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Since this month I am working over at Dutch Open Projects, an Open Source implementer in the Netherlands that specialises in PHP; zend, symfony, SugarCRM, Joomla and Drupal. Doing both Drupal and Joomla is fine with me, both have a place in the CMS landscape. And the goals of DOP is to offer the right Open Source solution for the customers needs, not to start a holly war of one Open Source tool against another.

Since the headquarter of DOP is located at a very nice place, we often hold x-camps at our place. Dont be surprised that a deer wonders by the swimmingpool out of the forrest behind our villa! Some time ago we had the SymfonyCamp over at our place. And we do have enough room for lots of tents and a BBQ.

See the full symfony pool at fickr.

We are planning on organizing a Joomla!/Drupal camp over a next couple of month. And the use the healthy competition between the two projects and to use the power of Open Source, we had the following idea:

From both communities a couple of dozen people can signup and camp at our place for a weekend. During this weekend both have the assignment to make as many migration tools as possible to migrate from the dominant proprietary CMS-es in the Netherlands;

As someone with an urban planning background and an early addiction to computers (hence games), I played SimCity a lot. And when I say, a lot I mean a lot! I spend hours playing this excellent game, days, month. And the sequels just didnt do it for me.

So now the greatest game has become Open Source!

The original SimCity source code under the GNU General Public Library (GPL).

Yes.

When Digg.com started there were some rumors that Digg was build upon Drupal. While these rumors were quickly demystified, the point was that in Drupal it would not be too hard to build something like digg, as the search on google shows

Now over at Wired (I used to read the dead tree edition back in the 90-ies) it says:
Build a DIY Digg Clone with Drupal

Drupal developer Tony Mobily has built a new module for Drupal which enables anyone to start up their own Digg clone. You can grab the code and contribute to the project at drigg-code.org, or you can see it in action at drigg.org.

I am sure that some old mainstream media who are eager to get on the 2.oooh boat (or will drown!) are willing to use something like this. I am not the type that says "there is a module that will do exactly what your business problem is" as some do. Yes, more then 2k modules but most sites need drupal core, views, cck, workflow and a handful of custom modules. But having a Digg-clone.module around sure is easy for those that see "digg-clone" as their business objective.

The funny thing is, back in 2000 / 2001 there was no Drupal. We had drop.org in those days. Drop.org was running Drupal and in fact it was like a Digg without the fancy AJAX (and the overhyped budget.. and the big audience... and...)