As you know, the EU Cookie Law is coming into effect on 26th May 2012. This means, all websites in the EU is legally bound to this privacy law. There is already a countdown on thier website (http://www.cookielaw.org/). However, not to fret, the team over at CivicUK (http://www.civicuk.com/cookie-law/index) has come up with a solution and someone else came up with a Drupal module. So the hard work has been taken care of. Read more about EU Cookie Law coming into effect on 26th MAy 2012

"If you are new to Drupal, you will find Drupal 7 to be easy to use, yet extremely powerful. Over the course of this book we will work our way through the most important features of Drupal 7, so you can begin to gain familiarity with Drupal. Read more about Drupal 7 First Look book

Drupal has always been known to be a great platform to build community sites and with the abundant of modules available to extend the core system, it really has made it so much easier now even for people with very little web development skills. For this reason, some group of people feel they should build their own local community site as opposed to using highly popular social network site like Facebook (groups). There are many reasons but i believe it comes down to the need for total control over the management and delegation of the site to serve a niche community. Read more about Book Review: Drupal 6 Ultimate Community Site (2nd Edition) Dorien Herremans

The first ever Scottish DrupalCamp event will be taking place in Edinburgh. Organised by the local Drupal User Group and supported by Informatics Ventures at the University of Edinburgh.

This one day event is sponsored by 39Steps / Acquia / i-KOS / Packt Publishing.

To register for this free event and more info, visit: http://www.informatics-ventures.com/sub-pillars/barcamp/drupalcamp-edinb... Read more about DrupalCamp Edinburgh 2010

Packt launch fifth annual Open Source Awards

Birmingham, UK. 9th August 2010

The 2010 Open Source Awards was launched today by Packt, inviting people to visit www.PacktPub.com and submit nominations for their favorite Open Source project. Now in its fifth year, the Award has been adapted from the established Open Source CMS Award with the wider aim of encouraging, supporting, recognizing and rewarding all Open Source projects. Read more about Packt launch fifth annual Open Source Awards