At the September Mid Hudson Drupal Meetup I talked a little about a drupal module idea I’d been kicking around. Most of my drupal websites are about groups that have meetings. So I’ve got content types with cck date fields. Experience has shown that people need reminders, like via email, otherwise they forget to show up. Drupal has a lot of modules that will send notifications to users of the website, but that doesn’t work in my situations, because what I really want is the email going to a mailing list. Seemed like a good idea to me. And when I brought it up with the group, two people immediately said “oh, that would be great.”

That, it turns out, was enough motivation for me to get off my butt and implement it. node_announce 1.0 was released today. I’ve had it live on my sites for about 2 weeks, though the UI was in flux enough that I held off for a full release until now.

You want this module if you’ve got an announcements mailing list, and you are using the Calendar module on a drupal site to display events. I’ve got a list of ways I could make the module better, but for now it does the basics quite nicely. If you want to give feedback, do so via the issue queue, and I’ll do my best to respond.