DrupalEasy Podcast 170 - Obscure Buffalo (David Snopek - Drupal 6 End-of-Life)

David Snopek from myDropWizard joins Mike, Anna, and Ted to discuss the immenint (and ominous-sounding) Drupal 6 end-of-life as well as some "official" paid support options for the future. We also celebrate DrupalEasy.com's recent Drupal 8 relaunch (just barely avoiding end-of-life), the Commerce Guys spin-off Platform.sh, and one of our community's biggest issues.

Interview

• David Snopek, myDropWizard, Drupal security team member, Panopolydeveloper, Milwaukee Drupal meetup (Drupal414) co-organizer.
• Drupal 6 End-of-Life
• Official long term support vendors
• Drupal 6 Long Term Support patches

DrupalEasy News

• The next session of the 12-week Drupal Career Online course starts in March, 2016 - visit DrupalEasy.com/dco for all the details.

Four Stories

• DrupalEasy.com Relaunches on Drupal 8.
• Removing Arbitrary Barriers to Participation - blog post by Mark Ferree at Chapter Three.
• Drupal Association 2015 Membership Drive Recap.
• Commerce Guys Refocusing on on Drupal Commerce as Platform.sh Becomes an Independent Company.

Sponsors

• Linnovate.com/sla
• WebEnabled.com - devPanel

Picks of the Week

• Mike - Neato base theme by Kevin Quillen.
• David - CVE-2015-7547, article about it on ArsTechnica.
• Ryan - DrupalCon Session Submission - Ryan is chairing the Site Buidling Trackat DrupalCon New Orleans and encourages you to submit to any category. Read his blog post, "Help Make the Site Building Track Memorable".
• Anna - 3 Things You Should Hide In Your Drupal Site (Many of you aren’t hiding them)!.
• Ted - Drupal Summer of Code Proposals.

Upcoming Events

• DrupalCampNYC2016 - February 27th, 2016.
• Florida DrupalCamp 2016 - March 5-6, 2016.
• MidCamp - March 17-20, 2016.
• TexasCamp - April 1-2, 2016.
• DrupalDelphia - April 8, 2016.

Follow us on Twitter

• @drupaleasy
• @andrewmriley
• @liberatr
• @ultimike
• @tedbow
• @sixmiletech
• @akalata
• @dsnopek

Five Questions (answers only)

1. Languages & language learning: Russian & Polish
2. Democracy 3 - Win/Mac/Linux sim game
3. Give a keynote presentation
4. Aspirational answer: European bison in a specific primordial forest (half credit)
5. Becoming Panopoly co-maintainer (2013)

Intro Music

DrupalCon - from the DruaplCon Los Angeles pre-note performed by Kristina Bjoran.

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