Ricardo Gladwell said:
> So, I think we have requirements for the following possible projects:
>
> 1. External Archiving Platform - System for periodical automated achiving
> of externally hosted free RPG content. Author's submit pages from their
> sites they would like to archive. The system should commit updates to a
> versioning repository, such as CVS, to ensure that all external services
> are never lost.
Would it be worth supporting non-Free (but free) games as well for
this? That would provide a resource for a much larger pool of games,
which would get more publicity, and maybe we could use it to convince
people to move to a Free license (though most people probably use
MS Word these days, which would fall foul of the transparent format
clause).
> 4. libRPG - A library that abstracts roleplaying system rule-sets and
> allows for dynamic and flexible roleplaying rules for other applications,
> such AS CRPGS and character generators. Will take an XML rule-set and
> covert into byte-code on the fly for efficient access.
I don't think this is worth doing until you need it. It's not
straightforward, and you're tying yourself to a language library
which restricts the usefulness of it.
>
> Samuel Penn wrote:
>> It's still manual work though, which is something I've tried to get
>> away from. Of course, it does mean that when I check in some XML
>> that isn't well formed, a large chunk of my website can collapse
>> in upon itself, but that's another issue...
>
> Yes, it would be nice to get a much simpler export functionality. I am
> actually pondering starting work on a Wiki-like document management system
> that uses and XML mark-up syntax and allows for organisation and collation
> of content into more book-like structures. It would also allow export
> directly to popular Word processing formats, such as for OpenOffice.
I've thought about an application which takes an XML format, and
gives a WYSIWYG word processor like interface to it. It would be
able to handle things like Yagsbook or Docbook, and could be
extended to support any other XML format.
It probably wouldn't be that easy though.
>> I've just re-added it. It was somewhat hard to find the link:
>> http://www.freeroleplay.org/wiki/index.php/RecentChanges?format=rss
>
> Cool, where are you displaying the feed?
It's on the news ticker on my Desktop at home. So I saw comments
about Agility and Creative Commons license scrolling past on my
desktop recently :-)
The scroller is on the top right of the screen:
http://www.bifrost.demon.co.uk/desktop.jpg
btw, I don't suppose anyone has seen a general RSS news ticker
that works on MS Windows? The BBC and Reuters have non-RSS proprietry
ones, and they're two a penny on Linux/UNIX, but I've never seen
a scrolling RSS viewer on Windows (they all seem to be browser
based).
--
Be seeing you,
Sam.
