Author: gregoryheller

Dries wrote on his blog recently that the Software Freedom Law Center will assist the Drupal Project on various licensing issues.

On Tuesday night I got a tip that Bryght would have some big news on Wednesday morning. That big news? Rain City Studios acquired Bryght:

In September we launched JustCauseIt.com (beta) a social networking website that acts as a companion to a forthcoming print magazine. When the folks at JUSTCAUSE came to us with their idea and told me their mission is (as they put it on the website):

Last week Packt Publishing announced Drupal as the winner of the OVerall Best Open Source CMS. From the announcement:

I had a recent mishap involving a cup of tea and a keyboard. So i had to buy a new one. Thus began a bit of an odyssey then ended at the SaturdayHouse in SoDo with a big box and this video:

This weekend I had the pleasure of a visit from everyon’es favorite roving gnome, Noel Hidalgo (NoNeck) from LuckOfSeven.com who has ben traveling for a bit over 120 days so far on his opensource journey around the world. You can help support Noel’s travels and an travails as he collects video for his documentary and…

Last week, CivicActions launched a new website, SolveClimate.com. The site tracks solutions to climate change. Not little stuff like changing light bulbs, but the big solutions that will have immediate and measurable impact on the pollution causing climate change: green building codes, carbon caps, increased fuel economy. The premise of the project is that American’s…

Last night I attended a talk by Steve Krug (Don’t Make me THINK) hosted by the Puget Sound SigCHI group. Krug’s talk, a new one, was titled, “Yes, Virginia, there is a perfect web page” He focused on 2 design conventions that he believes make web pages inherently better. And while both are pretty easy…

A few months ago I blogged about the Greenpeace KleerCut Campaign targeting Kimblery Clark (maker of Kleenex and other paper products that are made of old growth timber). Well, some Greenpeace activists struck again, this time in Chicago, keep up the good work!

Greg Knadson organized and lead a session on drupal user groups, I joined him in facilitating the session, and these are my rough notes from the session. * about a 3rd of people fit into each category (organized a dug, attended a dug, never been to one) Some numbers: * san paulo dug: 5 people…