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Brazen Careerist is a premier Generation Y career-based social network. Our goal is to help shift job seeker's and the recruiter's approaches to focus on social strengths and ideas instead of just experience. We have been using Drupal for almost two years to help us scale and add social features rapidly.

Start:  2010-05-08 09:00 - 2010-05-09 17:00 Europe/Berlin Organizers:  danielnolde reglogge Drupal Developer Days 2010 will be held on the campus Lothstr. of the Munich University of Applied Sciences from May 7 (pre-registration) until May 9 2010.

Drupal4Gov, government transparency, and semantics in research this week in Washington, DC According to the forecast, we'll (finally) get a reprieve from the rain later today and see the sun tomorrow!

How you can save time and drastically improve your Drupal experience with the Features module Tomorrow Drupal4Gov is holding their monthly meeting, bringing together developers and IT managers who work in the federal space to talk about Drupal best practices specifically in the U.S. government space.

Start:  2010-03-27 09:30 - 16:30 UTC Organizers:  Joyita develCuy Regional conference english belowDrupalCamp Perú Verano 2010 se llevará a cabo éste 27 de Marzo, de 9:30 a 16:30, en el Auditorio Ollantaytambo de la Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad

Some ideas recapped from the SXSW presentation on open source business modules Yesterday while speaking on the SXSX panel Selling Your Milk When the Cow is Free, I talked about some of our plans on making Open Atrium development sustainable and for the first time publicly shared ideas on what an Open Atrium Partners Program would look like, in addition to plans for commercial support to follow.

The Drupal.org redesign continues to progress. This is great news and a morale boost for everyone involved.Since our front page post on February 3...Over 20 enthusiastic new volunteers have come forward to lend their expertise.Several experienced professional Drupal project managers have been added to the project management teamWe have produced two new theming documents for mark-up guidelines, and style guidelines.

Looking at Open Atrium in the light of open source business models This afternoon I am speaking on the SXSW panel Selling Your Milk When the Cow is Free about what it has been like to make the transition to selling products with Open Atrium.We only have one way to sell milk right now, and it ain't scaling, but we have plans :)On the panel, I'll talk about the bootstrapping process we undertook when Open Atrium first launched last July.

A simple tool for offline mapping and custom data overlays We just released Maps on a Stick, a simple client-side mapping tool that lets you access map tilesets and mash them up with information while you're offline. Maps on a Stick runs on either a USB drive or directly from a hard drive and allows you to browse custom baselayer maps and add KML overlays to them without connecting to the internet.Here's a look at Maps on a Stick.

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.