- From: Dmitry Borodaenko <d.borodaenko@sam-solutions.net>
- Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 18:29:35 +0300
- To: public-rdf-ruby@w3.org
Samizdat 0.5.3, the Portal release ---------------------------------- Starting with this version, Samizdat can send out email: currently, it is used to recover lost passwords and to confirm that member email address is real. Email addresses are now unique, making it more difficult to cheat using throwaway accounts. Other changes include new dc:description message property for attaching article abstract, thumbnail image, or table of contents to a message, new preferences infrastructure allowing to add more server-side member settings in the future, and the inevitable database schema change. About Samizdat: Samizdat is a generic RDF-based engine for building collaboration and open publishing web sites. Samizdat will let users cooperate and coordinate on all kinds of activities, including media activism, resource sharing, education and research, advocacy, etc., by allowing everyone to publish, view, comment, edit, and aggregate text and multimedia resources, vote on ratings and classifications, filter resources by flexible sets of criteria (see design-goals.txt). Samizdat intends to promote values of freedom, openness, equality, and cooperation. What's new in Samizdat 0.5.3: - email interface: if configured properly, the engine will request confirmation for email address change or lost password recovery, using standard sendmail-like command-line interface to MTA; it does not yet support accepting confirmations or commands over email - descriptions: any kind of message can be attached to any other message via dc:description property, allowing to use article abstract, table of contents, or thumbnail image in place of full message in a message list; description content type doesn't have to match the main message, textual descriptions of RDF queries or images are also possible - usability improvements: link to settings for guest users, destination anchors for messages in a list, date of vote in a vote display More info: Home: http://www.nongnu.org/samizdat/ Download: http://docs.indymedia.org/twiki/pub/Devel/SamizdatEngine/samizdat-0.5.3.tar.gz Enjoy! -- Dmitry Borodaenko
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