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Less than 3 weeks until JoomlaDay UK 2013

Joomla!Day UK takes place on

Saturday 5th & Sunday 6th October 2013

(with a pre-event social on Friday, 4th October)

 

There is a great line-up of speakers from the UK, Europe and the USA who will be covering a huge range of topics pitched at all levels of experience, from complete newcomers to developers, designers and administrators.

Find out more and book on the JoomlaDay Site

 

Find out what’s new

Joomla! 3 – Are You Ready? Joomla! 3.x has many new features, including being responsive-friendly both front and back-end by default.

There are lots of exciting features being released in the forthcoming update 3.2 including a Rapid Application Development (RAD) layer and Content Versioning (allowing you to see who made changes and roll back).

Several speakers will be explaining these new features and exploring how you can use them with your own projects – it’s an ideal opportunity to make sure you’re up to date with the latest developments and stay ahead of the game with new features in the pipeline! Find out more and book your tickets here

2020Media Supports Joomla

joomladay2020Media had a stand at last years event but will be attended as delegates this time around. We hope to meet you there.

Read more about Joomla here.

Technical

Attention Joomla and WordPress users

Two updates within 24 hours.

1. Joomla users should check what version they are using and download and install the latest patch.

Joomla! version 2.5.13 and earlier 2.5.x versions; and version 3.1.4 and earlier 3.x versions has been declared vulnerable to Inadequate filtering leads to the ability to bypass file type upload restrictions. This basically means if you have a upload box on your site, hackers can use it to upload malicious code to your hosting space.

The solution is to upgrade today to the newest Joomla version, Upgrade to version 2.5.14 or 3.1.5 depending on which release you are on.

2. WordPress has released a new version, which fixes 700 bugs and includes a brand new template. The new version is 3.6 and all users are advised to upgrade.

2020Media strongly recommends users make a backup before doing an upgrade. We are also happy to do upgrade for customers on request, free of charge.

 

Opinion

UK Internet Governance Forum – Register now

How important is trust on the internet?  Are our online identities safe?
These are just some of the questions likely to come up at the 2013 UK  Internet Governance Forum which takes place on Tuesday 10th September in Central London.

Minister for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries, Ed Vaizey  MP is already confirmed as a keynote speaker. Other leading commentators  from politics, academia, civil society and industry will also contribute  to the debate and help to influence the next global Internet Governance  Forum.

The Childnet IGF Youth delegation will also bring the views of younger users to the discussions.

This event is free to attend and is open to all with an interest in the  internet. Advance registration is now open here
http://www.keysurvey.co.uk/votingmodule/s180/f/535024/102b/

The event will also be attended by Internet Society UK England Chapter
http://www.internetsociety.org.uk/, a free to join society for all those with an interest in having a say in the shape of the internet in years to come.

Domain Names

Do you feel lucky?

The .asia top level domain is set to release valuable 1,2,3 and 4 character domains over the coming weeks and months.

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.asia top level domain

Premium domains such as ‘8.asia’, ’28.asia’, and ‘X.asia’, will be available for registration based on a multi-phase release plan starting from July 30th, 2013, while 3&4 numeric domains such as ‘2013.asia’, ‘888.asia‘, and ‘777.asia’ will be up for grabs through auctions starting August 2013.

No. 8 has long been regarded as the luckiest number in Chinese culture. With pronunciation of ‘Ba’ in Chinese, no. 8 sounds similar to the word ‘Fa’, which means to make a fortune. However just as some numbers have good connotations, some are the opposite.  No. 4 sounds like ‘Si’ (death) in Chinese. Just like some westerners hate no. 13, Chinese avoid number 4 and no.14 when they choose phone numbers, room numbers or the date of important ceremonies.

Please see here for a complete list of parked, reserved and other 1&2 character domains. 3&4 character numeric .Asia domains are available via public auctions but the 1 and 2 character domains have a variety of  release mechanisms

2020Media is accredited via it’s registrar Imperial Registrations to offer .Asia domains, so we can help advise and obtain these exciting domains.

Auctions start in August 2013. Contact us for further information.

 

 

 

Opinion

WordPress Conference

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Dates have been announced for a WordPress conference in London later this year.

The very first WordCamp London will take place on 23rd & 24th November 2013!

The two day event will have one main conference day and the second day will be a Contribute Day where you can come along, hack, write, support, and contribute to WordPress.

The conference day on 23rd November will be held at the Bishopsgate Institute. The Contributor day on 24th November will be help at Mozilla Spaces in London.

What’s a WordCamp?

“WordCamps are informal, community-organized events that are put together by WordPress users like you. Everyone from casual users to core developers participate, share ideas, and get to know each other”.
 

The first day will comprise presentations from WordPress experts and enthusiasts from the UK and around the world. The second day will be a Contributor Day – both seasoned and new community members will spend the day working on the project.

What’s WordPress?

See www.2020media.com/wordpress

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