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Speaking Image beta launch

By Carlos Burges on

Speaking Image is a new Open Source web application (currently in beta) that is built on top of Drupal and Open Layers for the collaborative annotation of images.

Speaking Image has been developed by www.2mdc.com in collaboration with Fundación General CSIC (General Foundation of the Spanish Research Council - http://www.fgcsic.es/) as part of a general agreement to develop Open Source tools for the R&D community. The Fundación General CSIC seeks to promote quality research and lend its support and tools to researchers right from the early stages in their scientific careers.

Speaking Image allows users to upload high-resolution images, it creates a navigable map out of them, provides a set of tools to add information over specific areas of the image and allows for interaction with other users through standard social network tools.

⋅ Categories: Drupal 6.x

Important changes CVS contributors must make for the great CVS -> Git migration

By sdboyer on

If you are a Drupal.org contributor with CVS access, please read this important announcement! We need you to make some changes to your user profile by February 13, 2011.

For those who don't know, we're migrating Drupal.org's version control system from CVS to Git very soon! Git associates commits with a name and e-mail address, rather than a username as in CVS.

In order to ensure that you are properly credited for both your legacy and future contributions post-Git migration, please complete the following steps:

  1. Decide which e-mail address you want to use for your Git commits and update your profile accordingly. [instructions]
  2. Decide if you want to change your CVS username (which will be used for Git). If you do, respond at the issue listed below with your uid and desired Git username. [instructions]

Decide which e-mail address you want to use for your Git commits

Giant Drupal icon lights up Sydney Harbour Bridge

By Matto on

Web software symbol takes place of Oprah's O

A huge version of the Drupal content management system logo shone brightly, and briefly, from the Sydney Harbour Bridge last night, in the same spot where the contentious Oprah "O" made headlines last month.

The sudden and unexpected appearance of the 20-metre high Drupal icon coincided with the final day of Drupal founder Dries Buytaert's promotional tour Down Under.

Survey about security & Drupal in 2011

By greggles on

Hello Drupal fans,

Short version: sound off about security in Drupal: take this survey.

The Drupal Security Team has existed since 2005 and in that time it has grown in many senses of that word. The original team was 16 people, now 37 people. Originally it provided support for Drupal core and a few hundred modules, now it's covering thousands of contributed modules. The team has created processes and features to better deal with security over the years based on informal feedback gathered in a variety of ways. For example, after complaints that new security releases were sometimes unstable, the team and maintainers now work to create security releases that only include security changes and no bug-fixes nor features.

Help the Security Team at DrupalCon Chicago

At DrupalCon Chicago the Drupal Security Team will once again have a meeting to discuss our processes and see what we can do to improve. Once again we will be guided in part by informal, anecdotal feedback we receive, but we'd also like to do a broad call for feedback.

⋅ Categories: Drupal 6.x, Drupal 7.x

New book: Pro Drupal 7 for Windows Developers

By brian.travis on

Only local images are allowed.
My new book, Pro Drupal 7 for Windows Developers, is now available in electronic and print form. I think the potential to draw more Windows programmers into the Drupal community will benefit all of us.

The book is a programmer's introduction to Drupal, coming from a Windows developer's point-of-view. I cover the Drupal page lifecycle and how it differs from the .NET page lifecycle. I talk about the hook model and how it differs from .NET's event-driven architecture. I also have an introduction to PHP for the C/C# programmer, since PHP might be new to a lot of Windows developers.

⋅ Categories: Drupal 7.x

So long, Drupal 5.x (End of Life Announcement)

By greggles on

On January 15, 2007 (Drupal's 6th Birthday), Drupal 5.0 was released. Neil Drumm acted as the Branch Maintainer for the past four years up until one final commit on January 6, 2011 to clarify the PHP compatibility.

When Drupal 7 was released that meant that Drupal 5 was no longer supported. This announcement is merely a reminder of that fact. It is the policy (and, to large extent a matter of pragmatics) of the Drupal community to support only the current major release of Drupal (currently Drupal 7.x), and the previous release (currently Drupal 6.x). See Drupal's version info for more details on this policy.

Drupal 5 is no longer officially supported

What does it mean that Drupal 5 is no longer officially supported?

  1. You should not expect any of these issues to be fixed in Drupal core.
  2. The Drupal Security team will no longer solicit nor work to address issues that are reported in the 5.x branch of Drupal core or contributed projects.
⋅ Categories: Drupal 5.x

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