http://openacs.org/news/ OpenACS News OpenACS 5.0 Fri, 02 May 2008 22:40:03 GMT http://openacs.org/rss-support/images/openacs_logo_rss.gif http://openacs.org/news/ 126 48 http://openacs.org/news/item?item%5fid=1515810 http://openacs.org/news/item?item%5fid=1515810 Please download and test [1] the tarball. PLEASE. I want to put an end to the trainwreck that has been the OpenACS 5.4.* series of releases thus far, and testing BEFORE a final release is made can help that process tremendously. 1. lazy caching of site nodes has been revoked (too many bugs), hopefully a robust solution will be implemented for 5.5. 2. significant problems with acs-lang 3. search was broken for oracle. Thanks for those who pitched in and helped (too many for me to try to name, I'll forget someone if I do). [1] http://openacs.org/projects/openacs/download/one-revision?revision_id=1515804 Fri, 02 May 2008 22:40:03 GMT http://openacs.org/news/item?item%5fid=1488238 http://openacs.org/news/item?item%5fid=1488238 Download is available here [1]. [1] http://openacs.org/projects/openacs/download/one-revision?revision_id=1487744 Mon, 07 Apr 2008 14:36:03 GMT http://openacs.org/news/item?item%5fid=1483230 http://openacs.org/news/item?item%5fid=1483230 Translation Server has been upgraded to OpenACS 5.4.1b1 and .LRN 2.4.0a1. See the details in this forum: http://openacs.org/forums/message-view?message_id=1483224 Thu, 03 Apr 2008 05:38:17 GMT http://openacs.org/news/item?item%5fid=1474783 http://openacs.org/news/item?item%5fid=1474783 You can download it here [1]. This release consists mostly of minor bug fixes (the final release will, as usual, include a change log), and will be the core release that dotlrn 2.4.0 is built upon, so please test! [1] http://openacs.org/projects/openacs/download/one-revision?revision_id=1474805 Sun, 23 Mar 2008 01:58:49 GMT http://openacs.org/news/item?item%5fid=1473612 http://openacs.org/news/item?item%5fid=1473612 Congratulations to the following persons, they were elected to serve on the OCT: * Dave Bauer * Don Baccus * Victor Guerra * Stefan Sobernig * Avni Khatri Find the details here: http://openacs.org/forums/message-view?message%5fid=1473610 Fri, 21 Mar 2008 00:31:27 GMT http://openacs.org/news/item?item%5fid=1473186 http://openacs.org/news/item?item%5fid=1473186 The Tcl/Tk application was accepted to Google Summer of Code 2008. If you have any .LRN/OpenACS projects that you think would work well as part of GSoC, please post them to http://wiki.tcl.tk/20832 See http://openacs.org/forums/message-view?message_id=1471231 Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:52:02 GMT http://openacs.org/news/item?item%5fid=1460647 http://openacs.org/news/item?item%5fid=1460647 The Voting process for the Spring 2008 OCT Election is about to start. The URL for the Election is: http://www.openacs.org/oct-election/election?election%5fid=7 Voting starts Sat 8 March, 2008 04:00 PM US/Pacific and ends Thu 20 March, 2008 03:00 PM US/Pacific. More information here: http://openacs.org/forums/message-view?message_id=1460636 Sat, 08 Mar 2008 17:30:39 GMT http://openacs.org/news/item?item%5fid=1453286 http://openacs.org/news/item?item%5fid=1453286 Nominations are now open for the Spring 2008 OCT Election. More information: http://openacs.org/forums/message-view?message_id=1453267 Tue, 26 Feb 2008 18:17:02 GMT http://openacs.org/news/item?item%5fid=1443401 http://openacs.org/news/item?item%5fid=1443401 OpenACS 5.4.0 has been released. [1] Features include a new API for the setting of HEAD and BODY attributes in the master template and non-admin pages in core now validate as HTML strict, acs-mail-lite has been improved, as has been the search results page. See the release notes for details. [1] http://openacs.org/projects/openacs/download/one-revision?revision_id=1443117 Thu, 07 Feb 2008 13:18:40 GMT http://openacs.org/news/item?item%5fid=1442666 http://openacs.org/news/item?item%5fid=1442666 The most powerful PG release so far has arrived. Check the feature list: http://www.postgresql.org/about/press/features83.html And the release notes: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/release-8-3.html For curiosity from the release notes: # Concurrent large sequential scans can now share disk reads (Jeff Davis) This is accomplished by starting the new sequential scan in the middle of the table (where another sequential scan is already in-progress) and wrapping around to the beginning to finish. This can affect the order of returned rows in a query that does not specify ORDER BY. The synchronize_seqscans configuration parameter can be used to disable this if necessary. Tue, 05 Feb 2008 13:38:47 GMT http://openacs.org/news/item?item%5fid=1406164 http://openacs.org/news/item?item%5fid=1406164 Hello All! The program for the conference is available at the conference web page: http://ges.galileo.edu/conf2008/feb2008 (still small changes might happen) Please register if you haven't already, so you help us to finalize the organization details. Register at: http://ges.galileo.edu/conf2008/page-instance-new?conference_id=1 p.d. We suggest you to stay in Guatemala city for the 12th-13th conference days, and depart to Antigua in the evening on the 13th, meaning you will stay in Antigua at least the 13th to 15th nights (shuttle bus will be arranged for those that register online). Fri, 25 Jan 2008 16:44:41 GMT http://openacs.org/news/item?item%5fid=1170194 http://openacs.org/news/item?item%5fid=1170194 Download it NOW! [1] Note: there was a problem with assessment in the tarball uploaded earlier in the week. It has been fixed. A problem was found in dotlrn/admin/users page and that has also been fixed in the latest tarball linked above. [1] http://openacs.org/projects/dotlrn/download/download/dotlrn-2.3.1.tgz?revision_id=1197487 Wed, 26 Sep 2007 02:15:12 GMT http://openacs.org/news/item?item%5fid=1166494 http://openacs.org/news/item?item%5fid=1166494 After a long time using only the honor system, openacs.org has been forced to turn on email confirmations for new registrations. This means new registrations will get an email where they must click a link to confirm they are a real person. Over the last few months spam accounts have been created to enter postings into forums and even bugtracker and this is the simplest solution to combat this problem. Wed, 05 Sep 2007 20:43:57 GMT http://openacs.org/news/item?item%5fid=1166395 http://openacs.org/news/item?item%5fid=1166395 Download [1] the tarball and have at it! Barring unforseen problems, we expect this to be a very short beta, with the final release being built this coming Sunday (this release contains relatively few changes). [1] http://openacs.org/projects/dotlrn/download/one-revision?revision_id=1166343 Wed, 05 Sep 2007 19:26:45 GMT http://openacs.org/news/item?item%5fid=1166103 http://openacs.org/news/item?item%5fid=1166103 The next .LRN and OpenACS conference will be hosted in Guatemala by the Galileo University, from February 12th - 16th, 2008. The conference is the 6th of a series which focuses 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 conference offers multiple activities for users and developers of the framework as well as for people interested in the mentioned topics in general. It is as well an opportunity to present and discuss you own work with the core developers and influence the development of the framework. Also will be an e-learning conference, for the 2nd. International Conference organized by Galileo University, for this specific day we expect about 150 participants. The detailed information about the conference and the submission details is in: http://ges.galileo.edu/conf2008/feb2008 (the page will be updated periodically as the rest of information is available) The conference will take place in two locations, first in Guatemala city at the Galileo University facilities (tutorials & e-learning conference), and for the .LRN / OpenACS days in the beautiful Antigua Guatemala city (40 mins distance). Please, pre-register at the conference site to help us planning and to meet your interests as good as possible. Tue, 04 Sep 2007 17:27:22 GMT