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Drupal 6.20 released

Drupal 6.20, a maintenance release fixing issues reported through the bug tracking system, is now available for download. There are no security fixes in this release. Upgrading your existing Drupal 6 sites is recommended.

Request for participation in a survey

Can you spare 20 minutes to take a survey about a Drupal development project undertaken by researchers at New Jersey Institute of Technology and Massey University in New Zealand? This NSF funded project -- OKES: An Open Knowledge Exchange System to Promote Meta-Disciplinary Collaboration Based on Socio-Technical Principles (NSF SOCS/IT Research Award Number 0968445) -- seeks input from Drupal developers as to how Drupal can be used to support traditional conference and unconference collaboration.

We are most interested in potential user behaviors and your sense of user rights and responsibilities regarding such a conference support system. By taking the survey, you will help the NSF project investigators in refining functions that are relevant, adequate and pertinent to community-mediated systems of open academic exchange. Once developed, this system's code will be available to the entire Drupal community.

The survey can be accessed via this link: http://ec2-75-101-253-81.compute-1.amazonaws.com/limesurvey/index.php?si...

More information about this project can be found at: http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=0968445&WT.z_pim...

Please direct any questions you may have to:

Rob Friedman, PhD
New Jersey Institute of Technology
Associate Professor and Chair
Department of Humanities

431 Cullimore Hall

Drupal 7.0 RC 2 Released

Release candidateUpdate: Drupal 7.0 Release Candidate 3 is available now!

We are proud to present to you the second release candidate of Drupal 7.0. Although there are still a few known issues that we are working on fixing, we are confident that our code is stable enough for wider testing by the community. Since the last release candidate two weeks ago, we have fixed upgrade path bugs, improved styling in the default "Bartik" theme, numerous bug fixes and improvements to strings, and fixed a critical bug preventing default Views from working. For the full list of changes, see the release notes.

The first alpha announcement provided a comprehensive list of high level improvements made since Drupal 6.x, so in this announcement we'll concentrate on how you can help ensure that Drupal 7 is released as soon as possible and is as rock solid as the previous Drupal releases that you've grown to love!

There are a number of modules already ported to Drupal 7 for your testing pleasure. You can keep tabs on whether or not your site is ready for Drupal 7 by using the Upgrade Status module. If you are a translator, now is the time to start working on your translations. If you are a module or theme maintainer, now is the time to start working on the update to Drupal 7! Read on for more details.

New Drupal Book - Drupal Web Services

Packt Publishing announces the publication of Drupal Web Services by Trevor James.

This book covers efficient Drupal Web services that help you to speed up your connections to Web applications. It will compel you to learn more and more about Web services and use them to easily share data and content resources between different applications and machines. This book also covers the usage of each Web service for different purposes. It provides step-by-step instructions on integrating Web services and Web applications with your Drupal powered Web site.

Drupal Web services will show you how to work with all kinds of Web Services and Drupal. The book shows you how to integrate Amazon.com content into your site; add multimedia and video to your site using video services including CDN2 and Kaltura. You will learn how to prevent spam using CAPTCHA, reCAPTCHA and Mollom. You will also learn to explore the different types of Web services Drupal offers and can integrate with using the Services module and XML-RPC. Next you will learn to push content from Google documents, deploying this text and image based content as Drupal nodes.

DoceboLMS (E-Learning) module for Drupal 7.x

This module is a bridge between Drupal and DoceboLMS, the open source e-learning platform.

It is in early development stage and at this time can be considered a proof-of-concept.

Once finished this module will provide:

- single sign on between Drupal and Docebo LMS
- user synchronization between the two platforms
- a "my courses" list block for Drupal
- a Drupal block for search the Docebo Content library objects

How it works:
When a user login in Drupal, if this module is enabled and configured, the user will be automatically logged in also in Docebo, using single sign on.

Any new user available on Drupal will be available on Docebo and vice-versa. At the same way editing a user in Drupal will also have it updated in Docebo. We are still evaluating which data can be kept in sync automatically, for example details like the user password, that can't be read as plain text, won't be automatically changed.

File to download and thread at docebo.org forum: DoceboLMS forum

[New Module] Quickprez - Share and comment documents in real time

Morning,

Quickprez plugin is finally available to Drupal users.

Quickprez service presentation:

QuickPrez is a web conference web application for anyone to present documents in real time. You can use the integrated chat during your presentation and even activate the webcam to instantly start a video conference.

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