WALHI is the Indonesian Forum for Environment. Their CMS implementation will be modelled after the Midgard solution deployed by The Wilderness Society Australia.It is very nice to see NGOs deploy Open Source CMSs, or more specifically Midgard. These organizations have much to gain from efficient communications, and Open Source is the cost efficient way to accomplish that. Open Source is...
One often forgotten aspect in OSCOM is that involvement in the process forces CMSs to evolve through a set of positive challenges.For example, the Midgard RSS aggregator used to suck until there was proposal that Planet OSCOM could be implemented with another solution. This lead me to improve the aggregator to a level where it works acceptably well.From #oscom:daveb: darn!...
The idea with collegiality is that badmouthing and competing in cut-throat fashion is not productive. What the competing systems should do instead is evaluate each others' strenghts and weaknesses objectively and embrace common protocols and standards for interoperability.This interoperability would enable users to build their own "Frankenstein CMS" by selecting best building blocks from different Open Source CMSs, or to...
The BBC article mostly concentrates on the British historical aspects of the island.
The form styling templates provided in the tutorial utilize two HTML form-specific elements for defining the structure of the form: label and fieldset.
MidCOM has been upgraded to the latest 1.3.0 releaseAegir has been upgraded to latest 1.0.3 nightlyRemoved unnecessary buttons from the "Edit this page" editor and added button for inserting imagesHTML <title />s on both OSCOM and Kupu front pages are now more descriptive, as supported by midcom-templateCSS has been fixed to show correct font size for tables also on IEPlanet...
Before Henry Ford unleashed the practice of mass production on the world, every little town had a few dozen artisans who made the lives of citizens easier. A cobbler made the shoes, a tailor sewed suits and a carpenter built furniture. Mass production sounded the death knell for many specialist craft jobs, and the rise of computerised supply chains finished...
As an analogy, the news reader acts like a customizable newspaper. You can pull a variety of content from a growing number of sources into one place, to be read however you choose. Sources like major news media outlets (BBC, Reuters, Washington Post) to non-news content providers (Apples iTunes Music Store, the Government of Canada, USGS World Earthquake updates) to...
Before everyone had cell phones we would always schedule meetings to some easy-to-access place, like the railway station. But now it is so easy to arrange meetings on the fly, and so nobody plans them ahead. However, without mobile phone this is impossible.What makes the situation increasingly funny is that the customer service lines of this telco are blocked in...
I almost got my hands on something I'm familiar with, PHP-code. Bergie had a meeting and I was doing some debugging and fixing with Kaukola though I learned that it's not something to tell to a customer. The correct word was deploying or something...