März 2009
How we will make Drupal 7 simple to use
The Drupal core developers have a long history of making user experience improvements. The developers have made it easier to install, to update, to internationalize, to customize, to theme, to find help, to recover from errors, and to interact. A few years ago, the Drupal project lead, Dries, wrote about The Ockham's Razor Principle of Content Management Systems which stated
Joomla 1.5.10 Security Release Now Available
The Joomla Project announces the immediate availability of Joomla 1.5.10 [Wohmamni]. This is a security release and users are strongly encouraged to upgrade immediately.
DrupalCon DC: The Numbers and the Community Behind the Conference
We finished crunching the numbers from DrupalCon DC. You can check out all the final figures – including attendance stats and financial numbers – in DrupalCon DC By the Numbers: Community, Profit, and Sustainability posted on the DrupalCon DC website. Give it a read, and please post any feedback or questions you have.
Publius Project - Harvard University Case Study
The Publius Project is an effort of Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet & Society. The mission of the Publius Project is to foster public dialogue and create a durable public record on the question of how the Internet should be controlled, and by whom. The project brings together a distinguished collection of Internet observers, scholars, innovators, entrepreneurs, activists, technologists, and other experts to write short essays on this topic.
All DrupalCon DC 2009 Session Videos are Now Online
Links to all 102 videos were made available on March 13, 2009:
The Google Summer of Code is Back for 2009!
Earlier today, Google announced the list of organizations that have been selected for the Google Summer of Code 2009, and we are thrilled to announce that Drupal has been selected once again! This will mark the Drupal project's fifth year of participation in this fantastic program, which provides a great opportunity for the Drupal community to grow our ranks of dedicated and talented new contributors, award existing long-term contributors, and get some exciting new coding projects done at the same time!
New pages and RSS feeds for security announcements
Separate Security Announcements by Type
To make the impact of different security advisories and announcements easier to see, they are now separated by type.
Drupal core security advisories: http://drupal.org/security
RSS feed for Drupal core: http://drupal.org/security/rss.xml
New book published: Drupal 6 Social Networking (with exclusive 15% discount)
Drupal 6 Social Networking, by Michael Peacock, is a new book from Packt Publishing, aimed at readers wishing to create a Social Networking website.
Drupalcon D.C Survey
Did you attend Drupalcon D.C? Did you want to attend Drupalcon D.C but couldn't make it? 
We have lots of questions and you have answers!
News from the Documentation Sprint at DrupalCon DC
The Documentation Sprint at DrupalCon DC was a brilliantly productive success, with more than 70 people contributing both in person and online to the collective effort to make Drupal's documentation cleaner, clearer, and more accessible and useful for the Drupal community. Read on to find out more about the sprint process, who participated, and all of the awesome work that got done.