Come join us in celebrating Drupal's Meet-ups tend to be participant-driven, but we do plan to show a little bit of Drupal 5, including its nifty new installer, its new totally revamped administration area, and of course the live-customizable Garland theme.
We'll then just go with the flow. At some point, we may adjourn and reconvene at a nearby location for celebratory beverages and such.
(More info at the announcement on Groups.Drupal.org.)
]]>Anyone running previous versions of Drupal should really consider upgrading to 4.7.x just for the many improvements in functionality and performance. If you're not convinced, check out this review of Drupal 4.7 in NewsForge.
]]>We have been developing all new websites on the 4.7 release candidates. Now we will be doing so on Drupal 4.7, as well as offering upgrades for those on 4.6 and 4.5.
The preparation of release has been a long haul, but the enhancements in Drupal have been definitely worth it. Kudos and applause are due for the Drupal development community! The whole Free Open Source Software movement has taken a major stride forward today.
]]>Easy update: Simply upload to your Drupal 4.6.4 installation the changelog and the /modules and /includes directories, replacing all files. There were no database changes. (And if you're running an older version, check for security updates. Same goes for CivicSpace users.)
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]]>The theme is: "How is your blog changing the world?" I think it's pretty safe to say my blogs haven't changed things much on the global scale, but blogs in general are disrupting the old order in business, media, politics, you name it. But that's a topic for another post series of posts....
...and a conference.
I'm not sure what our official role with Blogher '06 will be yet. pingVision is looking forward to partnering with Blogher in any way we can help.
But tonight I received a personal invitation to be on their Advisory Board to help brainstorm and plan the event. And in the next couple of days, I'm going to be talking with Lisa Stone about what they have in mind. I have some crazy ideas, and one or two not-so-crazy ones. More on them later.
As soon as I first heard about the idea of a women's blogger conference, I knew in my heart that it would succeed famously. I think it exceeded everyone's expectations. Now those expectations are raised for next year. But I wouldn't bet against exceeding them yet again.
Mark your calendar.
]]>The Drupal project has released version 4.6.3 of its open-source content management platform. Drupal 4.6.3 is a maintenance release that fixes problems reported using the bug tracking system. Drupal 4.6.3 also fixes a new security vulnerability in the third-party XML-RPC library that Drupal ships with. Since the same bug is also present in the Drupal 4.5 series, Drupal 4.5.5 is released as well. If you cannot upgrade at once, we strongly suggest that you remove the xmlrpc.php file from your Drupal installation's root directory. The xmlrpc.php file is used only for Drupal to receive XML-RPC calls.
Anyone running Drupal should update immediately. The download tarball is here. Also, if you are running Drupal 4.5.x, there is an update for you here.
If you cannot do the update right away, or do not know how, here is the short-term fix:
If you cannot upgrade immediately, you can secure your site by removing the XML-RPC server: simply remove the file "xmlrpc.php" in the root of your Drupal directory.
This will prevent you from using a program like ecto to post to your site, but it will protect your site from the newly discovered security vulnerability.
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Update: If you are running CivicSpace, a security advisory is here.
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If you want to go ahead and jump in, knock yourself out, but we won't be officially hosting the chat until tomorrow morning (or 2PM GMT).
The chatroom uses a Flash-driven interface, so if you don't have Flash 7 or greater, you can download the free plugin here. If you have any problems, please contact us.
]]>And go for it they all did. The sold-out BlogHer Conference '05 is happening this Saturday, July 30th, in Santa Clara, CA. The panels lined up are very impressive.
I'm really impressed with the event they and others have pulled together. (And I am not at all surprised at the overwhelmingly positive response from women who are participating in and attending the conference.) But I've also been heartbroken that I cannot attend. I'm just too overextended to break away for a few days.
So you can imagine my excitement when Lisa came to me with a question: Could we host some sort of IRC chatroom? I said "yes" before I even thought about it.
Since then it's been a flurry of activity on my part trying to figure out the best way to do this. I'll write more on that later. For now, I'll just say that the chat will be web-based -- no IRC client is needed. (Sorry, geeks and geekettes, but we must make this easy for the non-technical folks.) The specific URL of the chatroom will be linked from our home page using a very conspicuous BlogHer graphic.
This is all very last-minute, and we're doing our little part on faith that if we build it they will come. It's our hope that many women (and men) interested in how the internets are changing how women (and men) do business, get active, interact and so on will stop by the official chatroom and get in on the discussion.
We at pingVision are proud to be Program Partners for the BlogHer Conference '05.
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