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Silva 2.2 beta Released

Infrae is pleased to announce the beta release of Silva 2.2. This release adds a slew of new features for users, developers, and system administrators, and is a leap forward with Zope 2.11 and Five/Grok technology. Continues....

University of Bedfordshire’s intranet wins CIPR Award

The intranet of the University of Bedfordshire has been awarded a Silver prize for best 'Internal Communications 2009' in the CIPR Awards. The site is powered by Silva. Congratulations to the university! Continues....

Erasmus University RePub Repository Launched

Infrae is pleased to announce the launch of the improved RePub Repository frontend at: http://repub.eur.nl/. This website provides access to the academic output of the Erasmus University Rotterdam and makes it available to everyone, free of charge, now and in the future. In doing so, the EUR supports the idea of open access to academic research findings. Continues....

MOAI Server 1.0 Released

Infrae is pleased to announce the first public release of the MOAI Server. MOAI is a platform that aggregates input from disparate sources and republishes it via the Open Archive Initiatives protocol for metadata harvesting. MOAI has been built for institutional repositories that store relational metadata and asset files. MOAI is open source software, released under a BSD license. Continues....

Silva News Network 2.7 Released

Infrae has just released Silva News Network 2.7. While primarily a compatibility release, SNN 2.7 does include a new feature: the RSS Aggregator now merges/sorts the feeds based on each feed item's publication date. Continues....

Silva 2.2 alpha Released

Infrae is pleased to announce the alpha release of Silva 2.2. This release adds a slew of new features for developers and system administrators, and is a quantum leap with Zope 2.11 and Five/Grok technology. Also the Sphinx-driven docs.infrae.com has gone online. Continues....

Silva Security Bulletin: Potential security issue with Silva Find

We have had a security issue brought to our attention that affects all versions of Silva using the Silva Find extension. This might prompt an update if Silva Find is in use on your site. Continues....

First ‘five.grok’ release

Today the developers of five.grok announced a 1.0a1 release. This is a milestone in the convergence of Zope 2 towards Zope 3 technology. The five.grok component makes the ease of Grok--with its convention over configuration approach--available to existing applications. Continues....

Silva 2.1 Released

Infrae is pleased to announce the final release of Silva 2.1. This release adds a range of features for both Author/Editors and Site Managers, as well as performance and technical improvements such as functional tests. Continues....

Open Source CMS Awards 2008: Nominations Are Open!

Nominations are open for the third edition of the Open Source CMS Award, hosted by Packt Publishers. Selected CMS’s will go to the next round of the contest. Continues....

Silva 2.1 alpha, plus Firefox 3 Compatibility Releases

Infrae announces an alpha release of Silva 2.1, plus three releases for Silva versions that fix problems with the Firefox 3 web browser. There are Silva 2.0.8, 1.6.3, and 1.5.12 versions available. New features of the Silva 2.1 alpha will be announced on the silva-general mailing list. Continues....

Silva Forum Released, with OpenID Authentication

Infrae is pleased to announce the first public release of Silva Forum, an extension for Silva 2.x that provides a classic discussion forum environment. It can be integrated with OpenID authentication and a CAPTCHA to prevent 'spambots' from attempting to post. Continues....

Sign the Petition to the European Parliament on ICT lock-in

Open source community delegates draw the attention of the Members of the European Parliament to the current situation where the institution’s ICT systems are locked into the products of one vendor, warn about the implications of this for participative democracy and for fair competition, and call for action to promote Open Standards and Interoperability. Sign the petition at: http://openparliament.eu/ Continues....

University of Bedfordshire’s Silva site wins Heist Award

The Silva-powered website of the University of Bedfordshire won a Bronze prize for ‘Best Website’ in the prestigious Heist Awards. Congratulations to the university! Continues....

3 Google Code Sources Available

Three new Code Sources that enable embedding of Google objects are available. There’s a YouTube video, Google Maps, and a Google Calendar source. Continues....

Silva Math Released

Silva Math is an extension product for the Silva CMS to enhance Silva Documents with mathematical formulas. Mathematical expressions are edited and stored in TeX format and rendered as PNG images. The formulas are embedded into documents as Code Sources. Continues....

Silva Security Bulletin: Potential security issue with External Sources

We have had a security issue brought to our attention that potentially affects all versions of Silva using the External Sources extension. This might prompt an update if you suspect your site is affected. Continues....

Silva dLCMS 1.6.1 Released

ETH Zurich and Infrae are pleased to announce the release of the dynamic Learning Content Management System (dLCMS) 1.6.1. This is an update of the 1.6 series. Continues....

Silva News Network 2.6 beta released

Infrae has just released Silva News Network 2.6 beta. This is the first Silva 2.x compatible release of SNN. While primarily a compatibility release, SNN 2.6 does include a few new features like a category filtering asset, more configuration options for InlineNewsViewers, and support for the "Atom" syndication format. Continues....

OAI Document Library 1.3 Released

Infrae has just released the OAI Document Library 1.3. OAI Document Library is a document management application intended for the tracking of large amounts of documents in an organization. The application is open source. It is also open data: the contents of OAI Document Library can be harvested using the standard OAI-PMH protocol and integrated with other applications. OAI integration with the Silva CMS is provided. Continues....

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