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Some examples of what you can do with the latest Drush Over the last few years Drush has matured significantly and has seen an incredible uptake in usage.

DAI using Open Atrium to help their GIS teams in Pakistan communicate Development Alternatives Inc. (DAI), one of the leading international development contractors, has deployed Open Atrium to help its GIS team in Islamabad communicate with its office in Peshawar and headquarters back in Bethesda on a capacity building project.

Drupal's "premier conference" is quickly approaching. This Drupal conference is known as DrupalCon and will be held in San Francisco from April 19-21, 2010. As with previous years, the unofficial theme of the conference is to "learn about all things Drupal". If the conference sessions aren't enough, the schedule is also packed with plenty of development, documentation, and training events that are being held the days prior to and following the conference.

Lightning talks on the Boxes module and a new Drupal site and its data migration The March Washington, DC Drupal meetup will be tonight (3/8) at 7:00 pm at Stetson's. After missing last month's meetup due to the snowmaggedons, it will be great to catch up with everyone.As usual there will be a round of lightning talk where anyone can take the floor and talk - for five minutes or less - on a Drupal related topic.

Drupal, dot gov, and a data challenge this week in Washington, DC After a positively beautiful weekend here in Washington, DC, we're set to have even warmer weather through most of the week. Dare I say that spring is finally here?

All Drupal developers have experienced this nightmare. You have been creating a great project, now it’s time to deploy it. No one wants to deal with it. No one wants to be the responsible of doing it.If you are building a simple site, and there’s only a one time deployment, it’s not a big deal.

To better tag content in multilingual versions of Managing News We just added support for Yahoo!

For 40 years, scientists have searched for a way to bring nuclear fusion to the masses. If successful in bringing fusion online, we all could have an inexhaustible form of power to meet our world's energy needs. The promise of fusion is a dream that many have hoped to see become a reality in their lifetime.Perhaps not for as noble of cause, Drupal user have sought better themes for their Drupal sites.

Citizen Technology and Election Accountability Conference in Nairobi, Kenya National Democratic Institute's conference on Citizen Technology and Election Accountability here in Nairobi just wrapped up. The two days brought together election experts and technologists from all over the region.

Create a single sign-on experience based on Drupal's OpenID stack Small pieces loosely joined is one of the defining paradigms of the web and in many cases we recommend investing in two or three smaller websites rather than a single big one.

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.

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!

Details on the latest release of Aegir and what it will allow you to do The Aegir development team has just released our latest piece of tech out onto the world. Aegir 0.4 Alpha 6 is the first major step in a series of milestones reaching toward the goals we have for 0.4. The biggest change in this release is that Aegir now supports multi-server use.

PHP, startups, elearning, and photography this week in Washington, DC Finally, some warmer weather!

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.

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.

We are sharing our latest work @DrupalconSF - vote for the sessions you would like to see Our presentation proposals this year for DrupalCon SF focus on the processes and tools we use in our products like Open Atrium and Managing News. A lot has moved in the last six months. Here is a run down of what we are planning on sharing.

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?

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!

New map tiles are approximately 75-80% smaller We're currently in the process of updating our set of world maps for MapBox to update data, improve visuals, and increase speed.