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Abstract deadline extended for MoodleMoot Global 2024: submit your abstract by 28 May!
by Sandra Matz.
Good news! For those of you who missed the abstract submission deadline for MoodleMoot Global 2024 in Mérida, México, we are happy to announce that the abstract deadline has been extended until Tuesday 28 May (UTC-6).
We are also excited to announce that this MoodleMoot Global will be a bilingual event. Recognising the interest shown by our community members to present and attend sessions in Spanish at the event, we are accepting abstract submissions in this language and will be hosting some tracks in Spanish as part of the program. Translation options will also be available to make sure no one misses out on your engaging presentations.
This year, our theme revolves around “Unlocking Human Potential,” inviting Moodlers from diverse educational, training, or learning backgrounds to unite. Whether you’re an educator, developer, administrator, or learner, this event promises a dynamic platform to exchange insights, share discoveries, and delve into best practices for enhancing accessibility and innovation in learning.
Our conference will delve into various topics aligned with our Moodle Product vision, crucial areas shaping the future of Moodle. We invite you to visit the event website to find out more about these topics and the different streams that will be included in this year’s program.
At Moodle, we thrive on the spirit of collaboration and inclusion, eagerly anticipating the diverse perspectives our community brings to the table. We can’t wait to hear your innovative ideas!
Don’t miss out on this opportunity to shape the program. Submit your abstract proposal by Tuesday 28 May (UTC-6).
PreviousNext: Starshot and Experience Builder
Last week, I attended DrupalCon Portland 2024, and, like many others, I was swept up in the excitement of the Starshot announcement. The PreviousNext team is ready to support this initiative, focusing our efforts on the Experience Builder project for maximum impact.
Starshot
Starshot is a new concept that accelerates Drupal innovation by providing recipes or templates of best-practice features and configurations when creating a new Drupal site. It’s a separate product built on top of Drupal Core and has the working title “Drupal CMS”.
For years, we’ve pondered the question, “Is Drupal a product or a framework?” The answer has always been “both.” However, we can now clearly distinguish between the two.
We’re fully committed to the vision of bringing Drupal to new audiences by offering a straightforward way to create new Drupal sites using best-practice contributed modules and configuration. Combining Recipes with Project Browser, Automated Updates, and the new Experience Builder initiative will demonstrate Drupal’s full potential for product evaluators.
Releases for Drupal CMS will not be tied to Drupal Core, allowing it to innovate rapidly and evolve as contributed module updates and new best practices emerge. Drupal Core can simultaneously focus on maintaining quality and stability.
Experience Builder
Experience Builder is an ambitious initiative to reinvent how we build pages (experiences) in Drupal. Core committer Lauri Eskola undertook an extensive review of our own tools (Layout Builder, Paragraphs) and research into competing products to find a model that would best combine innovative user interface design with Drupal’s strengths in structured data.
Our team is in a strong and unique position to meaningfully contribute to the Experience Builder initiative. We have successfully delivered the Pitchburgh competition winner Decoupled Layout Builder prototype. We also provided numerous contributions to Layout Builder in core and contributed modules.
Experience Builder will become our primary contribution focus for the short and medium term, so watch this space.
We hope you are as excited as we are about the future of Drupal. We’re just getting started!
Business Class 1.7 released 🚀
Business Class is a Ruby on Rails starter kit that continues to align itself with default Rails configuration. In this release it comes with Turbo 8, Solid Queue, Thruster, and more.
CVE-2024-35176: DoS in REXML
There is a DoS vulnerability in REXML gem. This vulnerability has been assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2024-35176. We strongly recommend upgrading the REXML gem.
Details
When parsing an XML document that has many < in an attribute value, REXML gem may take long time.
Please update REXML gem to version 3.2.7 or later.
Affected versions
- REXML gem 3.2.6 or prior
Credits
Thanks to mprogrammer for discovering this issue.
History
- Originally published at 2024-05-16 05:00:00 (UTC)
Posted by kou on 16 May 2024
Why I’m Joining Mozilla as Executive Director
Delight — absolute delight — is what I felt when my parents brought home a Compaq Deskpro 386 for us to play with. It was love at first sight, thanks to games like Reader Rabbit, but I fell especially hard once we had a machine connected to the Internet. The unparalleled joy that comes from […]
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Qualcomm details Linux on Snapdragon X Elite, and it’s looking surprisingly good
With Qualcomm and Microsoft about to flood the market with devices using the new Snapdragon X Elite, those of us who don’t want to use Windows felt a bit uneasy – what’s Linux support going to look like for this new generation of ARM devices? Well, it seems Qualcomm’s been busy, and they’ve published a blog post detailing their work on Linux support for the X Elite. It’s been our priority not only to support Linux on our premium-tier SoCs, but to support it pronto. In fact, within one or two days of publicly announcing each generation of Snapdragon 8, we’ve posted the initial patchset for Linux kernel support. Snapdragon X Elite was no exception: we announced on October 23 of last year and posted the patchset the next day. That was the result of a lot of pre-announcement work to get everything up and running on Linux and Debian. ↫ Qualcomm’s developer blog In the blog post, the company details exactly which X Elite features have already been merged into mainline with Linux 6.8 and 6.9, as well as which features will be merged into mainline in Linux 6.10 and 6.11, and to be quite frank – it’s looking really solid, especially considering this is Qualcomm we’re talking about. Over the coming six months, they’re going to focus on getting end-to-end hardware video decoding working, including in Firefox and Chrome, as well as various CPU and GPU optimisations, adding the required firmware to the linux-firmware package, and providing access to easy installers. All in all, it’s looking like the X Elite will be exceptionally well supported by Linux before the year’s over. The blog post also details the boot path for Linux on the X Elite, and that, too, is looking good. It’s using a standard UEFI boot process, and supports GRUB and systemd-boot out of the box. Linux boots up using devicetrees, though, and apparently, there’s a known problem with using those that Qualcomm and the community are working on. We’re working closely with upstream communities on an open problem with the UEFI-based BIOS while booting with devicetrees. The problem is that, when you have more than one devicetree blob (DTB) packed into the firmware package flashed on the device, there is no standard way of selecting a devicetree to pass on to the kernel. OEMs commonly put multiple DTBs into the firmware package so it will support devices with slightly different SKUs, so we’re keen to solve this problem. ↫ Qualcomm’s developer blog I am pleasantly surprised by the openness and straightforwardness Qualcomm is showing the Linux community here, and I really hope this is a sign of how the company will keep supporting its laptop and possibly desktop-oriented SoCs from here on out. It seems like next year we will finally be getting competitive ARM laptops that can run Linux in a fully supported fashion.