[drupal-docs] Drupal Newsletter #5 - Draft 1

[Charlie Lowe]

Just some random thoughts below. One thing, though, is that I would 
include the list of completed modules from the SoC project after the 
interview. Let everyone know about them that doesn't yet :)

Robin Monks wrote:
> Here it is, please pick it apart!

> 
> After the very successful O'Reilly's OSCON in the USA, there will be a
> Drupal conference during the Euro-OSCON in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

"Much like the very successful metting of Drupalers at O'Reilly's OSCON 
in the USA, the Drupal community will be hosting a conference during 
Euro-OSCON in Amsterdam, The Netherlands."


> No permanent agenda has been made yet, but it seems we will be
> discussing three important issues that are centralized around the code
> (release cycle, new features), the infrastructure (the new hardware,
> the new infra team) and the community (promotion of Drupal, starting
> the foundation).

I think you could omit "that are centralized around" and use a colon 
after issues. Otherwise, it sounds like there are three important issues 
that are not being listed here but are centralized around those three 
things.

> 
> So even when you
> are not attending the Euro-OSCON, there is a lot to do in Amsterdam
> and you will meet with all your favorite Drupal coders as well. 

"So even when not attending Euro-OSCON, you can enjoy Amsterdam and meet 
with fellow Drupal coders."

> Join us at the LinuxWorldExpo in London, Olympia, October 5-6, to
> learn about Drupal and meet face to face with other drupaleers. 

Is it Drupalers or Drupaleers? Google likes one "e" in terms of popularity.

> We
> will be present at the .Org village alongside Mozilla Europe,
> opensourcematters.org (formerly known as Mambo), Debian, Gentoo,
> OpenBSD and a lot of other great projects.

"will be presenting"


> For more information on Robert, visit his website at
> <http://www.robshouse.net> .
> 

spacing before the period

> 
> Robert Douglass: I started using Drupal nearly two years ago. I was
> searching for software to run a blog, and somebody said that the
> taxonomy feature of Drupal was hot, to I tried it.  For a while I

"so I tried it"

> 
> CHANGE ANYTHING (Contributed by Karoly Negyesi)
>   All strings in Drupal can be changed. Just switch on locale module, then under
> admin/locale/language/add create a language, with a custom code and
> name.  Now you can manage strings under locale/string/search.
> "Untranslated" (in this case: unchanged) strings fall back to English.

If you want, there's a howto handbook page you could add the link here for:

http://drupal.org/node/24593

> The site was
> looking old and all the valuable resources it had to offer were going
> to waste so I started looking for a solution.

comma after "old"

>  As a Debian GNU/Linux user I looked to open source for a solution and

comma after "user"


> When I first installed Drupal, the thing that struck me the most was
> the ease to install it. 

how about "the ease of install." ?


The configuration interface was well laid out
> and made sense. I did not like the categorization they used, called
> taxonomy, but once you sit down and discover how it works you wonder
> why anyone does it any other way.

I'd put "called taxonomy" in either parentheses or set it off with dashes.

> By looking at the themes
> available I could tell that I could make it look how ever I wanted it

comma after "available"

> 
> After playing with the site and reading through some of the well
> written documentation I came across a site called drupaldocs.org and

comma after documentation

> The navigation has become useable and the
> resources are no longer hidden to the end user. And with the

comma after "useable"

> contributed modules, my own modules, the module system and the API it

comma after "it"

> no longer takes weeks to add new functionality to the site, but a few
> days or even a few hours. 

insert "only" after "but"


Administering the site and keeping the
> content up to date is so easy that you no longer need a developer or
> designer to do it, anyone who can work a computer and has write access
> can do it themselves.

need a new sentence. period instead of a comma after "to do it"