RSS News Feeds available for the site
23-January-2005
SIGOSSEE / JOIN - RSS News Feeds available for the siteThere are a wide range of news feeds available to help you track the content and discussions in the SIGOSSEE / JOIN site. Some of these are listed at the bottom of this page. A more extensive explanation of news feeds is available as a help topic in our weblogs.
There is a link to this list of RSS feeds in the footer of all ossite pages.
Major site overhaul in progress, powered by 'knotes', our new open-source collaborative weblogging tool.
23-January-2005
Phew!
First of all, let me thank all the members of this site for being patient over the past few months when the site was manifestly not up to the job we wanted it to do for us!
If it's any consolation, the reason that Mike and Steve from KnowNet have not intervened earlier to fix minor problems with the site was that we have been hammering effort into a new open-source product of our own: knotes, which is the platform powering the new weblogs and discussions. Our experience had taught us that none of the available open-source (or commercial!) project-platform or content-management systems was really good enough at combining the ability to enable both easy, powerful, collaborative posting of ad-hoc bits of content and the creation and management of 'proper' site content. We have spent many thousands of hours over the past year working to produce new open-source software to address this problem. Our new collaborative weblogging and discussion product for Plone, knotes, is the first of these efforts to near completion. It has been built from the ground up to be an open platform to allow developers to create and embed innovative collaboration activities. With a bit of luck, we'll be releasing to the wider developer community within weeks. Read the product page for more information about what makes knotes interesting.
Members of the site now have access to a range of shared weblogs, which you can find in the OSSITE Community Activities area. These replace the old motifs whereby members created links and news items in their own home folders, and sitewide 'aggregation' actions like 'resources' and 'reviews' listed these in one place. Instead, members can now create new shared bookmarks or news items as weblog posts directly in the appropriate weblog. We'll be posting more details nd proposals on how we can all, as members, make good use of the new shared weblogs.
We've also upgraded the content-management framweork and content of the front page, SIG partners pages and the SIG Working Groups pages, and will very shortly do the same with all the other areas of old content, for instance the JOIN area.
Please use the OSSITE Requests weblog to report any problems or give any feedback about these changes and the new system. And please remember that this is open-source software; we will uncover more bugs, and there are still hundreds of small and large feature improvements planned for the near future.
Warm regards, and thanks for waiting!, Mike
