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GSOC Interview: John Pritchard   (News)

2. What attracted you to the Google Summer of Code as a programme, and PostNuke as a project?

I was attracted to GSoC because I enjoy coding and I thought that I could do with some experience before I actually get a job and I can also help out the community while I'm at it :). I chose PostNuke in particular because php is the language I have the most experience with, I made countless websites through my teenage years and I also spent a lot of time modifying PHP-Nuke to suit my needs (although the code I used is probably buried somewhere now), so I thought it'd be the project that would benefit the most from me and it'd be the one I'd be most comfortable doing.

3. Tell us about your project, and how you hope it can benefit PostNuke?
I'm going to be doing an overhaul of the categories system in PostNuke. I hope it will benefit PostNuke by increasing the usability and efficiency of the categories system.

4. What do you personally hope to gain from participating in the Summer of Code with PostNuke?
Experience and something to put on my CV :)
The satisfaction of doing something productive in the community.
Money - I'm a broke student, so it has to be said :P.

5. Can you see yourself contributing your talents to Open Source projects following the SoC? Will you continue to work with PostNuke in some capacity after the programme has ended?
Depends on time constraints really, I'd definately consider it if I had quite a bit of free time but at the moment I'm pretty swamped with work, I have a few projects of my own that I've had to put on the backburner =\.

7. Is there anything else you’d like to say now, as the programme begins?
I wish everyone good luck with their respective projects and I hope to speak to you all soon :)...Oh and "hey mum, I'm on the internet!" :P.

Lastly, thanks for your time – we in the PostNuke team are excited about the Summer of Code, so thank you for taking part and choosing PostNuke!

I'm excited too, thanks for choosing me!

Generated on April 25, 2008.

News from "Behind the Scenes"   (News)

Rebranding
The new name and the logo have been chosen, now the lawyers have to do their work in claiming the necessary trademarks. This is more important for Europe as it is for the US. but we will get the trademark worldwide to avoid any future problems. But, as usual, the administrative mills are working slowly, so this needs some more time. As soon as this process has been finished we will decide about announcing the new name, either immediately or together with the final release of .8 (which will in this case be renamed to $newname 1.0).

EasyDist and the extension database
Axel and Simon have written a concept paper of how to connect the EasyDist module (see [url]http://modulestudio.de[/url]) to the extension database on this site. Necessary changes on both sides are identified and will be done in the next weeks. The plan is to have this working together with the release of $newname 1.0. Among other things EasyDist will be enabled to get the latest module or theme information from the database to create up-to-date packages whenever a new version of a module or theme has been released, an admin interaction will not be required.

Release Manager
Although the EasyDist module will become a very powerful tool we still have to supply the usual download packages. For this we need someone to create, validate, upload etc. those packages. In the future this task will be done by Patrick Cornelissen (patrick.c). He will also maintain the SVN module that is internally used on this site to create the daily snapshots for the core and selected modules. Thanks to Patrick for accepting this task.

New Subdomains on postnuke.com
Postnuke.com will get two new subdomains:
- devs.postnuke.com for devs and team members to post tips, news, information etc. This is the official replacement for the old pndevs.com site. Moving this site to a postnuke.com subdomain was planned from the very beginning.
- demo.postnuke.com will be a demo installation of .8 with working admin part, including some selected modules (not yet defined). This will be almost the same as http://pn8.pn-cms.de where the database is rebuilt from a backup every night via a cron job or manually throughout the day if needed.
Both sites will be installed and maintained by Philipp Niethammer (philipp.ni) and Gabriel Freinbichler (gf).

Documentation
We know that .8 is lacking a real documentation and we want to change this. Therefore a group of interested users will be built until beginning of November to take over this part. The Steering Committee will then decide about the project leader for this and ask him or her to work on a proposal for a manual, online help, and wiki structure which should all fit together (this also includes the tools needed to do the job) until mid of December latest (earlier if possible). When this has been accepted, we will talk about an exact time frame for finally writing the docs. Here everyones input is appreciated of course!
The project leader will have to submit a regular report about the proceedings to the SC.

Bug fixing weekend
As already announced in [url]http://community.postnuke.com/Article2862.htm[/url] the bug fixing weekend will start on Saturday, 6th. Mark and Robert also want to join us (virtually) to squish out some nasty bugs, Roberts main target will be the categories module.
Interested users can also join us using Skype. If you are interested, please send me your screen name via mail or private message so that we can invite you.


As you can see, the project is active although some might have thought the opposite. We delegated or will delegate some tasks to users who are able and ready to contribute to PostNuke. If you also want to participate, please contact us, there is always something YOU can do.

If you think you have something that is worth to be spoken about in the next chats, please tell us.

Generated on October 5, 2007.

pnMeeting 2007: Axel Guckelsberger on EasyDist, EasyInstaller & the ModuleStudio   (News)

modules, theme and languages. Just as you need it. EasyDist will then give you a download archive with all parts in the right folders.

EasyInstaller is a window program that helps the newbie to install the previously acquired package. You simply have to type in FTP and Database credentials and if will upload and install Postnuke automatically. EasyInstall is written in C# and Axel is looking for someone to take over the job of finalizing the work on EasyInstaller.

The major project is the ModuleStudio. I can't really summarize the whereabouts of this system. But Axel assured me that it helps module developers to point & click a new module within few hours and it won't be possible anymore to write incompliant functions anymore. Every module generated with his system must be as secure as the rest of Postnuke and can only contain errors that are errors of the generator and if you correct that error in the ModuleStudio you can update every module in the same step. The programmer himself can't introduce coding errors.

During the presentation Axel showed a live demo of the visual editor which turned out to be pretty impressing. The ModuleStudio will be released open source but maybe there will be restrictions and different licenses for commerical or non open source projects.

Further information about these projects can be found at modulestudio.de

Generated on September 8, 2007.

What's going on?   (News)

bugs that you report. And as soon as all major bug in the bugtracker are fixed the RC2 will be released. You are all doing a great job in testing .8 in various scenarios, with all kinds of modules and so on. We couldn't do that without you. So a special kudo from the development team to everybody who's testing.

2. We are all looking forward to the International Postnuke Developer Meeting in Osnabrück, Germany in September. You are still invited and we will be happy to get to know you. The focus of this year's meeting will the the .8 technologies. We have to spread the knowledge about all the great libraries inside .8 to the community. Thus we will have several presentations and workshops dealing with that. You can still register http://support.pn-cms.de/index.php?module=formicula&form=6 and book a room: http://www.kulmbacher-hof.de

3. There are currently some reorganizations going on within the teams and Postnuke Foundation is working on a nice little surprise - we will have seperate announcements about this within the next weeks.

4. We need your help to build a good documentation. Please look into the wiki and see if you can't improve it: Pick out one of the .8 modules and describe how it works. Look through the articles and improve the descriptions. Remove typos. Find paragraphs that are not clearly enough written and make them clearer.

We could also use some good best practices - if you think you found a clever way to combine this and that module or you have some other special solution - write an article. People will love it.

There is so much you can do. And it's not too complicated. Postnuke lives through it's community. And you are part of that community, no matter how small your input is. Small pieces accumulate to a bigger picture.

Generated on August 25, 2007.

PostNuke .8 + OpenID   (News)

There requirements are:

* Distribute under an OSI-approved license.
* Have at least 200,000 public internet users and 5,000 downloads per month.
* Implement OpenID 2.0 support as a Relying Party (RP) or Identity Provider (IdP).
* Pass the OpenID compliance testing tool (to be released in August 2006).
* Make enabling OpenID no more difficult than changing one configuration setting (there can be more optional configuration settings).
* Distribute the implementation as part of the project's core (it cannot be an additional download or patch).
* Place an OpenID logo in the signon form (as on this site).
* Answer "What is OpenID?" (or link to an answer) near the signon form.

I think the 2 requirement is hard to meet for any piece of software. But IMHO PostNuke is popular enough.

As you know Postnuke .8 includes a new login system which is open to all kinds of authentications. It should be a piece of cake to implement the OpenID-system. So if you are interested in doing the job, you should get into contact with the OpenID-people.

Moreover PostNuke could use some pro comments on the OpenID page.

Links:
OpenID Code Bounty

Generated on February 14, 2007.

A Time to Grow and Change: PostNuke Software Foundation Formed   (News)

German PostNuke Foundation, currently represented by Andreas Krapohl, Drak of HostNuke, and Vanessa Haakenson. (see short bios below)

The functions of the founding members serve a managerial and strategic function, ensuring the project goals and directions remain constant and true to the open source philosophy, quality coding, collaboration, and open standards. It's important to stress you are not required to be member of the foundation (there is currently no membership option) to contribute to the project.

As a result of our combined experiences over the last four years the founding members agree the best way to move the project forward is to have a PN Steering Committee* (see details below) consisting of members of the various teams chosen from well-known, long term active community members and developers.

The job of the steering committee will be to handle the day-to-day running of the project and will be chosen by the founding members. The announcement of the appointments will be made within the next 10 days.

In closing, in the coming days look for an announcement regarding the PN Steering Committee and over the coming weeks look for announcements about a new look/feel for main PN site, a formal site for the foundation (read current bylaws here: http://www.postnuke.com/foundation/) and an updated project road map.

We have set up a forum for further discussions regarding the foundation here.

Viva la PN!

Sincerely,

Board of Directors
PostNuke Software Foundation, Inc
Harry Zink through Fizbin, LLC
Mark West, Lead Developer
German Postnuke Foundation, currently represented by Andreas Krapohl
Drak through HostNuke
Vanessa Haakenson

_________________________________________________________
PNSF Facts & Information
PostNuke Software Foundation
Non-profit registered in the State of Delaware
PostNuke Steering Committee
Advisory body made up of members of the various teams and responsibilities include:

Community management & resourcing
Determine software project priorities
PostNuke software development and direction
Provide policy recommendations
Approval of development plans

Goals/Objectives:
The Corporation is a non-profit organization organized and operated exclusively for charitable and educational purposes. No part of the earnings of the Corporation shall ever inure to the benefit of or be distributed to any member or individual having a personal or private interest in the activities of the Corporation.

Board of Directors
The Board of Directors serve a managerial and strategic function, ensuring PostNuke remains constant and true to the open source philosophy, quality coding, collaboration, and open standards. The following people/organizations serve as initial members of the corporation:
Fizbin, LLC (Harry Zink)
One of the original founders of the project, Harry has been a constant, continued project supporter. He works as a systems administrator for a large entertainment corporation and lives in Los Angeles, California. He has a Ph.D. in psychology and loves to travel to Thailand for the food.
Vanessa Haakenson
Is co-founder of Distance-Educator.com and has been an active participant in PostNuke since July 2001 consulting on usability issues and acting as a PN evangelist to the educational community. In November of 2001 she started the site Designs4Nuke.com to consolidate and share all the information and resources regarding theme design for PostNuke. With a Master's Degree
in Educational Technology she brings a unique perspective to the project having developed web based products focusing on usability, standards, documentation, and community. Over the years she has presented at conferences about PostNuke and has authored articles on effective information design. She recently moved with her son from San Diego, California to Woodland Park, a small mountain town in Colorado.
HostNuke Ltd. (Drak)
Drak has been with the project since July 2001 and was the first to create hosting accounts with PostNuke preinstalled as a way of making it easy for new users to get started. He has 19 years experience in the computer industry and devotes most of his time working for a humanitarian charity. He donates equipment and colocation to the project and is responsive for all server level security and administration.

Mark West, Lead Developer
Works as the computing officer for Systems and Operations for Kingston University and lives
in
South
West
London,
UK.
He
specializes
in
directory
enabled
enterprise
computing,
he's
taught
programming;
techniques,
data
structures
and
algorithms
to
first
year
undergrads
at
Kingston
University
and
adheres
to
a strict
style
of
programming
- heavy
on
layout,
consistency
and
style.
Believing
the
benefits
of
this
strict,
consistent
and
academic
approach
to
coding
is
a stronger,
more
stable
and
bug
free
end
product.
He
has
been
using
PostNuke
from
the.70x.
series
and
is
the
lead
developer.

German
PostNuke
Foundation
(Represented
by Andreas
Krapohl)
Andreas
Krapohl
[aka
larsneo]
is
President
of
the
German
PostNuke
e.V.
foundation
and
is
the
head
of
IT
for
a local
newspaper
in
southern
Germany.
Has
been
with
PostNuke
since
almost
the
beginning
- at
first
with
some
translation
stuff,
then
as
module
author
(phpBB_14)
and
since
early
2002
as
a core
developer.
Main
focus
is
security,
usability
and
accessibility.
He
believes
a solution
should
be
simple
and
elegant.


Current
Jobs in PostNuke
Structure

Development & Quality
Assurance
Communications & News
Moderation
Forum
Moderation & Support
Documentation
Language

Project
Marketing

Generated on August 18, 2005.

Interview: Steffen Voss   (News)

What is your real-life job?

I'm a student and going to be an Englisch/Geography teacher. But I also have a job at the university (http://www.gis.uni-kiel.de) and I help the local youth council with their websites (e.g. http://www.balticsea-youth.org).

Tell me about your postnuke "career". (Why do you prefer Postnuke over other CMS?)

When I worked for a bigger German company I had to maintain the intranet. They used static pages until then but I had heard something about CMS and took a look at Postnuke and was overwhelmed. It did almost everything I needed. So I convinced the head of department to use Postnuke and it became my first Postnuke project. Only little later, friends of mine wanted to relaunch their local website (http://www.kiel4kiel.de) so I helped them to implement that with Postnuke.

Postnuke.de was the first contact I had with the Postnuke community, but as the site was a bit messy I offered my help. The webmaster ranted a lot but never let me do anything but post news and forum posts. Little by little I realized that this endeavor what pointless and started looking for like-minded people in Germany and finally found http://www.post-nuke.net. A reservation for the shunned. Larsneo and others had similar experiences with postnuke.de and built up their own community.

By and by we created a German documentation and had more and more people joining us. This year we established a German foundation and organized the first international Postnuke meeting. So things are going well. :-D

What is your task in within pnCore?

I don't have an official function. I do interview, comment and try to keep contact to the core/module devs and to allude them to what the others are doing. "Networking" I think you can call it.

When did you start programming for PostNuke?

I started programming for Postnuke during the Kiel4kiel.de-project - a module called tinyraffle which you find in the noc in a not finished state. I don't need it anymore - so feel free to adopt it ;-)

What is your work like?

As I said - I read and write a lot in the German forum, I mail with devs and try to keep them together and strengthen the company.

What is the biggest difficulty in your work?

It's often hard to promote Postnuke, because of the special communication strategy the project management embarks. There are a lot of nice people working very hard on the future of Postnuke, but the average user only hears about that when a new release comes.

Which route will Postnuke in your opinion go in the future?

The Postnuke core is already far away from PHPNuke but there are still serious lacks on the user side - content handling hasn't improved since PHPNuke - disregarding modules like pnCommerce, Photoshare, Pagesetter aso. .8 will bring the new and for the time being final core. Next thing should be a concentration on the content side of the project. This is what gives new users a good first impression - not a well written source code. Sad but true ;-)

What is the weakest/strongest point in PostNuke?

The weakest point is the name - The general public always mistakes Postnuke for PHPNuke. The strongest point is the great community.

Are you also working on modules?

Yes and no: I released pnAmazon - a module that allows you to include Amazon product-data into you Pagesetter publications using Amazon Webservices. But as it now does all I need, motivation is little to develop it any further.

Internally I work on a module that does almost the same as pnAmazon with an information system that almost every German university uses (uniVIS) - It allows you to include data such as addresses, lectures aso. directly from the central information system into your page. So the department's page is always as up-to-date as the central system. Maybe I'll release it, when it's more advanced. But I'm still looking for a co-developer for this module.

What features should the Postnuke .8 core have to simplify your work?

pnRender is a killer. I love it. It does all I need, but Xanthia has to become more user friendly.

What should users of your module regard?

I only include things that are either needed by me or very simple to implement - I'm not such a good coder...

Anything else you always wanted to say about Postnuke?

Postnuke has such a big user bases and too few people, who actually work for it. A main issue for the future of Postnuke is IMHO to activate the community and to make it easier for people to add their work to development, support, marketing aso. Even the smallest help is help.

Thank you very much for you time.

My private homepage: http://www.kaffeeringe.de

Generated on December 20, 2004.

Interview: Carl Slaughter   (News)

Where do you live?

Bethalto, IL USA
Where in the world is Bethalto, IL, USA

What is your real-life job?

IT Manager/Supervisor for a Credit Union

Tell me about your PostNuke "career".

PostNuke was what I started with and I liked it, I have tried others but PN is what I'm most comfortable with and frankly I do not want to learn another unless its REALLY great, and I do not see that happening ;-)

When did you start working on your own module?

Jan, 2003

Please describe to the community what your development is like?

It’s really only I and Batpuppy (Patrick Peay). I do most of the coding and Patrick does the debugging and HTML.

We never intended it to be as big a success as it is, we just wanted a good forum module for our own PN sites. And well the rest is history ;-)

I use HTML-Kit, along with tools like Power Desk Tools, with file find, and Xampp for local web testing. For release development we use TortoiseCVS, and UNIX command line tools for file compares.

What is the biggest difficulty in your development?

The difficulty only rests in your own abilities and desire to learn as much as you can about the PN core, along with keeping with the changes. Knowledge of PHP, HTML, and cross browser coding is a must as well. You have to develop skills in every area, then of course you develop your own personal abilities to bring your own ideas to the code as well, remember there is usually 100 different ways to accomplish the same thing, but only a few ways to do it right ;-)

What features should the PostNuke .8 core have to simplify your work?

Module aliasing. Lower overhead for modules (usually the module's fault) however the PN core has a good amount that is has in memory then if you have a significant module like PNphpBB then you start scraping the top of the RAM ceiling.

Which route will PostNuke/your module in your opinion go in the future?

As PNphpBB matures it will become more and more integrated into PN, we will streamline the code and do away with all unused code from the core of phpBB. Possibly fork the entire code, because currently we have kept the same basic code of the current phpBB release so we can apply phpBB specific patches and admins can easily add mods designed for phpBB. This will eventually not be an issue as more and more people are writing mods for PNphpBB directly.

What is the weakest/strongest point in your module?

PNphpBB is a module version of the popular phpBB forum it does its best to stay true to all the features and functionality of its stand alone counterpart as well as offering those who use phpBB the ability to migrate to a CMS environment. Its weak points are since it is a port of a stand alone module, it has a lot of redundant code, its own DB functions, template/HTML output code and functions that are not necessary due to the fact it is contained within PostNuke as a module (login/registration is not used).

Thank you very much for you time.

Visit Carl and the pnPHPBB forum project at http://www.pnphpbb.com

Generated on December 16, 2004.

PostNuke Team Expands   (News)

Pack Co-ordinator) runs the "pnLanguages" project at the NOC. Murilo Pinto assisting in this project. More volunteers to follow.

On the communications front we now have a new co-ordinator, Franz Skaaning aka lexebus of LEXeBus.NET, we hope he can continue our communications revolution that was so necessary. He has professional experience in this area so he is well qualified for the job.

We would like to welcome Senne Van Baelen AKA donkeybe as a new forum moderator.

We have added more developers to the fold: Devin Hayes aka InvalidResponse, Franky Chestnut and Chris Miller aka r3ap3r.

Devin is an active module developer and has release scores of well coded modules into the community. Franky Chestnut from PNConcept is also another fantastic programmer, and Chris Miller is noted for his bug fixes to PostNuke. We are very proud to have these people on the development team.

This is a very exciting time at PostNuke with so many improvements in every area designed to ultimately benefit you, the pnUser

Generated on May 30, 2004.

Madison Wisconsin Gets Nuked   (News)

We offer a unique view of the city of Madison geared to both locals and tourists.

The Madison Business Journal spotlights and profiles Madison businesses and trends in the economic and business sector with resources for small and large businesses

Just 80 miles west of Milwaukee and 142 miles northwest of Chicago, Madison, Wisconsin, is a veritable hotbed for free speech and free thought. Its history of grassroots activism and political progressivism, its' citizens belief in the benefits of hard work, the availability and access to educational resources and the careful stewardship of the land all have cast a favorable spotlight on this Midwestern mecca.

It's no wonder with four beautiful glacial lakes; burgeoning corporate and small-business communities; neat and tidy neighborhoods; brewpubs, wine bars and cigar bars; gardens; museums; and the educational, cultural and social stimulation afforded by one of the nation?s best state universities, Madison has something for everyone.

So, get ready to browse through the most comprehensive guide available to this renaissance city. We wish you many enjoyable and invigorating discoveries!

We have chosen PostNuke for its ease of use, power, as well as the look and feel of the infrastructure that PostNuke provides.

We believe the cost of deployment and the support of open source will also serve to benefit the Madison Tech community and hopefully will create Open Source jobs in the Madison economy

Generated on May 28, 2004.

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