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Irish Prime Minister announces "Ireland Reaches Out" based on Drupal Commons

The Prime Minister of Ireland (Edna Kenny) yesterday announced a new website to connect the Irish diaspora back to their roots.  The website is called Ireland Reaches Out.   It is a Drupal Commons site and will connect people from around the world back to their local towns and parishes.  As an O'Brien  and McGloughlin there is an obvious interest!  As the General Manager of the Commons team there is even more intrest.  This is a national project that has the Prime Minister and cabinet ministers promoting.

Drupal & Commons making a difference in the world

I was chatting with the team at Halabol in India. I have spent a lot of time over the past 5 years in India and the rate of change is astounding, Drupal Commons is playing a part.  Halabol has deployed a Drupal Commons site for social action in India.  You can set up campaigns, petitions, pledges , debates and promote social changing events.  It is a Commons site and has included rewards/gamification.  You can redeem activity points with socially considered rewards.  

Commons 2.5 released with UX improvements and Question & Answers

The Commons team has released Commons 2.5 today.  This is a significant release for a number of reasons, including some significant UX improvments.  We also added Question & Answer functionality which is very important for both internal and external communities.  There was a significant UX focus on this release with usability testing being very helpful.    This was very informative and initiated a change in login/landing on the Activity Stream to a  site landing page.  This was validated in the usability testing, discussions with users and a surve

Distributions Summit in San Diego

The year is winding down and it was such a great year for Drupal!  This was my first year with Acquia however it was not my first with Drupal.   I worked with Drupal at OpenProj back in 2007 – it was a very active site with downloads exceeding 2 million.

Commons success in high-tech communities

There is a new blog on the Commons and Drupal success in high-tech communities.  We are seeing success for both Drupal and the Commons distribution within the high-tech community and are focused on continued success! 

Commons 2.0 released!

Commons 2.0 is released!  

We are very pleased to announce that the GA release of Commons is now available for download at Acquia.com.  We are interested in the feedback!

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