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Drupaller Noel Hidalgo is traveling the world in seven months, on a budget of $7,777.

The purpose of the trip is documenting Drupal, Open Source, free cultures, social innovators, and global change, as well as many other aspects of his experience.

Check the web site, aptly named Luck of Seven.

Noel met Drupal founder, Dries Buytaert, In Antwerp, and interviewed him.

From the meaningless numbers department, drupal.org got its 300,000th issue followup a few days ago.

Nedjo Rogers takes the prize.

No obvious way to know how long it took to reach 100,000, 200,000 and then 300,000. However, it is easy to get from the database, if someone has access and time.

Thanks to: Derek Wright (dww) on the development mailing list.

Gerhard Killesreiter was the person to commit the 80,000th commit in Drupal (contributions and core).

While the 30,000 commits from 20,000 to 50,000 took close to 15 months, it was only 8 months from 50,000 to 80,000.

One of the notable commit messages recently is by bdragon.

His ASCII art in this commit is awesome!

If Drupal was a country, what would its constitution say?

We, [FAPI] arrays [organized into] nodes ...

Or at least that is what this post on Drupal comments by Bert Boerland implies ...

Drupaller Noel Hidalgo is traveling the world in seven months and documenting Open Source, Drupal, freedom, and many other aspects of his experience in his Luck of Seven web site.

In Antwerp, he met with Drupal founder, Dries Buytaert, and interviewed him.

The interview is now up on the Luck of Seven web site.

Warning for those on a slow link: this is 132MB.

As I noted earlier, Open Craft knew that I was in Egypt, and invited me to give a Drupal presentation. I chose Drupal performance tuning and optimization, and userpoints as the topic.

So, Dries has a new baby, named Axl. Karlijn did a great job, and Dries' dad was the gynaecologist doing the delivery!

Not only did Dries reneg on his promise earlier to name him Druplicon 2.0, but he also dropped a vowel! I have it on good authority (A Flemish linguist) that Dries misspelled the name when registering the baby for the birth certificate, dropping the vowel E.

Hint: this is not the first time he did that!

The fine folks at Open Craft, an Egyptian open source software development and consulting firm have invited me for a seminar on Drupal.

I will be in Cairo on August 25, 2007 for a presentation on Drupal scalability as well as userpoints.

See more on Open Craft's web site.

Stefan Nagtegaal (IRC: Steef) is an long time member of the Drupal community. He is the co-designer for the Garland and Minelli themes, the default theme for Drupal since 5.0.

Stefan had an unfortunate event, whereby a power spike killed his iMac.

If you can spare a few dollars/Euros to help him out, please do so at this Chip In.