Re: [seul-edu] Schoolforge headlines

[Les Richardson <richl@mail.tfsd.sk.ca>]

Hi,

Shall I go ahead and work on the RDF transfers, or is someone else
already half done, since I have other "fish to fry".

I proceeding now on this, so _please_ let me know if you are already
underway.


Les Richardson
North of '49




On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, Roger Dingledine wrote:

> One of the features we want for the schoolforge site relatively soon
> is to be able to pull headlines from certain member projects.
> 
> 1. The main one that comes to mind is opensourceschools.org, since it
> generates interesting headlines pretty frequently. David: can you work
> with Rich or Felipe (or others) to export headlines from opensourceschools
> in a way that schoolforge can import them conveniently?
> 
> 2. We may also want headlines for "recently updated software", say, from
> http://richtech.ca/seul/. Rich, how hard would it be for you to export the
> "recently changed items" from your db onto the schoolforge frontpage? More
> importantly, is this what we want to do, or do we want to leave revisions
> and announcements to someplace like Freshmeat, and pull the most recent
> change headlines from Freshmeat? I believe the seul application index will
> fail unless it has some dedicated people making sure it stays up to date.
> (Just like every other education application index has failed so far.)
> What's the best way for us to solve this, bearing in mind that reliable
> volunteers for this sort of work are generally very scarce?
> 
> 3. What other types of headlines might we want on the schoolforge page?
> 
> --Roger
>