Drupal

Google has donated $10,000 USD to the Drupal project as part of Summer of Code for 2007. Students who participated got a total of $90,000.

As a mentor for the 3rd year, I got a T-Shirt. Just like the previous two years, it arrived just in time when snow is starting to fall in Southern Ontario.

For the second year in a row, the T-Shirts are black. In 2005, it was dark navy blue.

Here is the front of the T-shirt.

And here is the back. Looks like a face from a Sci-Fi movie (Tron?)

The Nokia N810 is due to come out on October 23 (next Tuesday). It runs a variant of Linux Debian. It was even made to work in Arabic by M Sameer.

Thanks to Angela Byron, there is now an easy way to learn and contribute to Drupal.

If one checks the Drupal issues assigned to patchnewbie, they will get a list of relatively simple issues that need patches. This is suitable if one wants to cut your teeth in Drupal, but daunted by the magnitude of changes required by complex issues.

If you know someone who wants to contribute but was shy, or daunted, go ahead and pass that info to them. Or even go and try it yourself.

On Thursday, there was a Drupal Users Group monthly meeting in Toronto. All the Lullabots were there, except for Robert Douglass (marooned in Germany), along with 2bits.

This photo shows the bits and bots together.

This joke is priceless ...

If they had used db_query() with %d or %s, this would not have happened. 

It seems that at DrupalCon Barcelona, there was a sinster plan to make me one of two external contacts for the security team, the other victim being Chris Johnson.

Heine contacted me about this, and I said yes, mainly because I do that anyway, trying to keep a neutral tone to replies to misguided souls. The new role formalizes this.

Later on IRC, I get this from Heine:

12:44 * Heine bows for kbahey; the interpreter of the novice's words, and the oracle of gently advice.

12:45 < kbahey> heine, [blush]

If you love Open Source, and happen to be close by, Ontario Linux Fest is being held on October 13, 2007.

Hurry up and register before Wednesday to pay a lower fee than at the door.

I will be presenting on Performance tuning and optimization for large web sites, using Drupal as a popular LAMP application. According to the schedule, this is on 15:30 in Hall C.

Classical 96.3 FM is a Toronto based radio station dedicated to classical music.

They recently switched to Drupal 5.2 after being on a proprietary platform for a long time.

The site looks good aesthetically. 

Hope those who did can present it at a future Toronto Drupal User Group meeting. 

Not attending DrupalCon has its benefits, here are some, which were cheerfully discussed on IRC #drupal yesterday by those "left behind".

Earlier, a contribution pool was put up for Axl Buytaert, Dries and Karlijn's first boy.

Today, Axl is one month old! Happy first month Axl.

The contribution pool is about to close soon, so those .

Please show that you care by donating any amount you wish in US Dollars or Euro, using Paypal or credit card.

Also, promote this ChipIn widget on your web site(s), Digg, or any other means.