After noticing that in the community, some people are seeking a central community 'hub' Feature Server via which to upload and share their Features, I bought featureservers.org and set up http://community.featureservers.org to do exactly that.

Tonight at 18:30pm GMT+11 I'll be giving a talk/presentation on 'An Introduction to the Aegir Hosting system' at the regular monthly Melbourne Drupal meet @ the Emspace offices.

My notes during the last week kind of took on a life of their own, and so in anticipation of the talk, I thought I'd publish them here, despite the somewhat casual tone, for those who can't make it and want a somewhat (perhaps overly, for an Introduction!) detailed overview of the Aegir system and what it does.

Ægir users or people interested in the project might be interested to know that the recent Paris DrupalCon videos are starting to show up on archive.org.

Available are Adrian and Anarcat's presentation Automate your site maintenance troubles away with the Aegir hosting system as well as Aegir - Build once, deploy often: Real life use cases by Roel De Meester.

Support. Casetracker. Storm. Project. Trouble Ticketing System. Comment CCK.

Hooray for opensource, and the ability for many people to spend a lot of effort trying to achieve the same end!

I've been a Drupal user since the days of 4.x, and I've seen the project and its contributions grow immensely throughout the years. I've had a wide range of successes (and disasters, sometimes Drupal is not the answer for everything) implementing the fantastic opensource CMS for various organisations and campaigns.

This is the first time in a while I've been genuinely excited about where Drupal-inspired creativity can go.