Breaking news:

At Noon Pacific, April 21st, online publisher CNET announced the winners in the 2008 Webware awards and open source content management system Drupal wins the Webware 2008 award in the publishing and photography category.

While we don't get too hung up on awards, for Raincity Studios (and our colleagues formerly known as Bryght) and the Drupal community at large, this is a pleasant validation for the hard work and enthusiasm we dedicate to building this open source content management system.

And this is no light weight trophy! Here's what the organizers say about the process:

Despite the breathy post title, Raincity staffers DID NOT pose for the cover of the newest tome from romance-centric publisher Harlequin, however the RCS team DID build the new eHarlequin Community.

Less than a week since launch, the fresh participatory marketing endeavor is already bustling with activity and humming along to enthusiastic reviews.

The details of the myriad new features and the tricky customizations crafted within a compressed time-line (along with the big strategic vision of the project) are summed up in the eHarlequin Portfolio entry.
However, what was most interesting from my vantage point was how quickly the participation started on the live site.

In case you aren't subscribed already, consider signing up for your preferred flavours of the Drupal.org mailing lists.

You can choose a daily digest rather than a steady trickle of messages.

Below (via the wonders of paste) are the choices - placed here to get you excited about heading over and signing up (cause you don't get enough email do ya?) and participating the revolution (or something like that).

Certainly I go on and on about the power of Drupal being "the community" - indeed the Raincity Studios crew collaborated with great success at Drupalcon Barcelona - but not everyone is able to wing across the Atlantic to code and think together over tapas and wine {sigh}.

But it's all good because the Druapl community is local too. Groups.Drupal.org is the home to an international rolodex of Drupalists - from padawon to jedi - who are seeking to meet up, hang out and think and code with well, ... you.