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This is great news for the Drupal community, Google has accepted 20 Drupal projects for the 2011 Google Summer of Code, representing an investment of $110,000 US by Google for these projects.

With version 3 of the CCK module comes an innovative sub-module: Content Multigroup. This tool allows users to dynamically add groups of fields to their forms, solving in a simple way a common problem in previous projects. Can you imagine being able to create forms with unlimited fields without having to write custom code? This and much more will be possible with Content Multigroup!

We invite all Drupalers in Bogotá to celebrate the launch of Drupal 7 at Bogota Beer Company on 139th Street at 6 PM. We hope to gather as many people as possible and have a toast!

On Friday, February 9, 2011, White House Director of New Media Macon Phillips announced at  Tech@state  that a second set of contributions to the Drupal project had been released, these contributions are both developments of new modules and contributions to other modules widely supported and used by the community.

I'm happy to share another huge success for Drupal; The World Economic Forum (WEF) has launched its own internal collaboration platform in Drupal. The Forum is a non-profit foundation based in Geneva, known for its annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland.

Angela Byron is co-administrator of the free software Drupal Framework and Content Management System. She spoke with us a little about her role in the Drupal project and the recently released Drupal 7, the latest version of Drupal.

When we present Drupal as the platform that we recommend for the development of a Web project, it is inevitable that the client will be concerned about how stable it is and, above all, if it will be able to support the traffic projected for the project.

Drupal Commons is a Drupal-based solution that is focused on offering services for virtual communities. Certainly the Acquia people have done a great job with Drupal Commons and with it they seek to reach the niche of external and internal communities.

Development on mobile platforms has grown considerably and the Android operating system built by Google is one of those that has registered the greatest growth, which is why it has attracted the attention of many developers and every day more tools appear that help adopt the platform.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation in collaboration with the Tor project has launched a beta version of the HTTPS Everywhere Extension, this extension encrypts communication with a large number of websites making requests over https, many websites although they offer https support are not intuitive to use or link to sections without https which does not ensure that we are always on an encrypted connection, with this extension we can stay in an encrypted connection as long as it is available.