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  • Ian Ward
    Feb 5, 2010
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    Open Atrium for Disaster Response

    Helping field offices collect data and produce reports
    We just deployed a custom micro-distribution of Open Atrium for the Pan American Health Organization's (PAHO) Emergency Operations Center network, the World Health Organization's main arm in the region. This Spanish-only package ships with custom...
  • Jeff Miccolis
    Feb 3, 2010
    7 comments
    Exportable and Spaces-Friendly Blocks in Drupal with the Boxes Module

    The new Boxes modules provides custom blocks that play nicely with Spaces and Ctools
    Earlier this week I added the Boxes module, which provides custom blocks that play nicely with Spaces and Ctools, to Drupal.org. I initially wrote the module for recent work we did on the World Bank's Open Atrium-based intranet, and at first I wasn'...
  • Adrian Rossouw
    Feb 2, 2010
    3 comments
    New Release: Aegir 0.4 Alpha 5

    Details on the new Aegir alpha release, how to install it, and what’s coming next

    Last week the Aegir project released the latest alpha in the 0.4 release cycle. The most important features of this release are compatibility oriented, and we now have working support for Drupal 7 installs and upgrades, as well as support for...
  • Ian Ward
    Jan 18, 2010
    1 comment
    Lima Drupal Meetup + Techniques Used by Grassroots Mapping Project for Settlement Mapping

    Talking mapping and testing out using kites to take aerial photos to be converted into maps and shape files

    There were over 30 people at the Lima, Peru Drupal meetup this weekend, where I had the chance to present on mapping in Drupal. Specifically I talked about our open source MapBox service and how its custom maps can be used on Drupal websites, and on...
  • Jeff Miccolis
    Jan 12, 2010
    20 comments
    The Future of Open Atrium: Beta 4 Release and Beyond

    New processes, the Beta 4 release, and what’s coming in the stable release

    In a few weeks we will release the next beta of Open Atrium. This will be our fourth beta, and it will have a bit more meat than some of the other releases, which I'll go into later in this post. So far Open Atrium has been downloaded more than 80,...
  • Bonnie Bogle
    Jan 11, 2010
    Washington, DC Drupal Meetup Tonight

    When it is cold outside Jamison is even better
    The first DC Drupal meetup of 2010 will be tonight at 7:00 pm at Stetson's. These meetups are a great chance to meet other local Drupal developers, find out about interesting projects being built with Drupal, and just learn more about the framework...
  • Bonnie Bogle
    Jan 7, 2010
    10 comments
    Pressflow 7: Continuing to Push Performance and Scalability in Drupal

    Interview with David Strauss about Pressflow 7
    Pressflow - a Drupal distribution that provides improved performance and scalability and which is particularly useful for high traffic sites - continues to develop and the guys behind it over at Four Kitchens have some exciting plans for Pressflow 7...
  • Jeff Miccolis
    Jan 4, 2010
    9 comments
    Using Varnish + Pressflow to Make Managing News Faster

    How we increased performance tenfold and used fewer server resources on AfghanistanElectionData.org

    When we were building the Afghanistan election data website, performance was a chief concern. As Eric described in his post, there is enough tabular data in the site to fill a few thousand pages of a PDF document, and getting all the calculations...
  • Young Hahn
    Dec 18, 2009
    6 comments
    Spaces 3: Customize Everything, for Anything, in Drupal

    New architecture makes contextual overrides transparent to site builders
    "Spaces 3 has vast improvements but it continues - per mission - to screw with your mind :-)" - Alex Barth Over the past few weeks we've been working on an experimental branch of Spaces that we're now ready to call Spaces 3. Spaces is an API...
  • Eric Gundersen
    Dec 17, 2009
    7 comments
    Opening Afghanistan's Election Data: An Open Source Data Browser

    Managing News as a rich data browser for monitoring and evaluation
    This morning the National Democratic Institute opened up their Afghanistan election data browser to the public. This is a massive liberalization of election data that previously had been baked into PDFs. The tool allows users to browse the raw vote...