DNN Conference Approaching
Posted by Tom on Monday, October 15, 2007 to DotNetNuke, DNN Friday, DNN News, OpenForce 07
After a few weeks of contemplating, I finally put my money where my mouth is and registered for DNN OpenForce to be held November 5 - 8 in Las Vegas. Attending this conference should be a no-brainer for anyone who's core business is build around DotNetNuke, but then again, it's not easy for any small organization to cough up the roughly $2K that it takes to be part of the show. At this point I'm confident though that the time and money is well spend and I'm looking forward to meet key players of the DNN community that I've been in contact with for the past few years.
In the unfortunate event that you can't make it to OpenForce stay tuned to this blog as I'll post daily "happenings" including interviews and photos.
Now on to the news:
- It sure is old news by now, but I still need to put it on record. Shortly after the release of DNN 4.6.0, problems crept up and the DNN core team put out two maintenance releases in close succession. So that brings us to 4.6.2 as the latest DNN version. ERD diagrams and SQL spec sheet downloadable here and online here.
- Stuck with Oracle? Don't despair. Acuiti Solutions has you covered with the latest release of their Oracle Data Provider for DotNetNuke 4.6.2.
- I've not pushed DNN beyond it's native English yet, but many people have. If you are one of them you may want to take a look at Effority.Net's free DNN localization components including and API for 3rd party modules, a menu provider, a tab localization module and a text/html localization module.
- DNN Creative celebrates it's second anniversary with issue 25 of DNN Creative Magazine: Pure CSS SEO layouts for DotNetNuke skins (8 videos - 72 min.) As both CSS and SEO are closed to our hearts as well, we may have to take a closer look at how Lee Sykes approached the subject.
- Vicenc Masanas releases a new version of InfoMap, a DNN module that "can be used to display information on a picture dynamically. It's main intention is to position users contact lists on a map, but you can use to display any kind of information you imagine." Module details and a trial version can be found here.
- Core team member Nik Kalyani points out an interesting article entitled Head-to-head: Open Source CMS on Digital Arts in which the author surveys open source CMS offerings from Alfresco, DotNetNuke, Drupal and Joomla, and Plone. DNN was credited with "high usability, a large number of stock modules, and a penchant for commerce." The article goes on to say that DNN " ... is well-suited for moderate-sized e-commerce sites because it supports banner ads and referral programs." That I have to strongly disagree with. If you have been around the DNN community for some time, then you know that historically e-commerce has been one of the weakest points of DNN. Besides, who runs an e-commerce site on banner ads and referral programs?
- Does Gemini intimidate you? Well, no more excuses now as Alex Shirley walks you through the process of how to follow DNN outstanding issues within the Gemini project tracker.
To wrap things up, I would like you to voice your opinion on DNN OpenForce. Will you attend the conference? Why or why not? Do you think the price tag will dampen turnout? If you do plan to go, what are your main expectations?
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