What seems like a very long time since I first heard about and ordered the new Drupal book, Pro Drupal Development, it finally arrived at my doorstep. So far, I have only read Chapter 1, "How Drupal Works", and glanced at the remaining pages of the book but I'm very impressed. The book is written in a very easy, well organized, and informative writing style.
For some time I have wanted to promote and write about a new Drupal site that went online recently. The site carries a similar mission I've tried to have with my own sites where those from competing projects, products, and organizations can come together for discussion. In this case, a site with the desire to build a "place for those of us interested in open source solutions and community issues". The site is OpenSourceCommunity.org.
Dries Buytaert had mentioned that when the Drupal developers came together at the Open Source CMS Summit he hoped they could make a video using Jeff Robbin's catchy Drupal Song. I'm not sure the status of that video by the developers, but as a fan of Drupal I decided to beat them to the punch.
My son and I have become addicted to The Drupal Song. In fact, when the song is playing in my house we quickly become The Drupal Boys.
"Less and less, we're competing based on terms of functionality (open source CMS or not). Not features but ease of use, aesthetics, support, security, community, and documentation...will be critical differentiators."
- Dries Buytaert, "State of Drupal", 2007 Open Source CMS Summit and DrupalCon, Yahoo! Campus
Last week, Linux.com posted an article titled, Drupal vs. WordPress - Which is better for blogging?
As most of you probably know by now, Jeff Robbins from Lullabot and Drupal genre recently released "The Drupal Song". What you may not know is that Wordpress and Joomla! also have their own songs. Well this fact hasn't gone unnoticed by Amy Stephen in her own blog in which she says it's time to vote for the top song of the week.
OK. Normally, I am adverse to pitting one open source content management system against the other, but it appears we have no choice. As of today, we have three songs and only one can be the #1 Open Source CMS Song of the Week. It is time to pick the winner. Sorry, it’s how it works. I didn’t make the rules. If you object, you need to contact Casey Casem.
WordPress community member Devin Reams released his song and video back in January. Joomla! community member Anand Omka released his Joomla! song back in November and the video was released last week. Today, Jeff Robins released his Drupal song and Dries Buytaert announced the video will be shot on location during the OSCMS conference at Yahoo later this week.
Any has invited the open source communities to vote for their "favorite song" and as far as I can tell, the vote will take place through comments at her blog. What? Wordpress and and Joomla don't have their own poll module built into their core? But alas, we're not voting for the best CMS here but instead the best song.
Dries Buytaert, lead of the Drupal project, invited students on his blog to participate in Google's Summer of Code and at the same time help improve the Drupal core. This is Google's third year for the program which hopes to encourage college students to work on open source projects. Chris Dibona, Open Source Program Manager at Google, wrote:
I haven't seen this on Planet Drupal, so thought it was worthy to post myself. After 16 months since going online...DrupalSites.net now how 1000 sites listed.
Good news everyone: 1000 great Drupal powered sites are listed at DrupalSites.net! A big thank you and congratulations everyone! Keep it coming!
I don't visit the site too often, but have used it when I'm in a pinch to show someone examples of Drupal powered sites.
I came across a very good article with regards to taxonomy titled, Search in Focus: Implementing a Taxonomy by Penny Crosman. The article is a month or two old, but I haven't run across it before so maybe others haven't either.