http://openacs.org/news/ OpenACS News OpenACS 5.0 Mon, 05 Dec 2011 09:15:05 GMT http://openacs.org/rss-support/images/openacs_logo_rss.gif http://openacs.org/news/ 126 48 http://openacs.org/news/item?item%5fid=3789052 http://openacs.org/news/item?item%5fid=3789052 openacs.org is going to be migrated to new hardware in a short time window, as indicated above. We are sorry for any inconveniences resulting from this downtime. Mon, 05 Dec 2011 09:15:05 GMT http://openacs.org/news/item?item%5fid=3776582 http://openacs.org/news/item?item%5fid=3776582 The URL for the Election is: http://openacs.org/oct-election/election?election%5fid=14 Voting started on Wed November 23, 2011 01:00 AM Europe/Vienna and ends on Wed December 07, 2011 01:00 AM Europe/Vienna. More information on this forum post: http://openacs.org/forums/message-view?message_id=3776577 Wed, 23 Nov 2011 18:35:08 GMT http://openacs.org/news/item?item%5fid=3768434 http://openacs.org/news/item?item%5fid=3768434 The nominations for the OCT Election Fall 2011 are now open, find the details in the following post: http://openacs.org/forums/message-view?message_id=3768424 Tue, 15 Nov 2011 23:32:46 GMT http://openacs.org/news/item?item%5fid=3690520 http://openacs.org/news/item?item%5fid=3690520 Please note that the major openacs.org services (website, CVS, fisheye etc.) will be unavailable between 08:00 and 10:00 UTC+2 tomorrow, on Aug 18, because two defective memory modules are to be replaced. We apologize for any inconvenience this service interruption might cause. Wed, 17 Aug 2011 07:39:18 GMT http://openacs.org/news/item?item%5fid=3669483 http://openacs.org/news/item?item%5fid=3669483 You can download it here. [1] The kernel type and attribute creation functions will now optionally create SQL tables and columns as well as metadata, as has been done in the content repository functions to create CR types and attributes since the beginning. Other than this, the release primarily fixes bugs. [1] http://openacs.org/projects/openacs/download/one-revision?revision_id=3646409 Sun, 17 Jul 2011 17:22:43 GMT http://openacs.org/news/item?item%5fid=3665161 http://openacs.org/news/item?item%5fid=3665161 Starting from Thursday, Aug 11 2011, 16:00 UTC+2, the major openacs.org services (website, CVS, fisheye etc.) will be down due to maintenance work in their hosting facility at the Vienna University of Economics and Business. We expect the services to become available again by Monday, Aug 15 2011, 12:00 UTC+2 at the latest. We apologize for any inconvenience this service interruption might cause. Mon, 11 Jul 2011 08:27:35 GMT http://openacs.org/news/item?item%5fid=3639093 http://openacs.org/news/item?item%5fid=3639093 The URL for the Election is: http://www.openacs.org/oct-election/election?election%5fid=13 Details about the voting process in this forums post: http://openacs.org/forums/message-view?message_id=3639084 Wed, 01 Jun 2011 19:35:15 GMT http://openacs.org/news/item?item%5fid=3634682 http://openacs.org/news/item?item%5fid=3634682 Nominations are now open for the Spring 2011 OCT Election. Find the details on the following forums post: http://openacs.org/forums/message-view?message_id=3634677 Tue, 24 May 2011 21:15:38 GMT http://openacs.org/news/item?item%5fid=3497430 http://openacs.org/news/item?item%5fid=3497430 Congratulations to the following persons, they were elected to serve on the OCT for 12 months: * Emmanuelle Raffenne * Gustaf Neumann * Héctor Romojaro * Ryan Gallimore More details in the following forums post: http://openacs.org/forums/message-view?message_id=3497423 Fri, 12 Nov 2010 00:31:40 GMT http://openacs.org/news/item?item%5fid=3488888 http://openacs.org/news/item?item%5fid=3488888 The URL for the Election is: http://www.openacs.org/oct-election/election?election%5fid=12 Voting started on Fri Oct 28, 2010 Midnight UTC and ends on Thu Nov 11, 2010 Midnight UTC. More information here: http://openacs.org/forums/message-view?message_id=3488886 Fri, 29 Oct 2010 16:47:20 GMT http://openacs.org/news/item?item%5fid=3484205 http://openacs.org/news/item?item%5fid=3484205 The nominations for the OCT Election Fall 2010 are now open, find the details in the following post: http://openacs.org/forums/message-view?message_id=3484201 Tue, 19 Oct 2010 20:47:00 GMT http://openacs.org/news/item?item%5fid=3363630 http://openacs.org/news/item?item%5fid=3363630 The .LRN Consortium is pleased to announce a $5,000 award from the Yahoo! Employee Foundation [1: 'Yahoo! Employee Foundation'] (via the Silicon Valley Community Foundation) for continuation of the Zen Accessibility Project. The focus of the work will be on adding dynamic yet accessible UI elements into .LRN and making .LRN more accessible using WCAG [2: 'WCAG'] recommendations. As part of this work, the Forums package will be used as a model for continued work on accessibility in .LRN. The Yahoo! Employee Foundation (YEF) is a unique grassroots employee driven philanthropic organization. All the money is donated by employees, and all activities are run by a volunteer committee of Yahoo! employees. We would like to thank Yahoo! employee Stephen Boettcher for championing this grant. [1] http://forgood.yahoo.com/social_responsibility/employee_volunteerism.html [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Content_Accessibility_Guidelines Sat, 02 Oct 2010 22:00:03 GMT http://openacs.org/news/item?item%5fid=3343351 http://openacs.org/news/item?item%5fid=3343351 Download it from our repository. [1] New features include: 1. Global package parameters. 2. "Embedded Packages" - a new form of package based on the previous "Extended Package" implementation of weak package inheritance. 3. Fixes for ns_proxy handling 4. Significant speedup for large sites - site-node refresh (franz penz, victorg) -faster cache flushing: new api call: util_memoize_flush_pattern 5. Optional support for selenium remote control (acs-automated-tests) 6. New administration UI to manage mime types and extension map 7. Added acs-mail-lite package params for rollout support 8. Support for 3-chars language codes in acs-lang 9. Added OOXML mime types in acs-content-repository In addition there have been a couple of security fixes that I won't mention in detail in this note ... [1] http://openacs.org/projects/openacs/download/one-revision?revision_id=3405577 Wed, 22 Sep 2010 00:04:39 GMT http://openacs.org/news/item?item%5fid=3405579 http://openacs.org/news/item?item%5fid=3405579 Here is the correct link. [1] [1] http://openacs.org/projects/openacs/download/one-revision?revision_id=3405577 Wed, 30 Jun 2010 17:45:19 GMT http://openacs.org/news/item?item%5fid=3391705 http://openacs.org/news/item?item%5fid=3391705 Congratulations to the following persons, they were elected to serve on the OCT for 12 months: * Don Baccus * Dave Bauer * Victor Guerra * Stefan Sobernig * Michael Steigman Find the details here: http://openacs.org/forums/message-view?message_id=3391701 Wed, 16 Jun 2010 21:17:49 GMT