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Creative Freedom Foundation
Yesterday, the Creative Freedom Foundation launched. What is it? It's a group of Kiwis raising awareness around some terrible legislation that's set to go into law in about two months' time.
The CFF is focusing on the "Guilt by accusation" amendments to New Zealand copyright law. From their press release:
3 Comments Tags: rights, New Zealand, freedom
Welcome to our new website!
Welcome to our newly re-designed website! The launch of our new SilverStripe.com and SilverStripe.org sites is a big deal to us and we hope you find the changes useful.
One of the things we wanted to improve over the old SilverStripe.com site was to have a more clear distinction between information about our open source software and information about our company. We got a lot of feedback from developers and clients which centered around the fact that they couldn't find what they needed on our site. So we decided to create SilverStripe.org and have that as the home for all things related to our open source product.
SilverStripe for Councils
Having recently received quite a bit of interest from New Zealand councils, we attended the ALGIM conference, an annual get-together for council IT managers and staff.
We believe SilverStripe is a fantastic fit for councils, given it is so important to update content continuously for the communities they serve. It helps to have a user-friendly CMS like ours, as it requires little training and allows non-technical staff to be very productive.
3 Comments Tags: council, event, conference
A flurry of meetups
Over recent weeks there's been a flurry of great meetups. These have provided us with a great sense of what people are doing with SilverStripe in London, Germany, and (pictured below) in Wellington.
We're very pleased to learn what people are up to, and what they want. We have taken feedback on board in either our development list or as one of the many new tickets in our bug/feature tracker.
1 Comments Tags: meetup, wellington, uk, germany, event
Coming 2009: Das SilverStripe Buch
German readers can now pre-order SilverStripe: Das umfassende Handbuch from Amazon, due to be published February 2009.
The 450 page German book offers a complete guide to SilverStripe for web developers with an intermediate familiarity with website development, PHP5, and object oriented code.
9 Comments Tags: book, germany
youtube.com/silverstripe
We've now acquired the youtube.com/silverstripe address!
Fom now on it replaces our old channel.
This new youtube channel contains all the videos we've produced over the past year...
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Wellington meetup and v2.3 pre-release party
Join us on Monday 17th November from 6pm at the Southern Cross bar!
We're interesting in meeting up with the local web community and those who use SilverStripe, so that we can listen to your ideas and answer your questions, technical or otherwise.
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SilverStripe 2.2.3 released - recommend hot fix
We have a new release of SilverStripe available: 2.2.3
- Download here: silverstripe-v2.2.3.tar.gz
- Post bug reports here: http://open.silverstripe.com
- Change log here: http://open.silverstripe.com/wiki/ChangeLog/2.2.3
IMPORTANT NOTE
This release of SilverStripe fixes an issue that came to the attention of the SilverStripe development team earlier today. It could potentially let malicious users bypass the CMS security. For this reason, we strongly recommend that you upgrade all of your sites.
SilverStripe "Most promising open source CMS"
A panel of judges and thousands of voters have put SilverStripe on the global stage today!
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PostgreSQL support prototyped
While MySQL is an extremely versatile and hugely popular database, we have been wanting to give users of our software choice in using other databases—this is very helpful, for instance, where you might have existing applications or software running PostgreSQL or Microsoft SQL Server and where you want tight integration.
Last year, as part of the support we received through Google Summer of Code, Philipp Krenn started work on this effort, which was then passed onto Geoff Munn, one of SilverStripe's core developers.
How do humans win?
Webstock is here! We've been in heads-down mode for a while, working on sites for councils, Air New Zealand, and American clients too. So now is the time to celebrate the local scene and be proud of Webstock!
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