DrupalCon DC 2009
Registration for DrupalCon DC is now open and the DrupalCon DC website live. Discount tickets are still available
at $175 a ticket - about 200 are left. Tickets will be sold in blocks. This means the sooner you buy, the less you pay. There are already 18 sessions submitted and voting has begun - create a profile to vote on sessions and submit your own.
Drupal Videos Site Setup Receipes
This is a list of resources on where to find videos explaining how to setup Drupal.
http://zivtech.com/videos has a collection of feeds from websites that publish video tutorials.
Showcase: Social networking sites built with Drupal
A slideshow of showcase websites that use Drupal. Prepared by Kieran
Lal and Sooz at Acquia. http://www.acquia.com/drupal-rocks
DrupalCampLA 2008 - September 13-14
DrupalCampLA 2008 - September 13-14
Start:
2008-09-13 10:00 America/Los_Angeles - 2008-09-14 16:00 America/Los_Angeles
DrupalCamp Los Angeles 2008, this September 13-14 (2 days) at the Los Angeles Convention Center
DrupalCamp NYC 5
The fifth New York City DrupalCamp will take place at PolyTechnic University in Brooklyn from2008-09-13 10:00 to 2008-09-14 17:00
Top Three Content Management Systems
http://www.waterandstone.com/downloads/2008OpenSourceCMSMarketSurvey.pdf
A Water & Stone whitepaper reports on the result of a content management system survey.
The survey shows that three systems lead the race: WordPress, Joomla! and Drupal. The survey concludes that these three systems have opened up a large lead on the rest of the pack to become the dominant brands in the market.
Building a Small Business Site with Drupal
Aquia (the commercial arm of Drupal that provides commercial Drupal support) has released a video featuring a small business Drupal site built from scratch.
Create a YouTube clone using Drupal and Flash video
Having your own video sharing website similar to ouTube, BlipTV, Revver etc. is possible using a few add on modules to the base Drupal install. Because there are so many modules for Drupal there is of course more than one way to do this but this site receipe
If you want to create a site like YouTube there is an easy way to do this using open source software. The following things are necessary to start a video site:
1. Drupal already installed on your server.
Drupal SEO Tutorial
Media Shift Idea Lab - Still Seeking Coders Interested in Journalism
Media Shift Idea Lab at the Medill School at Northwestern University is still Seeking Coders Interested in Journalism.
"It's now been almost exactly a year since we announced (thanks to a Knight News Challenge grant) that programmer-developers could earn full scholarships to study journalism in the master's program at the Medill School at Northwestern University. We've got plenty of scholarship money still available -- but we have not been overwhelmed with applications."