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Six Feet Up, Inc announces it has hired Jeffrey Sexton, PMP as a new Project Manager.  Sexton brings more than 11 years of project management experience to the Sixies staff through his work of successfully implementing numerous projects at Fortune 500 companies.  His expertise in managing website redesign, marketing, process improvement, and new technology deployment projects will serve as a great asset to Six Feet Up and their clients.

Jeff is a life-long Chicago Cubs fan and lives in Greenfield, Indiana with his wife and two children.

The Indiana Historical Society, a private, nonprofit membership organization that maintains the nation's premier research library and archives on the history of Indiana and the Old Northwest, launched their new website today at www.indianahistory.org

The History Center has been closed for almost a year while the staff has been focusing on completion of a series of extreme remodeling and makeover projects. The Grand Opening is scheduled for March 20, 2010, and the new website is the first preview available to the public.

The Indiana Historical Society engaged Six Feet Up to assist with the planning, development and customization of their new website, and Six Feet Up partnered with Abstract Edge to provide the non-profit with outstanding design services.

Powered by the Plone open source content management system (CMS), the new site offers easily navigated content that caters to a wide variety of visitors.

Featuring a brand new look and feel, the site offers a richer and more interactive presentation to users -- including videos, slideshows, scrollable thumbnail features, blogging, and event registration/ticketing capabilities.

From an administration perspective, content managers at the Indiana Historical Society are now able to easily manage media and keep content up-to-date without sole dependency on their technical team.

The Zope Community (http://zope.org) issued a security fix on January 13, 2010 that affects all sites using Zope 2.8 and newer. Since all Plone sites use Zope, it is strongly recommended that this latest release be applied to your Plone site. This release of Zope addresses a potential cross-site scripting vulnerability, which, if exploited, could allow attackers to access secure data in the website. Please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-site_scripting for more details.

The specific Zope update needed depends on which version of Plone you are running. See the chart below for the correct update:

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Plone <2.5
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If your Plone site is less than Plone 2.5, you are using Zope 2.7 and do not have a patch to apply.

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Plone 2.5
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Zope 2.8: http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.8.12
or
Zope 2.9: http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.9.12

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Plone 3
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Zope 2.10 = http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.10.11


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Before you start the upgrade to the latest Zope version, make sure you have a backup of your data.fs and/or buildout.

If you have a buildout based install[1] then you can most likely change the  download URL to point to the latest Zope version, and re-run buildout.

If you have a non-buildout based install then you need to download the latest Zope version, compile[2] and make sure that your start up scripts and Zope configuration files are pointing to the latest Zope version.

Make sure to restart your site once the latest change is in Affect so that the new Zope is applied.

[1] - http://plone.org/documentation/manual/developer-manual/managing-projects-with-buildout/understanding-buildout.cfg
[2] - http://plone.org/documentation/kb/setup-from-source/

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If you would like to have Six Feet Up perform the upgrade for your site, please email support@sixfeetup.com with the subject line of "Zope Security Fix". We will then set up a Time and Materials contract with your organization for the work to be done.