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Hello fellow libre graphics people,<br>
<br>
First, an update to an earlier post about a blog I'd started at <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://postsoftware.wordpress.com/">http://postsoftware.wordpress.com/</a>,
and have come to and end last month. I have added 22 original
paintings, all licensed under an Attribution-ShareAlike, and
available to download and print, and reuse, worldwide. One painting
is 60" x 72" which took 12 hours to scan with an 8.5x11 flatbed, and
Gimp to stitch the 60 plus pieces together, overheating my computer
multiple times, thanks to cpulimit for preventing that on subsequent
tries. You can view all the works at <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://postsoftware.wordpress.com/downloads/">http://postsoftware.wordpress.com/downloads/</a>
<br>
<br>
Second, I've been working on a free software "social media". Many
people have similar concerns have started other projects such as;
Freedom Box ( <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://freedomboxfoundation.org/">http://freedomboxfoundation.org/</a>
), StatusNet ( <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://status.net/">http://status.net/</a> ), Diaspora ( <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://joindiaspora.com/">https://joindiaspora.com/</a>
), and Libre.fm ( <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://libre.fm/">http://libre.fm/</a> ). <br>
<br>
The goal is to start with the success of WordPress, and writing a
plugin to take into consideration the "other" use-case of
"consuming", reading, and ultimately publishing, and redistribution.<br>
<br>
I'm really excited to announce this, especially to this list because
of its graphic potential.<br>
<br>
AWE, networked media for WordPress. It is designed to be a feed
reader with a new post type for posts read from external blogs that
you subscribe to. These posts are held in a pending area to be used
just as a feed reader, with the added ability to "approve" the post
and redistributing it on your site. These posts are "half a post";
they will not be indexed by external search engines that have robot
spiders that crawl the web, and the permalink goes to the original
source and is not accessible via a permalink on your own website. <br>
<br>
Demo and video screencast: <a
href="http://braydon.com/2011/11/awe-0-1-2/">http://braydon.com/2011/11/awe-0-1-2/</a>
<p>Download and project page: <a
href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/awe/">http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/awe/</a></p>
<p>Discussion mailing-list: Send an email with the subject
"subscribe" to <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:awe-request@freelists.org">awe-request@freelists.org</a>
/ <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.freelists.org/list/awe">http://www.freelists.org/list/awe</a></p>
<p>Project/Git:<span style="text-decoration: underline;"> </span><a
href="http://code.braydon.com/p/awe/"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">http://code.braydon.com/p/awe/</a></p>
<p>SVN: <a href="http://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/awe/trunk/"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">http://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/awe/trunk/</a></p>
<p>Here are the development phases currently planned:</p>
<p>1. URLS, Templates, Reader:</p>
<ul>
<li>COMPLETED / Editing URLS</li>
<li>COMPLETED / Managing Menus</li>
<li>COMPLETED / Editing Templates</li>
<li>COMPLETED / Feed reader</li>
</ul>
<p>2. Accessibility & Search Engines:</p>
<ul>
<li>COMPLETED / Dealing with having two types of posts "remote"
and "local". "Remote" posts should not be indexed by search
engines, and should only account as a referrer link, and
emphasizing returning to the original source. There should be
options for full display, or excerpt only.</li>
<li>Sitemap and site indexes, robots.txt to emphasis what is to be
indexed by search engines.</li>
<li>COMPLETED / Participation upon reposting, each imported post
will need to be published, so that there is a level of human
participation necessary and isn't totally automated, and easily
abused.</li>
<li>Make it easy to annotate the post with a personalized note.</li>
<li>Posts as reply to another post, to supplement loss of comments
between mirrored posts, emphasis trackbacks in a clean format to
follow discussion.</li>
</ul>
<p>3. Extensibility, Security, Authentication, Privacy:</p>
<ul>
<li>Front-end interface is extensible with an API.</li>
<li>To introduce private posting via confirmed subscriptions.</li>
<li>OpenID for network to network authentication and privacy.</li>
</ul>
<p>4. Plugins:</p>
<ul>
<li>Write extensions for AWE to add new post types including:
advertising, video, sound, gallery, events, and shop.</li>
</ul>
<p>5. Web Service:</p>
<ul>
<li>Dedicated web host for users that don't want to run it on
their own hardware.</li>
<li>Sign-up and payment settings.</li>
</ul>
We're looking for people to help and support the project. Please
join our mailing list! Send an email with the subject "subscribe"
to <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:awe-request@freelists.org">awe-request@freelists.org</a>
/ <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.freelists.org/list/awe">http://www.freelists.org/list/awe</a><br>
<br>
Best,<br>
Braydon<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://braydon.com">http://braydon.com</a><br>
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