open source

Pasen la voz a todos los amigos, compañeros, colegas, etc. El Peru esta un poco bajo en las descargas: http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord/

Firefox 3 ya entro a los records Guiness con mas de 5 millones y medio de descargas en menos de 24 horas, asi que no pierdas la oportunidad de ser parte de un evento historico y bajate Firefox. La mayoria de plugins se pueden usar con la nueva version, pero hay algunos que no, asi que yo tengo las dos versiones corriendo en mi maquina pero lanzando Firefox del Terminal con perfiles, mas informacion:

ProKarma, a rapidly growing coast to coast IT Solutions and Services group, is seeking several Drupal Professionals to join ProKarma for a ong term project with a major Fortune 100 company. We are seeking both a CMS Architect as well as Technical Leads with the following profiles:

Drupal CMS Architect
• 8-10 yrs web experience with last 1+ years in Drupal 5.0.
• Strong communication skills. Technical and Mgmt background.
• Will work closely with teams offshore and give technical direction.
• Develop the overall strategy and framework for Websites and Content Management.

Are you hiring for Drupal Development in the Naperville, IL or surrounding areas?

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For more information, please have your HR director contact Mark Watson via the Contact Form. Once approved, please use the Create Job link. Please do not cross-post your job in multiple areas due to RSS.

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I have been trying to convince a friend who runs a small business with a very static website to switch to Drupal. His impression - and he got the same thing when he asked a friend about it - is that anything which is open source can't be all that secure, because people have access to the source code. I told hime that access to the code isn't so important as encryption, but had to admit it isn't my area of expertise.

My friend whurley has launched an online poll to bring open source to the attention of politicians -- specifically, the presidential candidates. He, like many of us, is troubled by the recent calls for patent reform put forth by larger companies that may wind up blocking innovation and threatening open source-oriented companies and contractors.

You can view the poll here and vote for which candidate you believe is best for the open source community. (Don't worry: "None of them" is an option!)

Salutare.

Foloseşti Drupal ?
Nu mai sta pe gânduri şi intră si tu în acest grup creat pentru toţi utilizatorii de drupal car vor să schimbe păreri şi idei, să ceară ajutorul şi să împărtăşească diferite experienţe întâmpinate pe parcursul utilizarii acestui minunat sistem de management al conţinutului, numit DRUPAL, şi poate chiar să se implice in nişte proiecte împreună.

Nu foloseşti Drupal încă? Dacă lucrezi in web design, în orice stagiu de experienţă ai fi, ar fi mare păcat să nu îl încerci pt. a vedea ce mult îţi poate simplifica munca ta şi ce poţi realiza cu acesta.

Cu mare parere de rău, chiar foarte mare părere de rău, vreau să remarc faptul că domeniul Drupal.ro şi site-ul găzduit pe acesta sunt de mult lăsate uitării de către proprietarul acestuia, cine o mai fi şi acesta... , spre ruşinea comunităţii drupal şi chiar open-source din România.
Unii poate realizează acest lucru, alţii poate nu încă, dar sper să o facă şi să demonstreze întregii lumi ca şi România are un cuvânt de spus. Toţi avem de câştigat când ne unim forţele si experienţa. Asta sună mai ales pentru cei care au pierdut (nu foarte bine zis pierdut, mai degrabă investit) timp în implementarea Drupalului pe mai multe site-uri pe care probabil le-au creat, au câştigat experienţa, dar se gândesc, in modul infantil în care gândesc încâ mulţi români, să nu împartă din experienţa şi problemele pe care le-au întâmpinat, sau chiar mai rău crează ceva inovativ (module şi patch-uri) , dar le ţin doar pentru ei. Dacă ar fi făcut acest lucru toti contributorii din întreaga lume, multe din sistemele Open Source din întreaga lume nu ar fi existat acum.

Ok. Să nu o mai lungim. Aţi înţeles ideea. Toate cele bune şi sper să văd cât mai mulţi utilizatori şi contributori români, dornici să colaboreze, înscrişi aici.

At the end of a Business Innovation Factory talk, Walt Mossberg and Jason Fried (from 37 Signals) talk about Open Source Software. Video here, at approximately 3/4 from the beginning.

Here's a quick n'dirty transcript of a small part of the talk:

The NASA CoLab team at NASA Ames Research Center, in Mountain View, CA, seeks a Sys Admin Intern to join the CoLab team at to support the CoLab and CosmosCode projects. CosmosCode is a flagship project of NASA CoLab, and the intern will be responsible for configuring and operating the website for this open source space-related-software community.

Hi All,
After reading a lot of forums around and deciding to build my own social networking site, I have created a list of modules that I think we might need to build one:

http://programmingbulls.com/social-networking-site-orkut-myspace-drupal

I am working on the complete tutorial and probably, later a code base as well to be released back to Drupal community as I progress in my project.

Thanks,
Sudeep