Friday March 19 (9:00-18:00 CET) the Dutch Drupal community will organise the 6th "DrupalJam".

A DrupalJam is a place where anyone interested in Drupal can get together to discuss about one of the best Open Source CMS-es out there. A friendly palce where users, coders, business people as well as people interested in web technologies. This time the Jam will be helded at the StayOkay hotel in Amsterdam, Timorplein 21. More information about the StayOkay location can be found on Maps as well. We expect over 200 people (up to 300!) visiting the DrupalJam and we will have attendees form over four countries.

It only seemed like yesterday.. The first DrupalJam I co-organised was in a basement with 50 or so people (top left). Not unlike the second DrupalCon, held in Amsterdam (right).

And now, 6 editions later we have reached the scale of the third DrupalCon in Brussels as can be seen on Dries' site. And this is a global trends. While DrupalCons get bigger and bigger, there is also a trend to localise DrupalCon's that are reaching the same scale as DrupalCon's were only a a few editions ago. And with that the global DrupalCon problems get local as wel, continuity, professionalism en sponsors.

I am proud to say -not meant to toot my own horn- that the organisers of the DrupalJam so far did an excellent job. The very healthy ecoshere around Drupal in the Netherlands made that we have the following premium sponsors; Microsoft, Radio Radio Netherlands Worldwide, Dutch Open Projects, Internet Unlimited, KPN, NCRV, OneShoe and Sogeti. Other sponsors include VLC (gold), Lucius, Acquia, Synetic, Wizzlern (silver) and Merge (bronze). Looking at this list there are at least two key things to note. The first one is a classic one, the distribution is skewed to the left meaning we made the premium sponsorship to cheap.

The second one is more important. The ecoshere around Drupal grew and outgrew the standard Drupal implementers. KPN (fortune 500, telephone, mobile, ADSL, high end webhosting), NCRV (public broadcaster using Drupal a lot), Radio Netherlands Worldwide (public broadcaster using Drupal, see Dries' site) and Microsoft are not the "standard" sponsors of an Open Source project. It shows that the market around Drupal is maturing and that parties that have an indirect stake are willing to invest and give back. And we do thank them for that, as well as thank our other sponsors!

Dries once told me he wanted to have local DrupalCamps in every city around the world. We are not there yet. But I do think there is a (bi-)yearly DrupalCamp in every free country around the world right now. And when these will become too big, there will be a DrupaCamp in every major city around the world by 2015 for sure.

Drupal is coming home in 2015, your home! But if you can not wait that long, sign up for the DrupalJam in Amsterdam, look the sessions and propose a session (login required). Please do contact me or Bart Feenstra if you have any questions. DrupalJam will rock!

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As you might know, I am a big fan of using EyeTV as well as Plex on my mac mini hooked to my telly. Plex is the best mediacentre for the mac, EyeTV a way to view live TV on your Mac with EPG and much more.

Sometime ago I posted about integrating them, watching live or timeshifted TV on your mac within Plex on this post. Though the code is very rough and far from finished and seems to be orphaned already, I would like to suggest a cool feature.

Wath EyeTV in Plex and have Plex look in to the EGP and searches for tweets about the program you are watching, live or timeshifted. I do not watch much TV let alone live TV, but part of the joy of watching TV is seeing what others have to say about this via twitter. And watching this on a TV with live tweets updates about the program you are watching sure sounds something that TV's will have in half a decade.

BTW: follow me on twitter on @bertboerland.

Yesterday I tweeted something some might feel offended by on my account. Since it contains both a strong opinion and some strong language, I will not repeat it here. But I will explain my strong opinion. The point of the tweet was that Drupal is Drupal. It is an open source CMS, moving towards a "CMF". My definition of open source consist of three elements:

1. Code
2. Community
3. License

Without one of these items, you will not have a (successful) open source project. You need code, you need an open source license and.. you need a community! Of these 3 elements that make up open source, the "community" part is the one that is the hardest or even not to define. We are all parts of communities; in our families, our volunteer work, our church, our village. Everybody is daily part of a community. And as stated I can not define what a community is, but the closest thing I can come up with is people helping people, people caring for people and people loving people. And within a community there is mutual respect and benefits to help, care and love for free. Note that the word community is derived from Latin, a combination of "cum" (together) and "munus" (free gift).

When these three elements get together, great things can happen! As Drupal showed us for the last 8 years. The code is far ahead of the competition, proprietary or open source. The license is strict and thereby we do not suffer from "Joomladisation" and our community is real. Real people helping, caring, loving real people.

This does not mean that one can not make money with open source projects, people have been doing so for decades. This does not mean that people making money cannot be part of the community, companies have been active in the bigger open source ecosystem longer then the term "open source" exists.

I am not to sure I agree fully with Linus on Open source without commercial interests = crap but it is for sure that there is room in any community for commercial help, care ... and even love.
But just as there is not one company claiming our church, volunteer work, family or village, there is not one single company that can claim a (healthy!) open source project. Just as Redhat doesn't / can't claim GNU/Linux, no company can claim Drupal. And more important, there is not a company that claims the opensource project Drupal. Not even.. there goes the A word

Acquia with close ties to the Drupal community. In a good way. They have been sponsoring the Drupal project in money and time and maybe in the last two years more then any other company has in the previous 8. But Acqiua is not Drupal, they are a company with good ties to the community, helping, caring and loving other people (and their customers). But they are not Drupal.

And every time I read about "Acquia, the commercial arm of Drupal" my hair raises. Drupal is not MySQL or SugarCRM. Drupal is Drupal. And it does not have a commercial arm. It has many commercial arms, the list on http://drupal.org/drupal-services is just a very small part of that. There must be thousands of people contributing to Drupal core, modules, documentation and to lesser extend themes. Many of them making a living proving Drupal related services. And we do want to keep this healthy system of helping, caring and loving. And there is room to make money providing Drupal services. But there is no "Drupal INC".

Note that Acquia never claimed that position and I do not think they ever will. They made it clear what Acquia is, they reacted on my tweet and on the ZDnet story and make it clear in their press-releases. It is lazy journalist that -in this realtime web- want to have an easy digestible text for their readers. Meaning no room for nuances, no room for explaining and no room to tell the complete story.

So that is why I told the complete story, in a 140 characters tweet.

Since a couple of weeks I have a nice Mac Mini (unboxing) hooked up with EyeTV to my telly so I can record, timeshift, commercial skipping and do all the other PVR stuff from my chair. Yes, I have been using MythTV the couple of years, but the box was more under maintenance then in production. So I went the easy way and went Apple, like I will do for all my client computers (still using Linux for servers!). The Mac mini is cool and I use other standard apps as well, especially Plex. I like easy and it integrates with my iPhone so I can watch recorded and live shows on my iPhone as well (picture).

Plex, iTunes, iPhoto and EyeTV make up 99% of the programs I use on my mini. And in fact, since iTunes can be access from Plex, as well as iPhoto can, I should only use EyeTV and Plex. If you do not know about Plex as a Apple user, shame on you. It is the best thing since sliced bread, including an appstore, modules, themes and a /beautiful/ user interface. And free as in open source as well.

Still, watching TV and switching between applications does not give the right usability to my girly (and to lesser extend :-), my kids). So I would really like to see EyeTV and Plex integrated. There has been lots of talk about integration, for over a year or so. But no code was ever made available. Up to a couple of weeks ago!

Yes, there is actual Open Source code that you can use to access your EyeTV recording and live TV within Plex! Read this thread at the plexapp forums!

Not that the code is very alpha and does not have any EPG integration yet. But still, this is so cool!

Here is a short install howto from the forum pages (not complete

1) Ensure Snow leopard is up-to-date - 10.6.2

2) Ensure Plex is up-to-date - 0.8.5

3) Ensure EyeTV is up-to-date - 3.3

4) Ensure Xcode is up to date -3.1

5) Ensure iPhone streaming is enabled under EyeTV>Preferences

6) Install MacPorts from http://www.macports.org/

7) Once Installed -normall diskimage- , run Terminal from Utilities>Terminal.app

8 ) At the prompt "sudo port install ffmpeg" (without quotes)

9) Typ your password

10) ffmpeg takes long to install about 30 minutes to d/l and install each component.

11) Install Imagemagick from Macports using similar command in the same Terminal "sudo port install imagemagick" (without quotes)

12) This can take another 15 minutes to install after supplying system password

13) Installed the EyeTV/Plex Plugin 0.2 (se link above) OR LATER!

14) when the plugin is installed, a cytv.app(a modification) should be opened together with eyetv. in the dock click on cytv to have this app active. then in menubar click on "EyeTV - CyTV-Install Plugin".

15) Right click (ctrl+click) on cytv in the dock, and choose "show in finder". then right click on the app and choose "Show Package Contents". navigate to Contents - Resources and rename ffmepg_custom to ffmpeg_custom_old and ffmpeg_custom_0.5 to ffmpeg_custom.

16) Unable to rename these files? Pressed Apple+I, in the Info screen at the bottom of this window is the Permissions option, change the permissions of my user on these files to read+write, I was then able to rename both files.

17) change rights with the following 2 lines in terminal (use your username instead of $USER):

chmod a+x /Users/$USER/Library/Application\ Support/Plex\ Media\ Server/Plug-ins/EyeTV.bundle/Contents/Helpers/*

chmod a+x /Users/$USER/Library/Application\ Support/Plex\ Media\ Server/Plug-ins/EyeTV.bundle/Contents/Helpers/CyTV.app/Contents/MacOS/*

This should do the trick. But if you are not that good with Unix best to wait until this is beta or production code. All I need now is an asterisk integration and I will never leave my TV :-)

Begrijp me goed, ik ben absoluut tegen huiselijk geweld, elk geweld. Maar ben ook voor goed gebruik van internet En deel van dit goed gebruik is dat je namen neemt voor sites die zinvol zijn. Zo zijn er in het verleden talloze domain namen geweest waarover men 10 seconde langer had moeten nadenken voordat men submit drukte.

Een paar voorbeelden? www.kidsexchange.com is minder handig, "Who Represents" als URL geeft www.whorepresents.com. En Pen Island geeft natuurlijk www.penisland.net. Leuk hoor, zo'n Power Generator company in Italie; www.powergenitalia.com . En deze lijst is erg veel langer.

Een aantal van mijn klanten zenden uit op de radio, vele klanten hebben advertenties op de radio. En de meeste foute URL's zitten in het verschil tussen zien (typen, TV, print ad) en horen (gesprek, radio commercial). Mijn klanten willen dus en example.com/over-ons maar ook example.com/overons omdat de "dash" niet goed bekt op de radio. Prima, het ziet er niet uit maar als je beide doet, prima.

Maar wie verzint er nu een Fully Qual Domain Name steunpunthuiselijkgeweld.nl. Prima op TV. Maar in een gesprek of de radio klinkt dit toch echt als:

steun . huiselijkgeweld . nl, niet helemaal denk ik wat de makers bedoelden?