Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 11:26:30 -0800 (PST)
From: Aaron Turner <aturner@linuxkb.org>
To: letters@lwn.net, Linux Knowledge Base Discuss <linuxkb-discuss@seul.org>
Subject: Linux Knowledge Base Org. Weekly News #5


The big news for this week is that thanks to a generous offer by Mandrake,
we're going to Linux World February 2nd thru the 4th.  So be sure to stop
on by the Mandrake booth, check out the site, and talk to Daniel, Jason,
and me!  We'll be not only showing off the Linux KB, but talking about the
SEUL Project as well.

This week a lot has been going on, so I'll only touch on the highlights:

- The east coast developers had their first of many Linux KB Developer
Conference's over the weekend.  While Jason took a lot of time teaching
the other developers how to use the PHP objects in their code, they also
spent time discussing page design enhancements and overall site design
flow.  In the future, we plan on having a video conference link between
the two coasts so more developers can attend.

- Jason commited to CVS the final updates to the PHP objects which the
entire site uses.  Jason also did another DB schema update to support a
new table to maintain security permissions for users. 

- Aaron committed about 600 lines of commented code for the new
article/category management system.

- Aaron released a new developer workstation image to take advantage of
Jason's new site security system, replacing mod_perl with PHP for site
authentication.

- Daniel continued his work on the article submission
forms.  Sounds like he's making great progress and that everything should
be in place in time for our Feb. 1st go-live. 

- Wade continues to be our primary voice on the newly formed Open Document
Environment (ODE) list.  Everyone here is really excited about the
potential of this group. 

As always, you can read this an other news items on our web site at:
http://www.linuxkb.org/news/

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Aaron Turner, Core Developer       http://vodka.linuxkb.org/~aturner/
Linux Knowledge Base Organization  http://linuxkb.org/
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