CommPort

About

A "Community Portal" generator that can be tailored for any location. Each user gets a personal portal page to which they can add their own "channels" or select from a growing list of pre-prepared local, national and international content. This allows any individual to always have a page of their own personal favourites in front of them. Channels may be either "active" with continually updated content such as weather or news headlines or "passive" with collections of links.

• User customizable portal page
• Imports standard RSS files for use as channels
• Automatic export of channels as RSS
• Multiple user access levels
• Internationalization

• A web-server supporting CGI-by-suffix ("name.cgi")
• Perl 5
• MySQL

The CommPort is Open Source, and covered under a NPL like license. Please see the file COPYING or (URL:http://www.tc.ca/commport/license.html) for more details.

June 16, 2000

Public release of CommPort version 1.0

• Developers mailing list coming soon.
• Meanwhile send questions, comments, diffs to commport@tc.ca.

• tar.gz: commport-1.01.tar.gz - 2000.06.17:17:28 - Small bug-fixes, user password-reset by admin.
• install instructions: install.html
• basic data: datainit.txt

• Telecommunities Canada
• BC Community Networks Association
• Victoria Telecommunity Network
• Powell River Community Network
• Development Portal (Open Source Solutions Inc.)

• Pointers to RSS/RDF sources we're not currently using.
• Translations of our locale files to additional languages. Our current languages are English, French and Spanish.
• Translations of our help files to additional langauges. They are currently only in English and French.