I am a Permanent Member (or Community Ambassador) of the Drupal Association.Drupal’s multilingual capabilities are essential to it’s success. Most of the people who use Drupal need to do so in a language other than English. While Drupal offers great capabilities for internationalization and localization, it’s a bit of work to set up, and several key concepts come into play. Here are the sessions for DrupalCon Copenhagen that deal with language, i18n, and l10n. It’s appropriate that the European DrupalCon have a strong focus on these topics. Please go vote for them!
Drupal is in love with Solr, as can be seen by the absolutely great session proposals that have been submitted for DrupalCon Copenhagen, in August. If you want to see a healthy dose of search goodness happening in Denmark, here are the links to go vote.
Kimiko Douglass-Ishizaka is playing a solo piano concert this month in Cologne, Germany.
When: June 25, 2010, at Klaviere Then.
Time: 19:30 (7:30pm)
Program: Schumann and J.S. Bach

Also see Kimiko's website for more information.
http://www.drupal-dev-days.de/
UPDATE: Full press release below (PDF file)
For Immediate Release:
March 17, 2009
Contact:
Bryan Hirsch +41 (0) 76 547 3476 (Geneva)
Christina Rossi 617-306-0920 (Boston)
Big Tobacco Attempts to Impede Progress on Illicit Trade
WHAT:
I’m a musician living the life of a computer programmer. Or maybe I’m a techie with exceptionally good musical training. Either way, it is a point of view, and one that I share with more and more people. So I’ve decided to write about music, from the technologist’s vantage point, and to do so with some friends of mine who are in a similar boat. High-C.com is my new music blog where Jam, Andrew and I share our thoughts on all things musical. Some of my favorite posts so far are The White Seal, Grooveshark, Shutter Island, and Don’t be a silly brass player. Enjoy!
Drupal's file handling capabilities keep getting better. Beyond the core upload module, the filefield module for CCK has enabled us to build sites with all sorts of files; documents, images, music, videos, and so forth. Searching within these docuements, however, has never been a common feature on Drupal sites. Some solutions have existed, particularly for extracting texts from PDFs and common wordprocessing documents. With Apache Solr, the attachments module, and an extension library called Tika, things can be much better. With Tika you can extract texts not only from Microsoft Office, Open Office, and PDF documents, you can also get text and metadata from images, songs, Flash movies and zipped archives. Searching for these texts is done as part of the normal Apache Solr driven site search.