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During the past couple years, I've had some brief but rewarding content management discussions with Deane Barker from  Gadgetopia and Blend Interactive.  Dean has worked with quite a few Web content management systems over the years and appears to be most passionate to using eZ Publish.  Naturally, our discussions almost always involve Dean talking about ez Publish and me talking about Drupal.  Unfortunately, as I am more of a system administrator than a developer, the information I have bee

Packt is pleased toannounce a new book on Drupal that acts as a practical guide with instructionsfor setting up a home page, product catalog, blog, events calendar, etc. usingthe Drupal CMS platform. Written by prominent Content Management expert MarkNoble, Drupal6 Site Builder Solutions helps developers build powerful website featuresfor their business.Drupal is a free OpenSource modular framework and Content Management System (CMS).

This post is an open discussion on the future of Drupalcon management. After Drupalcon Boston held in March, 2008 it became clear that Drupalcon was (is) growing at a rapid rate and that the underlying management infrastructure needs an upgrade. Changes were made for Drupalcon Europe as well as for Drupalcon D.C (2009) and these have proven to be successful.

Every year, there are some key information technology people that make some of the most sound and trustworthy predictions for the coming year.  I'll be updating this page through the week with links to these visions of what we may expect in 2009.  My own thoughts and vision for 2009 and CMS Report will come later in another post (I am not worthy to place my own comments here).Content Management and Social Publishing Predictions Dries Buytaert (Drupal Project Lead) - Drupal, Acquia, and MollomO

CMS Report was recently toying with the idea of including paid advertisement in our news feed.  Instead we decided that our readers would be better served by seeing a "thank you" to our sponsors.  A monthly thank you from CMSReport.com seems to be fitting as just a few weeks ago we launched new sponsorship opportunities here at the site.CMS Report wants to thank the following sponsors for their support.Acquia - Acquia is a commercial open source software company providing products, s

"An objective without strategy, or a strategy without execution remains a dream."-Dries Buytaert, Drupal, Acquia, and Mollom, "Contributing back to Drupal", Buytaert.net.

Download Drupal 6.8Download Drupal 5.14Drupal 6.8 and Drupal 5.14 are slight updates to Drupal 6.7 and 5.13, removing an incompatibility with versions of PHP before 5.2 released in the earlier versions. The 6.7 and 5.13 releases fixed problems reported using the bug tracking system, as well as critical security vulnerabilities.Upgrading your existing Drupal 5 and 6 sites is strongly recommended. There are no new features in these releases.

Download Drupal 6.7Download Drupal 5.13Drupal 6.7 and Drupal 5.13, maintenance releases fixing problems reported using the bug tracking system, as well as critical security vulnerabilities, are now available for download.Upgrading your existing Drupal 5 and 6 sites is strongly recommended. There are no new features in these releases.

The deadline for submitting sessions proposals for DrupalCon DC is tomorrow, December 10. If you'd like to present but haven't yet submitted, please submit your session before midnight!

Hi,This week sees the release of iteration 11.http://drupal.markboultondesign.com/iteration11This week we have made lots of some smaller changes throughout the whole prototype, items that were delayed from iteration 10.

Drupal for Education and E-Learning is a new book from Packt that enables users to enhance teaching in a classroom, and engage students with a range of learning activities using the Drupal CMS platform.

The Drupal Association is excited to announce that the last iteration, iteration 11, of the Drupal.org redesign is now available for review. Hundreds of Drupal community members and designers have participated in the redesign of Drupal.org.We have had over 450 comments on 10 posts in the Drupal.org redesign group. Leisa Reichelt, our user experience research lead, has posted over 26 blog entries about the Drupal.org redesign with over 300 comments!

Editor's Note: There have been moments here at CMS Report when I am amazed with the insightful and in depth comments written by some of our readers. This is one of those moments.

Crooks and Liars is an American liberal blog, which was founded in August of 2004, during the 2004 Presidential election, by John Amato. It was the first video style blog around, starting in a pre-YouTube era.

Good news! During the week of December 15, we're organizing a 5-day Fields in Drupal core code sprint at Acquia!

One mom's mission to create a safe online space for teensYoursphere.com is a safe kids-only social network (built with Drupal 5), which is complemented by an online safety blog and discussion site, internet-safety.yoursphere.com (built with Acquia Drupal).Founder Mary Kay Hoal is a savvy mother of five.

Even for The Register, not a very long article but it does ask some important questions.  The article, Welcome to the world of collaboration by stealth, suggests via questions that collaboration is bigger than the IT department. Because it involves software, probably the IT department's. But is IT equipped for the task? And does it want the responsibility?

Hi,After a smaller release last week due to more focus on the IA, this week's iteration has brought with it some important, exciting and rather large developments.As with previous weeks, Leisa has been providing rationale based on her user testing and the latest posts on the redesign can be read on her site, including the strategy for the documentation section:http://www.disambiguity.com/Leisa has also started a discussion on g.d.o to gather quick answers to some questions that crop up as she wo

Just over a month ago, we announced that we opened up editing rights to much of the handbooks for all users on Drupal.org. Our one month trial period is over and the Documentation team has decided that overall it has been a success. We have seen many more edits and fixes in the handbook and, while we did see some limited mess to clean up, occurrences of vandalism (or playing around) were relatively uncommon. We feel, at this time, that open editing is a significant benefit to our handbooks.

Team Lullabot is really excited to unveil O'Reilly Media's first Drupal book, Using Drupal, due out next month. (BTW, that's a dormouse on the cover. :))Our motivation for writing this book was that most peoples' first experience with Drupal involves getting it installed successfully, but then being left with the question, "What next?