Last year, I was humbly honored to be awarded the 2007 Antonio
Pizzigati Prize for Software in the Public Interest. This year, I am
honored to serve on the awards committee for the 2008 prize.
Attached is the PDF flyer announcing the 2008 prize. The application
deadline is September 1st, 2008, which is rapidly approaching. Please
spread this announcement far and wide and if you know of any worthy
Open Sourcerers, please encourage them to apply. More information is
available on the prize's site:
http://www.pizzigatiprize.org
Cheers,
-Barry
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I'm very pleased to announce that you can now donate to the GNU
Mailman project!
https://www.fsf.org/donate/directed-donations/gnumailman/
The Free Software Foundation has established a directed donation fund
for GNU Mailman. Most of your donation goes directly to GNU Mailman,
with a small percentage going to help the FSF. You can now support
both great organizations with one donation.
As quoted on the donation page:
"Your donation will be used to obtain equipment, services, development
resources and other support for the GNU Mailman project. All
expenditures will be approved by a committee chosen from core GNU
Mailman maintainers, and will be fully disclosed on the main GNU
Mailman website."
Currently myself, Mark Sapiro and Terri Oda are serving as members of
the informal Mailman Steering Committee.
I'd like to thank Peter Brown at the FSF for help getting this set up
over there. I'd also like to thank Jeff Marshall and Jeff Breidenbach
from the Mail-Archive.com for their initial generous donation. As
part of this kick-start, Mailman 3 will make it possible to easily
archive your public mailing lists at www.mail-archive.com, including a
permalink in the footer of all messages.
More details on the donation program are available on the wiki:
http://wiki.list.org/x/R4BJ
Feel free to comment on that page with any questions, and we'll make
sure to update the page with any additional information.
Please consider supporting both GNU Mailman and the FSF with your
donation. We thank you.
- -Barry
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On Jul 1, 2008, at 2:40 PM, Hank van Cleef wrote:
> I'm also concerned about this proposed scheme to discontinue montnly
> mailings. It most definitely needs some mechanism whereby a user can
> reset or re-obtain their password without moderator intervention. Our
> user base is just plain not password-savvy, and I'm concerned about
> the increase in moderator workload if the recovery method is similar
> to password resetting by root (the Unix method).
Don't worry, going forward we'll have a fairly typical password reset
feature instead of the monthly reminder. The other advantage of this
is that we won't have to keep user passwords in our database
unencrypted.
- -Barry
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I am happy to announce the final release of the Mailman 2.1.11.
Mailman 2.1.11 is a cleanup of a few problems found since the release of
Mailman 2.1.10. It fixes the issue of shunted email subscribe requests
and a few minor issues. It updates the contrib/mmdsr script for some
2.1.10 and 2.1.11 log and error messages, and it adds a new cron to cull
and optionally archive old entries in the 'bad' and 'shunt' queues.
Mailman 2.1.11 has updates to several i18n translations.
A few bounce log messages now have the list name prepended.
There is a new Defaults.py|mm_cfg.py setting
ACCEPTABLE_LISTNAME_CHARACTERS with default value '[-+_.=a-z0-9]'. This
Python regular expression character class specifies the characters
allowed in list names. The motivation for this is the fact that
previously, a list named, e.g., xxx&yyy could be created and MTA aliases
generated that would cause the MTA to execute yyy as a command. There
is a possible security issue here, but it is not believed to be
exploitable in any meaningful way.
If anyone is concerned about the security issue and not ready to
upgrade, the mailman-2.1.11-listname-patch file contains a patch that
can be applied to Mailman 2.1.9 or 2.1.10 to add this feature.
See the release notes at
<http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?group_id=103&release_id=605074>
for more details.
Mailman is free software for managing email mailing lists and
e-newsletters. Mailman is used for all the python.org and
SourceForge.net mailing lists, as well as at hundreds of other sites.
For more information, including download links, please see:
http://www.list.orghttp://mailman.sf.nethttp://www.gnu.org/software/mailman
Files in this release are:
mailman-2.1.11.tgz <- The full release tarball
mailman-2.1.11.tgz.sig <- GPG signature for the tarball
mailman-2.1.11-listname.patch <- Patch to add new listname
~ validation to 2.1.9 or 2.1.10.
~ This patch is only applicable to
~ the older releases.
mailman-2.1.11-listname.patch.sig <- GPG signature for the patch
- --
Mark Sapiro <mark(a)msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers,
San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
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