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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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Shibboleth Enable?
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By lobatt , Section Wishlist []
Posted on Mon Dec 29, 2008 at 09:04:53 AM PST
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since openid been mentioned, scoop can be shibbolized for single sign-on
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OpenID!
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By freyley , Section Wishlist []
Posted on Sat May 27, 2006 at 12:00:00 PM PST
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Scoop should be an OpenID client and server. OpenID is a distributed authentication system that allows people to have a login at one site and use that as a login at another. This would allow scoop sites to be the "main site" for users, as well as visiting users to login without making a whole new account. Fewer passwords, things like that.
The libraries exist at OpenID Enabled and it probably wouldn't be too hard. I'm unfamiliar with either the code or the territory: anyone have suggestions for how to get this discussed and/or written?
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Caching index pages
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By QuickFox , Section Wishlist []
Posted on Sat May 07, 2005 at 12:00:00 PM PST
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It seems only story pages are cached, not index pages, according to the Scoop Administrators Guide on Page Caching.
Why is this? Is it because it's difficult to keep track of changes and know when the cache copy is old?
If that's the reason, a very simple solution would be to have index-page caching where refreshing is not based on changes, instead the cache copies are very short-lived. A cache copy could be considered unusable if it's older than 15 seconds (admin adjustable).
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Changing the RDF Format
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By amboy00 , Section Wishlist []
Posted on Wed Mar 02, 2005 at 12:00:00 PM PST
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Blog syndication taking off with new apps like NetNewsWire and websites like my.Yahoo and LiveJournal. Most blogs offer some sort of RSS feed for their site.
Blogger.com, with its whatever.blogspot.com gives the option of publishing ones blog in either RSS or ATOM formats. Most of the feeds available now include the HTML from the story. Tags like IMG or UL are a part of the story.
RDF (or at least the settings on my site) done publish any html tags in the story. What I end up with on my RDF file is a very long, run on paragraph with no formatting. That doesn't make for easy reading.
I'd like to write a cron that publishes my RDF file how I would like it to appear, but I dont see anything like that available in my controls. I can write a "box" to do that, but how do I write that to a file and how do I set that up in the CRON list?
I'm hosted with an ISP for my Scoop site so I dont have my own server to tinker with either.
Any suggestions?
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Collaborative Media Scoop
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By kpaul , Section Wishlist []
Posted on Fri Feb 18, 2005 at 12:00:00 PM PST
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A true CMS. ;)
Seriously, though, I was thinking it would be cool to be able to have stories with multiple authors in Scoop. I'm not too familiar with the inner working of Wiki stuff, but I'm sure a lot can be taken from that stretch of code.
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Allow users to display all/best/none stories of each section
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By caseyscrib , Section Wishlist []
Posted on Sat Jan 29, 2005 at 12:00:00 PM PST
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I would like to be able to allow users to display only sections that are relevant/important to them. In their preferences, next to each section they would be able to select "all", "best/Front Page", or "none". Only stories in these sections would then be displayed on the homepage.
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Targeted ads
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By Drog , Section Wishlist []
Posted on Mon Nov 22, 2004 at 12:00:00 PM PST
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On my site (The World Forum), I created amazon ads that are targeted to the section and topic, as well as to the user's country (which you can get from IP::Country::Fast). Perhaps adding targeting ability to Scoop's ads would be a good idea too. Advertisers would likely get a higher clickthrough rate.
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Making Scoop sites more democratic and self-regulating
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By Drog , Section Wishlist []
Posted on Mon Nov 22, 2004 at 12:00:00 PM PST
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I would love to have a way of automating the regulation of the site so that admins are not needed at all. If a user thinks a comment or user account should be deleted, he/she would nominate it into a queue, where others could see it and vote. If the thresholds are set high enough, and everyone does their part to participate, hopefully this feature would not be abused, plus it would eliminate the potential for admins abusing their authority.
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