely some problems that have not been reported as of yet. It is expected that there will be at least one more alpha version followed by a few beta versions and at least one release candidate before Drupal 7.0 is finalized. You can help us reach the final release date sooner by testing this alpha and providing feedback. read more

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#D7CX: I pledge that Chamfer will have a full Drupal 7 release, most likely prior to the release of D7. Chamfer is a fully configurable theme that's easy on the eyes. It also has some nice JavaScript in the settings pages that allow you to turn different aspects of chamfer on and off. It's also got a colorize-like field-set system of changing everything about the theme. The theme gets its name from the little edging effect applied throughout the website (hoary for CSS!). Feature list: Supports 1, 2-left, 2-right or 3 column layouts! Cross browser compliant Ability to change most color aspects through theme settings Comes with some default templates that look nice out of the box Ability to turn logos on and off Implements Logo as the header / banner image of the site Ability to turn content border on and off Implements Super-fish for Top drop down support Support for the Jquery Color-picker module to make color selection a lot easier! Future features: More packaged color sets More granularity in super fish colors Ability to configure what blocks to display as the default style or the specialized style (currently its just block-id 3 as a test) read more

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This is a working space for the development of the Bartik theme. We'd love to have you help! We especially need people who know CSS. If you don't know how to help out or where to jump in, please ask. There are a lot of people who can and will teach you. The goal: to get Bartik into D7 core. What needs to be worked on: http://drupal.org/project/issues/bartik?status=All&categories=All The latest code: http://drupal.org/node/721350/release Demo site: http://bartik.milkweedmediadesign.com The original discussion about Bartik: http://drupal.org/node/683026 Issues with Drupal 7 that affect Bartik (and need work): http://drupal.org/project/issues/search/drupal?issue_tags=Bartik The best place to discuss in real-time and ask for help in figuring out how to contribute: on IRC in #drupal-contribute http://drupal.org/irc Some directions on how to checkout the code and commit your work back to Bartik. http://drupal.org/node/721350/cvs-instructions/HEAD

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I'm excited to announce that the Google Summer of Code is happening again in 2010! Last year Drupal went a perfect 18-for-18, meaning that all of our students passed the SoC, and we even got a "bonus student" who worked on Drupal module for the Creative Commons. Please help get the SoC started by joining the Google Summer of Code 2010 group, and by posting project ideas to the group! Student Proposals should be marked as such in the "Project Type", as the students will get first dibs on that project idea once the voting starts. All other project ideas should be marked "Community Proposal" and will be open to all SoC applicants. If you are a student thinking of applying to the program I highly suggest you do the following things: Carefully read the GSoC 2010 FAQ Sign up for an account on Drupal.org and fill in your profile information Ask questions here or in #drupal, and start looking for potential mentors And if you are thinking about becoming a mentor, please do! Not only is the SoC a great way to get more involved in the community and/or groom the next Drupal superstars, but it's not a ton of work and is a whole lotta fun! There are also many other ways to get involved, including: student outreach, mentor and student checkins, group administration, project reviewers, and more. Please contact me if you'd like to get involved! (And if you'd like to help with the application, it would be great to have help) Drupal's application will need to be submitted by March 12th, and proposals will begin being accepted on March 18th. Please see the SoC Timeline for more information about other due dates. Google Summer of Code 2010

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web110 is a clean simple and lightweight theme developed by Thomas Lattimore for Drupal 7 (tested in alpha 1 release). It complies to W3C's standards for XHTML + RDFa and CSS level 2.1. The theme is a two column, fixed width, 960px wide, tableLESS layout that is great for a simple blog or personal site. This theme is excellent "right out of the box", and also is simple enough that it could be built upon with great ease. read more

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Drucer theme originally designed on http://themeforest.net/item/producer-business-and-portfolio-theme/81854 and ported to drupal by http://web-mee.co.cc/ (me :) For some reason I can't update the new release(1.1) to the CVS...I hate CVS!!! You can download the latest release from my site until I fix the problem. Change Log: V 1.1 # a lot of unwanted code was removed; # the additional block areas were removed because of design conflicts; # the space where the breadcrumbs and page title is, was reduced; # the page title was placed on the right of the breadcrumbs; # the node/teaser style of Sky theme was removed, again design conflicts; # the sidebar was a bit modified; # all .js files were removed, no need for them; # and some small code modifications... V 1.0 # Initial release More help and info on my site.

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Motion theme originally designed by 85ideas.com and ported to drupal by http://topdrupalthemes.net. Features * Primary Links * Comment User Picture * Search box * Site slogan * Site mission * Site footer * 2 columns

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Celestial is designed to be easy to use and easy on the eyes whilst still being generic enough to be used for a multitude of website possibilities. Basic Features: XHTML 1.0 Strict and CSS 2.1 validated 1 or 2 column layout Fixed width layout Primary and secondary links The 1.x branch of this theme will depend on Fusion as its base theme.

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From the earliest days of the Internet, many firms have tried to build community sites for medical professionals. Large sums of money were expended on technologies, and expectations around these feature-rich sites became very high. So when a longstanding client, Jobson Healthcare Information (JHI) in New York, wanted to build a community website for America’s 200,000 pharmacists, we at ISL Consulting took it on as a welcome challenge. Given JHI's strong position in the market – they publish the most popular professional magazine for US pharmacists – we knew there would be no shortage of domain expertise or marketing prowess. The question was whether Drupal would permit us to build an affordable yet world-class website with everything from e-commerce to personalized pages, an elaborate friend activity notification system and other community features medical professionals have come to expect from professional sites. read more

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Simpler is a simple, minimalist, clean, tableless, multi column and fluid width theme. This theme is designed to pamper the reader, this can be seen from the choice of font family, font size and color. View the Simpler theme demo site. This simple and clean Drupal theme also designed for cross-browser compatibility; work perfect in Firefox, IE 6, IE 7, IE 8, Safari, Opera and Google Chrome. Features: 1, 2, or 3 column layout Tableless design for SEO Fluid width layout CSS 2.1 and XHTML 1.0 validated Supports custom logo and favicon User picture in profile, comments and post Primary links and secondary links 9 regions (header, left sidebar, right sidebar, content top, content bottom, bottom first, bottom middle, bottom last and footer) Support other features like site name, slogan, mission and custom search box Theme developed by Danang Probo Sayekti. read more

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modernbird is a clean, modern theme for clean, modern Drupal 6.x websites. It features a main content area, a featured media box, and a section for sidebar items or icons and is fully HTML 5 compliant. read more

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Start:  2010-06-05 (All day) - 2010-06-06 (All day) UTC Regional conference Drupal Romania Association (http://drupal.org.ro) currently organizes its first major event, the Timisoara 2010 Drupalcamp, taking place during 5th and 6th of June, 2010. Registration is now open, and we will launch the call for submissions soon. The event is organized in partnership with the "Politehnica" University of Timisoara. Timisoara is situated in western Romania, at the border with Hungary and Serbia and has easy access from all CE European countries. We are prepared for 350+ participants, and expecting users and developers from Romania, Hungary, Ukraine, Serbia, Bosnia, Croatia and other Central and East European states, as well as speakers from the global Drupal Community. You can now register on http://drupalcamp.ro. Hope to see you in June! Drupalcamps Europe [international & english]

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Drupal 6 Performance Tips, by Trevor James and TJ Holowaychuk, is a newly-published title from Packt Publishing aimed at Drupal beginners, developers, designers, and webmasters who utilize the Drupal content management system to create robust websites. It provides crucial performance-related information for Drupal users of all experience levels, including module contributors, webmasters who simply configure and maintain Drupal websites, and even themers. The book contains basic and advanced topics on Drupal performance that will appeal both to the Drupal novice and the advanced user or developer. With this book you will learn how to maximize and optimize your Drupal 6 framework using best practice performance solutions and tools. The book covers how to vastly improve performance through upgrades, caching, configuring and optimization using core and contributed modules. As a reader of drupal.org, you can receive a 15% discount (see below) and benefit the Drupal Association! read more

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This is a grunge Drupal theme in series of Admire_ Drupal themes by Worthapost.com. Its a high quality pure grunge theme that is incredibly stable in dynamic background images in different browsers. Features: Drop-down menu. Flexible width of content regions to adjust width depending on side blocks. Top bar with secondary links and Login/Register links. These links are well configured yhey will change into My Account | Sign out if user is logged in. They are also compatible to adjust links if alias are made for login and register links. RSS image links on Top bar. You can set external feed URL like feedburner. Different block regions have different styles to give your website a great appearance. Amazing comment section. Cross Browser compatible including IE6. Valid XHTML markup. Check this Blocks: Sidebar First Sidebar Last Right sidebar dark Content Top Content Bottom Footer Ad blocks: Advert - big top Banner read more

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Vital Signs 2.0 (VS) is an educational citizen science project consisting of an extensive Drupal website created by Image Works in Portland, Maine for the Gulf of Maine Research Institute (GMRI) and funded by the Hewlett Foundation and a generous in-kind donation of services by Image Works. The VS project provides students, teachers, scientists, and citizen scientists with the tools to monitor environmental conditions throughout Maine. The project includes a structured central data repository, tools and protocols for identifying, mapping, tracking and analyzing the occurrence and spread of invasive species into and around the state. Beginning in fall 2009, these resources and supporting programs are being utilized on the laptop computers provided to all Maine middle school students and will be made available to all interested parties starting early 2010. The project's site is composed of 13 original custom Drupal modules, approximately 2 dozen Drupal core modules, more than 40 contributed modules, Google Maps and other web services. In order to give back to the community that made this project possible, we are releasing the full source code for the website under the GPL license and adding it to the Drupal.org project repository. read more

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Vineyard 1.0 -- A Drupal theme The vision of Vineyard is to not look like an easily identifiable Drupal theme. Many Drupal themes can be distinguished by a heavy "rectangular" feel, when the page is broken into a header area and left and right sidebars with strong separating lines. In Vineyard there is only one background color and no lines dividing the page into parts. If needed margins and empty space is used to separate blocks and content from each other (think Google vs Yahoo). To further "break" the feeling of a "rectangular" layout, the top edge of both sidebars and main area are set at different heights. Vineyard was originally created as a Drupal 4.7 theme for www.openlife.cc. In 2009 the site was upgraded to Drupal 6, and as part of that the same look was recreated from scratch as a Drupal 6 theme, using the standard Bluemarine theme as starting point. Some special tricks used in the theme: Normal links (but not menu's and other Drupal generated links) are preceded by a small grape icon added from CSS. The grape can of course be substituted with some other icon. Similarly there is a background image which is positioned relative to the browser window, ie it does not scroll with the page. The default image is a group of grapes and a leaf. Of course this image can also be easily changed. read more

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Conch is a beautiful Drupal theme developed in vintage style which will become an excellent basis for any Drupal-powered website. The theme maintains three column layout and is very easy to use. It is customizable allowing you to choose between different menu styles and color schemes. The theme is developed by SymphonyThemes. Features - * 1, 2, or 3 column layout * 12 collapsible block regions * 3 menu styles: CSS, Split and ST. * Compliant to IE6/7, Opera, Chrome, Safari, and Firefox

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Paper is a table-less Drupal theme, provided by templatemo, clean, green, and valid. Cross-browser tested.

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Just a few years ago Drupal.org was maintained by a small team of insiders. Now, we are making major changes to the site using the community's many developers and themers. This update provides the Drupal community our implementation redesign progress, where we've run into challenges, and provide information about our future plans. The following update provides insight into: Our progress so far The present focus of the implementation and management team Where help is needed from the community 1. A Redesign Progress Report The Drupal.org redesign is an effort started in 2007 to make Drupal.org meet the needs of the growing Drupal community and showcase the power of the Drupal software. In 2008, an exciting and visionary new design for Drupal.org was completed by Mark Boulton Design and the community. read more

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Brooklyn is a zen sub-theme designed specifically for blogging, but useful for various types of sites. It has a fixed width, 2 column, centred layout. It requires the zen theme to function, and it's strongly recommended to have the following: Imagefield module enabled, with a field for each node type you are using called field_image. Imagecache, with two presets: blog (scale and crop: 500x333) and avatar (scaled and crop: 48x48) Some image manipulation skills to modify the site logo to suit your site. Currently the theme has support for: Nodes Comments Admin pages Polls Most areas should work fine out of the box, but the above have been tested. Any requests for additional theming will be considered. The theme is developed by Simon at Design while we sleep and I can be contacted for majorly extending this theme or other Drupal design or development. There is a demo too.

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Table-less, valid XHTML/CSS theme, provided by Styleshout Cross-browser compatible; IE.x, Safari, Chrome, Firefox ..etc

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Start:  2010-06-13 08:00 - 18:00 America/Indianapolis Organizers:  dougvann Regional conference A call for presenters AND attendees PLZ reply with ideas and comments. All input welcome! The organizers of SouthEast LinuxFest have asked me to volunteer to organize a FREE one day Drupalcamp to take place on day2 of the SouthEast LinuxFest. http://www.southeastlinuxfest.org/ WHEN: Sunday June 13th WHERE: Spartenburg Marriott at the Renaissance http://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/SPAMC?groupCode=slxslxa&app=resvlink&fromDate=6/10/10&toDate=6/14/10 Spartenburg SC TRAVEL: The hotel is 10 min away from Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport (GSP) which serves most air lines. REGISTRATION: Opens soon and will be on www.southeastlinuxfest.org We can have as many as three tracks and we have a FULL DAY to fill up. The response I get from potential presenters and attendees will aid in determining how many tracks we will have. This is a group effort. Chime in and be a part of the 1st DrupalCamp in SC! If you will attend this event PLZ register as attending on this post so I can get a preliminary idea of the initial interest level. :-) Thanks! - Doug Vann - Drupal Developer & Trainer for www.DuoConsulting.com - http://www.dougvann.com My Blog - Skype: douglas.h.vann Skype Me - http://www.twitter.com/dougvann Tweet Me Macon GA

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This theme is developed by Worthapost. This is multi-purpose theme that suits almost all type of websites. We have integrated color module so that you can have freedom of choosing your favorite color for your website. Features: - Integerated Color module. - Fluid width (default), Fixed width. - Fixed width (with custom width option). Various block regions: - Right Sidebar - Sub-Right 1 - Sub-Right 2 - Above content - Below Content - Bottom 1 - Bottom 2 Visit our website to rate and comment on this theme. Also see our premium themes for Drupal.

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After a highly successful Drupal deployment for the American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP) national website, the ASMP decided to again use Drupal for their next project: Digital Photography Best Practices and Workflow, or dpBestflow for short. DP Bestflow is a Library of Congress-funded initiative to provide an all-encompassing resource for digital photography best practices. The ASMP once again teamed up with Chicago's Grillo Group for graphic design, and Philadelphia-based web development firm Context to perform the Drupal implementation. The most impressive part of the site, however, is the immense amount of rich, useful content, the majority of which is the handiwork of digital photography gurus Richard Anderson (author of Digital Photography Best Practices and Workflow) and Peter Krogh (author of The DAM Book: Digital Asset Management for Photographers). read more

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After a lot of work, waiting, staging, and such I am proud to announce the addition of contributed projects to the automated testing system. Contributed projects may now take advantage of the same system that Drupal core developers have been using for over a year with great success. The deployment comes quickly after the recent 2.0 launch in late November of 2009. In addition to adding support for contributed project testing a number of other features have been added, most notably: Coder and Coder Tough Love review support. General e-mail notifications - the devlist mailing list will get an e-mail when Drupal core breaks. A number of UI/workflow improvments on drupal.org. Grouping of reviews by type or plugin to make room for a cleaner multiple database testing workflow. Additional administrative tools for qa.drupal.org and testing clients. Views RSS feed plugin for aggregation of test events and results. For an example of the test results, please take a look at the current Drupal 7 (HEAD) results or one of our beta contributed project results, such as poormanscron. read more

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The San Francisco DrupalCon organizing committee is happy to announce that session submissions are open! Come see the sessions that have already been proposed, and if you can't find exactly what you're looking for, suggest your own. Drupal's community is what sets it apart from the pack, so come be a part of the magic! The session submission and voting schedule is: January 15, 2010 to February 15, 2010 - Session Submissions Open February 16, 2010 - March 1, 2010 - Public Voting on Sessions 
March 5, 2010 - Speakers Notified
 March 15, 2010 - Final Schedule Posted read more

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SharkScopers is a Drupal 6 site that allows online poker instructors to sell screencast tutorial videos. The first two minutes can be viewed by anyone. Users can purchase credits that unlock whole videos. Instructors then receive a cut of the profit. Jonathan Brown from Blue Droplet Media in Edinburgh, Scotland, has been helping Mike Jonas from SharkScope in New York develop the site for more than a year. It uses Jonathan's Blue Droplet Video module extensively. Mike had done a lot of research into what system should be used to build the site. His primary motivation for choosing Drupal was so that Blue Droplet Video could be used. He was blown away by how BDV integrates with CCK and Views, allowing the fundamentals of the site to be created with great ease. Jonathan and Mike have very well defined roles within the project. For each task, they consult via email and Skype to construct robust specifications. Jonathan then implements the required functionality. A release early, release often methodology is used, allowing the site to innovate rapidly. The fantastic theme was created entirely by Mike as a Zen sub-theme. read more

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€65Syan makes your website beautiful throught the use of soft contrasts, subtle lighting effects and balanced typoghraphy. Explore the demo site and find out if the Syan user experience right for your site! imgfield: 

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Healing Thresholds Autism Therapy provides comprehensive therapy fact sheets, daily updates of research and news, and a global directory of autism therapists. The site has become a standard and definitive source for autism treatment information. In particular, the site provides layperson-accessible summaries of essentially all child-focused research from the last 3 years, in addition to earlier seminal papers. The two biggest challenges of the site have been to expose all of the deep content we've authored and to monetize it. We have over 2000 carefully-written research and news summaries and user-generated content. We also have over 1000 taxonomy terms, and we've authored detailed definitions for nearly half. Our redesign last month upgraded the three-year-old Drupal 4.7-based site to Drupal 6. More importantly, we used the flexibility of Drupal to completely re-architect how users find and interact with our content. Where previously we had separate sections of research and news, our new tabbed interface displays -- in a search engine friendly fashion -- all of the relevant content for each of over 1000 different therapy topics. read more

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Busy is a theme targeted mainly at corporate sites. See more screenshots over here: http://drupal.org/node/695292#comment-2519468 It's source of inspiration are sites like salzgitter-ag.de or deutsche-bank.de. Busy will support Color module and come with several header images that are GPL'd so you can choose from them right away.

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After nearly two years of development, we are proud to announce the release of the first alpha version of the Drupal 7.x family. This alpha includes a tremendous number of new features and new under-the-hood improvements for both users and developers. We revamped Drupal's user interface, added key contributed modules including CCK and ImageField, introduced a new object-oriented database layer, revamped file handling capabilities, and an automated testing framework based on SimpleTest, among literally hundreds of other improvements. Drupal 7.0 alpha 1 is the collective work of over 800 core contributors. It is important to note that this alpha version should not be used for production sites. We've resolved most errors reported so far, but there are outstanding known issues (including security issues) and most likely some problems that have not been reported as of yet. It is expected that there will be at least one more alpha version followed by a few beta versions and at least one release candidate before Drupal 7.0 is finalized. You can help us reach the final release date sooner by testing this alpha and providing feedback. read more

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This is an Adaptivetheme sub-theme that fully supports Panels Everywhere. The theme provides a wrapper that allows you set a width on the page via theme settings. Most of the standard Adaptivetheme theme settings are supported - only those that related to layout have been removed apart from the width setting. The basic concept is to combine the advanced theme settings of Adaptivetheme with the layout capability of Panels and Panels Everywhere. Its early days for this theme and the sample CSS files that come with need a total rewrite to be useful. Requirements Adaptivetheme starter theme (the DEV version) Panels Panels Everywhere Chaos tool suite Skinr NOTE: This theme has only one region (content), enabling this theme as default will render your site with no sidebars, regions, header or footer! It is recommended that you set another theme as the Admin theme until you have Panels Everywhere set up correctly.

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The TurnKey Linux Virtual Appliance Library is an open source project developing a free virtual appliance library that pre-integrates the very best server-oriented open source software. TurnKey Linux appliances are simple, ready-to-use servers that are designed to "just work" and can be deployed in minutes on a virtual machine, bare metal or in the cloud. The purpose of this case study is to discuss our experience using Drupal to implement TurnKey's web site. read more

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Registration is open for the first DrupalCamp ever in Spain. Yes, you are right, it will not be the first drupal meeting in Spain: we had a GREAT Drupalcon in Barcelona on 2007. However, this will be a Camp, the first DrupalCamp in Spain. It will be held in the same venue as the event in 2007, the Citilab, so some of you already know what this means: an excellent venue to have hundreds of drupalistas talk, work, sharing, hiring, eating, learning, etc. on Drupal. We already had 430+ pre-registrations and REGISTRATION is now OPEN! (the venue can hold "only" 400 people, so....) Don't miss it. There will be 4 session tracks. At least one of them in English. It might be two tracks in English if enough sessions are proposed. We will also have a job fair and already know that many web shops will be hiring. Don't miss it! Check the schedule for the three days of camp: 26, 27 and 28 of February, 2010, in Barcelona, and then propose and/or vote your sessions. Drupal Event Organization

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Sams Teach Yourself Drupal in 24 Hours helps you get up to speed with Drupal quickly. Whether you're starting from scratch or working to fill in some gaps in your Drupal knowledge, you'll find descriptions, examples, and Try It Yourself numbered steps to walk you through working with Drupal. This book introduces you to Drupal and to major components ranging from the basics (overall design, themes, administration, security, and the like) as well as modules that are distributed with Drupal itself along with contributed modules that enhance your site. Each chapter is focused on a single task so that you can jump around according to your needs. read more

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New training to help you learn how to build Drupal themes is available online from Lynda.com. Drupal: Creating and Editing Custom Themes shows how a Drupal theme can alter the look and feel of a web site. Drupal evangelist and author Chris Charlton introduces the core themes that ship with Drupal, how to install and administer new themes, change color schemes, and add sub-themes. Also demonstrated is how to build a custom theme from scratch, what templates are possible in Drupal themes; integrate HTML, CSS, and JavaScript; and how to theme specific nodes, pages, and blocks by building a theme step-by-step for a fictitious online flower shop. read more

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My new book, Drupal for Dummies, is now available. My intended audience is non-technical, so if you've got a friend who wants you to build a Drupal site for them, this might be worth mentioning to them. The companion Web site, http://drupalfordummies.com was created using only the information presented in the book. You can find out more about the book here: Click for Drupal Association affiliate link to Amazon! I'd love to hear from you with any comments or questions. read more

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With 2009 closing and 2010 coming, it is time to look back over our shoulder and see what a great year we had. And it is time to look ahead and predict where the future of Drupal will lead us to in 2010. 2009 Lets start with looking back. Drupal turned eight and in CMS years this means we are young at heart while grownup in our soul. At Dries' site, you can find a selection of sites that Dries found worthwhile mentioning, maybe because he liked the site, the implementation or the usage or the owner of the site can potentially influence other prospects to see the Drupal light. Let us take a look at that list and see what they have trends we can conclude from that list combined with the knowledge about our community. Many big name sites switched to Drupal in 2009. In the media / entertainment market, some of the names include: Virgin, Slate, Monthy Python and Lucas Arts read more

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Over the last year, the redesign has been progressing with many infrastructure and feature improvements. We have had 6 drupal.org sprints in both Europe and North America. On January 8th, 2010 we are going to have a drupal.org redesign virtual sprint. Many members of the Drupal community and the drupal.org infrastructure team have participated in the redesign so far. In order to help complete the minimum viable redesign we've recruited 24 Drupal consulting companies to help implement the main redesign landing pages. Sponsoring companies We specifically requested companies to sponsor pages because this part of the redesign required a broad range of skills including project management, content, design, theming, and development. We believed that sponsoring companies were used to marshaling a collection of resources to deliver sites to their customers. We believed these companies could scope, estimate, and deliver these redesign sections. While we've had 24 companies sponsor sections to date, we still require more sections of the site to be sponsored. If your Drupal company is interested in sponsoring a section please review the redesign implementers guide to understand how to contribute. read more

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GreatBrewers.com, a Drupal 6 site, powers BeerCloud, a mobile app available in the Android Market and iTunes App Store that helps you pair beer with food, track down your favorite beers in your neighborhood, and pull up a full description of any beer with a scan of its barcode. Whether you're a beer consumer who could use some guidance in making a well-educated purchase, a food lover who wants to discover new ways to enhance a meal with a suitable beer pairing, or a traveling beer enthusiast who wants to instantly map the closest stores, bars, and restaurants carrying one of your favorite beers, BeerCloud is the quintessential mobile beer app. Great Brewers is powered by America’s leading network of beer passionate wholesalers that collectively represent the interests of the world’s best brewers by promoting education and awareness through shared resources. The mission of Great Brewers is to bridge the gap between the world’s great brewers and the consumers who enjoy their products, with a paramount focus on education and on enhancing beer distribution practices through the sharing of information. read more

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The Drupal Association just approved the proposal from the Danish team to organize Drupalcon 2010 in Copenhagen. The conference will take place in August, the exact date will be finalized in the coming week. If you wonder what kind of greatness is waiting for you, check out their proposal at http://drupalcon.dk/cph/node/35 or http://drupalcon.dk/cph/node/35?print&book_recurse Congratulations to the Danish team! EDIT: The dates are 23 - 26 August, with events on the day before and day after likely. European Regional DrupalCon Organizers

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The testing phase is over... 3281d Consulting is extremely pleased to announce that the new distribution packaging system is now deployed on drupal.org. The announcement on the front page of drupal.org contains lots of details about how the system looks for end users of Drupal distributions, including lots of nice UI changes to project pages and release nodes. If you maintain an installation profile on drupal.org please read the How to package a profile on drupal.org handbook page. It's really not that hard, but there are some very important things you need to read and understand to make use of the new system. Support requests and "bug reports" from people who just didn't read the handbook page won't be well received. ;) Oh, and speaking of issues, if you find one, please search the packaged install profiles tag before submitting a new one. Exciting times -- go forth, yonder profile maintainers, and make Drupal more usable! Thanks! -Derek Packaging & Deployment

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Start:  2009-11-28 09:30 - 16:30 America/Lima Organizers:  develCuy Regional conference english below DrupalCamp Perú #2 se llevará a cabo éste 28 de Noviembre, de 9:30 a 16:30, en el Auditorio Ollantaytambo de la Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad Ricardo Palma, Lima - Perú. Ingreso y Coffe Break Libre ¡ INSCRÍBETE YÁ ! Programa ¿Qué és Drupal? - Danny A. Montalvo Ya tengo una web ¿Cómo la convierto a Drupal? - Marco A. Villegas (@marvil07) Usando Extensiones jQuery para Efectos Visuales en Nuestros Temas Drupal - Nicolas Borda (@ipwa) Features + Feature Servers + Drush Make + Aegir - Ian Ward Oportunidades Drupal en la Era del Web 2.0 - Juan Camilo Lema DrupalChix - Rosa María Orellana M. (@assoritam) Mesa Redonda con Yannick Warnier(@rcechang), Ricardo Chang(@rcechang) y Fernando P. García(@develCuy). Presenta Cesar Sóplin Más información... Auspician Moving Interactive Social Media Development Seed CONDESAN Organizan LINURP Drupal Perú Apoya Datanoia.com ¡ INSCRÍBETE YÁ ! -- ENGLISH VERSION -- DrupalCamp Perú #2 will be held November 28, 2009, 9:30 to 16:30, at the Ollantaytambo Auditorium of Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad Ricardo Palma, Lima - Perú. Registration and Coffe Break are Free ¡ REGISTER NOW ! Agenda ¿What is Drupal? - Danny A. Montalvo I have a web page already ¿How do I convert it to Drupal? - Marco A. Villegas (@marvil07) Using jQuery Extentions for Visual Effects in Our Drupal Themes - Nicolas Borda (@ipwa) Features + Feature Servers + Drush Make + Aegir - Ian Ward Drupal Opportunities in the Age of Web 2.0 - Juan Camilo Lema Open Discussion with Yannick Warnier(@rcechang), Ricardo Chang(@rcechang) y Fernando P. García(@develCuy). Presented by Cesar Sóplin DrupalChix - Rosa María Orellana M. (@assoritam) More information... Sponsored by Moving Interactive Social Media Development Seed CONDESAN Organized by LINURP Drupal Perú With the help of Datanoia.com ¡ REGISTER NOW ! Local User Group Organizers

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€65ADT Urgency is a theme that conveys the emotion of Urgency. It celebrates Drupals popularity with activist organizations. The design is inspired high profile non-profit organisations with strong branding. This theme also comes with a legion of new features. imgfield: 

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by pingVision LLC. The original video is posted at pingvision.com Is Drupal a CMS? Or is Drupal an Application Framework? Yes! This is a brief ...youtube.com

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€65With the NewMedia theme, a combination of magazine-style layout and top quality web graphics form a truly impressive design. This design was engineered with an eye for perfect proportions, elegant details and endless layout and coloring possibilities. imgfield: 

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€65Galaxy seems a simple design at first but it keeps revealing it's highly detailed graphics and effective presentation of content and navigation. If you need a clean yet impressive design that doesn't take focus away from your content, then Galaxy is the theme for you! imgfield: 

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€65Mixxed Business is a modern and trendy theme that combines a tight and clean business look with some grungy elements. This theme has so many details, it keeps on surprising and impressing. You can easily color this theme to match the vibe of your website. imgfield: 

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€65Cuttingedge is a sharp looking theme with a strong presence of color. This theme features rounded corner blocks in combination with subtle shadows and colorful headings. This theme works well from small business websites to technical blogs to large enterprise sites, just change the colors to convey the right message! imgfield: 

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€65Aureus is a colorful theme with a laidback vibe. Soft shapes and pastel colors set the scene for this friendly looking theme. Aureus features a wealth of regions to create a multitude of layouts. With advanced layout and color settings this theme can easily be modified beyond recognition! imgfield: 

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One week before Drupalcon DC, we will be conducting a usability sprint on Drupal 7. The first half of the sprint will involve a round of formal ...drupal.org

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In most every Drupal installation, there are a few (if not more) modules you inevitably end up installing and using. Two of these are likely CCK ...gotdrupal.com

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movielibrary.lynda.com In this lynda.com video podcast, learn to customize page themes in Drupal. Drupal is a free, open-source content management ...youtube.com

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This video shows you how to Install Drupal 6 and shows off the new, improved installer. It walks you through all the steps, including downloading ...lullabot.com

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Google Tech Talks October, 8 2007 ABSTRACT Geoff Butterfield, Senior Technical Producer at The George Lucas Educational Foundation, and Angie ...youtube.com

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What is Drupal and what can you do with it? In this video I hope to show the basics by building a website in minutes using Drupal. To see more ...youtube.com

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