Forum OpenACS Q&A: OpenACS, Rock solid applications that rocks!

We are pleased to announce free trial OpenACS & .LRN accounts.
http://www.oacsrocks.org

Just register and you'll have web and ssh access to your own installation at:
youselecteduser.oacsrocks.org

We hope newbies, casual visitors and anybody else find it useful for their own purposes.

greetings

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Posted by Robert Taylor on
this is truly great! nice work!

oh by the way, i have a comment for you ... great theme. you won't believe this, but did you know i was working on a mockup that was VERY VERY SIMILAR for oacs?

jesus thats about as close as you can get ... the grey gradient, orange crystal graphics, lots of colour, simple layout. thats very close to how i envisioned the new theme.

damn, very nice work.

let me ask you this, what is the purpose of this site? how does it work with oacs overall? i would love to have something like this with a generic oacs install as well available for live testing for users.

thoughts?

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Posted by Arthur Pinkerton on
Thanks for the site.

Great work, nice templating too.

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Posted by Brian Fenton on
Hi, it looks great but when I tried to register I got this error on http://www.oacsrocks.org/register/user-new page:

Set up your account
Error in include template "/oacsusers/oacsrocks/packages/acs-subsite/lib/user-new": Transaction aborted: Password is ommited Usage: usercreate child process exited abnormally

looking forward to seeing it!
Brian

Hello Brian,
This is a Beta version, so thank you for you comments and it seems that there were some characters on the password that cause the problem. Please try again with a simple password (if that is the case) and let us know if you run into problems. Any feedback is welcome.

greetings

Vivian

Hi Robert,

The purpose is to allow anyone possibly interested on openacs & .LRN to actually try it at the application level (functionalities), but also at the technical level through ssh access, so you can hack it, stuff like that. Also, we would like to see it as another possible entry to the OpenACS world, where we focus more on the people who might be interested on it.

Next steps is to provide custom installations (.LRN, plain oacs, project-manager, etc.).

BTW, if you wanna use the template, just grab it.
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Posted by Jun Yamog on
Great work and idea Roc. Hopefully this will pickup some new users and developers.
That's the idea, so spread the site!
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Posted by Mark Aufflick on
Fantastic!

Small notes, on the "Set up your account" page, the "note:..." above the form is so small it's illegible (in firefox anyway), and there's a typo with "Adress" instead of "Address".

I then got two emails - one for my account on the main site (normal oacs activation email) and one for the new site (pump.oacsrocks.org), but neither worked!

I'll try again in the morning.

thx for the feedback!
http://pump.oacsrocks.org is working, I have someone fixing email issues....