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

[Chris Dagdigian]

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

The O|B|F core news server is at:
http://news.open-bio.org

A "bioperl centric" news page lives at: 
http://news.open-bio.org/bioperl_news.html

The last 15 'bioperl' news entries are automatically inserted into the 
front page of our bioperl website at http://bioperl.org/ every 15 minutes.


This is what I need from people on this list:

o General feedback on the new site and news system

o BioPerl members who volunteer to post news and manage the 'bioperl' 
news category. You need to contact me or 'root-l at open-bio.org' to get a 
user account on the new system.

Please let me know what you think. This whole system is pointless if 
nobody makes use of it and Hilmar, Jason, BrianO and I are the only ones 
entering news items!

Regards,
Chris



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