"Global Sprint Weekend is a worldwide event you can participate in. Small local sprints in lots of locations, over the same time period: Saturday and Sunday January 25 and 26, 2014. These sprints will usually be 2-15 people in one location, together, working to make Drupal better."
"If you are running a Drupal 6 site on PHP 4.x, we suggest you look at your hosting situation as it is likely there are other outdated (and possibly insecure) components involved in your environment as well."
Drupal 8 will have an migration path for D6 & D7! Say goodbye to hook_update_N() for major version upgrades. I think this is a really good move and will be a big win for Drupal 8 upgrades.
Earlier this month I was privileged to once again be a guest on the DrupalEasy podcast episode 105 - Men in Tights with Andrew Riley, Ted Bowman, and Mike Anello. We talked about the genisus of TheWeeklyDrop.com, Drupal and the demise of Google Reader. It was a fun discussion. Check it out.