[Bioperl-l] introducing news.open-bio.org and new Bioperl news system

[Peter Masiar]

Quoting Chris Dagdigian <dag at sonsorol.org>:

> 
> Hi folks,
> 
> As the first step in figuring out what the heck we are going to do to 
> make our websites more up to date and useful we've rolled out a system 
> that allows anyone to add news items that will automatically get 
> published to multiple Open-Bio affiliated websites.
> 
> I think the new system is pretty cool; it is based off of standard 
> 'blog' software from www.movabletype.org and allows us to do things we 
> could not do before like:
> 
> o anyone can post news
> o news from all OBF projects is aggregated in a central place
> o we can feed customized news data directly into our standalone project 
> websites
> o we can view news from multiple projects and efforts in one page

There is another way to do it: use a wiki.
Twiki.org is a mature perl-based GPL wiki clone, and a year ago they added
RSS feeds, see http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Codev/TWikiSyndication
I am not an expert, RSS feeds might be something else. ;-)

But we use Twiki daily and it's easy to contribute and fix docs.

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Peter Masiar