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Colleagues,

Justin Emond of Urban Insight has published a brief review of four possible options for hosting video in Drupal websites, from self-hosting to enterprise-level integration and delivery. For those of you who are considering how best to integrate video, this article includes a compact comparison matrix of features across the different options.

Video Hosting and Integration in Drupal
http://www.urbaninsight.com/articles/drupal-video.html

-- Chris

My evening plans just fell through and Iwas thinking about going to a movie or checking out a local pub and pool hall. Is anyone interested in getting together?

Looking for Drupal work in L.A. or its surrounding areas? Visit the official groups job board for the LA Drupal group at http://groups.drupal.org/jobs?group_nid=3002&keys=&field_type_value_many... ... and of course jobs anywhere can be found at http://groups.drupal.org/jobs

If you are looking to post your job, it is free online - just be a member of our Drupal group page (http://groups.drupal.org/la) and post jobs by clicking "Create Job" on the right side of the groups page (once logged in). It is LA Drupal's request all jobs to be announced at our monthly meetups be posted on our groups page so folks can get the details online if the hiring person needs to leave early.

May be of interest: http://www.turnkeylinux.org/drupal6

Interesting - Google released the Etherpad source code under an Apache open source license today. For those of you not following it, Etherpad is a 'collaborative' web-based text editor. It allows multiple people to work on the same document at the same time.

Here's the code:
http://code.google.com/p/etherpad/

The "Swedish Pirate Party" have a working demo of the code here:
http://piratepad.net/

As some of you may already know, XTND.US provides mostly-free Drupal related software, like Drupal & jQuery extensions for Adobe Dreamweaver, and a Drupal Theme Starter app that runs on Mac/Windows/Linux desktops.

XTND.US announces an unnamed Drupal plug-in for Eclipse. With DrupalCon San Francisco 2010 coming up it would be great to see other Eclipse users together during a community BoF. The pre-release is available by adding the following software site to your Eclipse (PDT required).

Open Eclipse and choose the Help menu, then Install New Software. Click the Add button or link and add this new software site to download the Drupal plugin:

Or install from the Eclipse IDE Marketplace - http://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/drupal-eclipse-pdt/

Hi all,

We recently completed several new features over at VozMob (http://vozmob.net). VozMob stands for mobile voices / voces moviles, it's mobile blogging that lets users post text, photo, video, and audio via sms, mms, and phone calls (no data plan or app download needed). You can find our full release 0.2 on github: http://code.vozmob.net.

New features that are tested and now live:

I have a number of Google Wave invites that I'd like to pass along to Drupalists. Send me your e-mail address if you want one. You should get notice from Google within 24 hours if I get your info before I run out of available invites.

A client wanted to send over some confidential information and was wondering how to password-protect a zip file. Incredibly, I couldn't find any graphical zip archive utilities for OS X that encrypt files, work in Snow Leopard and are free. 7zX claims to do this but it has some scary user-submitted reviews. Zippist looks promising but it doesn't seem to work in Snow Leopard. I actually use Path Finder or the command line for this, but it's unreasonable to ask most clients to do the same.

CloudCamp Los Angeles
The first CloudCamp in Los Angeles is set for Wed. Sept 30th, 2009.
http://www.cloudcamp.com/la

CloudCamp is an unconference where early adopters of Cloud Computing technologies exchange ideas. With the rapid change occurring in the industry, we need a place we can meet to share our experiences, challenges and solutions. At CloudCamp, you are encouraged you to share your thoughts in several open discussions, as we strive for the advancement of Cloud Computing. End users, IT professionals and vendors are all encouraged to participate.