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By Dries on
A second round of Drupal quickies for those who don't have the time to keep on top of all the recent happenings in Drupal land. Just don't get used to them.
- Our Paypal button generated about 600 euro so far. Thanks for the continued support. We still plan to add a 'Paypal tracker' so both donations and expenses can be tracked online at drupal.org.
- Chrisada ported Wordpress's Kubrick theme to Drupal 4.5. Check Chris' Kubrick page for details, or download it directly from the Kubrick theme project page at drupal.org.
- About.com elected Drupal as one of the top 10 weblog tools in 2004.
- Apparently, the drupal.com domain (not drupal.org) is for sale: only USD $6000.
- Drupal has been added to Download.com: you can rate Drupal, post your review or read up on what other people had to say about it.
- Drupal's multi-site support has much improved in Drupal HEAD, the development version of Drupal. Running multiple Drupal sites from a single Drupal code base has never been easier. Furthermore, each site can have site-specific themes and modules on top of the shared base configuration.
- Linux Journal switched from PostNuke to Drupal.
- We have been granted a developer room at FOSDEM'05, the Free and Open Source Developers' European Meeting. As such, there will be a Drupal conference in Brussels (Belgium) on February 26th. A number of core developers have agreed to present something. More details as soon we worked out a schedule.
- Lockergnome interviewed Drupal developer Adrian Rossouw. Read all about it here.
- I plan to release Drupal 4.5.2, a second maintenance release, in January. The DRUPAL-4-5 branch is being maintained so it's important that you keep fixing those bugs.
- I added my personal contact module to the CVS repository. It will be part of Drupal 4.6. (No, we don't know when Drupal 4.6 will be ready.)
- Thanks to Boris Mann, Richard Eriksson and Charlie Lowe, a drupal-docs mailing list has been setup. If you want to contribute to Drupal but you don't know any PHP or HTML, subscribe to the drupal-docs mailing list and get your hands dirty with the documenation.
- Jonas Luster of http://jluster.org/ wrote a Flickr module for Drupal and is working on a handful of other modules. He has CVS access to Drupal's contributions repository so hopefully he'll start sharing his modules soon.
Comments
congrats
Hi Dries,
Congratulations to you and the rest of the team on a great year for drupal.
I've only been around for a short while - still getting to grips with it - and am only just getting my head around its full potential. The mind truly boggles to where the project maybe at this tme next year. The pace of development is solid, as is the community contributions of updates, modules and patches.
I can't wax lyrical enough about how good drupal is becoming.
Have a good break/holidays and a peaceful new year.
Looking forward to working more with drupal in 2005.
Jason
Currently in Switzerland working as an Application Developer with UBS Investment Bank...using Drupal 7 and lots of swiss chocolate
Happy Holidays!
Good to hear that things are going well for the Drupal team!
Keep up the excellant work!
Regards, th3gh05t
rather cool
it seems that there is always more news than I thought while I try to stay in touch, a lot is happening. Regarding the downloads.com site, it seems to be filed under
"CNET > Downloads > Windows > Developer Tools > Web Engineering > Site Management" Now downloads.com has a very poor taxonomy structure compared to drupal but filing it under windows and windows only seems to be ought.
I also dont think that "License: Free" does justice to the GPL, although for most downloads.com users it will mean the same. I couldnt find a way to give feedback to the webmeisters of download.com. Anyone knows a way in? The also link their download to 4.5 instead of 4.5.1. How will they be notified of newer versions?
Dont forget that the persian theme has been "ported" as well by Chrs, which makes him Theme-Employee Of The Month (thanks!)
And I should have bought the drupal.com domain as well 3 years ago and have kept it for myself to sell :-). Btw: I think that 6000 USD (about 150 Euro and declining. No I dont exchange money with you :-)) reflects drupals power.
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bertb
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bert boerland
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As a Christmas present, I just finished converting another theme to Drupal. Manji theme should appear in the download section in a day or so. :)
Great work guys!
I've started working with drupal a couple of years ago and was excited then and now even more. Because of some mailing needs for my sites i had to switch to other software but have recently switched back to drupal as it has been taken care of. Long live drupal.... I love it.
I hope it stays free and hope it gets lots of donations :).
Blessings and merry Christmas,
Tim
Thank you and best wishes
Hi Dries and others in the Drupal Team
Many congratulations for the work you have done so far... I really believe in the future for Drupal... keep up the great work in 2005!
Best wishes and enjoy the break....
Jonathan
Jonathan Furness
teacher, developer, webmaster
http://www.jonathansblog.net
I've been using Drupal for
I've been using Drupal for longer than I care to consider, and it has come a long long way since I first stumbled upon it.
I must thorougly congratulate the drupal.org dev team and all contributors for making Drupal the best peice of open source software I've ever used.
-LankZ-