Part of improving communication towards the Drupal community, is writing about is done within the DA.
Here three posts that you may have missed:

• Jacob Redding hired as interim General Manager
• Drupalcon SF Drupal Association Retreat Report
• 5 paid contracts available to help complete the Drupal.org redesign and CVS to Git migration

Thanks to the people working on those.

Listen online:  http://www.lullabot.com/sites/lullabot.com/files/audio/DrupalVoices097.mp3

Sam Boyer (aka sdboyer) talks about the Drupal.org transition from CVS to Git. Sam talks about the different phases of the migration, and how using a distributed version control system like Git will change and improve the collaborative workflow of Drupal development

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Last October, Drupal made a big splash when it was chosen for the redesign of WhiteHouse.gov. Though it was far from the first or last government site in Drupal, for some (especially in this country), it put Drupal on the map in the government space. Since the White House site launched, Drupal has been chosen by the British government, the King of Belgium, Queen Rania of Jordon, the Jamaican Prime Minister, the City of Athens, and other government entities. Why has Drupal become so popular in this area? Here are four reasons why.

Easy to Post Current Information

On most government websites, the ability to post current information regarding an event, issue or crisis is imperative. In some cases there may be important information that cannot wait for an IT person to have the time to post it to the website. The CMS aspect of the Drupal platform is a huge selling point for many government agencies, because it means that practically anyone within their organization can post content to their website without delay.

Secure

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Simply said, Python wouldn't cut it. Originally written in Python, Nuxeo knew that in order to become a key player in the ECM field, they needed to be developing on a more mature and widely supported platform. So, they switched to Java, and that has made all the difference.

In 2010 public network access is still far from ubiqutous, making the continuous work impossible for many knowledge workers. A new Eclipse plugin is here to help.

Many sites make use of the jCarousel and viewscarousel modules for Drupal to display slideshows of content. But what you may not know is that there are many ways to add effects to your carousels beyond the standard configuration options.

Acquia's been working on ways to let people create really professional looking Drupal sites using only web-based tools.  One of those tools is the Rotating Banner module which just had its first release this morning.  What is a rotating banner?  I'm talking about those pretty slideshow type things at the top of most sites' homepages these days.  For a couple examples, check out http://acquia.com, http://kofiannanfoundation.org/, http://amnesty.org. This module was developed for Drupal Gardens by myself and James Elliot.

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Acquia's been working on ways to let people create really professional looking Drupal sites using only web-based tools.  One of those tools is the Rotating Banner module which just had its first release this morning.  What is a rotating banner?  I'm talking about those pretty slideshow type things at the top of most sites' homepages these days.  For a couple examples, check out http://acquia.com, http://kofiannanfoundation.org/, http://amnesty.org. This module was developed for Drupal Gardens by myself and James Elliot.

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The jclouds ecosystem have been busy since our last release. The latest includes full support for clojure, a cleaner api, and new services such as GoGrid.

After some organization around travel and accommodation (which is still in flux to some degree), looks like there is nothing in the way for me to attend Drupalcamp Timisoara 2010 and contribute some content to the session schedule as well. Fun! This Drupalcamp is taking place in the Politehnic University of Timisoara in one month on June 5th and 6th, and is primarily English. I'm spotting others coming from as far as Belgium, Serbia, Moldova, Hungary, Austria and Germany.

The two sessions I've submitted for the schedule are the following:

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I received today an Amazon gift from a Drupal member who's been using my Sheetnode module. What a great surprise! As I've said before, I feel privileged to be part of Drupal's great community, and I will keep contributing my modest efforts to make Drupal the most awesome Web platform. Many thanks Reamur!

Learn how to rid yourself of those imposing Spring XML configuration files by using the @Configuration annotation instead.

Are you still setting up your own, cross-browser functional tests? Well, I hate to break it to you, but you'll never be able to keep up with the number of different browsers, versions, updates and spin-offs that exist in the market. So, why not just let Sauce Labs handle that challenge for you?

Think it's a challenge to handle both JTA and non-JTA (i.e. local) transactions at the same time? Check out how easy UltraESB makes it!

If you're interested in learning how to build a Twitter app on your Android phone with Java then you'll want to check out our upcoming online course, Developing Android Applications with Java: Building a Twitter App, and you'll want to watch this screencast so you're ready to go on the first day of class.

Could 50% of Oracle's business in 2014 really come from the cloud? Someone at Oracle is wishfully thinking it.

It's Tuesday, so that means IBM must have released a new data cache solution to compliment all of their other data cache solutions. This one supports common distributed caching scenarios such as HTTP Session Replication and web side-cache accessed via a network connection, and it's affectionately known as the IBM DataPower XC10 appliance. And apparently, it does come in 'purple.'

If you've used GWT and the Google AppEngine, you no doubtedly love it. But you're also probably a tad frustrated with the bare bones persistence mechanism that comes with it. SimpleDS is the bridge between that frustration, and a useful datastore that doesn't get in your way.

Define and document complex regular expressions in XML

Roundup 2010 - Non SQL Databases Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com

• Apache Jackrabbit
  • http://jackrabbit.apache.org/
• CouchDB
  • http://couchdb.apache.org/
• MongoDB
  • http://www.mongodb.org/
• Apache Cassandra
  • http://cassandra.apache.org/
• HBase
  • http://hadoop.apache.org/hbase/
• Voldemort
  • http://project-voldemort.com/
• Tokyo Cabinet
  • http://1978th.net/tokyocabinet/
• Neo4J
  • http://neo4j.org/
• BerkeleyDB
  • http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/berkeley-db/index.html
• LDAP
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightweight_Directory_Access_Protocol
• SimpleDB
  • http://aws.amazon.com/simpledb/
• JPA
  • http://java.sun.com/javaee/technologies/persistence.jsp
• BMP
  • http://docstore.mik.ua/orelly/java-ent/ebeans/ch06_02.htm
• Map/Reduce functions for queries
  • http://answers.oreilly.com/topic/1396-running-a-couchdb-query-using-mapreduce/
• NoSQL in the Cloud
  • http://www.informationweek.com/cloud-computing/blog/archives/2010/04/nosql_needed_fo.html
• BASE - Basically Available, Eventually Consistent
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eventual_consistency
• Database sharding
  • http://www.codefutures.com/database-sharding/
• Basho Riak
  • http://riak.basho.com/
• Key Value, Document Oriented, Column Oriented, Graph Based types
  • http://nosql-database.org/
• Git
  • http://git-scm.com/
• Gemstone
  • http://www.gemstone.com/
• Schema migration
  • http://developer.spikesource.com/wiki/index.php/Schema_Migration
• Google App Engine
  • http://code.google.com/appengine/
• NoSQL - Bad Name?
  • http://notonlysql.com/
• Data.gov
  • http://www.data.gov/
• Software Transactional Memory - Clojure
  • http://clojure.org/refs
• Oracle clustering and grid
  • http://www.oracle.com/us/technologies/grid/index.htm
• Amazon Web Services
  • http://aws.amazon.com/

Thanks

• Libsyn.com - http://www.libsyn.com - for hosting and bandwidth
• Feedburner.com - http://www.feedburner.com - for feed redirect
• Kirsty Doherty, Amy Ehmann for Java Posse artwork
• Theme Music:
  • Opening - "Java" the parody song Copyright 1997 Broken Records and Marjorie Music Publ. (BMI),
    • written and performed by Loose Bruce Kerr of the Dr. Demento Show and Sun Microsystems attorney.
    • Based on the WWI popular song, "Ja-da." Ukelele style on the recording taught to Bruce by his dad.
    • Re-produced with kind permission from "Loose" Bruce Kerr - http://loosebrucekerr.libsyn.com http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAX0gJt-aZg
  • Closing - Juan Carlos Jimenez - In the House (Intro No. 1)
    

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