LogiLogi - Software Libre for the Web News

The project-news will be posted on the Foundation-blog only...

http://foundation.logilogi.org/

We keep DRY :)

After the initial launch quite some non-english bloggers signed up and added their feed, and they gave us, among other things a multilingual tagcloud.

While diversity is great, and it’s true that many people do speak multiple languages, not many speak five. So the tag-cloud, and much of the site became a bit of a Babylonian language confusion, and they were not as usable as they were intended to be anymore. Also rankings could come out badly for non-english feeds using english tags, as some would vote down non-english posts.... read more

Today OgOg received ‘I-have-already-voted’-checks. One is now allowed to vote for each post at maximum once a week. This law-in-code became necessary as more people joined OgOg.org today, and some of them liked to experiment with what would happen if they gave dozens of 5-star (unsurpassed) ratings to their own posts… ;)

Also I applied some tweaks to the layout of OgOg. I hope you like it.

And for something completely different; the development of LogiLogi Manta is proceeding nicely, but it’s a bit delayed. I hope to finish the code-simplification process this week, so we can integrate the stuff made by the Nijmegen-team around next weekend. Let’s hope we get an up-to-date pre-alpha online soon…

After our announcement on e-hub, and on a few forums, the word about ogog started to spread.

Today OgOg has been getting quite large numbers of visitors and today alone 10 bloggers signed up. Bet this is only the beginning…

Besides all this some improvements were made to OgOg in response to user inquiries:

* For the full articles you now go directly to the blogs themselves, so you get the full beauty.
* Viewpoints are now listed below posts on the frontpage as tag-viewpoints, for easy stats browsing.
* The voting-history of users & posts are visible now, so you can see who likes what you write.... read more

Most web2.0 software is community-software. Software around which a virtual community forms. People writing, talking, socializing, and presenting themselves through carefully crafted identities. These identities and their belongings can be quite valuable to us, whether directly or indirectly through the time and effort we invested in them. But to what extent are we free to do what we want with our creations on the web ?... read more

We launched OgOg.org (http://www.ogog.org) today, a side-project applying a simplified version of the the logilogi rating system to blog-posts from RSS-feeds…

You can take a tour here (http://www.ogog.org/do/doc/tour)

On OgOg.org, you can rate RSS posts and receive good rankings and extra voting power when your own posts are rated as being good. You can carry your user-ranking and voting power over to other sites via OgOg’s API (and your OpenID).... read more

http://foundation.logilogi.org/

Great to greet you, as a foundation, via the web now. While LogiLogi has been there for a while already, the LogiLogi Foundation did not have a site for some time. And that has changed now!

Now what is the LogiLogi foundation ?

In short we think that web2.0-apps and -communities are not too sexy to become Open Source, and we are willing to show it in practice with our projects OgOg.org and LogiLogi.org...... read more

The LogiLogi Foundation finally has got it's own website, and here it is: http://foundation.logilogi.org

What do you think of it ?

Also our server got Raid (raid 1, 2 disks) last week. So we're up to more speed and disaster- security now...

And last but not least we launched OgOg.org (http://www.ogog.org) today, a little side-project applying a simplified version of the the logilogi- rating system to blog-posts from RSS-feeds...

The Fosdem was fun, and our presentation went well. We also taped it and the video is online here:
http://video.google.nl/videoplay?docid=865414300290684342
(and yup, already more people saw it online than live...)

Also the people from Nijmegen have gotten started now; their first product is quite a clear description of what Manta is, what it aims at, and of their plans for the coming months:
http://logilogi.org/pub/manta/requirements.pdf

For the coming months 5 students from the Radboud University Nijmegen will - as a course project - be cooperating with us to make a stable release of Manta, to improve it, and last but not least, to make it work in a very user friendly way!

Also the Fosdem (http://www.fosdem.org) is near... In just 7 days Wybo will be presenting Manta there in a lightning-talk.

The World LogiLogi day is there! In London, Groningen and Uruguay, and on IRC we come together to celebrate the progress of LogiLogi Manta!

Join us at #logilogi on freenode.net.

http://en.logilogi.org/NewsPage

On sunday February the 25th at 11:00 Wybo will be giving a presentation about LogiLogiManta at the Fosdem 2007 Conference (http://fosdem.org/2007) in Brussels!

The link-system has been completed. Parsing Logi's from the db to textile is already possible. I'm now setting up a pre-alpha demo.

A Nice read on why the Web can be Open Source: http://en.logilogi.org/MetaLogi/TheWebCanBeOpenSource

I'm home from Australia, and a few days ago I continued the creative process of devving the new version of LogiLogi.

The entire [source] is documented now and in a few weeks time I expect to be able to show the first isolated parts of functionality in action in an online demo.

Also the code-name of the new version changed to LogiLogi Manta, partly because of my awe for the manta ray I saw in Australia while diving, and because it's just plainly a more beautifull name than the prevous - Algae - one ;-)

The link-system has been completed. Integration into the front-end, and creating a first 'play' version of LogiLogi Algae that allows users to interact with the new link-system is now on top of our todo list.

A setback is that Lars resigned as an active developper to finish some courses... I (Wybo) will be visiting the COLING/ACL 2006 in Sydney next week, and I will be hitchhiking along the eastcoast of Australia for 3 weeks thereafter.... read more

Due to statistics-problems on RubyForge, and some other bugs, we're back at SourceForge with our active development...

The design of LogiLogi Algae has been completed and the implementation of the link-system is even almost ready.

Still it will be quite a battle against time to get Algae up and running before September, but we are definitely steaming down the right track!

Since we received the small grant from the University of Groningen two people (Lars Buitinck and Wybo Wiersma) are actively developping LogiLogi Algae. This resulted in a re-evaluation of our "forge" site and we decided to move the active development of LogiLogi Algae to RubyForge (http://rubyforge.org/projects/logilogi/). The old plankton version and lake will remain on SourceForge. Also file releases of Algae will still be made on both sites.... read more

LogiLogi.org received a small grant from the Philosophy department of the Rijks Universiteit Groningen.

Lars Buitinck and Wybo Wiersma will be working on the Algae version for the coming five months.

LogiLogi is moving from the PHP-swamp to the elegance of Ruby on Rails for the Algae version. C++ will be used for optimizing the speed of parts of LogiLogi only later on, if neccesary.

LogiLogi 0.28.3 has received a new CSS front-end. It is specially optimized for search-engines (all real content sits in the top of the page source). Moreover the database has been made a bit more efficient.

This probably is the last release of the plankton series (LogiLogi in PHP).
See http://en.logilogi.org/MetaLogi/LogiLogiAlgae for the next series.

LogiLogi.org is moving towards a C++ implementation. Lake is a first step towards that goal. Make was not really what I wanted, Icmake allowed for C++-like makefiles but it didn't support the full C++ language. Lake is the logical answer to that. It supports the whole C++ language, precisely because it uses it!

Version 0.2.0 of Lake only needs a C++ compiler (the GNU C++ compiler 3.3.3 will do). The Boost library is no longer neccesary for running LogiLogi.org Make.

LogiLogi.org is moving towards a C++ implementation. Lake is a first step towards that goal. Make was not really what I wanted, Icmake allowed for C++-like makefiles but it didn't support the full C++ language. Lake is the logical answer to that. It supports the whole C++ language, precisely because it uses it!

LogiLogi.org Make is yet another make replacement, but one that allows you to create your makefile in C++. A header and footer are added to it, and it's then compiled using your C++ compiler. Afther that it's run, and that's the point where your other sources are being compiled. Thanks to the lakeUsr extension library (which is included), many (possibly complex) compile commands can be given with one simple function call. The lakeUsr library features compilation of source trees, compilation of static libraries, installation of libraries and headers, and cleaning.

After the initial release of LogiLogi 0.28 I discovered a few flaws in the install file. The missing MySQL-dump being the worst one.

That has been fixed now, and also the following has been added:
- MySQL-dumps with and without initial pages
- Spanish and Italian languages
- Added <body lang="<the current language>"> tags so searchengines can know the page languages
- a better INSTALL.txt file... read more