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After the article was posted, a team of seven people has got together and is now in the middle of creating this new site called “slashpoint”. It's a community based "anything tech, culture, society, and science" with a clear dedication to open source technology but almost any aspect will be covered.

The site is a mix of people-to-people journalism and news reporting. It's based on "slashpoints", - a system from madhatt.info (but hacked to our use) where users are getting points for various activities. We are hoping to develop a real ratings system where users are rated based on moderation and activity. A bit like the karma system used on Slashdot. So basically we hope to be a combination of kuro5hin.org and Slashdot with a twist,- and free from economic interests… and based on PostNuke. It’s a big goal but we believe in this project.

The site is still in the development phase. We're listed on Sourceforge and intend to use this platform to share experiences with the PostNuke community as we go along. As we have only just begun we are still missing some documentation on what we are doing, but we have already come a long way. Our beta-site is running well with some hacked code. Our documentation is going along fine but we still need people that will help developing some modules and be zone editors on their favorite topics. Our system is based on the use of editors and of course users submitting content.

It's our intention to make this site an alternative to existing major sites. We hope to get financial support from sponsors though banners are no-go for now. We are focused on making this site a killer site.

If you have any questions or want to take part of this project please mail me at lars@slashpoint.com.

/Lars, slashpoint.com

Now this is where it gets interesting. I have seen a great deal of togetherness in the Post Nuke community, people helping people. Not to mention the great deal of talent and imagination the goes into not only the site layout but also the modules and block that ppl create. Why not combine our talents and shove a GNU pipe right up those add driven corprate know it alls. I am looking for any one who can help no matter how they contribute. I want to start a project that shows ppl how to use the internet for what ever they want. I hope to have web site reviews, usefull downloads, safe places on the web and some tutorials on how to do thing from starting your own web site to using search engines to find exactaly what you want.

So if anyone is interested in this endevour your help would greatly appreciated just drop me and e-mail at webmaster@purgatorioweb.net

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Please post any bugs or problems to sourceforge. We appreciate your feedback.

Mirror available at:
ftp://ftp.totalpilot.com/pub/postnuke/Rogue_714.tar.gz.

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One area missing from the (0.71x) articles is keywords - normally only considered as useful for searches and the like, but I think could be used in combination with article/block attributes to provide the sort of sidebox functionality mentioned above.

Attributes would be independent name and value(s) pairs which can be assigned to any entity, such as a block or an article (or a topic or category). The value could be a string (or s
trings) or a special value such as $keyword

Attribute names are maintained by the admin/editor and assigned to the various entities - blocks, categories, topics or articles. When the attribute name/values match, the magic occurs.

As you probably cannot read my thoughts and my explanation is not particularly good, I think an example is called for, using the above stock price block mentioned above:

1. 
   An attribute named 'Stock Quotes' is created by the admin.
   


2. 
   A block which is able to display stock quotes has the attribute 'Stock Quotes' assigned to it with a value of 'All' or '*' or some such value to denote 'match any'.
   


3. 
   A topic of 'Business News' has the attribute 'Stock Quotes' assigned to it with a value of $keywords.
   


4. 
   An article with the topic 'Business News' will automatically inherit the $keywords value, but could also be assigned the attribute 'Stock Quotes' with a different value.
   


5. 
   When the article is displayed, any blocks with matching attribute name/values are automagically displayed with the appropriate content.
   

Any entity can have any number of attribute name/values assigned to it from the admin module.

This would give us the power and flexibility in block display that we currently have in the permissions system.

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