[olpc-help] Forum news: RSS feeds

Fri Feb 15 11:49:00 EST 2008

On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 9:21 PM, Laurie DeMott <demotlj at alfred.edu> wrote:

> I went to the forum site but cannot find a place to sign up for an RSS.  I
> haven't yet registered with the site and am viewing it just as a guest and
> I'm wondering if that is the problem but before I registered, I thought I
> would ask if that's the case.  (I try not to sign on to many of those
> types of things to reduce my spam intake.)
>

Guests can view all forums, so the RSS feed will work for you, it just isn't
as prominent as it should. Kind of testing the waters, if you will. Links:

RSS: http://en.forum.laptop.org/syndication.php?type=rss

Alternatively, you can use the Atom link, which is an equivalent protocol,
more or less. Six of one, half a dozen of the other.

Atom: http://en.forum.laptop.org/syndication.php?type=atom

Either should work for you equally well. At the moment, it looks like the
feed is site-wide only. Going to make it per-forum, -category and -thread
this weekend.

> Laurie DeMott
>
> On Sun, 10 Feb 2008 21:18:09 -0500, Michael Burns <maburns at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > All,
> >
> > For those that wanted to follow along with the forum with RSS, you're in
> > luck. RSS and Atom feeds are now provided for the whole site and per
> > category, forum and thread. A bulk of posts go to the General Quesitons
> > forum[1] of course, and I encourage you to help answer questions that
> you
> > see come up.
> >
> > Go check out the forum:
> > http://en.forum.laptop.org/<http://forum.laptop.org/>
> >
> > [1] http://en.forum.laptop.org/viewforum.php?f=2
> >
> > <geek talk>
> > I've done something I maybe should have started with: I went ahead and
> > checked in the website to Git, the version control software that track
> > changes in many of OLPC's projects. This will let volunteers provide
> > "patches" to install a mod they would like to see on the site. Applying
> > phpBB's security updates will be done in 1 place, and all OLPC forums
> can
> > update at once (the English forum, any future language forums along and
> > even
> > the test server we run)
> >
> > Oh, and we're putting mod_security and hardened-php on the forum server,
> > as
> > extra layers of security. This will not change anything for the user, it
> > is
> > some of the behind the scenes precautions we're taking for the site.
> > </geek talk>
> >
>
>
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Michael Burns * Student
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