SCN: Speaking of new hardware, software

[Doug Schuler]

FYI...

To: Globalcn2000 at egroups.com
From: Gareth Shearman <shearman at victoria.tc.ca>
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 16:19:31 -0700
Subject: [Globalcn2000] Community Portal software

Telecommunities Canada has released its "Community Portal" software 
to the world.  This software is "open source" and thus available to 
everyone.  It requires a server running Linux or other versions of 
UNIX, Perl and MySQL.

For those without servers the software is available for use at 
several sites, including http://portal.tc.ca/  The portal template 
currently supports English, French and Spanish, while channel content 
may be in any language.

The Spanish version needs a better translation.

Telecommunities Canada acknowledges the support of Industry Canada in 
the development of this software.

There are several copies of the software already running on various 
servers.  See, for example:

portal.tc.ca
portal.bccna.bc.ca
portal.victoria.tc.ca
portal.prcn.org

As I suggested to Artur recently, I'd like to see us set up an 
International site using this software as a legacy from the Barcelona 
Congress.

The original announcement, which was posted to "freshmeat" 
(www.freshmeat.net), is below:


Community Portal (CommPort) 1.00
     Chris Halsall <chalsall at csp.net> - June 17th 2000, 06:59 EST

     CommPort is a community portal system based on Perl and MySQL. 
Each user gets a personal portal page to which they can add their
     own "channels" or select from a growing list of pre-prepared 
local, national and international content. This allows any individual 
to always
     have a page of their own personal favourites in front of them. 
Channels may be either "active" with continually updated weather or 
news
     headlines or "passive" with collections of links. Each user can 
publish channels they've created for other users to incorporate into 
their
     own Portal. Locally created channels (administrated by a 
web-based interface) are also available in standard RSS/RDF format for
     integration with any other RSS aware system (e.g. MyNetscape, 
MyUserland, etc.).

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