[Imc-uk-network] RSS publishing gateway for IMC-UK

[maqui]

Hiya

Ben's proposal sounds interesting to me, but there is one key thing  
(imo) that needs some consensus i guess, which it is what are 'trusted  
sites', and how far do we go with pulling stuff from whom. I guess some  
sort of process hould be for this:

Any outside 'trusted' site to be included, should probably be proposed  
in the process list  or somewhere like that, and leave some time for  
people to decide .. or something like that anyway (sorry to be a bit  
vague here but i am on a rush)

Also a quick comment (maybe even clarification) to what Ben mentions:

>  I'm concerned with how we will deal with London splitting off from  
> the IMC
> UK Mir site

Yeah the new code London peeps are working on is technically speaking  
'splitting from the UK Mir site', but, as far as i know, there is no  
intention whatsoever for IMC London to split itself from the IMC-UK  
network. Although the new London IMC intends to be very locally  
focussed and more relevant to people living and struggling (in both  
senses :-) in London,  I'm sure that several london imcistas will be  
working on both sites regularly.

Ideally, at some point in the future, there will be a feeding system  
between different cms's that make content and database sharing simple  
or simpler.

Cheers
maqui




On Tuesday, June 24, 2008, at 12:42  pm, ben wrote:

> PROPOSAL - Implement an RSS to Newswire gateway that pulls content
> from trusted sites and creates a new article containing the full
> duplicated content.
>
> DEADLINE - Ideally this would be agreed and implemented before the
> climate camp so I suggest a deadline of two weeks (7th July)
>
> REASON - There are a number of reasons and this has been talked about
> before. My motivation here is the climate camp because it would be
> good to be able to syndicate bulletins from the climate camp website
> directly onto the newswire. Another motivation for me is that this
> RSS2Newswire gateway could make setting up mobile publishing
> facilities really easy.  Also, and probably more importantly, I'm
> concerned with how we will deal with London splitting off from the IMC
> UK Mir site and this gateway would provide a way to maintain identical
> content on both sites if that is what we choose to do. There has also
> been the long running issues of syndication other UK indymedia sites
> which do not run Mir and the number of such sites may well increase.
> Ultimately I think that is the concept of regional UK sites is to
> persist (and it seems that it will) then the IMC UK site should become
> a syndication site (like indymedia.us). Having this RSS2Newswire
> gateway would us to not simply list articles from such sites alongside
> the ones published directly to Mir but also fully integrate that
> content into the comments system, out going RSS feed production and
> searches, etc.
>
> IMPLEMENTATION - Apparently the facility already exists in Mir and is
> in use on biotech-imc. On biotech there are a list of trusted feeds in
> a producers.xml file and the content and meta data from any article
> coming in on those feeds is added to the database of the biotech site.
> (See the producer file here - towards the end
> http://www.codecoop.org/scm/viewvc.php/etc/producer/ 
> producers.xml?revision=1.7&root=imc-biotech&view=markup).
>
> MODERATION - Normal moderation would apply and the article type can be
> made different from those published via the publish form so that they
> can be easily identified. This is important because it will probably
> not be possible to automatically assign the correct topic or region
> classifications for articles published in this way. If necessary it
> would be possible to make content coming in via this route moderated
> prior to becoming visible but I can't foresee a reason why we would
> choose to do this be default.
>
>
> ben
>
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