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Hi Christopher,

Not much is needed  -- Interest Groups will only require a brief paragraph or two to describe the topical area of the group.  So once everyone is happy with that statement of the topic of the interest group we can move it out of incubation.

Matt

Hi, I was wondering if there was a way to make events more noticeable on the website.  It is very useful to be able to create an event object for a meeting and be able to download it as iCal and vCal but I can't seem to find one list of all the events posted on the site.  In addition, a specific RSS feed of all events would be nice to have too.

Thanks,
Aaron

Hey Aaron,

I've added the upcoming events portlet to the developer page, though that left column is getting a bit long now.  You can also visit the upcoming events by looking at the events listing page:
  https://dev.kepler-project.org/events_listing

For items to show up here, they have to have the state of 'published' (but I can change this if we don't need the workflows component here).

cheers,
Shaun

Previously Aaron Schultz wrote:

Hi, I was wondering if there was a way to make events more noticeable on the website.  It is very useful to be able to create an event object for a meeting and be able to download it as iCal and vCal but I can't seem to find one list of all the events posted on the site.  In addition, a specific RSS feed of all events would be nice to have too.

Thanks,
Aaron

Ok, I can subscribe to https://dev.kepler-project.org/recent-changes/RSS

- The title should probably be changed from "<title>Recent Changes</title>" to "<title>dev.kepler-project.org Recent Changes</title>" or something similar.  When I add the feed to Thunderbird, it just says "Recent Changes", which is not that helpful.  I was able to change the title in Thunderbird, but everyone who subscribes will need to change the title.  However, changing the title _could_ cause problems with current subscribers.

- It would be nice if https://dev.kepler-project.org/developers has RSS icons on the right hand side in the recent changes column.  To find out about the RSS feed, I had to search the website for RSS.  I looked in my own user settings for ways to subscribe to changes, but did not see anything there.

- I find the recent changes feed interesting, but confusing. The feed brings up web pages that have changed, I have no idea what's changed though.

- Would it be possible to get a feed for recent messages?  Ideally, the feed would be just textual, without the surrounding web page.  The feed should be titled something like "dev.kepler recent messages".

BTW - an RSS feed mostly meets my needs, but an email interface for recent message that would allow me to read recent messages and post responses would be ideal.  I know that posting responses is a lot to ask.  I'll settle for the RSS feed in the near term.

Shaun --

Christopher has pointed out that individual forum threads do not have the RSS links for that forum -- could those be added to the plone UI?

As many of you know, we have been shifting some of the discussion of specific topics in Kepler development to our new forum software that is part of the emerging Kepler collaboration portal (https://dev.kepler-project.org/developers/kepler-development-forum).  The posts to these fora are available as a combined RSS feed and as individual RSS feeds. However, we've also had requests to the postings via email, so we have set up a new email gateway for all of the combined forum posts.   If you subscribe to the mailing list 'kepler-forum@kepler-project.org' then you will get a copy of each forum posting as it is made in the forum, along with a link to the post so that you can easily navigate to it and reply.  This is not a bi-directional gateway -- you can not post back to the mailing list.  To reply to the forum thread, you must go to the forum site and respond there, but the link makes this just one click away.

You can subscribe to the email gateway here:
https://mercury.nceas.ucsb.edu/kepler/mailman/listinfo/kepler-forum/