[drupal-docs] [draft] Drupal Newsletter #4 - August

[Morbus Iff]

> Comments are needed and welcome!

This is my first time editing the newsletter, partly because it mentions 
one of the sites I developed. My apologies - I'll look forward to editing 
more but, I'm uberAnal about things, so you may not want me to <g>.

> Welcome back to the Drupal newsletter for out 4th straight month!  We

"out" should be "our", but I don't like the "for our 4th straight month". 
It yells out "Wow! I'm surprised I managed to do it four months in a 
row!", which you may very well be, but no one else should know that. 
People should be seeing the Drupal newsletter as everlasting expectation, 
not a "holy crap! five months! now, THAT's dedication!"

> have received great acknowledgement from the community, and have had a

acknowledgment.

> generous supply of content thanks to our contributors.  As always, we
> are a completely open newsletter.  So good Drupal-related content is
> always welcomed and encouraged!

Remove "so", capitalize "Good".

> As you probably already have heard, Drupal 4.6.3
> <http://shurl.org/drupal/4.6.3> was released this week.  The new
> XML-RPC vulnerability this addresses
> <http://shurl.org/drupal/sa-2005-004> would allow an attacker (in a
> worse case scenario) to take over the server.

It's "worst", not "worse". And, honestly, most ISPs consider *any* 
security breach to be "he took over the server". Because, by the time 
someone has gotten in, anyway, anyhow, they have the capability of hiding 
their tracks, such that there are no "good case scenarios" for a vuln. I'd 
remove the whole "in a ... scenario" comment.

> After the very successful O'Reilly's OSCON in the USoA, there will be

The hell is USoA? It's either "in the US of A",
or "USA". I've never seen it abbreviated thusly.

> a Drupal conference as well during the Euro-OSCON in Amsterdam, The

Remove "as well". The text preceding those words
don't say anything that would justify an "as well".

> Netherlands. This event will take place from October 16 to October 20
> and will be both within the OSCON conference (paid) as separate from
> the OSCON conference (free).

"as separate" -> "and separate".

> The goals of the mini Drupal conference will be:
> * To meet up with fellow Drupal coders and users,

Lowercase "To".

> You are encouraged to come to this event; we will try to organize a
> cheap hotel or place to stay for the drupal people. So even when you

Capitalize "drupal".

> Bert Boerland will be coordinating this event, if you are willing to

". If", or "; if". Comma doesn't work.

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Did you or they write the ads? If we can, it's "MySQL", not "mysql".
MySQL is a product name, and it must be given the proper punctuation.

> Boris: We even made friends with the Plone guys. They walked off with
> a "My CMS kicks your CMSs ass" t-shirt! And we know now the
> international secret Plone handshake.

Hopefully, the shirt was punctuated properly. "CMS's ass".

> Boris: I'd have to say that it's not just community
 >
> Kieran: Boris, do you have examples?

Did Kieran interrupt? If not, there needs to be a period.

> Boris: Drupal has cutting edge features in it's taxonomy and node

Remove the apostrophe.

> Dries: at OSCON we had a Drupal Foundation meeting. Boris wrote about
> it at <http://drupal.org/node/28338>.

Capitalize.

> Robin: How will this affect further Drupal marketing and

Interruption? And what?

> Boris: for Drual's aggregator to regain the lead -- e.g. replace with
> aggregator2 (feeds/items as nodes), support Atom.
> Looking forward to the new infrastructure, which will let us put in
> place tools to help people self organize local Drupal and Drupal CoP
> meetings.

Capitalize. I don't understand this - "regain
the lead"? What lead did it ever have?

What's CoP mean?

> 1) Drupal documentation being firmly tied between Drupal
> 2) I think AJAX support will raise consciousness of interaction design

These two snippets need periods.

> - You no longer need $node->foo in your node.tpl.php, chx flattened
> the node object's member fields. <http://drupal.org/node/24862>

You can still use it if you'd like, however.

> - Morbus and drumm both modified taxonomy API
 > significantly. <http://drupal.org/node/19621>

Remove my name - I merely attempted to fix a bug in the original patch.

> - Prometheus6 made the aggregator module parse Atom feeds.
> <http://drupal.org/node/13941>

At gunpoint.

> UPGRADE (Contributed by Sthithaprajna Garapaty)
> Upgrading is especially important this time because of the major
> security fix.  Failing to upgrade can result in someone hacking into
> your website and abusing it.

Cracking. Running scripts posted on Bugtraq is not hacking.

> E-COMMERCE (Contributed by Sthithaprajna Garapaty)
>   Check out this nice E-Commerce module for Drupal:
> http://drupal.org/project/ecommerce

Parse error. Is it ecommerce or e-commerce?

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