Drupal

Last Friday, in a friendly atmosphere complete with free snacks, drinks, beer, and pizza, Koumbit welcomed participants to the first ever Drupal 7 code sprint in Montreal.

Thanks to everyone who came out to the meet-up at our offices last Friday. It's always a pleasure to talk about some of the major events coming up in the Drupal world in such good company.

Koumbit is proud to add the Transnational Institute to its clients list. TNI is an Amsterdam-based think tank, famous in academic and activist circles worldwide. A major website overhaul is in the works, which involves the conversion and importation of about 8,000 archived pages.

A couple of weeks ago, Koumbit has also undertaken a major upgrade (from Drupal 4.6 to Drupal 6) of the 32,000 page strong CMAQ website. The CMAQ (Centre for Media Alternatives - Quebec), established in 2001, is part of the Indymedia network. In a similar, albeit more modest manner, Koumbit provides technical support to the Quebec social forum (FSQ), a major social and political event to be held in Montreal on October 8-12, 2009.

Decisions is back!

The Decisions module development has resumed, after a 3-year hiatus, during which a fork called Advpoll had taken the lead. Decisions is a Drupal-based tool that allows organizations to hold secure electronic polls and elections.

Last March–more than a year after its release (and many contributed module upgrades)–Drupal 6 was deemed "sufficiently stable" for us to undertake the complex process of migrating Koumbit's websites to the new platform. Drupal 6 improved caching system now provides better performances and a more pleasant user experience. Amongst other recent improvements, we've also migrated our member management system to CiviCRM 2.2.0., and now support authentication across our multiple online tools/websites through OpenID.

The McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) Foundation's new website has won a Bronze award in the Public Service category from the Horizon Interactive Awards, a leading international interactive media awards. The seventh annual competition received over 1000 entries from 20 countries around the world.

A website built in partnership with Koumbit

The Drupal-powered website was developed by Montreal's Design Postimage with the help of Koumbit

Koumbit will be sending a team of six people to attend the upcoming DrupalCon in Boston.

Koumbit will be sending a team of six people to attend the upcoming DrupalCon in Boston.

Unfortunately, we didn't get ourselves sufficiently organised to propose a presentation on any of the interesting work we are presently doing with Drupal, but there's lots of cool stuff already on the program.

Anyway, this promises to be a great, even if somewhat-expensive-for-non-profits, conference. For those who can't make it, please consider attending the next Drupal Meetup in Montreal to discuss the highlights with us. For more info, please refer to the Montreal-Quebec group.

Your eyes didn't fool you : Koumbit has just completed the migration of its web site to the new and improved Drupal 5 platform. Among the most important improvements were :