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Drupal people: get some coffee, take a seat, log out of IRC, and take 16 minutes to watch this video. Wordpress is leading the way in terms of posting and administering content, and we'd better be taking notes. The bits that I'm particularly jonesing over are the drag and drop widgets, the content administration dashboard, and the instant installation of plugins and themes.
My favorite quote from the video:
I think that people ... downloading things to their computer and uploading them to a server is completely worthless. You're a fake bottleneck.

As we have reported almost a month ago, we got some notices of missing, mislabeled and badly encoded videos from presenters and would be viewers. This happens when you need to encode dozens of videos to get on the net by the end of a five day event. We are keeping track of our reports and status of each in a publicly viewable Google Spreadsheet at http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pHr6m7zVvdN_506My300MKg

Tomorrow and Saturday, I'm headed off to Drupalcamp Montréal, our first such event in the fair city.
Like all such events, we won't really know what the schedule is until tomorrow morning, but here are the sessions I'm planning on giving, in relative order of geekiness:

The October review meeting of the Knight Drupal Initiative saw three new proposals accepted by the community.

Cheers to the Acquia launch, which went really well. Hundreds of people signed up for a free community subscription. Also, check out Jeff Whatcott's blog post covering some of the blog posts, press articles, and Tweets about our new product and service offerings. Awesome!

Cheers!

I've been involved with the Drupal Documentation team, at varying levels of time and interest, for a while now. It was my first foray to getting involved with the community and I think it is a common entry point for many "non-coders" and people that may code but are hesitant to jump into the fray of Open Source development. I've been immersed in the community and code and I still have a strong draw towards documentation.

After more than 7 months of design, development and QA - the team is thrilled to announce the release of CiviCRM 2.1 Stable. You can download the release AND / OR try it out on our public demo site.
2.1 features a number of exciting new features, including...

It's political season here in the United States, and that means it's rumor time. Research has shown that if we are exposed to information as little as eight times we are more likely to believe it. Logic, facts, reason don't necessary apply to our human brains. Political strategist know this, marketers know this and they can use it in influencing you. Journalists know this too.
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I spent most of the day yesterday reading and participating in Drupal.org threads, blog posts, press articles, forum threads, Twitter feeds, and IRC transcripts of full of conversation about our new product and service offerings.  Here are a few of my favorites:
Press Articles
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