OSS Watch run a community development mailing list for the discussion of issues faced in building a community led development project. Recently, Stuart Yeates suggested we should have a tag for marking content in our collective social bookmarking tools, we should then aggregate this content into an easily manageable form.
It just so happens that I had already written some code to do crude RSS aggregation in Apache Forrest, which in turn is the base for the OSS Watch project registry software Simal. With a little more hacking on Forrest I quickly created a first stab at an aggregation page in Simal.
Simal is a 0.2-dev product, it’s very rough around the edges and the layout is is quite poor, but it is useful.
The nice thing about this is that it opens up yet another way that you can contribute to Simal:
- feature requests (e.g. what social tools should we support beyond the current magnolia, delicious and diigo?)
- adding to our social tagging feeds (use JISCCommunityDevelopment for anything to do with community led development)
- CSS improvements for our site
- XSL improvements to the feed aggregator
- noises of support
- anything else that takes your fancy
If you are interested in getting involved as a user or develop then a good place to start is with the Simal contributor list.
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