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Drupal wins two Packt awards (again)
Packt Publishing announced today that Drupal has not only won the 2009 award for Best Open Source PHP CMS, but has also won in a new category introduced this year: the Hall of Fame award. The announcement explains that the Hall of Fame is "a new category introduced to the award this year, featuring a competition between the previous winners of the Award: Drupal and Joomla!".
It is always gratifying when the hard work and effort our community has put into Drupal is recognized through competitions like this. This year is especially so because we won this year's "Best 2009 Open Source PHP CMS" award for the second time in a row.
As Kieran Lal put it in the Packt announcement, "It is a great honor for the Drupal community to be the first winner of the Open Source CMS Hall of Fame Award. The Drupal community has worked hard to improve Drupal by adding internationalization, enhancing security, facilitating customization, increasing extensibility, and easing the user experience."
Packt also announced the results of two new subcategory awards, meant to recognize specific contributions within the Drupal and Joomla! communities. On the Drupal side, the theme Zen won in the Best Drupal Theme category, while the Best Drupal Module award went proudly to Views. Congratulations to both John Albin and Earl Miles for their amazing contributions to the Drupal ecosystem.
First Belgian DrupalCamp
Next weekend, on Saturday June 27, the French-speaking Drupal community in Belgium is organizing Belgium's very first DrupalCamp. The event takes place in Louvain-la-Neuve which makes it pretty accessible for both Dutch and French-speaking Belgians. Details are available on http://drupalfr.be. Due to the work of Gilles Bailleux, the event got some great press in this weekend's edition of the Belgian newspaper, La Libre Belgique. Both a screenshot and a PDF are provided below.
© La Libre Belgique. Download PDF version.
It's always great to meet Drupal people, so I currently plan to go to Utrecht on Friday, to Louvain-la-Neuve on Saturday, and back to Utrecht on Sunday to help with the Drupal 7 usability code sprint. It's just great to see so many community events being organized -- we've gotten to a point where there are often Drupal events happening at the same time in different places in the world.
Acquia featured in the Boston Globe
Acquia was featured in today's Boston Globe. The article, titled Start-up built on free software, talks about the growing interest in Open Source during tough economic times. The Boston Globe is a daily newspaper based in Boston, owned by The New York Times Company, with an average circulation of 350,000. Nice!
Drupal is a Webware 100 winner
For the third time in a row, Drupal is a Webware 100 winner. The Webware awards recognize the best sites, services, and applications on the web today.
As a community, we should be extremely proud of this award, and to be included in the company of winners like Facebook, Twitter, Wordpress, MySpace and Meebo. Thanks to all the great people who make Drupal what it is. Impressive!
Mollom in Datanews
Koen Vervloesem interviewed me about Mollom for Datanews, a weekly Belgian IT magazine. We're featured as the "start-up of the week" in the December 5 issue. If you understand Dutch, you can read the article online.
Drupal overall winner of the Packt Open Source CMS awards
Packt Publishing has just announced that Drupal won two prestigious awards: Drupal is the overall winner of the Packt 2008 Open Source CMS Award as well as the winner in the PHP category. The runner up in both categories was Joomla!. Winners were elected by a panel of industry experts as well as by visitors to Packt’s website.
The Packt Publishing awards highlight the growing impact Drupal is having on the CMS market, and they are a testament to the many contributions from dedicated Drupal community members around the globe. It is great to receive recognition for our work!
Lullabot podcast #65
I was featured on the infamous Lullabot podcast series. Jeff Robbins and I talk about Acquia, Mollom and Drupal 7. Check out the Lullabot podcast #65 (mirror) if you want. We kick it off talking about Acquia, the Mollom part starts around minute 25 and the Drupal part starts around minute 47.
