News and announcements

Ok, I've udpated my list of files changed by the latest Drupal upgrade once again for those interested in simplifying their update.

Files Changed by Drupal Upgrades

Does anyone need lists for 4.6.8 - 4.6.9 as well? I'll put one up if someone requests it.

Cheers,
Alex
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Contract Web Development

I am helping plan a Drupal web site for a 4-year national grant project that will be a video-rich site. Can anyone recommend a good Flash host to stream the media?

We estimate we will need a flash streaming server service that can store 200 15MB Flash files and 300 6MB Flash files for a total of about 5 GB. It's possible this no. may double, so we may have up to 10 GB media to stream.

Many thanks.

"Blackboard Patents the LMS

This post is just to inform those in the Drupal community that the EU has just officially announced its call for proposals for the eContentplus programme 2006. If there are any EU projects in the following areas using Drupal, eContentplus
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-- 'pre-proposals' (for tweaking/advice) can be submitted after 21 September 2006

Full details are at:
http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/econtentplus/calls/in...

Basic info below will help you understand what kind of funding is available.
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Call for proposals 2006

The deadline for receipt of proposals is 19 October 2006, 17:00 Hs. Luxembourg time.

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The present call is open to proposals for indirect actions addressing the following
target areas:
– geographic information
– educational content
– digital libraries (cultural and scientific/scholarly content)
– reinforcing cooperation between digital content stakeholders (across target
areas)
Proposals must be submitted by a fixed deadline, following which they will be
evaluated. Proposals not meeting this deadline will not be considered.
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The indicative overall budget available for this call is €27.3 million as the
Community contribution. The indicative breakdown is as follows:
– Geographic information 30% (8.19 million)
– Educational content 25% (6.825 million)
– Digital libraries (cultural and scientific/scholarly content) 40% (10,92 million)

Drupal 4.6.9 and Drupal 4.7.3 are available for download. These are maintenance releases that fix problems reported using the bug tracking system, as well as one security vulnerability.

Upgrading your existing Drupal sites is strongly recommended.

Download

• Drupal 4.7.3 can be downloaded from http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/drupal/files/projects/drupal-4.7.3.tar.gz.
• Drupal 4.6.9 can be downloaded from http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/drupal/files/projects/drupal-4.6.9.tar.gz.

This has been in the works for a while, but now it’s official: http://openacademic.org

This is an open source project designed to integrate Elgg, Drupal, Moodle, and Mediawiki. All code that fuels the integration will be released back to the community.