[Imc-summaries] IMC-Tech Summary For July 17th 2001

[evan@protest.net]

Summary:
	Future Open Publishing Framework
	Wish list for imc-tech new development
	Climate IMC and the cities list
	More Upgrading to active 1.7.1 fun!
	User Authentication Ideas
	Pseudo anonyminity and apache
	IMC-Tech Needs New List Admin
	IMC-New Jersey Jumping The Gun



Future Open Publishing Framework
        Dru wrote an interesting article on open publishing
	frameworks which has generated discussion on webcoders.
	http://cat.org.au/lists/webcoders/msg02035.html


Wish list for imc-tech new development
	Alan is going to try and coordinate a wishlist
	from non-techies to on the direction of new indymedia
	tech developments. 
	http://cat.org.au/lists/webcoders/msg02020.html


Climate IMC and the cities list
	Ok, let's repeat this again, imc-tech does NOT
	make decisions about what sites are listed in the
	cities list for indymedia sites. The Climate IMC
	is getting ready to cover the latest round of climate
	change talks in Bonn this week. Maybe www-features
	needs to discuss this. 
	http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/public/imc-tech/2001-July/004590.html


More Upgrading to active 1.7.1 fun!
        Kevin's still pushing ahead on upgrading sites to 
	active 1.7.1. Sites which need to be upgraded:
	*Barcelona, *Boston, Cleveland, Colombia, Congo, France,
	Hudson-Mohawk, *India, *Italy, Japan, *Mayday (global),
	*Melbourne, *Mexico, *Montreal, *New Jersey, *Portland,
	Print Team, *Radio Team, Richmond, *Seattle, *Sweden
	Switzerland, *Tech Team, UK, *Vermont, *Washington DC
	--------
	* indicates an easy upgrade from 1.7.0
	http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/public/imc-tech/2001-July/004588.html


User Authentication Ideas
        Kellan, Kev, and Andy have been discussing various
	system's for doing user authentication in php so that
	in the future we'd be able to let users login.
	http://cat.org.au/lists/webcoders/msg02043.html


Pseudo anonyminity and apache
        Micah and Beau Hargis discussed ways to track the 
	number of visitors without tracking those nasty ip
	addresses that seem to interest the fbi so much.
	http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/public/imc-tech/2001-July/004605.html


IMC-Tech Needs New List Admin
	Arthur doesn't want to be the imc-tech list
	admin. Somebody needs to take that over.
	http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/public/imc-tech/2001-July/004562.html


IMC-New Jersey Jumping The Gun...
	Just to update folks, imc's need to go through the
	new-imc process before they can be added to the cities
	list.
	http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/public/imc-tech/2001-July/004570.html


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