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What is Scoop
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Scoop is a "collaborative media application". It falls somewhere between a
content management system, a web bulletin board system, and a weblog.
Scoop is designed to enable your website to become a community. It empowers
your visitors to be the producers of the site, contributing news and discussion,
and making sure that the signal remains high.
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Check out what other people have done with Scoop.
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New Scoop Sites
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rudepeople.com in need of a makeover
950 comments, 0 new
by rudedude, Announcements
New Music Site ... in Scoop
991 comments, 0 new
by MightyD, Announcements
Trees and Things is Coming Out
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by 3fingerspointback, Announcements
TalkLeft Moves to Scoop
636 comments, 0 new
by TalkLeft, Announcements
SciScoop Science Forum
518 comments, 0 new
by sciencebase, Announcements
New Site: "Field Gulls" Unofficial Seattle Seahawks Blog
514 comments, 0 new
by Paul Shrug, Announcements
More New Scoop Sites...
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Where can I get Scoop
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You can download the latest release tarball: scoop_1.1.8.tar.gz
You can grab the nightly build. Note: This is generated automatically from the current CVS, and may not be reliable! Get that here: scoop-1.1-nightly.tar.gz
The developers strongly recommend CVS as the primary way to obtain Scoop, since releases tend to have pretty long delays between them. If you have CVS installed, do the following:
cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@ scoop.versionhost.com:/cvs/scoop login
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@ scoop.versionhost.com:/cvs/scoop co scoop
The above is two commands; each one must be on a single line. When prompted for a password for anonymous, enter 'anonymous' (without the quotes). For more CVS info, "Open Source Development with CVS" is an excellent online reference.
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Where can I get help
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There are several sources of information and support for Scoop. The first place to look is the scoop-help mailing list. You can browse the archives, or join the list. If you want to post a question, joining the list is strongly recommended. You can also join the #scoop IRC channel on SlashNET.
For documentation, there is the (largely complete) Scoop administrator's guide. You can also read the current
README and
INSTALL files, from Scoop WebCVS (username and password are both "anonymous"). The admin guide is also included with Scoop, in the doc/ directory.
If you have new feature ideas or requests, or descriptions of something you're working on for Scoop, this site is the place to submit them. You can also search this site for information. If you want to get your hands dirty, or have any questions about developing for Scoop, there is also the Scoop-dev list. You can browse the archives, or join the list.
Bug reports and patches should be filed on the Scoop Bug Muncher.
If you have any problems with this site or your user account, e-mail the Admin
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RFC: Scoop Archiving
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By Captain_Tenille , Section Project []
Posted on Mon Sep 24, 2001 at 12:00:00 PM PST
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Here's my Request for Comment for archiving of older stories in Scoop. Please feel free to comment with suggestions, both for features you'd like to see implemented and ones you think should be removed from the plan. I haven't started coding yet, so this document is very flexible.
(101 comments, 542 words in story) Full Story >>
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ids.org.au and anime.org.au
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By semis , Section New Scoop Sites []
Posted on Sun Sep 23, 2001 at 12:00:00 PM PST
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These sites have been up for a while, but I thought I would add them to the list.
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RDF/RSS Syndication
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By jbond , Section New Scoop Sites []
Posted on Sat Sep 22, 2001 at 12:00:00 PM PST
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I've just scanned all the Scoop sites looking for RSS feeds for the syndic8 (http://www.syndic8.com) project. I was successful on 3 out of 21. Come on guys! RSS export is built into Scoop and yet none of you produce it or flag that you produce it on your home pages.
One problem here is that there is no standard for the file name. I was looking for /backend.rdf as that is what kuor5hin exports.
BTW. Kuro5hin's feed is not updating as often as it should either.
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Try before you buy...
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By The Trinidad Kid , Section News []
Posted on Fri Sep 21, 2001 at 12:00:00 PM PST
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How do you convert potential users (ie set-my-own-site-uppers) and developers of Scoop into actual ones?
Potential users don't know what Scoop can do until they install it themselves - although signing up to all the Yasses will give them some idea...
Potential developers are likely to be attracted by the internals of the system, how do they get access to them? by installing.
Both parties are especially interested in the admin functionality of the site, which they cannot see simply by being an end-user.
The way to reduce the barriers to someone becoming a user or developer? Easy, set up a 'try-before-you-buy' site with a public admin password that allows them to see the internals without having to go through the hassle of doing a full install.
Read on to see the cunning part...
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Scoop Developers Meeting Summary
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By hurstdog , Section News []
Posted on Thu Sep 20, 2001 at 12:00:00 PM PST
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Well we've gone and done it. We had a developers meeting last night, and this story will go over what we've got planned. Thanks to Driph for making a log of the meeting.
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Anarchy Online
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By Arkady , Section New Scoop Sites []
Posted on Mon Sep 17, 2001 at 12:00:00 PM PST
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I put up a new site this weekend called Anarchy Online, to be "A Journal of Anarchist Theory and Commentary". It is, as far as I know, the first Scoop site to run on multiple domain names properly, so I'll describe that here as well.
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XML taglib for database queries
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By sleeper22 , Section Code []
Posted on Mon Sep 17, 2001 at 12:00:00 PM PST
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In an effort to separate the task of the perl programmer and that
of other site authors such as graphic editors and UI specialists -- i.e. extract
the layout from the logic -- here's a box (i'm calling it dbquery) which allows
db queries to be put in xml-style markup.
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Polylinguality in Scoop: a label abstractor
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By sleeper22 , Section Code []
Posted on Sun Sep 16, 2001 at 12:00:00 PM PST
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Working towards extracting the english language from scoop, i've started implementing an abstracted labelling system. The interface labelling if functional, but i want to see if anyone has concerns or suggestions -- in the approach as well as the details.
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