knotes on source-forge is up-to-date at version 0.8 and seems to install and work well

20-March-2006

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We've completed pushing recent improvements into knotes on sourceforge. To indicate that we feel the product is almost at the "it just works" stage, we've incremented it's version number to 0.8 BETA. Please feel free to try installing knotes in your own Zope/Plone set-up. We still have documentation and end-user help to write, and still need to provide an issue-tracking system.

Last week, we completed pushing the recent improvements to knotes into the CVS version and tarballs at the knotes sourceforge area. We've been intensively testing in our own user communities as well as in a variety of test installations. It seems to just work, and end-users seem to just get how to use it, so we feel we're approaching a really useful product. To reflect this, we've incremented the version number to 0.8 BETA. Well done and many thanks to Steve and to our beta testers!

Still to-do are the writing of better admin documentation and end-user help, and the provision of developer forums, issue-tracking, etc. We're attending to those requirements as quickly as other work allows.

We are confident now that other Plone admin folks should be able to install knotes easily and make good use of it to add dynamism, discussion and user-expression to Plone sites. Please do try it out and let us know of any issues you encounter.

We're also confident that knotes with Plone provides a rich and flexible platform for experimental projects looking into variations on the theme of blogging - into uses in learning and community building where the basic behaviours and building blocks of blogging need to be enhanced or contextusalised. That's why we built it, and we're already starting to make progress with some ideas of out own that make use of knotes 'plus'.

If you are an educational researcher or community developer, please get in touch with us and share your ideas; we may be able to help. We're particularly keen to explore lightweight services-oriented approaches in the "web2.0" style - adding microformats, integrating with social bookmarking, etc. We are also eager to enhance the profile-building and user-glu aspects of the knotes member-profile, and to explore the use of knotes + Plone for e-portfolios and personal learning environments.


Mike Malloch; 20-March-2006 11:19:19; forum (0) help

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1 Back posting after a binge of software development : knotes is now in mature beta!

Tada! We have finally reached the mature-beta milestone for knotes, our weblogging and discussion product for Plone. This means I can start writing the occasional article here in elearning2.0. By the way, knotes is a fabulous piece of kit and can be used to support rapid and flexible experiments in educational and other variants on blogging.
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