Drupal is an open source free software package that allocates an individual or a community of users to simply publish, handle and arrange a broad selection of content on a website. It is an amazing tools that I use all the time as a web designer to implement websites for non technical users. There are thousands of themes you can load and edit using CSS to fit the needs of the website you are building. Drupal also has modules that are functional elements such as photo albums, chat rooms, blogs, newsletter....etc...etc. From an article from diggs.com,Drupal calling on students for the GHOP Contest I guess Google announced recently that Drupal has been chosen as one of the ten projects participating in the new pilot program the GHOP or Google Highly Open Participation Contest. You can sign-up for a new account at www.drupal.org and join the Drupal GHOP group. From there you can work on a variety of development projects to help towards winning this GHOP award from Google.
Also Drupal has just finally released their 6th version of this software package. Which has even more security and lots of new themes and modules to play around with. A video article from diggs.com from Noel Hidalgo and Dries Buytaert (Top Drupal Developers) Dries explains that he is giving this way to give access to everyone who wants to build websites. Dries interview explains the history of Drupal and how some of the internal technology just randomly came about. In many aspects he has a similar motto as Google. Doing good and giving away this technology freely to all that want to learn. You can view his interview here:
Overall, if your interesting in learning more you can go to their website and there are thousands and thousands of site using Drupal, discussing groups about Drupal technologies and it is all free to learn and use. I think it is a wonderful service to us all just try googling "Drupal" to see what you get.
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