http://openacs.org/news/ OpenACS News OpenACS 5.0 Wed, 27 Jan 2010 18:47:20 GMT http://openacs.org/rss-support/images/openacs_logo_rss.gif http://openacs.org/news/ 126 48 http://openacs.org/news/item?item%5fid=3304109 http://openacs.org/news/item?item%5fid=3304109 OpenACS and .LRN packages have been accepted into Debian, and are available on Unstable (Sid) and Testing (Squeeze) repositories: - OpenACS: http://packages.qa.debian.org/o/openacs.html [1: 'See status of the openacs package in Debian'] - .LRN: http://packages.qa.debian.org/d/dotlrn.html [2: 'See status of the dotlrn package in Debian'] The packages have also been imported into Ubuntu (Lucid Lynx), and are available to download: - OpenACS: http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/openacs [3: 'See details of the openacs package in Ubuntu Lucid'] - .LRN: http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/dotlrn [4: 'See details of the dotlrn package in Ubuntu Lucid'] More info: - Debian packages [5: 'More info on Debian packages for OpenACS and .LRN'] - Ubuntu packages [6: 'More info on Ubuntu packages for OpenACS and .LRN'] [1] http://packages.qa.debian.org/o/openacs.html [2] http://packages.qa.debian.org/d/dotlrn.html [3] http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/openacs [4] http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/dotlrn [5] http://openacs.org/xowiki/debian [6] http://openacs.org/xowiki/ubuntu Wed, 27 Jan 2010 18:47:20 GMT http://openacs.org/news/item?item%5fid=3296382 http://openacs.org/news/item?item%5fid=3296382 Today Jan-20-2010, starting at 11:00 UTC, the cvs repository will be migrated to another machine. Therefore the service will be down during the next 24 hours. For more details, check out this post on the forums: http://openacs.org/forums/message-view?message_id=3296350 Wed, 20 Jan 2010 10:29:30 GMT http://openacs.org/news/item?item%5fid=2964567 http://openacs.org/news/item?item%5fid=2964567 It is available for download in our repository. [1] [1] http://openacs.org/projects/openacs/download/one-revision?revision_id=2967507 Fri, 08 Jan 2010 19:05:44 GMT http://openacs.org/news/item?item%5fid=2984427 http://openacs.org/news/item?item%5fid=2984427 .LRN 2.5.0 has been released and is available for download from the repository. [1] [1] http://openacs.org/projects/dotlrn/download/one-revision?revision_id=2984410 Fri, 08 Jan 2010 19:04:55 GMT http://openacs.org/news/item?item%5fid=3086970 http://openacs.org/news/item?item%5fid=3086970 Congratulations to the following persons, they were elected to serve on the OCT: * Emmanuelle Raffenne * Gustaf Neumann * Héctor Romojaro * Rocael Hernández Find the details here: http://openacs.org/forums/message-view?message_id=3086957 Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:08:58 GMT http://openacs.org/news/item?item%5fid=3032657 http://openacs.org/news/item?item%5fid=3032657 The Voting process for the Fall 2009 OCT Election is about to start. The URL for the Election is: http://www.openacs.org/oct-election/election?election%5fid=10 Voting starts on Fri Oct 23, 2009 Midnight UTC and ends on Thu Nov 5, 2009 Midnight UTC. More information here: http://www.openacs.org/forums/message-view?message_id=3032638 Sat, 24 Oct 2009 12:04:04 GMT http://openacs.org/news/item?item%5fid=3014487 http://openacs.org/news/item?item%5fid=3014487 Nominations are now open for the Fall 2009 OCT Election. http://openacs.org/forums/message-view?message_id=3014462 Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:03:50 GMT http://openacs.org/news/item?item%5fid=2988678 http://openacs.org/news/item?item%5fid=2988678 Our server for translations is up again. We recently have moved this service to the same machine where openacs.org is running. If you still don't have an account there and want to helps us to translate the toolkit to your language, feel free to request one ( Simply go to the translation server [1]and follow the link for registration ). Many thanks to both Galileo University, who was hosting this service in the past, and the Institute for Information Systems and New Media at the WU, for hosting the service currently. [1] http://translate.openacs.org Wed, 30 Sep 2009 10:35:27 GMT http://openacs.org/news/item?item%5fid=2965705 http://openacs.org/news/item?item%5fid=2965705 It's available for download from the .LRN repository, now! [1] [1] http://openacs.org/projects/dotlrn/download/one-revision?revision_id=2967512 Tue, 15 Sep 2009 06:53:47 GMT http://openacs.org/news/item?item%5fid=2951738 http://openacs.org/news/item?item%5fid=2951738 This is primarily a maintenance release, and includes an important bug fix regarding the handling of HTTPS requests. Download and test it now, please! [1] [1] http://openacs.org/projects/openacs/download/one-revision?revision_id=2951734 Sun, 06 Sep 2009 00:58:54 GMT http://openacs.org/news/item?item%5fid=2904324 http://openacs.org/news/item?item%5fid=2904324 .LRN 2.5.0 Alpha One [1] is available for download. Please download and test! Please read this post for information on limited Oracle support for this version of .LRN. [2] [1] http://openacs.org/projects/dotlrn/download/one-revision?revision_id=2899906 [2] http://openacs.org/forums/message-view?message_id=2904281 Thu, 20 Aug 2009 21:03:29 GMT http://openacs.org/news/item?item%5fid=2856568 http://openacs.org/news/item?item%5fid=2856568 There is a new tutorial for OpenACS, it is aimed at absolute beginners, it covers some simple installation process, the creation of an application and some introduction to the use of ACS Objects, this tutorial is aimed to be covered in 4 days to get the basic programming skills and useful tips in this framework, going step by step for a new adopter. The tutorial goes from the "hello world" in OpenACS to advanced stuff such as creating a new package, using web forms, acs_objects and building reports. This tutorial has a lot of work that has been going on for a while and here is the first version ready for public viewing. Here is the tutorial link: http://openacs.com/storage/download/OpenACS_Tutorial.pdf?file_id=2855307 For more information check out the thread in the forums: http://openacs.org/forums/message-view?message_id=2853752 Fri, 24 Jul 2009 16:08:11 GMT http://openacs.org/news/item?item%5fid=2840702 http://openacs.org/news/item?item%5fid=2840702 The 8th OpenACS and .LRN Conference will take place in Cartago city, Costa Rica hosted by ITCR [1] from November 3rd to 6th 2009. The conference is focused on the development of community based web sites (primarily built with the OpenACS framework) and on community based e-learning environments (primarily built with the dotLRN framework). The program will contain tutorials and birds of feathers (BOFs), three days of presentations and workshops and an optional tour to the beautiful Arenal volcano located at San Carlos, Costa Rica. Besides to assist to the conference you are encouraged to send a participation in: Presentations,Thematic Workshops, Poster Session, Tutorials or Mini-demo sessions. For more information visit: http://www.tec-digital.itcr.ac.cr/conferencia-dotlrn-2009/ [2] [1] http://www.tec.cr [2] http://www.tec-digital.itcr.ac.cr/conferencia-dotlrn-2009/ Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:23:02 GMT http://openacs.org/news/item?item%5fid=2814194 http://openacs.org/news/item?item%5fid=2814194 OpenACS 5.5.0 Final is now available for download. [1] PostgreSQL 8.3 is now fully supported, including the use of the built-in standard version of tsearch2. Improved rich-text editor support: TinyMCE has been upgraded to 3.2.4.1 with language pack support. Xinha is also upgraded to the latest internationalized release. Both are compatible with IE8. Added new package dependency type, "extends". Implements a weak form of package inheritance (parameters and, optionally, templates). Multiple inheritance is supported. For instance, the non-core "layout-managed-subsite" extends the "acs-subsite" and "layout-manager" packages, resulting in a package that combines the semantics of both. Added new package attribute "implements-subsite-p" (default "f"). If true, this package may be mounted as a subsite and is expected to implement subsite semantics. Typically used by packages which extend acs-subsite. Added new package attribute "inherit-templates-p" (default "t"). If true, the package inherits templates defined in the packages it extends. This means that the package only needs to specify templates where the UI of an extended package is modified or extended. This greatly reduces the need to fork base packages when one needs to customize it. Rather than modify the package directly, use "extends" rather than "requires" then rewrite those templates you need to customize. Added a simple mechanism for defining subsite themes, removing the hard-wired choices implemented in earlier versions of OpenACS. The default theme has been moved into a new package, "openacs-default-theme". Simplifies the customization of the look and feel of OpenACS sites and subsites. The install xml facility has been enhanced to allow the calling of arbitrary Tcl procedures and includes various other enhancements written by Xarg. Packages can extend the facility, too. As an example of what can be done, the configuration of .LRN communities could be moved from a set of interacting parameters to a cleaner XML description of how to build classes and clubs, etc. Notifications now calls lang::util::localize on the message subject and body before sending the message out, using the recipient locale if set, the site-wide one if not. This will cause message keys (entered as #....# strings) to be replaced with the language text for the chosen locale. acs-mail-lite now correctly implements rollout support. Many more bug fixes and performance improvements. [1] http://openacs.org/projects/openacs/download/one-revision?revision_id=2814189 Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:34:35 GMT http://openacs.org/news/item?item%5fid=2791217 http://openacs.org/news/item?item%5fid=2791217 OpenACS 5.5.0 Beta 1 is now available for download. [1] Language packs for TinyMCE have been added, along with other upgrades to that WYSIWIG editor support. [1] http://openacs.org/projects/openacs/download/one-revision?revision_id=2791207 Thu, 11 Jun 2009 01:22:38 GMT