http://openacs.org/news/ OpenACS News OpenACS 5.0 Thu, 15 Jul 2010 20:03:32 GMT http://openacs.org/rss-support/images/openacs_logo_rss.gif http://openacs.org/news/ 126 48 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 Thu, 15 Jul 2010 20:03:32 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=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=3394372 Mon, 28 Jun 2010 00:26:09 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 http://openacs.org/news/item?item%5fid=3372800 http://openacs.org/news/item?item%5fid=3372800 The Voting process for the Spring 2010 OCT Election is about to start. The URL for the Election is: http://www.openacs.org/oct-election/election?election%5fid=11 Voting starts on Mon May 31, 2010 Midnight UTC and ends on Mon Jun 14, 2010 Midnight UTC. More information here: http://openacs.org/forums/message-view?message_id=3372759 Mon, 31 May 2010 20:52:23 GMT http://openacs.org/news/item?item%5fid=3366545 http://openacs.org/news/item?item%5fid=3366545 Nominations are now open for the Spring 2010 OCT Election. Find the details on the following forums post: http://openacs.org/forums/message-view?message_id=3366537 Fri, 21 May 2010 20:16:09 GMT http://openacs.org/news/item?item%5fid=3353239 http://openacs.org/news/item?item%5fid=3353239 On Monday morning around noon, a fire at the Vienna University of Economics and Business resulted in interruption of power and network to the machine hosting openacs.org. More info (in German) here: http://derstandard.at/1271375358136/WU-Brandursache-noch-unklar---Fuer-Mittwoch-Normalbetrieb-geplant http://www.krone.at/krone/S25/object_id__196982/hxcms/ http://www.oeh-wu.at/aktuelles/1015-das-war-der-wu-brand.html OpenACS.org was back on the Web in the early morning hours of Wednesday (UTC). We sincerely appreciate our colleagues in Vienna who host openacs.org and the professionalism with which this incident was handled (considering the widespread outages with which they were confronted). Wed, 28 Apr 2010 23:28:50 GMT 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