[olpc-help] Forum news: RSS feeds

Sat Feb 16 01:02:06 EST 2008

I clicked on your link for the rss and Opera automatically added it to my  
newsfeeds.  Couldn't have been easier.

Thanks so much,
Laurie

On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 11:49:00 -0500, Michael Burns <maburns at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> 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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