Greg Knaddison (Greggles) and Brad Bowman (beeradb) gave a session on modules you might consider using when you build a Drupal site and how to select modules with a fair degree of confidence you are choosing quality.

These are my notes from their session - not much more than a couple of lists - and videos from the session.

Brad and Greg started by talking about how best to choose good modules.

First off, you can go to:

• http://drupal.org/project/usage to see which modules are used the most.
• http://groups.drupal.org/similar-module-review discusses which modules duplicate functionality of other modules. There is also a discussion of the merits of each module.
• drupaldashboard.com/node/43 has reviews of modules.
• Take a look at the issue queue for a given module. You want the issue queue to be active, but not too active.
  Check on the maintainer-has he/she been active?
• Ask friends on #drupal-colorado
• Ask industry friends in groups.drupal.org
• Run the module through Coder to review the code style http://drupal.org/project/coder of the module.

Modules that Brad and Greg suggested included:

• Admin
• CCK
• Views
• Webform
• pathauto + pathredirect + global redirect
• Token
• Panels
• Imagefield
• flag (or nodequeue)
• Views Bulk Operations
• Content Profile
• Profile module
• Imagecache
• Ubercart

Now onto the videos. I hope they are of interest.