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Drupal books on sale

By jonatoreilly on

O'Reilly is having a sale on books,

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Whether you're an experienced developer or just starting out, O'Reilly's Drupal books will set you on the track to success and keep you there. Get tricks for designers, learn about prototyping, planning, mapping, choosing and configuring modules, and more.

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Deal expires May 3, 2012 at 11:59pm PT

Patterns 7.x

By shakty on

I am pleased to announce that the beta release of Patterns 7.x is finally out. New, exciting features have been introduced and documented in the changelog.

An extra news for developers supporting patterns. You can show off your love for Patterns, by implementing the Patterns hooks and displaying this logo in your own module page.

Patterns Ready Logo

Cheers,
shakty

⋅ Categories: Drupal 7.x

Drupal.org Scheduled Downtime Thursday, April 19, 5:00 PDT (April 20 00:00 UTC)

By nnewton on

Drupal.org and its sub-sites (api.drupal.org, groups.drupal.org, git.drupal.org, etc) will be going down for 45 minutes Thursday, April 19, 5:00 PDT (April 20 00:00 UTC). This maintenance window will be used to upgrade our backend media servers. Please follow the @drupal_infra twitter account for updates during the downtime and thanks for your patience!

NOTE: During this downtime window, we will also disable access to the git repositories via SSH. The git:// protocol will still be functional.

Groups.Drupal.org Update: New maintainers and plans for Drupal 7

By greggles on

Back in 2009, Groups.Drupal.Org (GDO) went through a major transition including upgrading from Drupal 5 to Drupal 6, a redesign, and adding new maintainers. We are currently in the process of a similar transition. The site has already gone through a redesign, and as we make plans to transition to Drupal 7, we will also be moving to new maintainers for the next year.

Making it easier to contribute to GDO

⋅ Categories: Drupal 7.x

Silicon Valley Drupal User Group

By sourcen on

Hey All,

We have a new Facebook group for the Silicon Valley Drupal User Group (SVDUG). Please join us!
https://www.facebook.com/groups/svdug/

/drupalgive initiative

By moshe weitzman on

Hi friends. I'm hoping that you'll support another Drupal community initiative that I've recently dreamed up. All you have to do is add a /drupalgive page to your organization's web site.

Two organizations have published already at http://www.acquia.com/drupalgive and http://www.chapterthree.com/drupalgive. These pages are based on a design by Nica Lorber of Chapter Three. Feel free to reuse this design or just publish a plain listing page. It is better to publish a plain page than none at all. Or use the Feature at http://drupal.org/project/drupalgive.

A /drupalgive page highlights the great work that your organization is doing for the Drupal project. Not only does your organization receive credit for the work you do, but we also nudge other organizations to give back as well. I expect that employees and potential hires from non-contributing organizations will start demanding to give back. This initiative gives those folks something to point to when advocating and educating inside their organization.

Here are examples of appropriate and inappropriate items for a /drupalgive page:

Appropriate
  1. A podcast educating folks about great Contrib modules.
  2. A link to a significant patch review or commit on drupal.org.
  3. A blog post about Drupalish wireframe templates that anyone can use.

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