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Dear Spring community,
I'm pleased to announce that Spring Dynamic Modules for OSGi(tm) Service Platforms (formerly known as Spring OSGi) 1.1.0 final has been released.

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The new 1.1.x series introduces several new features over the 1.0.x branch, such as:

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Earlier this week we have closed our special 80 Euro early bird offer with 335 registered participants! A great big thank you to all the people that already signed up!

With 8 more weeks to go we thought it was a good time to do some preliminary evaluation about our progress. We took the sign-up data from the past four Drupalcons and compared that with what we have so far. As was to be expected there has been some "nice action" in the last week of the first early bird offer. (Note that the registration was twice as long in Barcelona, so the numbers shown here are the sums from week 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6).

In our third week we had 185 new sign ups of which over a hundred happened on the last day of the early bird offer. We didn't achieve Sunnyvale's peak signups of week two (212 signups), but our total of 335 registered participants did set a new record for the total amount of participants registered after three weeks of registration!

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Understanding Drupal is the first video in The Lullabot Learning Series. This video provides an overview of Drupal as a content management system, as a PHP web application framework, and as a developer community. Its documentary-style exploration covers all the terminology and fundamental concepts for both site administrators and developers. If you've ever been confused by Drupal or are still trying to wrap your head around the community and platform, this video is intended as a roadmap to accelerate your journey up the Drupal learning curve.

Lullabots Addison Berry (add1sun), Angela Byron (webchick), Jeff Eaton (eaton), Nathan Haug (quicksketch), Jeff Robbins (jjeff), James Walker (walkah), and Matt Westgate (matt westgate) sit down to tell us about Drupal in this video directed and edited by Kent Bye (kentbye). A portion of the profits from this video will be donated directly to the Drupal Association.

Topics include...

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Drupalcon registration is running like crazy, 2 weeks after we opened the registration we are nearing 150 registered participants!

We got a lot of positive feedback from all over the community, especially for the registration system that Gábor Hojtsy and János Kuszing pieced together. This is what Dries said after he registered:

I had to share this: I just completed my DrupalCon Szeged registration. The conference organization and the registration system on the website are truly remarkable. Keep up the great work!

Several people told us that they were really pleased that they can book their hotel and shuttle bus from the Drupalcon site. Beware though, rooms are going really fast so if you want some choice you better be quick!

What you'll get for your money? 4 days of conference in a really cool venue with 4 tracks, plenty of BoF's, 4 exhibitions, plenty of (Drupal) fun, a codesprint and of course some serious shoulder rubbing with the developers of your favorite core and contributed modules. If you are new to Drupal it is the best opportunity to level up your knowledge. Don't miss THE community event this fall!

Until Monday June 30th, we are selling the tickets for 80 EURO. So better make sure you don't miss that deadline!

See you in Drupaltown!

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For the past year or so, there have been periodic questions raised about Drupal's licensing status. Is it GPL version 2? Are we moving to GPL version 3? Could we even if we wanted to? Is it OK to write a module that does [something weird]? As a member of the Drupal Association Board of Directors, I made it my task to sort out the answers to those questions.

Understanding licensing, and the differences between licenses, is more important than some realize. Open source is not the same as public domain. Open source and Free Software requires that source code be made available and that others are allowed to make use and share of the source code, but there are rules attached to how they can do so just as there is with proprietary software. For example, not all open source software can be combined, and there are requirements for how you distribute the source code of a program. Knowing which of those rules apply to Drupal, and to Drupal modules and themes, is important not only for the health of the code base (so we know what we can and can't do with the work of over a thousand people) but also to the health of the growing commercial Drupal economy.

I am pleased to announce that we now do have firm answers to these questions, and have a new and shiny FAQ up to answer them. There is nothing new in the FAQ; it is just a clarification of some edge cases that didn't used to exist.

We'd like to thank James Vasile of the Software Freedom Law Center for his help in working out the details. We also wanted to take a few moments to go into some of the reasoning behind how we reached a few of these conclusions.

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Spring Batch made the news today when Accenture announced its joint development with SpringSource of a production version of the open source framework for batch processing. Spring Batch has become a critical solution for enterprises in an area where Java was seldom used previously.

If you want to find out more about Spring Batch, sign up for the upcoming SpringSource webinar on July 9th or read the latest blog entry by Dr David Syer.

This Wednesday we opened the registration for Drupalcon Szeged 2008 and some of the early birds are already in! If you sign up before the end of June you will be able to buy your ticket at the extra discounted price of 80 EUR. From July the price will increase to 120 EUR, from August on to 160 EUR and just before and during the conference it will be 200 EUR to attend. We also help you get a hotel room and buy shuttle bus tickets until July 24, so if you'd like to go the easy way, make sure to register by then.

A week ago we published the sponsor packages. We received positive feedback from several companies and we already sold our first platinum package! As you might have noticed we only have 3 gold and 4 platinum packages available this Drupalcon. So if you want to get the exclusive benefits of these packages and get your company's name on one of our BoF or session rooms, contact us as soon as possible. To make the conference a huge success again, we will need your help: if you know a company that could be interested in sponsoring Drupalcon please get in touch!

We also opened session submission last week. If you have a topic that you would like to present this Drupalcon please fill in the form. Our track chairs will then evaluate your proposal and choose the sessions that will become part of the conference tracks. Session submission will be open until the last week of July. You can also submit BoF session proposals for our unconference program. This Drupalcon we are going to have 3 bigger rooms for larger BoFs (and an open space for smaller ones), so make sure to get the word out about your plans and spark interest in them sooner then later.

Drupalcon North America 2009, Drupalcon Europe 2009 as well as Drupalcon [place your idea here] are being planned right now. If you would like to have a Drupalcon in your town please let us know by submitting a formal proposal. If you have questions regarding the submission process feel free to contact the Drupal Association and someone will help you.

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With people in many timezones working on JNode, it is important that we have good means of communication. The JNode website and IRC play their part, but often private email is the only viable option. A couple of times in the past few days, I've needed to email specific JNode developers, only to discover that their accounts don't have a Contact form. Without the intervention of the site administrators, I have no way to start a conversation with them.

I would like to ask all active or semi-active JNode developers to enable their Contact pages. You can do this as follows:

1. Login to the website.
2. Click on the "My Account" link in the right hand menu.
3. In your account page, select the "Edit" tab.
4. Scroll down to the "Contact settings" and check the box for "Personal Contact Form".
5. Click the "Submit" button.

Many people are (understandably) wary of revealing their email addresses to spammers. However, making yourself Contactable has no risk of doing this. Furthermore, I am not aware of anyone trying to send people SPAM email via their JNode contact pages. (It would be self-defeating since people can quickly disable their Contact pages.)

When someone sends you a message from your Contact form, they do not get to see your email address, and you don't get to see theirs. If you want to keep your email private, you just need to remember not to "reply" to their emails from your (non-JNode) email account; reply via their JNode Contact form instead. But I don't bother, and I've never had any problems with unwanted email from JNode folks.

SpringSource is pleased to offer a number of Spring Framework and AOP training events in the upcoming period, delivered by the people who build and sustain the Spring Framework. For full details, please visit the main training information page. Here is a summary of some of the upcoming courses and venues:

• USA and Canada
  • Core Spring: June 17th - 20th, Chicago, IL
  • Core-AOP: June 24th - 25th, New York, NY
  • Core Spring: June 24th - 27th, Vancouver, Canada
  • Core Spring: June 24th - 27th, Minneapolis, MN
  • Core Spring: June 24th - 27th, Los Angeles, CA
  • Core Spring: July 8th - 11th, Columbia, MD
  • Core Spring: July 22nd - 25th, Ottawa, Canada
  • Core Spring: July 22nd - 25th, New York, NY
  • Core Spring: July 29th - August 1st, Seattle, WA
  • Core Spring: August 5th - 8th, Salt Lake City, UT
  • Developing Rich Web Apps with Spring: August 5th - 7th, Washington, DC
  • Core Spring: August 12th - 15th, San Francisco, CA
  • Core Spring .NET: August 12th - 15th, Link coming soon!
  • Core Spring: August 19th - 22nd, Raleigh, NC
  • Core Web Services: Aug 26th - 27th, Link coming soon!
  • Core Spring: September 2nd - 5th, Toronto, Canada
  • Developing Rich Web Apps with Spring: September 3rd - 5th, New York, NY
  • Core Spring: September 2nd - 5th, Philadelphia, PA
    

• Europe & Middle East
  
  • Core Spring .NET: June 18th - 20th, Paris, France
  • Core Spring: June 24th - 27th, London, UK
  • Beginning Enterprise Java Development: June 24th - 27th, London, UK
  • Core Spring: July 1st - 4th, Paris, France
  • Core Spring: July 15th - 18th, London, UK
  • Core Spring: July 15th - 18th, Munich, Germany
  • Core Web Services: July 24th - 25th, London, UK
  • Core Spring .NET: July 30th - August 1st, London, UK
  • Core Spring: August 12th - 15th, London, UK
  • Core Spring: August 26th - 29th, Athens, Greece

• Australia/Asia/Other
  
  • Core Spring: June 23rd - 26th, Brisbane, Australia
  • Core Spring: July 1st - 4th, Sydney, Australia
  • Core Spring: July 8th - 11th - Hong Kong
  • Core Spring: July 15th - 18th, Singapore

... plus others

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The Jikes RVM project (http://jikesrvm.org) has been choosen for Google Summer of Code 2008.

So, if you are a student, you can help both JNode and Jikes RVM by applying here for Summer of code 2008.

Then, choose the project "Work on the continued integration of the RVM with JNODE" on the Jikes RVM page. This project will look to continue to harmonize development effort of the Jikes RVM with the JNode operating system. We have 3 mentors until now and we need students.

The site will be online for some time as a backup.

Please use our updated forum at JNode.org

Thanks

In preparation for a web seminar with Drupal local group organizers in the North and South American time zones on Monday June 9th 5PM PDT, I've updated a map with Drupal local groups. Full Map

Real map after the break.

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Dear Spring community,
We are pleased to announce that Spring Integration 1.0.0.M4 is now available.
Download | Reference Documentation | JavaDoc

To see a list of issues resolved since Milestone 3, view the changelog. For more information, visit the Spring Integration Home.

Mark Fisher
Spring Integration Lead

The first day of JavaOne 2008 was full of frantic activity around Spring and SpringSource products. The SpringSource booth was flooded with people asking all sorts of fascinating questions about SpringSource Application Platform, SpringSource Tool Suite and SpringSource Application Management Suite. Rod Johnson's technical session, Spring 2.5: New and Notable, was totally packed to capacity - I guess that is why he has been asked to repeat the session on Friday afternoon!

Rod Johnson discusses the SpringSource Application Platform	Jennifer Hickey demonstrates SpringSource Application Management Suite

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The third day of JavaOne 2008 was even busier for the SpringSource technologists than the first two. The SpringSource Application Platform t-shirt was a big hit with hundreds of people wearing them at the show. The booth was crowded with people looking to see demos of the SpringSource Application Platform and other Spring projects. In advance of his technical session on Friday, Ben Alex was answering lots of questions about Spring Security.

Filip Hanik explains deployment options for SpringSource Application Platform and Apache Tomcat to a crowd of attendees.	Rod Johnson congratulates the lucky winner of the MacBook Air drawing.

For anyone who did not get a chance to meet the Spring technologists at JavaOne be sure to register for SpringOne 2008.

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SpringSource Application Management Suite 1.0.0.RC2 is now available in the SpringSource beta program. Highlights of this release include:

• Added management of SpringSource Application Platform
• Added instrumentation of Spring Security 2.0
• Added instrumentation of Spring Web Flow 2.0
• Upgraded instrumented Spring Framework from 2.5.3 to 2.5.4

Download the latest version here.

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Developing new modules for Drupal 6? Porting older modules? Packt Publishing has just released a new book, Learning Drupal 6 Module Development, by Matt Butcher. This book is targeted toward PHP programmers interested in Drupal 6 module development.

The book takes a hands-on approach. Each chapter walks through the development of a module, theme, or installation profile. As the reader progresses through the book, she or he will be able to create increasingly sophisticated Drupal modules.

If you're new to Drupal development (but have PHP development experience), this book will get you developing modules right away. Are you a more seasoned Drupal developer just looking to get some modules updated? This book focuses on many of the new features, changes, and improvements made in Drupal 6. Check out the sample chapter Creating Our First Module (1.3M PDF) to get a feel for how the book is written.

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