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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
743 comments, 0 new
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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Intro To Scoop Development
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By hurstdog , Section Help! []
Posted on Wed Aug 22, 2001 at 12:00:00 PM PST
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Every so often I get an email or talk to someone who says they want
to help out with scoop but don't know where to start. Or that they
know a little bit of perl, but not enough to help out with something
like Scoop. This article aims to cover the basics necessary for you
to know to help out with Scoop. It won't cover everything about
Scoop, nor will it cover many details, but it will cover *just*
enough to get you hacking.
(650 comments, 2097 words in story) Full Story >>
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Admin Logging
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By DJBongHit , Section Wishlist []
Posted on Tue Aug 21, 2001 at 12:00:00 PM PST
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When I moved Smokedot over to Scoop, I decided to stay with the closed-queue style rather than a k5-style open queue. Unlike Slashdot, though, I decided to give a whole pile of people editor accounts to provide a more balanced selection of stories being posted. The problem that this caused was that I can't tell who is doing what. So a feature I'd like to see in Scoop is a logging mechanism which logs all actions done by editors and admins (stories posted, stories deleted, comments deleted, stories edited, etc...) and a nice web interface to view this through (and, I suppose, a permission to set who can view it). I'd be happy to write this feature, but before I go out and do it I'd like to hear what you guys think.
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free2air.org
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By vortex , Section New Scoop Sites []
Posted on Thu Aug 16, 2001 at 12:00:00 PM PST
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Open Distributed Wireless Public Access Networks have been scoop'ed on free2air.org
Open Access Point Diaries, FAQs, general info and development & much more ...
shine,
.vortex
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File Uploads Through Scoop
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By johncoswell , Section Code []
Posted on Tue Aug 14, 2001 at 12:00:00 PM PST
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Is there a way to accept file uploads through the CGI interface in Scoop? I can get it to work through an external script that is called from a Box on a page, plugging the user's nickname into the form, but I would like to put the upload code into a Box on the page and then just parse the CGI input, so I can use the Scoop user database to make sure the uploader is who they really are.
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Scoop 0.8 Released
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By panner , Section Project []
Posted on Mon Aug 06, 2001 at 12:00:00 PM PST
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Scoop 0.8 is (finally :) out, with tarballs available on Sourceforge
as both .gz and .bz2 files. It's been about four months since Scoop 0.6 was
released, and this release includes many new features, bug fixes, and docs. For
anyone that cares, Scoop 0.8 is available under the scoop-0_8-stable
branch, while development will continue in the main trunk. The changelog for
0.8 is below.
Update [2001-8-15 21:13:55 by rusty]: It should be known that panner and hurstdog share the vast majority of the credit for this release. They've really taken over the running of the project, and panner especially got the last few bugs fixed and did all the releasing for 0.8. So when you thank someone for this sucker, thank them! :-)
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Top Hotlisted Box
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By panner , Section Code []
Posted on Tue Jul 31, 2001 at 12:00:00 PM PST
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Recently, on k5 there was a discussion
about disabling the Anonymous Hero. That story brought up several threads about
the advantages and disadvantags of doing so. This, however, has nothing to do
with that.
Instead, it relates to a specifc thread, in which ramses0 brought up his idea for
a top hotlisted box. Not wanting to let an opportunity for a perfectly good box
slip by, I managed to write one in about 15 minutes. The entire thing in (from
what I can tell) working form is below. Just goes to show the power of boxes in Scoop :)
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install scoop without root
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By Andrew Dvorak , Section Wishlist []
Posted on Mon Jul 30, 2001 at 12:00:00 PM PST
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I thought I read a story about this somewhere but I couldn't find it.
I would like to be able to run scoop without access to httpd.conf. Is there a solution that allows me to do this? If not, an interface through a perl script may be useful.
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More ways of sorting the comments
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By janra , Section Wishlist []
Posted on Thu Jul 19, 2001 at 12:00:00 PM PST
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I would like to suggest two more ways to have the comments sorted: a variation on 'highest rated first' and a variation on 'newest first'.
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