News and announcements

I just upgraded to OSX 10.4 and found a couple easily fixed problems from the Apache upgrade.

1. Enable the PHP modules in /etc/http/httpd.conf (uncomment them).
2. Change "AllowOverride None" to "AllowOverride All" in the same file.
3. Move all the default index.html files from the /Library/Webserver/Documents folder (leaving index.php).
4. Restart apache with /usr/sbin/apachectl restart.

Hope this helps.

--Bill

Since the first reverse bounty for the securesite module was a success, I want to kick off another one.

Portfolio module enables a structured display of information that would be useful to any sort of profession that does project based work: architects, house builders, artists, students, consultants, web designers, etc.

The donation page is again using Donorge.org. 5% of donations are funnelled to both Donorge.org and Drupal.org. I estimate that $1500 would be needed to do a really great job in implementing this module. Again, Bryght will do a top up donation to reach that amount (or an amount that a developer agrees to) and will guarantee that the module gets built to the specs described.

Ourmedia.org, a Drupal site, turned one month old today -- and we signed up our 14,000th registered user this morning.

Dries Buytaert from drupal.org invited me a while back to post something here about Ourmedia, and I've been waiting until we'd shaken off some major bugs. Most of the uploads are working now, so we'll be moving on to the next stage of development.

Briefly: Ourmedia is an all-open source, largely voluntary effort to provide free storage and free bandwidth for any kind of digital media to anyone in the world.

That's a pretty ambitious undertaking, which we're only able to accomplish because of our partnerships with the Internet Archive and Bryght.

We already have more than 7,500 works of personal media that our members have uploaded -- some really amazing works (please contribute yours as well!). You can assign any level of copyright you wish.

Here are some of the things on our roadmap that we're just about to begin (some, but not all, require a knowledge of php):

- ratings of every media item on the site

- OTRS and Bugzilla (we could really use some help with these)

- BitTorrent support

- playlists and watchlists

- support for groups and collections

- social networking capabilities

- extending the drag-and-drop Ourmedia Publisher tool to Linux (knowledge of Python required)

- improved taxonomies/categories

Boris Mann has already posted here about our code releases:

Drupal 4.6 was announced on the Developers section of Slashdot.

It did not make it to the front page though, and hence the low number of comments.