June 2020 SoFri Meeting

This evening we got together to talk about recent DNN community news, releases and activities within DNN Github. The VirBella system was reviewed as a possible fun way to have a larger group conference in a virtual space.

Watch the video to catch up on this month's Southern Fried DNN User Group meeting topics.

During the meeting, we reviewed and discussed the following sites and content:

• Last month's DNN Jeopardy video is posted: http://www.southernfrieddnn.com/Blog/TabId/208/PostId/106/may-sofri-hangout-dnn-jeopardy.aspx
• and you can play at home if you like: https://www.playfactile.com/sofridnnjeopardy
• DNN 9.6.1 is released and ready for you to upgrade your DNN site. The version is stable and easy to upgrade from DNN 7 through up to DNN 9x. We discussed that there may be a 9.6.2 soon or a brief delay to a 9.7 next... stay tuned
  https://github.com/dnnsoftware/Dnn.Platform/releases
• The DNN Community Blog site is your location for news and posts: https://dnncommunity.org/blogs
• The DNN open source, community-driven eCommerce module, Hotcakes had a 3.3 release recently: https://dnncommunity.org/blogs/Post/5689/Hotcakes-Commerce-03-03-00-Release-Marks-a-Major-Milestone
• Razor Cart (SmithCart/Smith Consulting) has released a new version of RazorCart which supports asp.net 4.7.2 so that allows you to get up to higher DNN version 9.4+ with it now:  https://dnncommunity.org/forums/aft/1174?fbclid=IwAR3oaVD4ozLk-iRXJZascjozJIKLwxLkUSU0jnvLWgkdCEjZecmi2_h7j14
• David Poindexter posted a blog (part 2 of series) about the new work within GitHub for issue triage and the new way to help get involved, review, etc more easily than ever before: https://dnncommunity.org/blogs/Post/5735/Strategy-DNN-Platform-Issue-Management-Part-2
  https://github.com/dnnsoftware/Dnn.Platform/labels/Area%3A%20AE%20%3E%20PersonaBar%20Ext%20%3E%20SiteSettings.Web
  GitHub DNN Issue Triage - https://github.com/dnnsoftware/Dnn.Platform/projects/2
• Ryan Moore talked about CloudFlare with DNN and the new features of the Web Application Firewal which has a rule specifically for DotNetNuke, and special rules that help protect your DNN sites. Used within the first tier of the CloudFlare paid plan, several others recommended it as a solid help with security and stabilitty for DNN sites. 
  https://www.cloudflare.com/waf/
  https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200172016-Understanding-the-Cloudflare-Web-Application-Firewall-WAF-
• Finally, we spent time looking into the features of the VirBella virtual meeting and conference system. This could be a fun tool that could be used to host virtual conferences for our DNN community in the future. Watch our experience with it in the video recording, or download a copy and try it out. We may host a future SoFri inside of VirBella so that we can test as a group!
  https://www.virbela.com/opencampus