CSC-SY.net has been recently migrated from PHP-Nuke to Drupal, the migration process involved moving stories, forum topics, polls, posts and comments, private messages, and user accounts, we also had to port the theme we were using with PHP-Nuke to PHPTemplate, localize Drupal into Arabic, and finally configure Drupal to provide PHP-Nuke's features (and much more), details of the reasons behind the migration, and of the process itself follow.

Cultural center 'De Brakke Grond' has been transformed from a quiet gallery into a bustling hub of all things Drupal for the Amsterdam Drupal Conference. Over 50 developers and users have already attended, and new faces continue to appear every morning. If you are nearby, please drop by!

Hot topic of discussion has definitely been the new forms API, which opens up a bunch of new avenues for modules and themes. End-user usability is another important point that many people are interested in.

Yesterday in particular had several interesting sessions about the Drupal community itself, and how we can keep up with its exponential growth. These were complemented by the Drupal Birds of Feather session at Euro OSCON down the road where we met many new Drupal users.

In fact, it seems there are so many ideas floating around here, that the catchphrase this week has become: 'We should have an API for that...'

For more info, check the following resources:

• Conference information
• Session schedule.
• Presentation summaries at Roland Tanglao's Blog (Bryght)

Hello, in order to support user experience improvements which will be made during the upcoming Drupal 4.7 code freeze we have conducted over a dozen user experience interviews. The results of those interviews have lead to a web survey which will allow us to prioritize the Drupal Administration issues.

Here is the survey: http://surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=631841425065

We will be collecting results for a month. The results will be presented to the Drupal community leadership, lead by Dries, and a team of prominent user experience professionals who will help us to prioritize administration improvements in Drupal 4.7. We will then work with the development teams to focus our efforts. The last survey we did lead to over 200 responses and significant improvements in Drupal documentation.

Cheers,
Kieran

On Tuesday the DrupalCON will start in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. More than 50 Drupal coders, administrators and enthusiasts from Chile to China and from South Africa to Estonia gather together, truly showing off the global strength of the Drupal community. We will share our thoughts, present new ideas and implement them in code during these three days.

Not only will we share our thoughts within our own community, we will also be communicating with other open source projects. The following well-known people are scheduled to speak during our conference:

• Rasmus Lerdorf, Original author of the PHP scripting language,
• David Axmark, Co-Founder and Vice President of MySQL AB,
• Johan Janssens, PHP Developer in the Joomla! team.

We hope to learn from them and each other and that this will be reflected in our data model and code. We will post more updates during the conference itself on drupal.org. It looks like we are heading for a very exciting time in Amsterdam!

I'd like to invite you to participate in the Drupal.org survey. The objective of this survey is to get feedback on the Drupal.org website, and to prioritize the work we should put into improving Drupal.org. The survey will run for about one week, and the results of the survey will be published in 2-3 weeks. Preliminary results will be presented at the Drupal conference in Amsterdam. Thanks for your support.

Day 1

Easy set up - Dikini (Vladimir Zlatanov) brought his laptop, pre-installed with Drupal 4.6 and HEAD, so we could do demonstrations. Thanks to Multiman (Peter Brownell) we had a projector, and we were able to draw quite a lot of attention with a rolling screen-shot slide show of prominent Drupal sites.

There were a lot of visitors through out the day, mostly a mixture of people asking what Drupal was (intrigued by the logo on the poster and the slideshow), asking how it differed from Mambo, or telling us they used Drupal and how much it rocks!