Nate Angell: raised by wolves, accidental open-source evangelist

Our second episode features Nate Angell or @xolotl, a name that's hard to remember completely, but one that we will always remember. There's development talk later as he demonstrates the shiny, new iPhone app called iToony.

"Open Source Success," Campus Technology, 7/23/2006, http://www.campustechnology.com/article.aspx?aid=41086

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For the second year running, Drupal placed in the Webware 100 awards in the Publishing & Photography category.

Just noting that I updated my Drupal 6 test site to 6.1 following the security release. The update was painless.

Thanks to Drupal 6's new update functionality, the site itself checks to see if any updates to core or modules are necessary and let's you know.

Kudos to walkah et al for their work on the Drupal OpenID module and getting OpenID into core for Drupal 6!

By default, OpenID in Drupal 5 and 6 defaults to present regular Drupal authentication first, giving the user the option to toggle to authenticate via OpenID.

With today's release of Drupal 6.0, I've upgraded my test site from RC4, which was again as easy as pie.

http://test.mediapede.org/

You can read my earlier post on what's exciting in Drupal 6.

I just installed my first Drupal 6.0 version (RC4), which took a total of about 3.5 minutes. You can visit the resulting (minimalist) site at:

test.mediapede.org

O how I want to Flock in the morning. O how I want to Flock in the eve.

But I can't because Flock can't authenticate me to my OpenID, Drupal blog.

Flockstars take notice: OpenID critical mass is growing. Take a look at OpenID support in these flocky sites and at least let us know what you all are thinking about integrating OpenID support in Flock (very partial list):

Several key Drupal community members have gathered together with some others to form Acquia, a new commercial firm that hopes to sell subscriptions to Drupal a la RedHat's linux distros. Acquia has already generated $7 million in funding.

Let's heed the call for an open source census with the open source discovery tool.

We've long been maintaining that open source technologies are in wide—and often unrecognized—use in many organizations. Now we have an initiative and a tool to help demonstrate that claim with real numbers.