From ian@darwinsys.com Fri Jun 24 23:15:46 2005
From: "Ian F. Darwin" <ian@darwinsys.com>
To: openguides-dev@lists.openguides.org
Subject: [OpenGuides-Dev] openguides.org web site - "Setting up your own	Open
 Guide" page
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 22:15:47 +0000
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You might do well to link to the new O'Reilly "Mapping Hacks" book,  
which not only has a section all about OpenGuides.org BUT this  
section is freely downloadable as a "Sample Hack".

You might use something like this:

For a more detailed description, see this
<a href="http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/mappinghks/chapter/ 
hack97.pdf">sample chapter</a>
from the O'Reilly book
<a href="http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/mappinghks/">Mapping Hacks</a>
by Schuyler Erle, Rich Gibson and Jo Walsh.

I hope to set up a couple of these myself soon, as soon as I get the  
CPAN modules into OpenBSD "package" format
(like Debian APT but done differently "because, hey, this is BSD not  
Linux" :-)

Cheers
Ian Darwin
ian on darwinsys period co m




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From jo@frot.org Sun Jul 17 03:37:30 2005
From: Jo Walsh <jo@frot.org>
To: openguides-dev@lists.openguides.org
Subject: Re: [OpenGuides-Dev] openguides.org web site - "Setting up your own
	Open Guide" page
Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2005 19:37:25 -0700
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On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 06:15:32PM -0400, Ian F. Darwin wrote:
> For a more detailed description, see this
> <a href="http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/mappinghks/chapter/ 
> hack97.pdf">sample chapter</a>
> 
> I hope to set up a couple of these myself soon, as soon as I get the  
> CPAN modules into OpenBSD "package" format
> (like Debian APT but done differently "because, hey, this is BSD not  
> Linux" :-)

nod, installation instructions for my recent dodgy software state
basically, "er it's somewhere in ports, if you're running BSD then you
clearly already know what you're doing."

I've been plugging OG like crazy on the mappinghacks.com blog and
through map.wirelesslondon.info also (would apprec feedback on this, i
think we have usability problems with the new UI :/ )
I really hope the book coverage also helps to sprout new OGs.

Recently i've been fantasising about extending OG's RDF support a bit
more; using the key-value metadata store in CGI::Wiki to be able to
add keys which are predicate URIs (ical properties, or dublin core
properties or what have you) which can be serialised into RDF
on-the-fly, rather than the current fairly static template-based
serialisation.

I don't know if this really belongs in the OG core or whether we
should try and do this directly onto CGI::Wiki; how useful would it be
for others' purposes? (my main current use case is for a wiki->PDF on
demand interface, which i could build by html-scraping on any wiki,
but as i also have more ephemeral RDF->PDF-on-demand use cases, i sort
of wanted to glom the whole lot together. damn this overconnecting
tendency! ;)


zx


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