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The McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) Foundation's new website has won a Bronze award in the Public Service category from the Horizon Interactive Awards, a leading international interactive media awards. The seventh annual competition received over 1000 entries from 20 countries around the world.

A website built in partnership with Koumbit

The Drupal-powered website was developed by Montreal's Design Postimage with the help of Koumbit. Launched in December 2007, it includes a wide assortment of features—events calendar, forums, live chat, photo and video galleries, downloadable audio clips, online donations, etc.—that encourage increased user interaction and participation, and allow for communication to be targeted at specific groups: donors, volunteers, staff and the general public.

http://www.muhcfoundation.com/en/node/2768

Koumbit will be sending a team of six people to attend the upcoming DrupalCon in Boston.

Koumbit will be sending a team of six people to attend the upcoming DrupalCon in Boston.

Unfortunately, we didn't get ourselves sufficiently organised to propose a presentation on any of the interesting work we are presently doing with Drupal, but there's lots of cool stuff already on the program.

Anyway, this promises to be a great, even if somewhat-expensive-for-non-profits, conference. For those who can't make it, please consider attending the next Drupal Meetup in Montreal to discuss the highlights with us. For more info, please refer to the Montreal-Quebec group.

Your eyes didn't fool you : Koumbit has just completed the migration of its web site to the new and improved Drupal 5 platform. Among the most important improvements were :