news aggregator

yes you read it right, my little GNU/Linux box runs the worlds most advanced state of the art Music Purchase decision support systems, we're talking all the buzzwords here, XML enabled Webservices and distributed processing peer2peer capability all for the sake of helping me decide how to spend 20$ online

now to tell you what all this is about, as explained here I decided to pay for some of the free music I love.

Affordable, Accessible computing

This is an attempt to articulate few things I been thinking about for a long time, the thoughts here where hashed out while attempting to join the WSIS Arab NGO Caucus and through discussions with the /dev/cabal folks and Adel El Zaim from IDRC.

Warning

thats about the end of the organized well thought out part of this document, my mind is very jumbled, I'm writing this down to help me

oh well in the true EGLUG tradition here is my todo that never gets done for 2005, this is more of an action wishlist, some stuff is really my todo but most is things I wish EGLUG would do and I hope I'll find others who'll help.

EGLUG Website

• Start the EGLUG democratic election process
  • post an anouncement asking seniors to run AGAIN
  • this time deploy the freaking ranking vote module (which is ready folks)

I've been playing around with drupal 4.5 on my website for a while now.

now I did a live test of an EGLUG upgrade, you can see the result on http://test.eglug.org

this is a complete mirror of EGLUG as it stands an hour ago but upgraded to 4.5, please test it and break it, but don't use it for actual content submission.

issues

• backported locale module incompatible, delete all locale table before upgrade
• contrib navigation module conflicts with menu system, delete its tables
• taxonomy_image data lost (tis ok we only have one configured so far)
• flexinode images lost (need to manually fix all reviews :-(

drupal 4.5 was released a few weeks ago, it has many improvements and new features and IMO we should upgrade EGLUG installation ASAP

tasks required for the upgrade:

1. port our custom modules to 4.5
   • LinCount (done by MohammedSameer)
   • Bidi (done by MohammedSameer)
2. port contrib modules we use
   • glossary
   • wiki (done by alaa with help of patch found on drupal.org)
   • remindme (removed)
   • navigation (deprecated)
   • members (done???)
   • article (done)
   • csvfilter (done)
   • event (done)
   • flexinode (done)
   • htmlcorrector (done)
   • image (done)
   • notify (done)
   • privatemsg (done)