[drupal-docs] July Drupal Newsletter - FINAL DRAFT

[Robin Monks]

Great suggestions, adding now.

(Drupal services in the first instance being CVS, website and mailing lists)
(In second set refers to possible SVN repository and other features
(like a newsletter area)

Robin)

On 7/21/05, Andrew Hoppin <andrew at civicspacelabs.org> wrote:
> Great work Robin.  I know how much work it takes to pull this much
> content together.   There are a few minor grammatical errors in some
> places and I've made suggested edits for those below...
> 
> >   The important news this month is out large scale outage lasting over
> > 3 days which caused a severe disruption in the Drupal services
> 
> What do you mean by "Drupal services"-- are we just talking about
> Drupal.org, or something else also?
> 
> > <http://drupal.org/node/26545>.  We are happy to say we are back on
> > track now, and with even more Services on the horizon!
> 
> "Services" shouldn't be capitalized.  What are the new "services" we're
> talking about here?   More information resources on Drupal
> org?
> 
> >   It appears our downtime was a blessing in disguise; raising over
> > $10,000 USD in addition to in-kind donations of services and servers,
> > setting up a long term hosting plan with OSL
> > <http://drupal.org/node/26707> and getting server and service
> > donations!
> 
> the clause above after the semi-colon has a grammatical problem I
> think-- the edit I suggested earlier this week was:
> "We raised over $10,000 USD in addition to in-kind donations of
> services and servers, and we set up a long term hosting plan for
> Drupal.org with OSL <http://drupal.org/node/26707>!"
> 
> > Drupal Sightings – Let's find out new adopters to the joys of Drupal!
> 
> grammatical problem above again-- I'd suggest "Showcasing some of the
> best new Drupal sites around the world!"
> 
> > Join us at the O'Reilly Open-Source Conference 2005 to learn about
> > Drupal. For those who are not going to attend OSCON itself, we are
> > organizing a free, offsite Drupal conference at Portland State
> > University which we are calling Portland 2005 Drupal Conference
> > DrupalConUSA will be in 2 parts. Part 1 (informational, for users and
> 
> Is it being called "Portland 2005 Drupal Conference" or "DrupalConUSA"?
>    It's not clear to me.   Also there needs to be a period between
> "Conference" and "DrupalConUSA"-- it's a new sentence, yes?
> 
> >   ---------------------------
> >   DRUPAL DEVELOPMENT QUICKIES
> >   ---------------------------
> >
> > This month the quickies are shorter than usual, it is summer after all
> > and we had a very long outage and alas security problems to tackle.
> 
> Minor grammatical issue above-- I'd suggest something like:
> "This month the quickies are shorter than usual, thanks to the fact
> that it IS summer after all, and that we contended this month with a
> long outage on Drupal.org and, alas, security problems as well.
> 
> > chx has changed the way Drupal is initialized. It's much easier now to
> > write supplemental scripts or using parts of Drupal in another app
> > just because you like some part of API. http://drupal.org/node/18213
> 
> Slight problem above, and I'm not sure if I understand exactly your
> meaning, but does this below edit still capture your meaning?  I'd
> suggest:
> "chx has changed the way Drupal is initialized. It's much easier now to
> write supplemental scripts or to use parts of Drupal in another
> application that has an API that you want to use."
> 
> > Each passing month finds us with more great Drupal powered websites to
> > share with you, and this month, we'd like to point out some of these
> > sites for you enjoyment.
> 
> should be no comma after "month" and "you" should be "your"
> 
> > Gwenview <http://gwenview.sourceforge.net/>
> > Gwenview is "a fast and easy to use image viewer for KDE".  They use
> > Drupal nicely for the main site and to provide powerful features to
> > their users.
> >
> > Mr PHP <http://mrphp.com.au/>
> > Mr PHP has used Drupal to power its open source and commercial
> > services and forums.  As a bonus, they've created a non-standard home
> > layout.
> >
> > Threadwatch <http://www.threadwatch.org/>
> > Threadwatch is "a community website focused on Internet marketing and
> > related technologies".  They have used Drupal to create a rich
> > Slashdot style blogging site.
> >
> > Drupal Powered Lives
> > Of course, we'd like to see more Drupal sightings, so why not be one
> > yourself?  That's what this Cafepress site wants to happen, so why not
> > give in to a shirt (or coat, or mug...)
> > <http://www.cafepress.com/drupalpowered>
> 
> I'd suggest: "Of course, we'd like to see more Drupal sightings, so why
> not be a Drupal sighting yourself?  This CafePress store can get you
> started with a Drupal shirt, jacket, or mug...
> 
> Best,
> Andrew
>