Jonathan Leighton wrote:
How is the new section done at the moment? Looking in the CVS it looks like it is manually updated, but maybe there is a script that does it?
If not, it may be worthwhile considering implementing some form of CMS, which would not only make it way easier to update, but would also come with RSS feeds included (most likely). I'd be happy to implement it if you're interested. The one I'd recommend is WordPress, which I have on my own site too. Whilst it is primarily a blogging application, it can be very, very easily used in a "news" situation too. It comes with a selection of RSS feeds, and XHTML + CSS standards compliance.
Actually, I just started a simple news poster for the site. I'm not sure if we could maintain something like CMS in addition to developing Inkscape. I started buildig a basic user management system for the Open Clip Art Library with user/pass login, etc, and realized it could be simply used to add/edit news from the site, as well as build rss feeds.
Also, I had just planend to transform the news to RSS feed when the site is updated and/or the news is posted to.
I would like to setup a planet (like, planet.gnome.org), but for the OSS creative developers (dev. who work on gimp, scribus, inkscape, ocal, etc), so maybe you could help me pull that together? I think that Inkscape is getting to the point as well where it could have its own aggregration of developer's RSS feeds to something like planet.inkscape.org. I just don't want to put too much work on our heads ;)
Immediately though:
1.) I'm getting the simple poster + RSS transformer done.
2.) Would like to get the larger planet site of OSS creative developers onto a page at freedesktop.org. Yes, finally...
bulia byak wrote:
I'd like to propose two things regarding the Inkscape web site. Volunteers are welcome:
1 Create an RSS feed for the main page news.