Erik:
We had our first Austin Apps sprint last week and got quite a bit done. We had 12 people from Phase2 Technology, LevelTen, Four Kitchens, Mediacurrent and Pantheon all had people at the sprint. Thanks to Four Kitchens for helping us provide a space for the Sprint.
Frank:
Having spent an amazing few days in Austin for the Apps Sprint we came away with some even better news than expected. After a few joint development sessions with the great folks of [Pantheon] we are thrilled to announce that OpenPublic, OpenPublish and OpenAtrium are now available on the Pantheon platform via a one-click install from your Pantheon dashboard.
Karen:
Phase2, Level Ten, 4Kitchens, and others come together to improve the Apps and Appserver modules this Friday.
Karen:
In the Town of Lake Clarke Shores, Florida, citizens no longer have to wait to access valuable information about their town hall meetings, thanks to a new web site powered by OpenPublic and built by the team at Big Couch Media Group. Seeing a need for not only a site makeover but an overhaul of the tools that community members needed most, John Studdard and the Big Couch team put OpenPublic to the test, utilizing the responsive design theme and maximizing the available tools for citizen engagement, while also building new functionality for the platform. I sat down with John this week to hear more about the build.
Dave:
We're excited to announce the Alpha 3 release of OpenPublish! This release features app support and a new responsive Omega-based Default Theme amongst other improvements and tools for site builders.
Danielle:
There's nothing like filling a brand new role in an organization. Sure there are the new challenges of uncharted territory, and the opportunity to build a new area of expertise in the company, but the best part is everyone at the office asking "so what do you DO here, again?"
Felix :
Drupal's nature of using hooks to allow functionality override by contributed modules, by the same token it is difficult to have data available between different hook implementations during the request process, specially if they are overridden. Simply we just need to have certain values available overall the system, once they are set.
Josh:
OpenCalais has been completely rewritten for Drupal 7. We chose to basically start from scratch because of the new (for d7) entity and fields systems, which radically changed the way that we interact with taxonomy terms, and in the hope to vastly improve the UI and be able to add more functionality.
Karen:
Realtor Magazine, a publication for residential and commercial real estate brokers, recently launched their new site, built on OpenPublish. We sat down with the team to hear why they chose OpenPublish, and how it's working for them.
Jeff:
What a year for Drupal in government! After several major launches for Drupal at the Federal level from the U.S. House of Representatives, FCC.gov, and Energy.gov, I am very pleased to announce that the Georgia Technology Authority will be migrating from the commercial CMS Vignette to OpenPublic, the Drupal distribution our team developed and open sourced for use in the public sector.
