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• Victoria Legal aid taps Drupal for website redesign

  Victoria Legal Aid has gone live with a new Web presence based on Drupal. Previously the organisation, which provides legal aid to disadvantaged Victorians, used the proprietary RedDot content management system.

• Local Drupal shops to host Commerce training for devs

  Drupal development shops Realityloop and Cross(Functional) have partnered with US-based Commerce Guys to deliver Australian training for Drupal Commerce.

• Acquia open sources iOS Drupal publishing app

  Acquia has open sourced the code for Drupal Create: an iOS app designed to let users post content on sites that use the Drupal platform.

• Acquia boosts Australian headcount

  Drupal-services company Acquia has announced a round of new hires for its Australian team.

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  Drupal 8: Re-architecting for world domination

  Drupal 8 will be the open-source project's "boldest release to date", according to Drupal's creator, Dries Buytaert. The new version of Drupal is due at the end of the year or "whenever it's ready" and includes significant behind-the-scenes changes, such as the incorporation of elements of the Symfony2 Web framework.

• Drupal Association to focus on governance, D8 launch

  Holly Ross joined the Drupal Association on 1 February as its executive director. Techworld Australia caught up with Ross at DrupalCon Sydney seven days into her new role to chat about her background and what she sees as the top priorities for the DA in the next period.

• From zero to hero: Suncorp's Drupal 'leap of faith'

  For Chuong Vu and the other members of Suncorp Group's new media team, the decision to standardise on Drupal to manage the banking and insurance corporation's Web presence was not a decision taken lightly.

• DrupalCon Sydney: Looking beyond content management

  Drupal 8 will continue the open source project’s move beyond being purely a content management platform, Drupal’s creator, Dries Buytaert, told the inaugural DrupalCon Sydney, held in Coogee.

• SBS prepares for Q1 Drupal CMS rollout

  Australia's multilingual broadcaster is preparing a staged rollout of Drupal across its online properties, beginning in the first quarter of 2013. The rollout of the open source content management system (CMS) will be the culmination of a process that began in 2011 and represents a complete rearchitecture of SBS's online systems.

• Senator Lundy to be DrupalCon Sydney headliner

  Senator Kate Lundy, the federal minister assisting for innovation and industry, has been announced as a keynote speaker at Australia's first DrupalCon.

• Acquia flies flag for Drupal downunder

  Acquia has set its sights on accelerating adoption of the open source Drupal content management system by large organisations. The company, which was founded by the CMS's creator, Dries Buytaert, opened a Sydney office last month and plans on expanding its sales and business development operations in Australia.

• Australian Drupal developers eye further opportunities in government

  Australian Drupal development shop PreviousNext has launched a beta program for a new open source offering intended to make adoption of the open source content management system (CMS) more appealing to government agencies.

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  Acquia unveils 'Apps Market' for Drupal

  Drupal services and hosting behemoth Acquia has used DrupalCon London to announce the 'Acquia Apps Market' for customers of its Acquia Network service.

• Drupal's Dries Buytaert makes call for developers

  A passion for PHP, as well as a strong developer community, has been vital to Drupal’s success, founder Dries Buytaert said.

• Dries Buytaert talks Drupal and leadership in open source

  Drupal creator and project lead, Dries Buytaert, speaks passionately about the company he began as a hobby during his college days, with the business reach of Buytaert now extending into software company Acquia and Mollom.