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What is Scoop
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Scoop is a "collaborative media application". It falls somewhere between a
content management system, a web bulletin board system, and a weblog.
Scoop is designed to enable your website to become a community. It empowers
your visitors to be the producers of the site, contributing news and discussion,
and making sure that the signal remains high.
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Check out what other people have done with Scoop.
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New Scoop Sites
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rudepeople.com in need of a makeover
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by rudedude, Announcements
New Music Site ... in Scoop
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by MightyD, Announcements
Trees and Things is Coming Out
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by 3fingerspointback, Announcements
TalkLeft Moves to Scoop
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by TalkLeft, Announcements
SciScoop Science Forum
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by sciencebase, Announcements
New Site: "Field Gulls" Unofficial Seattle Seahawks Blog
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by Paul Shrug, Announcements
More New Scoop Sites...
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Where can I get Scoop
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You can download the latest release tarball: scoop_1.1.8.tar.gz
You can grab the nightly build. Note: This is generated automatically from the current CVS, and may not be reliable! Get that here: scoop-1.1-nightly.tar.gz
The developers strongly recommend CVS as the primary way to obtain Scoop, since releases tend to have pretty long delays between them. If you have CVS installed, do the following:
cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@ scoop.versionhost.com:/cvs/scoop login
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@ scoop.versionhost.com:/cvs/scoop co scoop
The above is two commands; each one must be on a single line. When prompted for a password for anonymous, enter 'anonymous' (without the quotes). For more CVS info, "Open Source Development with CVS" is an excellent online reference.
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Where can I get help
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There are several sources of information and support for Scoop. The first place to look is the scoop-help mailing list. You can browse the archives, or join the list. If you want to post a question, joining the list is strongly recommended. You can also join the #scoop IRC channel on SlashNET.
For documentation, there is the (largely complete) Scoop administrator's guide. You can also read the current
README and
INSTALL files, from Scoop WebCVS (username and password are both "anonymous"). The admin guide is also included with Scoop, in the doc/ directory.
If you have new feature ideas or requests, or descriptions of something you're working on for Scoop, this site is the place to submit them. You can also search this site for information. If you want to get your hands dirty, or have any questions about developing for Scoop, there is also the Scoop-dev list. You can browse the archives, or join the list.
Bug reports and patches should be filed on the Scoop Bug Muncher.
If you have any problems with this site or your user account, e-mail the Admin
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SciScoop Science Forum
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By sciencebase , Section New Scoop Sites []
Posted on Wed Jun 28, 2006 at 12:00:00 PM PST
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Not exactly new, but an update.
For those interested in science the SciScoop Science Forum has (almost) everything, including a Controversial Conjectures category, where members can post their most bizarre theories about life, the universe, and everything. Some of these even make it to the front page, much to the chagrin of those who vote and comment against them, but, hey, that's democracy.
Last mention on kuro5hin announced 1000 members for sciscoop, we're fast approaching the 2000 mark and are adding new features as we go. Last time, I checked the site was getting about 150,000 visitors a month overall.
If you've got a sci-tech bent, check out SciScoop.
db
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New Site: "Field Gulls" Unofficial Seattle Seahawks Blog
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By Paul Shrug , Section New Scoop Sites []
Posted on Mon Jun 19, 2006 at 12:00:00 PM PST
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Field Gulls is the new, unofficial Seattle Seahawks under the banner of SportsBlogs Nation of high-quality, caffeinated pro sports blogs. It's up and ready for use and reasonable abuse.
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New Site: Ventura Disc Golf
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By chiggins , Section New Scoop Sites []
Posted on Thu Jun 01, 2006 at 12:00:00 PM PST
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Ventura Disc Golf is now running on Scoop, and we're looking forward to having the local disc golf community contribute news, events, tips, and reviews. There's still parts of the site that need polishing, but for the most part we couldn't be happier with how it's turning out.
And of course, this announcement wouldn't be complete without a big Thank You to everyone in the Scoop Development community for making this possible. Keep up the great work, folks.
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OpenID!
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By freyley , Section Wishlist []
Posted on Sat May 27, 2006 at 12:00:00 PM PST
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Scoop should be an OpenID client and server. OpenID is a distributed authentication system that allows people to have a login at one site and use that as a login at another. This would allow scoop sites to be the "main site" for users, as well as visiting users to login without making a whole new account. Fewer passwords, things like that.
The libraries exist at OpenID Enabled and it probably wouldn't be too hard. I'm unfamiliar with either the code or the territory: anyone have suggestions for how to get this discussed and/or written?
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Scoop 1.1.7 Released
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By Captain_Tenille , Section News []
Posted on Tue May 09, 2006 at 12:00:00 PM PST
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This is a subminor release of Scoop, with some bugfixe. In the future, we'd like to get in the habit of making little point releases like this more often between the more major releases, so the changes aren't as drastic.
The main reason this release is being made right now, though, right before we expect to start making prerelease candidates for Scoop 1.2 is that this will probably be the last release of Scoop that will only have support for Apache 1.3.x. After this, Scoop will support both Apache 1.3.x and Apache 2.0, so it was decided that there should be a definite point where Apache 2.0 support was added. After this release is that point.
Scoop 1.1.7 can be downloaded as scoop_1.1.7.tar.gz.
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New Business Site on Scoop
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By RobM , Section New Scoop Sites []
Posted on Wed Mar 29, 2006 at 12:00:00 PM PST
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We launched Jotzel recently, a site focusing on business news stories and blogs. I really like Scoop's functionality.
I have to say that I'm a little ticked off at all the press being given to Digg, the "democratic Slashdot." Scoop was originally written for that concept, and beat Digg to the punch by what, 5 years? Plus I like the fact that Scoop sites stop voting on articles once they are published, thus avoiding the "popularity breeds more popularity" effect of sites like Digg.
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The mailing list archives have returned
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By janra , Section News []
Posted on Sat Mar 25, 2006 at 12:00:00 PM PST
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The list archives for scoop-help, scoop-dev, and scoop-checkins have been restored back to the beginnings of the respective lists. (In the case of scoop-help, this is April, 2000.)
Apologies to anybody attempting to search the list archives for help with Scoop in the months they were not available.
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HOWTO: Installing Scoop with Apache2 on Debian
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By theantix , Section Code []
Posted on Fri Mar 10, 2006 at 12:00:00 PM PST
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Something I did for myself, but I've noticed a couple other people wanting to do the same or similar thing so here is a HOWTO on the steps I used to accomplish this purpose.
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