News and announcements

Check out this article about Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061211/bs_nm/internet_wikia_dc_1

Take particular note of this paragraph:

Armchair's software is the first of hundreds of freely licensed software packages to be hosted by the company in the near future, Wales said. These could include popular open-source publishing software such as WordPress and Drupal. Consumers would then have a single password across all sites.

hello, i'd like know if can be use the statcounter pluging in drupal, or if there is any module that make the same that statcounter of wordpress blog visit plugings.

thanks.

oskar

Hello, all,

On January 31 and February 1, I'll be running a two day training on using Drupal in the classroom. The training will be held in Philadelphia, at Science Leadership Academy.

So, if you're around Philadelphia and want to dig into using Drupal, come on down!

Click here for an overview of the session.

Cheers,

Bill

I've just got my latest version of Linux Format January Edition 2007 (UK Publication) and this month's Roudup Section is on Content Management Sytems.

The article compares Drupal, Mambo, Plone, Typo3, Joomla & Midgard

The Scores were:

• Drupal 9/10
• Joomla 9/10
• Mambo 8/10
• Typo3 7/10
• Midgard 6/10
• Plone 6/10

Quote: "Drupal sets the standard for many other CMS products and continues to keep ahead of the game"

Don't know if there's anything on their site

OpenPackage Software has begun development of an OSS (open source software) Flash video module for Drupal. The primary objective of this software is to enable any Drupal website to have YouTube-style functionality with complete codec compatibility, including encoding to VP6 (the highest quality Flash codec), without the need to purchase video decoding / encoding software. This is achieved through the use of the OSS packages MPlayer and ffmpeg, along with the free binary codec pack provided by MPlayer.

Full instructions on how to setup MPlayer and ffmpeg will be provided for Ubuntu, openSUSE, Fedora, Debian and Gentoo. Only IA-32 and x86-64 architectures have high codec availability. It can be especially tricky to install MPlayer's binary codecs on x86-64, so this will covered in depth.