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Dries' blog notes a great video interview with Sun's Scott Mattoon on "What Makes Drupal Special".

Scott is a good friend of the CivicActions crew, and we've been privileged to work with him recently on Architecture of Humanity's Open Architecture Network project, along with SUN.

It is often said that 3 things make a 'trend' in the modern world, so here are 3 very sneaky browser bugs triggered by 3 different Drupal modules that have crossed my path in the last few weeks, all (it turns out) quite likely related. Here they are, in the hope that if you see something similar you might be able to locate the problem a little more rapidly.

This list is one of the most comprehensive directories of the FOSS replacements for commercial software:

Use FOSS and Live Free! (as in speech, not beer)

CivicActions is very proud to announce that we are a Gold Sponsor for the upcoming DrupalCon in Barcelona!

DrupalCon will take place September 19th thru 22nd.

Visit http://barcelona2007.drupalcon.org for more information and to sign-up for DrupalCon.

We look forward to seeing you in Spain!

CEO Jonathan Schwartz, of Sun Microsystems, recently announced the company will participate more fully in the Mac OS X version of the NeoOffice free and open-source (FOSS) software project.

Edward Peterlin, Chief Visionary of NeoOffice.org, has sent an open letter to Sun's CEO Jonathan Schwartz regarding Sun's announcement:

A new article on ZDNet says that Microsoft is claiming that free and open-source software violates more than 230 of its patents.

Microsoft top lawyer Brad Smith alleges that the Linux kernel violates 42 Microsoft patents, while its user interface and other design elements infringe on a further 65. OpenOffice is accused of infringing 45, along with 83 more in other free and open-source programs.

Alex Iskold has written a fantastic piece on The Road to the Semantic Web

"Some people think that the Semantic Web is about AI, some claim that it is more about semantics, while others say that it is about data annotation. All agree however, that we will all be wonderfully more productive and simply happier when it arrives."

What is the Semantic Web?

Evolve Strategies has developed a Web-based “widget� to collect and report election incidents that may require voter protection intervention.

VoterStory.org is an open-source utility that can be placed on any website to feed data into a central database, which in turn alerts voter protection groups each time a new incident is reported in their district.

This is a very interesting article from IBM. They have published a series where you can "follow along as the IBM Internet Technology Group team designs, develops, and deploys a closed community Web site using a suite of software that is freely available".