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Election 2006 (and beyond): Digital Copyright Canada
From: russell_-at-_flora.ottawa.on.ca (Russell McOrmond)
Date: 12 Apr 2000 14:18:34 -0400
I am starting documentation on the next generation discussion groups.
The current document is at:
http://www.flora.org/flora/server/floral-arrangement-2.phtml
Please read and comment. I will be looking to find out what tools
currently exist, so if anyone can help with this it would be greatly
appreciated.
Floral Arrangement - Version 2
Discussion group technologies used by FLORA
Technologies that allow people to talk to each other are the basic and
most important aspect of FLORA Community WEB. This document is a
description of a a project to enhance the discussion group services.
The version 1 documentation is online and describes some of the
current technology in use and some ideas of what I was thinking in
1997. Much has standardized around these technologies since that time
and thus the direction has changed.
One thing that has been a problem is that the differing technologies
have not integrated well. Mailing lists and newsgroups work great at
distribution to other sites, but common tools for participating on
FLORA itself are needed. To this end a movement towards a database of
articles will be used.
Centralize discussion groups
+ messages stored in MySQL database
+ messages indexed from and 'archived' (IE: when not indexed)
in XML format (Allows for faster searching of 'current'
documents, while still being able to pull up old articles).
+ Message importers for RFC-822 messages (IE: Automated imports
from existing mailing lists and existing newsgroups -
converts to XML and then indexes into database)
+ Message exporters to RFC-822 messages (Possibly both
text/plain and text/html format). People should be able to
subscribe to these discussion groups in a variety of formats
such as 1-article/1-message, full-digest (IE: You receive the
body of the messages), link-digest [only has
subject/auth/summary and a link], etc.
Channel and group support
Existing mailing lists and newsgroups can easily be imported into a
new format. There is, however, a need for another higher level
where short descriptions, better titles (No "Re: some other
topic"), and a reference to the full text is needed. There is
also a need to be able to publish links to other sites,
upgrading the flora.announce (and other related announce
groups) to something similar to what is offered on linuxtoday
+ Support for "channels" in the Rich Site Summary format.
Should have the ability to both import (From other locations)
existing channels as well as export. WebReference.com has
quite a bit of documentation on RSS. RSS is essentially an
XML Document Type definition, and RSS is defined by netscape
as RSS 0.91.
+ General tool for displaying channels. One example using PHP
was written Mark Schonbach for Slashdot. (Slashdot uses its
own backslash DTD)
o 2000-04-12 16:33:38 - from the trusted dept:
SGI B1 Linux Patches
o 2000-04-12 16:07:17 - from the MAKE-MONEY-FAST dept:
Spammers Hit Wireless Phones
o 2000-04-12 15:00:39 - from the learning-from-the-leaders
dept:
Jordan Pollack Answers AI And IP Questions
o 2000-04-12 14:15:45 - from the
ever-wonder-what-happened-to dept:
Spencer Kimball's OnlinePhotoLab
o 2000-04-12 14:15:00 - from the both-wishy-and-washy
dept:
DOJ Wary Of Breaking Up Microsoft
o 2000-04-12 13:50:46 - from the trying-to-make-it-work
dept:
Linux Drivers For Hollywood Plus DVD Card
o 2000-04-12 12:17:04 - from the giving-it-away dept:
Intel Opens CDSA Source
o 2000-04-12 10:04:58 - from the i-don't-like-to-wait
dept:
Instant Access Memory
o 2000-04-12 02:38:18 - from the
now-if-only-I-didn't-need-to-stand-to-pea dept:
Feeding Through Nutrient Patches
o 2000-04-11 23:45:19 - from the cool-animation-stuff
dept:
Aardman Animations Releasing New Animations Online
We may also want to use the format used by LinuxToday which
is to just output HTML which can be included within other
documents
SRO: TurboLinux Clustering - Many boxes, one power. Help is here.
Wired: Sun Never Sets on Linux
CBSMarketWatch: Goldman cuts Microsoft sales outlook
VNU Net: Linux is fastest growing server OS
IT-Director: Linux to get the drop on Microsoft?
LinuxPR: LPI Expands Incentive Program for Second Certification
Exam
LinuxPR: Linux NetworX Names Stephen Hill Vice President Of
Business Development
WideOpenNews: IDC: Linux Servers Red Hot
CNET News.com: Corel pushes Linux for graphics tasks
LinuxNewbie.org: Wheres the RAM?
+ Moderator tools (IE: be able to moderate groups, change group
status of existing messages, etc. One should be able to
easily read an existing mailing list via a tool and then be
able to mark a message as "To be hilighted via Channel" with
them only needing to add in summary and possibly fix up a
better subject.
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