We finished crunching the numbers from DrupalCon DC. You can check out all the final figures – including attendance stats and financial numbers – in DrupalCon DC By the Numbers: Community, Profit, and Sustainability posted on the DrupalCon DC website. Give it a read, and please post any feedback or questions you have.

The Publius Project is an effort of Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet & Society. The mission of the Publius Project is to foster public dialogue and create a durable public record on the question of how the Internet should be controlled, and by whom. The project brings together a distinguished collection of Internet observers, scholars, innovators, entrepreneurs, activists, technologists, and other experts to write short essays on this topic. The Publius Project approached DharmaTech because its existing WordPress site was too limited and "blog-centric." The Publius Project needed an easy-to-use website that effectively created a forum for discussing the pressing issues revolving around how cyberspace is governed.

Mia Moran of Emtype provided the graphic design for the project. Caroline Nolan of the Berkman Center served as project coordinator for the Publius Project. Jason Hill of DharmaTech was the lead programmer and Tony Guzman of DharmaTech was the project manager.

Links to all 102 videos were made available on March 13, 2009:

• d.o - DrupalCon DC 2009 Videos
• archive.org - search for drupalcon dc
• dc2009.drupalcon.org (in the comments of each session)

A list of the 9 sessions that were not recorded can be found at:
http://dc2009.drupalcon.org/news/almost-all-session-videos-drupalcon-dc-...
If you have of a recording of any of these and/or any BoF sessions, please post them online and let everyone at d.o know. :o)

Some Stats

• 76 sessions (68%) were online within 24 hours
• 83 sessions (75%) were online within 48 hours
• 102 sessions (92%) were online within 5 days of the conference, including:
  • 97 presentation sessions
  • 4 keynote sessions
  • 1 closing session

Earlier today, Google announced the list of organizations that have been selected for the Google Summer of Code 2009, and we are thrilled to announce that Drupal has been selected once again! This will mark the Drupal project's fifth year of participation in this fantastic program, which provides a great opportunity for the Drupal community to grow our ranks of dedicated and talented new contributors, award existing long-term contributors, and get some exciting new coding projects done at the same time! More information about the program is available in the Google Summer of Code FAQ and program timeline.

Separate Security Announcements by Type

To make the impact of different security advisories and announcements easier to see, they are now separated by type.

Drupal core security advisories: http://drupal.org/security
RSS feed for Drupal core: http://drupal.org/security/rss.xml

Contributed project security advisories: http://drupal.org/security/contrib
RSS feed for contributed projects: http://drupal.org/security/contrib/rss.xml

Public service announcements: http://drupal.org/security/psa
RSS feed for announcements: http://drupal.org/security/psa/rss.xml

We encourage those using RSS readers to track security-related developments to subscribe to all three of these feeds.

All posts to each of these three forums will still be sent to the one security announcements e-mail list. To subscribe to that e-mail list, once logged in, go to your user profile page and subscribe to the security newsletter on the Edit » My newsletters tab.

All future public service announcements will only be posted to the Public service announcements page and feed.

Drupal 6 Social Networking, by Michael Peacock, is a new book from Packt Publishing, aimed at readers wishing to create a Social Networking website. With Social Networking being a very powerful and popular concept on the Internet, this book discusses the benefits of creating your own Social Network over utilising existing Social Networks, and guides the reader through setting up a Social Network of their own.

After discussing Social Networking concepts, the book covers the basics of Drupal including installation, configuration and administration, before looking at building a powerful Social Networking website, including:

• User generated content with Drupal core modules
• Managing users and enhancing their profiles
• Enabling user interaction and communication as well as communicating with our users
• Creating a simple map-based module to show how we can extend the network with custom features by creating our own modules
• Customising the theme, and creating custom themes giving the Social Network a unique look of its own
• Deploying the Social Network, and keeping it running smoothly
• Promoting the Social Network so that its user base, and community contributions grow