[drupal-docs] July Drupal Newsletter - FINAL DRAFT

[Andrew Hoppin]

awesome-- thanks for the clarification re: services.

On Jul 21, 2005, at 11:43 AM, Robin Monks wrote:

> 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
>>