David Snopek from myDropWizard joins Mike, Anna, and Ted to discuss the immenint (and ominous-sounding) Drupal 6 end-of-life as well as some "official" paid support options for the future. We also celebrate DrupalEasy.com's recent Drupal 8 relaunch (just barely avoiding end-of-life), the Commerce Guys spin-off Platform.sh, and one of our community's biggest issues.
Interview
- David Snopek, myDropWizard, Drupal security team member, Panopoly developer, Milwaukee Drupal meetup (Drupal414) co-organizer.
- Drupal 6 End-of-Life
- Official long term support vendors
- Drupal 6 Long Term Support patches
DrupalEasy News
- The next session of the 12-week Drupal Career Online course starts in March, 2016 - visit DrupalEasy.com/dco for all the details.
##Four Stories
- DrupalEasy.com Relaunches on Drupal 8.
- Removing Arbitrary Barriers to Participation - blog post by Mark Ferree at Chapter Three.
- Drupal Association 2015 Membership Drive Recap.
- Commerce Guys Refocusing on on Drupal Commerce as Platform.sh Becomes an Independent Company.
Sponsors
Picks of the Week
- Mike - Neato base theme by Kevin Quillen.
- David - CVE-2015-7547, article about it on ArsTechnica.
- Ryan - DrupalCon Session Submission - Ryan is chairing the Site Buidling Track at DrupalCon New Orleans and encourages you to submit to any category. Read his blog post, "Help Make the Site Building Track Memorable".
- Anna - 3 Things You Should Hide In Your Drupal Site (Many of you aren’t hiding them)!.
- Ted - Drupal Summer of Code Proposals.
Upcoming Events
- DrupalCampNYC2016 - February 27th, 2016.
- Florida DrupalCamp 2016 - March 5-6, 2016.
- MidCamp - March 17-20, 2016.
- TexasCamp - April 1-2, 2016.
- DrupalDelphia - April 8, 2016.
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Five Questions (answers only)
- Languages & language learning: Russian & Polish
- Democracy 3 - Win/Mac/Linux sim game
- Give a keynote presentation
- Aspirational answer: European bison in a specific primordial forest (half credit)
- Becoming Panopoly co-maintainer (2013)
Intro Music
DrupalCon - from the DruaplCon Los Angeles pre-note performed by Kristina Bjoran.
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