From pabs at cat.org.au  Thu Aug  5 07:13:37 2004
From: pabs at cat.org.au (Pabs)
Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2004 15:13:37 +0800
Subject: [Oceania-tech] oceania newsreal site
Message-ID: <4111DE21.3010403@cat.org.au>

Hi ppl,

With some tricky code I would be stealing from the chat.indy site, we 
can make the newsreal page on the oceania site a wiki page that people 
can update, and every so often it is transferred to the oceania site. 
The advantage of this is that we have:
1. Access control - twiki pages can be locked so only certain 
users/groups can edit them
2. Accountability - all changes are logged with usernames
3. Revertability - we can easily revert those changes

Do people think this is a good idea?

If so, can someone create a page ImcOceaniaNewsrealSite or something 
like that and put some stuff in it ?

Also, can some local techs tell us what their video feed urls are, so we 
can get some kind of video syndication going? - we will probably just 
dump all the urls in with the ngvision feed - not many vids are being 
uploaded at the moment.

Currently, i see there are the following urls on the wiki, but none of 
them will work (melb/qc are not rss and stallman is no longer online):
melb:http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/xml.php?medium=video
qc:http://quezon.buffaloimc.org/news/xml.php?medium=video
sydney:http://stallman.indymedia.org:8080/mayday/syndication/sydney-video.xml

Once some of these things are done, it would be nice to get oceania 
sites to put the newsreal logo that and_ did onto their sidebars.

-- 
Bye,
Pabs


From brain_fear at riseup.net  Thu Aug  5 22:17:09 2004
From: brain_fear at riseup.net (Gavin Norman)
Date: Thu,  5 Aug 2004 15:17:09 -0700
Subject: [Oceania-tech] Melbourne Video Feed
Message-ID: <1091744229.4112b1e505f32@mail.riseup.net>

The Melbourne video feed has been fixed.
- Gavin


From pabs at cat.org.au  Sat Aug 21 09:36:23 2004
From: pabs at cat.org.au (Pabs)
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2004 17:36:23 +0800
Subject: [Oceania-tech] Re: [Imc-oceania] RSS feed is broke on oceania imc
In-Reply-To: <BAY18-F42tw9cwQUeC100072aca@hotmail.com>
References: <BAY18-F42tw9cwQUeC100072aca@hotmail.com>
Message-ID: <1093080984.5687.16.camel@localhost>

On Fri, 2004-08-20 at 01:21 +0000, Warwick Boote wrote:
> URL : http://oceania.indymedia.org/oceania-long.1-0.rss
> It looks to me that the & isn't being escaped to a &amp;
> (Hiya Pabs if that's you)

Fixed. imc_agg sux. perl sux. humans suck. If anyone wants to play with
either planetplanet or wirefetch, please do so. I can even zip up all
the existing templates if someone will take this on.

-- 
Bye,
Pabs
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From pabs at cat.org.au  Mon Aug 30 11:29:36 2004
From: pabs at cat.org.au (Pabs)
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 19:29:36 +0800
Subject: [Oceania-tech] Re: [Imc-oceania] RSS feed is broke on oceania imc
In-Reply-To: <BAY18-F174TBU25JJzx0003db06@hotmail.com>
References: <BAY18-F174TBU25JJzx0003db06@hotmail.com>
Message-ID: <1093865377.4976.13.camel@localhost>

On Sun, 2004-08-29 at 23:52 +0000, Warwick Boote wrote:
> broken again:
> An error occured.
> Error message: The file is not a valid XML document!
> Error source: Error on line 59: The element type "br" must be terminated by 
> the matching end-tag "</br>".
> I'm pretty sure the <br>  should be a <br />

I'm really sick to death of imc_agg and I really don't want to continue
fixing all its many many problems[1]. I would like to offload the
maintainence work to either someone other than me (warwick??), or to
some other program that doesn't have as many of these problems. I don't
have time for migrating to something else (shayne??), but I'd suggest
planetplanet[2], since it has a forgiving feed parser, and is used on a
_bunch_ of foss/geek sites, and will have less bugs as a result, and the
authors will be used to being hassled to fix bugs etc. Its written in
python, which is easy to modify in any case.

1. I will fix the problem with nz and images once i figure out a better
regex to strip initial <p> tags.
2. http://www.planetplanet.org

-- 
Bye,
Pabs
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