ActionApps 2.8.1 released. ActionApps is a set of collaborative web publishing tools for NGOs. APC ActionApps offer a low cost solution for content sharing that both increases the functionality of not-for-profit and NGO websites and facilitates the creation of portals sites, improving the visibility of civil society information. They are driven by free/open source software (FOSS).
You can download it from sourceforge http://sourceforge.net/projects/apc-aa/ or use CVS access http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=6341 For an upgrade, please run the sql_update.php3 script, which upgrades database to latest version.
There is long list of new features. Most important changes are listed down in this e-mail. For full list of changes please take a look at http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/apc-aa/apc-aa/CHANGES?view=markup
More about actionapps at http://www.apc.org/english/press/primers
See how ActionApps can help your group publish better and faster online. Learn about, or join, the free software project behind ActionApps. http://www.apc.org/actionapps/index.htm
For a FAQ on ActionApps see http://actionapps.org/faq/ Here you will find the most extensive collection of articles to answer all your questions about APC Action Apps: a powerful object oriented content management system design specifically for progressive organizations. These articles cover everything from basic introductions to scripting references to in-depth system administration and programmer's notes.
Here is an Open Congress that "aims to explore how FLOSS inspired practices challenge the ruling paradigms of production and knowledge"
See http://opencongress.omweb.org/modules/wakka/HomePage
We are a group of artists, researchers and academics -some of whom are based at Chelsea College of Art and Design- who are working towards.............
an OpenCongress that seeks to understand how methodologies derived from Free/Libre and Open Source Software [FLOSS] production can be deployed by those working in the area of art, visual culture and cultural production in general
The OpenCongress aims to explore how FLOSS inspired practices challenge the ruling paradigms of production and knowledge; particularly conventional practices of authorship, ownership and distribution.
We aim to address these questions through an innovative form of ‘congress’ - which will itself will be ‘open source’ in its form and structure...........