Drupal creator Dries Buytaert with lots of reason to celebrate:

On January 15, 2001, exactly 20 years ago, I released Drupal 1.0.0 into the world. I was a 22 years old, and just finished college. At the time, I had no idea that Drupal would someday power 1 in 35 websites, and impact so many people globally.

Quite the accomplishment. Congrats to Dries and the entire Drupal community!

In this post, he also shares why he’s still working on the project and details 3 birthday wishes for Drupal:

1. Never stop evolving
2. Continue our growing focus on ease-of-use
3. Economic systems to sustain and scale Open Source

Those sound like noble wishes to me. 💯

Adam and Jerod talk with Angie Byron, a core contributor and staple of the Drupal community. We haven’t covered Drupal really (sorry about that), but the call with Angie was inspiring! From the background, to the tech, the usage of the software, the communication at all levels of the community — Drupal is doing something SO RIGHT, and we’re happy to celebrate with them as they march on to the “Framelication” beat of their own drum.

After nearly two years of development, we are proud to announce the release of the first alpha version of the Drupal 7.x family. This alpha includes a tremendous number of new features and new under-the-hood improvements for both users and developers.

What’s new, what’s changed?

• Revamped User Interface
• Custom Fields
• Image Handling
• Update Manager
• Front-end “under-the-hood” improvements
• Back-end “under-the-hood” improvements

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