Drupal Community

I was fortunate enough to be part of the biggest DrupalCon so far, DrupalCon London. 1,751 Drupalistas were there, attending a total of 73 sessions, participating in code sprints, making friends and having a good time.

This week I attended the Drupal for Publishers event that was held at the Sun Microsystems office in central London. As the name suggests, the event was aimed squarely at publishers. I work for the UK's biggest magazine publisher, so I thought I should attend! I was not disappointed.

Drupal has turned 8 today, so happy birthday is in order. It is a day for the whole Drupal community to celebrate what they have created, a fantastic project/product. Not only has Drupal survived 8 years in the ultra fast paced web market, but it is going from strength to strength. Well done everyone.

Here is an nice interview with Scott Mattoon from Sun Microsystems. He is talking about why Drupal is great.

Drupal has won Packt Publishing's Open Source CMS Award for 2008. This is the second year in a row that Drupal has won the overall CMS award and is in addition to the Best PHP Based Open Source CMS Award for 2008.

Drupal has one the 2008 Best PHP Based Open Source CMS from Packt Publishing. It beat fellow finalists Joomla and CMS Made Simple, who ere tied for runner up. It seems that Drupal's highly module framework and thriving community are two factors that tipped the award in its favour.

Nominations are now open for the 2008 Open Source CMS Award. This is the third year that Packt are running the awards.

You can nominate your favorite open source CMS in four categories:

• Overall Winner
• Most Promising Open Source CMS
• Best Open Source PHP CMS
• Best Other Open Source CMS

REM is using Drupal for its tour website. Drupal is gaining a lot of traction with a lot of high profile websites switching to Drupal recently. I am particularly excited about REM's use of Drupal because I am a huge REM fan (and obviously a huge Drupal fan)!

Drupal 6 has finally been unleashed on the world after a year of development and testing. This is thanks to the hundreds of core developers that made this happen.

So what has changed from the Drupal 5 series?

Drupal is the overall winner of the 2007 Open Source CMS Award, edging out Joomla and CMS Made Simple, who came 2nd and 3rd respectively.

The Open Source CMS Award is run my Packt Publishing and is selected by a panel of judges and visitors to www.PacktPub.com. There were over 18,000 votes.