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OSL Rackathon

By dries on

The Open Source Labs (OSL), one of Drupal's key contributors, is organizing a OSL Rackathon. In return for donations, OSL is putting the names of donors up on their racks. They'll be posting pictures of those racks on a regular basis. The money from the Rackathon goes to cover the cost of hosting.

Documentation update

By sepeck on

Not much dramatic has happened in the last few months. Mostly it's been editing and incremental adding, editing and updating pages with a few bonuses. To highlight some items seems a good idea. Please chime in as I'm sure I've missed some.

We've had the addition of various Video casts that people seem to enjoy. I would like to see more. I keep pretending that I'll have time to make some myself but so far that hasn't happened. Heine pointed out wink as a possible tool to generate some if anyone else was wanting to hop in and contribute. (You are of course welcome to use other tools, I just thought I'd mention it as free).

People have always been able to add pages to the handbook, they just went into moderation for a few days. Despite that, for our community our size, we still have a relatively small documenation contributor base but it is growing. Something that is very nice to see. A few weeks ago I chaged the default behavior of book pages and took all book submissions out of moderation. This has resulted in a bit more spam, test and garbage pages being visible in the handbook but so far has been under control. The other result is that you are able to edit your former contributions without knocking the page back into moderation.

Drupal Podcast Turns 21

By jjeff on

We've just posted the 21st episode of the Drupal Podcast! It is an interview with JQuery author, John Resig. We talk about what JQuery is, how it works, and how it will fit into Drupal.

Past episodes of the podcast include an interview with Leo Laporte about his Drupal site, TWiT.tv; an interview with Drupal founder, Dries Buytaert; ecommerce maintainer, Gordon Heydon; Karoly "CHX" Negyesi; and lots of Drupal news, tips, and information.

⋅ Categories: Drupal 4.5.x or older, Drupal 4.6.x, Drupal 4.7.x

Recommend nodes to your users with my module

By Scott Reynolds on

cre.module is a module commisioned through Google's Summer of Code program. It is mature enough now for use on your 4.7 sites. I am branching it soon so that I can start work on 4.8. It is dependent on VotingAPI and of course some voting widget (see http://drupal.org/project/votingapi for better explaination).

⋅ Categories: Drupal 4.7.x

Drupal Youtube / Online Video Platform Being Released - in Today's News

By frogman on

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/8/prweb429215.htm

Flixya Partners with HubTV to Deliver a Broadband Action Sports TV Video Portal

Broadband Action Sports TV - HubTV is aiming to dominate the online action sports video community with the Flixya video sharing platform.

Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) August 25, 2006 -- The popular action sports and music television program HubTV (www.hubtv.net) has partnered with Flixya (www.flixya.com) to offer a broadband action sports video portal for user generated content. After negotiations with several online video companies offering video upload, Flixya chose Videoegg, which in recent months, has surfaced as the industry standard for video uploading and encoding. Videoegg powers Aol Uncut, the UK equivalent to Myspace, Bebo.com and the popular Current.tv. The software also enables video upload via a PC, Mac, web cam, camcorder and mobile phone.

Building Relationships
Earlier this month, Flixya launched its beta site which features the monetization of videos. Flixya utilizes Google Adsense and an in-house ad publishing system as well as the unique concept of sharing videos from over 200 video web sites. Flixya has been expanding and rapidly building relationships with content producers, indie music labels and independent film makers -- to enable existing web sites the opportunity for online video distribution. "With the growing number of video web sites, we believe it's important to develop niche video communities and connect with content producers," stated Flixya co-founder Ivan Wong. "The presense of larger video sharing websites such as YouTube provide a dictionary of videos but offer little incentive for users who want their content viewed by a defined and targeted community."

⋅ Categories: Drupal 4.7.x

New Module: quotefilter

By hyperlogos on

⋅ Categories: Drupal 4.7.x

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