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The flagship site of Oxfam International, http://oxfam.org, is using Drupal. Oxfam is also using Mollom to protect their blogs from comment spam. Oxfam International is a confederation of organizations actively working in more than 100 countries to find lasting solutions to poverty and injustice. I've always believed that Oxfam was big on Plone, so I wonder why they decided to go with Drupal instead? Regardless, it's great to see that Drupal adoption continues to grow in the non-profit sector.

The French Ministry for Health, Youth and Sport launched a Drupal-based information portal for French youth: http://www.jeunes.gouv.fr. Building on the rapid adoption of Drupal by non-profit and advocacy groups, Drupal's use by governments just keeps increasing!

Drupal goes to space! ASI is in Italy what NASA is in the USA. In other words, ASI is the Italian national agency for space activities, and works primarily with ESA (European Space Agency) and NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration). Among their many projects include recent work on construction of the International Space Station. Turns out their site uses Drupal. Check it out at http://www.asi.it.

It would be interesting to get a list of all the Drupal sites at MIT -- I know they have quite a few. Recently, MIT's well-known Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) launched its new and improved website using Drupal at http://www.csail.mit.edu. DIG, a group at CSAIL that includes father of the web Tim Berners-Lee, has been using Drupal for many years now. Great!

Oh my. Pearl Jam, one of my favorite bands, relaunched its official band website using Drupal. Check it out at http://www.pearljam.com. Rock!

Belgian men's magazine P-Magazine (LSFW) recently switched to Drupal. I don't know who built the site, but I'm told it is hosted on a multi-server cluster at Combell. More proof that Drupal is growing strong in Belgium. Cool!

Boekenbeurs.be, the site of Belgian's famous book fair, received 3 awards at the Belgian CMS Awards last week. The site, built with Drupal, was designed and implemented by Calibrate. The site received an award for web 2.0 functionality, SEO implementation and best public overall award. Stunning design!

Sanyo, the Fortune 500 electronics company, used Drupal to build a nice product catalog website at http://www.sanyo.com.au. The site went live earlier this week and features 250 products in 30 categories with over one GB of PDF files. More functionality is being added iteratively.

It sounds like they would be an ideal candidate for Acquia's upcoming hosted search service which will be able to search PDF documents as well as regular Drupal content. According to Luke Schreur from Tequila Digital Australia, the company responsible for the implementation, CCK was the most important module for this project. Luke said that they are already deploying Drupal for other clients and that more programmers at Tequila Digital are getting into Drupal. Great!

Spotlight Verlag, a well-known German publisher, recently launched another Drupal site: http://www.business-spotlight.de.

Udo Gerhards, Project Manager Online at Spotlight Verlag, explained to me that the site is targeted at language learners and that they built a number of complex interactive language tests; see here for a JavaScript based drag and drop test, and see here for a regular multi-page HTML form test. Development of the site was done mainly by their in-house development team, with some help from Auvica.

When asked, Udo told me that CCK, Views and Panels were the main reasons for using Drupal. Their biggest pain point was in staging their development environment to reliably push big changes to their production environment.

They use a multi-site install with a single master user database (every login in the different Drupal instances is checked against one central user database, so users share the same login data for different websites in their network). This master database is also connected to their magazine subscriber database. The multi-site setup makes it easier for them to roll out and maintain the additional Drupal sites that they have in the pipeline.

Canada's National Hockey League (NHL) is probably the highest level of professional ice hockey in world. With league revenue totaling 2.5 billion US dollars last year, the NHL is also big business. Joshua Schroeder, a Canadian Drupal developer, reported that the NHL has begun using Drupal for several interactive sites that allow fans to participate in the annual all-star game voting, and weekly fan favorite awards. Example NHL sites built with Drupal include:

• Fan all-star voting
• Fan favorite award
• Greatest captain sweepstakes

All these sites seem to be built with Drupal 6. More proof that Drupal 6 is getting serious traction. Good stuff!

ConsumerSearch.com has been redesigned and is now running Drupal. The site is a part of the About.com Group, a subsidiary of The New York Times Company.

ConsumerSearch.com gets about 5.5M unique visitors each month (and growing). I don't know what server infrastructure they run on, but with the help from Jeremy at Tag1 Consulting, they configured Drupal to rely heavily on memcached and Drupal's built-in aggressive caching mode. Knowing Jeremy, they are probably trying to serve cached pages from disk, rather than from the database.

The Walt Disney Company is using Drupal for the ABC Family community website. ABC Family is a cable television network that they currently own. In 2002, Disney acquired the network from News Corp for $3.2 billion USD.

Belgium.be, the official website of Belgium, is using Drupal at http://forum2010.belgium.be. This forum site has been put together in preparation for our Presidency of the Council of the European Union in the second half of 2010.

Perhaps the most remarkable aspect is the fact that the site was built in less than 10 days. The Chancellorship of the Prime Minister picked Connexion to build this site with the help of Internet Architects.

The site is available in 4 languages so all Belgian citizens can express their opinions and engage in interactive discussions about European issues.

Beyonce's official website is now using Drupal. Oh oh oh!

English Online is an initiative created by the British Council to encourage the learning of English in China.

In good Drupal style, the site boasts a number of social networking features such as personal profiles, blogs and forums to connect a community of over 60,000 users. Users can customize content in Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional and English. Other features include video, newsletters, an events calendar, as well as a mobile version of the site at http://m.englishonline.org.cn.

The site, developed by Brightlemon, was also referenced in Gordon Brown’s recent visit to China.

Mozilla launched spreadthunderbird.com this week. Spread Thunderbird is the volunteer-run Thunderbird advocacy site where community marketing activities are organized to raise awareness and to promote the adoption of Thunderbird, Mozilla's Open Source e-mail application. The Spread Thunderbird site is powered by Drupal and uses the Acquia Marina theme. They are also using Mollom to protect their site against spam. Hopefully the site will be as big a success as spreadfirefox.com, which has been a Drupal site for many years.

SourceForge, Inc (formerly VA Linux/Software, NASDAQ: LNUX) switched their corporate website to Drupal. Another public company with a Drupal site!

SourceForge operates many of the sites that had a huge impact on my early Open Source career, including SourceForge.net (the world's largest open source software development and distribution environment), Slashdot (the web destination that pioneered community generated content and that provided inspiration for some of the features in Drupal 1.0), ThinkGeek (my favorite online shop of cool stuff and whose t-shirts turned me into a walking Open Source billboard evangelist), NewsForge (who published an instrumental Drupal 4.7 review), Linux.com (who published many great Drupal articles), freshmeat.net (where I publicly announced Drupal 1.0 on January 15, 2001; e.g. check this comment from 2001 on the Drupal Freshmeat page), and more. And last but not least, VA Linux's IPO (now SourceForge, Inc) helped make Linux a success, which is how I got involved with Open Source development in the first place. Fantastic news!

117 million people participated in the United Nations' Anti-Poverty event, and it was organized on a Drupal site: http://www.standagainstpoverty.org/.

Nearly 117 million people – close to 2 per cent of the world’s population – took part in events all around the world to stand up and take action against poverty and for the Millennium Development Goals. According to a United Nations' press release they broke the Guinness World Record for the largest social mobilization ever on a single issue. Furthermore, the United Nations unveiled that they secured around $16 billion in new commitments to meet the Millennium Development Goals.

The Stand Up Against Poverty site was developed by the great folks at Development Seed; and as you can tell from their blog post, they pushed the Drupal envelope once again.

It is great to help make a product that many people like, but it is even better when that product helps improve the world a little bit!

ICANN (Internet Committee for Assigned Names and Numbers), the non-profit organization that oversees the use of Internet domains is using Drupal at http://public.icann.org. They are using Mollom too!

The New Zealand government is using Drupal at http://beehive.govt.nz. The site features information about all their ministers, their speeches, press releases, ministerial briefings, major government initiatives and more. (Hat tip: Bevan Rudge)