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  ArsDigita Community System Administration Documentation
Since the members of the community cannot communicate face-to-face, they need software to record their interactions and display their conversations in a manner best suited to illuminating the task at hand.
This is an important point: if you are community system administrator and you are the kind of person who hates to read manuals, then feel free to skip the rest of this document, but read this section.
This capability is key for the traditional online communities for which the toolkit was originally designed, and also for the more newer applications such as ecommerce and company intranets to which the system has been adapted.
www-swiss.ai.mit.edu /~rfrankel/introadmin.html   (4082 words)

  
 Community
A community is a group of people with varying degrees of expertise in which the experts attempt to help the novices improve their skills.
Given the Internet's raw communication capability and huge pool of potential friends, if you want to make a really great friend you just need a means of finding someone who shares your interests and then a means of collaborating with him or her.
Our new innovative community software system will require an underlying relational database management system that, though not innovative, also tends to be expensive to purchase and maintain (more on that in the "Choosing a Relational Database" chapter).
philip.greenspun.com /panda/community   (5188 words)

  
 ArsDigita Community System Installation Instructions
All ArsDigita software packages, including the ACS, rely on a basket of utility procedures that are generally part of the AOLserver installation.
the community system depends on the existence of three database pools: main, subquery, and log.
If you want to take an operating ArsDigita Community System and use it as the basis of a new toolkit release, then what you want is the script at /admin/conversion/make-acs-dist (only works if you have zsh installed).
www.eveandersson.com /doc/installation   (1048 words)

  
 Overview
Element 4, that a community will not be scalable unless there are semi-automatic means of delegation of moderation, is novel as is the implementation discussed in Chapter 3.
Element 5, that costly community members must be identified and converted to supportable members, is novel as are the means outlined to determine a member's administration cost and the means that I've implemented and tested to exclude persistently costly members.
The discussion forum system described in the community chapter incorporates a primitive formal language in which users can specify which messages they want and with what frequency.
philip.greenspun.com /panda/thesis/overview   (4500 words)

  
 non-linear creations inc. || 2001
ArsDigita's application development framework, the ArsDigita Community System (ACS), includes a set of integrated applications that support a customer's core e-business requirements.
Specifically, ArsDigita's software enables solutions for content management, knowledge management, collaboration and commerce that provide the flexibility to adapt for an organization's future growth and rapid development, while enabling low total cost of ownership.
ArsDigita is the leading provider of open source e-business software and solutions.
www.nonlinear.ca /pages/147_170.htm   (501 words)

  
 ArsDigita: From Start-Up to Bust-Up
The ArsDigita of Greylock, General Atlantic, and Allen had nearly 200 with lots of new executive positions at $200,000 or over, programmers at base salaries of $125,000, etc. Contributing to the high cost structure was the new culture of working 9-5 Monday through Friday.
Communicating and sharing such is a major theme that flows forth thru his prose as I read his writtings.
Communications with the new CEO were unreasonable and frustrating.
waxy.org /random/arsdigita   (13765 words)

  
 User Groups   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
There are many applications of the ArsDigita Community System in which we need to lump users together.
Note that these rows don't store too much info about the groups, beyond their names (e.g., "CS 101, Introduction to computer languages not used in industry"), whether the group has been approved by the site administrator, and whether new members must be approved.
There are a bunch of places within the ArsDigita Community System where users need to be lumped together.
www.pps.org /doc/user-groups.html   (658 words)

  
 ArsDigita Community System FAQ
Some of the basic ArsDigita Community System modules are available as free services.
ArsDigita Community System Conventions are held quarterly in Cambridge and San Franscisco.
We conduct 3-5 week boot camps covering the core skills needed to install, configure and extend the ArsDigita Community System and the ArsDigita Server Architecture.
philip.greenspun.com /doc/arsdigita-faq.html   (947 words)

  
 Using the ArsDigita Community System
If your community is large and contains an overwhelming number of documents, it might be good to use the curriculum module to guide new users through a set of important tutorial documents.
ArsDigita is a company with $15 million in annual revenue (as of November 1999), doubling every six months.
The trade-offs would be to use the Apache webserver with its larger development and user community group, and to establish the ACS for a subset of Apache configurations.
philip.greenspun.com /wtr/using-the-acs   (4591 words)

  
 ArsDigita Community System (4.x)
The ArsDigita Community System (ACS) is a suite of open-source software providing a variety of collaboration, publishing and monitoring functions for both web site users and administrators.
The ACS offers many of the features and capabilities important to a large, dynamic website, including catalog e-commerce, a shared searchable file system, web-based content management, and a spectrum of community applications: collaborative calendaring, discussion boards, chat, messaging, and shared bookmarks.
This is the 4.2 release of the ArsDigita Community System (ACS).
www.eveandersson.com /arsdigita/acs-repository/acs-4-2   (156 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
It was created by Philip Greenspun and his friends/coworkers at ArsDigita.
For a brief summary see John Lowry's The ArsDigita Community System.
ArsDigita has written a suberb guide to installing the ACS, that supercedes what I've written for the most part.
www.openknowledge.org /acs   (247 words)

  
 Information Technologies
ISWorld Net mission is to provide information management scholars and practitioners with a single entry point to resources related to information systems technology and promote the development of an international information infrastructure that will dramatically improve the world's ability to use information systems for creating, disseminating, and applying knowledge.
CVW is a collaboration software environment that provides a "virtual building" where teams can communicate, collaborate, and share information, regardless of their geographic location.
It is, in essence, a remote display system which allows you to view a computing 'desktop' environment not only on the machine where it is running, but from anywhere on the Internet and from a wide variety of machine architectures.
www.insead.fr /CALT/Encyclopedia/ComputerSciences   (1824 words)

  
 Business Wire: Oracle Works with ArsDigita to Create an Online Community for iDevelop2000 Attendees
ArsDigita Corporation, the worldwide leader in software solutions for collaborative commerce, announces that the open-source ArsDigita Community System (ACS) suite of e-business applications powers the online community for iDevelop2000, Oracle's premier event for the Internet developer community.
ArsDigita Corporation is the worldwide leader in software solutions for collaborative commerce.
Some of the world's largest organizations rely on the ArsDigita Community System (ACS), the company's open-source, freely distributed suite of applications, to drive their online success.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2000_Sept_18/ai_65276567   (556 words)

  
 Title
In contrast, a system that provides authentication ensures that the person sending or receiving the data is indeed who they claim to be.
This design is intended to be an example of a simple system that follows the hints provided in Section 3.
The lifetime of the authenticator determines how vulnerable the system is; systems which employ a shorter authenticator lifetime will have to reauthenticate more often, but will have tighter bounds on the damage that a successful eavesdropping adversary can accomplish.
www.usenix.org /events/sec01/fu/fu_html/index.html   (10049 words)

  
 COMP4011 - Problem Set 2 - 01s1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
You can build this from scratch or use the ArsDigita Community System toolkit API calls in http://software.arsdigita.com/tcl/ad-table-display.tcl as a building block.
You could build this program from scratch, but we already have a documented, debugged toolkit, the ArsDigita Community System, designed to support communities of users, subsets of which are collected into groups.
This will enable your system to handle gracefully situations in which a room is renamed because a rich person has donated money or because CATS decides to upgrade their system for "compatibility" with NSS and renames every room on campus.
www.cse.unsw.edu.au /~cs4011/01s2/pset/pset2.html   (4061 words)

  
 ArsDigita Community System Version History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Spam system supports tcl templates, encoding and sending of multipart MIME messages containing text/HTML, and uses new user email_type preference to decide which content type to send.
The system includes a revised and simplified user interface and comes out from its hiding place under /admin/.
Added a content section to /parameters/ad.ini; useful for telling the ACS where the site map is and also whether the index page should be generated or served from a static file (the average publisher is going to want to take special care with the root page of the site).
www.innova.uned.es /doc/version-history   (4217 words)

  
 Abstract URL System
a layer underneath the ArsDigita Community System by Philip Greenspun and Jon Salz
The main engineering ideas behind the ArsDigita Community System are (1) data models, (2) sequences of URLs that lead up to transactions, and (3) the specifications for those transactions.
Find a file in the file system with the provided URL as the root (i.e., some file exists which is the URL plus some extension).
www.tomhull.com /doc/abstract-url.html   (733 words)

  
 Webmasters Guide   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
to the ArsDigita Community System by Philip Greenspun
Generally, the ArsDigita Community System allows anything to be commentable.
If a link is unreachable on three successive tries (separated by at least 24 hours), the ArsDigita Community System will ignore it in the future (though you can still recover it from the database).
www.pps.org /doc/webmasters   (453 words)

  
 OpenACS: The Community is the Content   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
OpenACS and is predecessors where pioneers in online community toolkits and OpenACS is still the online toolkit that builds everything from the model of users, groups, and how they interact.
I did a google search for the phrase "the community is the content" and found some interesting results.
Next I searched for "MIT CogNet Arsdigita" and found a great gallery of sites built on ACS from the past.
www.thedesignexperience.org /weblog/one-entry?entry%5fid=76932   (253 words)

  
 ArsDigita Archives
ArsDigita Corporation no longer exists, but there are a few things worth preserving.
Source code and description of all software released by ArsDigita, including the ArsDigita Community System.
ArsDigita: From Start-Up to Bust-Up by Philip Greenspun
www.eveandersson.com /arsdigita   (152 words)

  
 ipedia.com: OpenACS Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Open Architecture Community System is an advanced Open Source toolkit for developing community web applications licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL.
Open Architecture Community System (OpenACS) is an advanced Open Source toolkit for developing community web applications licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL.
In 2002, after the ACS code tree forked, the Tcl code base came to be maintained by the OpenACS project.
www.ipedia.com /openacs.html   (202 words)

  
 ACS Bookmarks Release 4.1.1b   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The application is distributed under the GNU publich licence from the ArsDigita Community System Repository.
An administrator may check all urls in the system (in one package instance) and may opt to delete those that are not responding.
It is possible to see a list of the domains that have the most bookmarks in the system as well as a list of the urls that have been bookmarked most times.
mytlc.com /doc/bookmarks   (1243 words)

  
 ArsDigita Community System Documentation
Member value: a way of accumulating charges for users and then billing them out at the end of each month (commercial sites) or excluding them from the community if the charges get too high (non-commercial)
Here we link to plans that are in the works; it is a collaboration area for ACS programmers.
This software is mostly Copyright 1995-2000 ArsDigita Corporation and licensed under the GNU General Public License, version 2 (June 1991).
www.eveandersson.com /doc   (740 words)

  
 OpenACS Home
OpenACS (Open Architecture Community System) is a toolkit for building scalable, community-oriented web applications.
The installation documentation contains all the necessary steps to install OpenACS on a large variety of systems.
Jade Rubick's ever increasing body of intimate knowledge of OpenACS is a great resource for the newbie and the guru.
www.openacs.org   (322 words)

  
 Civilution: Tools for evolving civilizations   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
This is an amazingly complicated and expensive undertaking, so it's a good thing that no one does it anymore.
The Rise of Toolkits, namely the Open Arsdigita Community System In the past few years, some very powerful toolkits have come along that implement the basic nuts-and-bolts machinery of most collaborative websites.
OpenACS, is in fact Open Source, free to copy, and is being used, upgraded and maintained every day by a community of many thousands of web professionals.
www.civilution.com /salespitch4.html   (216 words)

  
 One-day ACS Course   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
This way if you're flying in with some new people in your organization, they can come up to speed on the basics without making an extra trip.
smart business ideas from all the people who are building Web services using the ArsDigita Community System (remember that each one is saving at least 6 months in development time and $1 million by using ACS)
ArsDigita Community System foundation (core modules; why they are there; how they work; how the administrator drives them)
www.photo.net /teaching/one-day-acs.html   (246 words)

  
 ArsDigita Community System FAQ   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
It takes you through the detailed steps necessary to build a working system from a bare hard drive through a basic ACS install.
Once you have a working ACS installation, there are several utilities written by ArsDigita that can be installed to ensure that the server keeps running reliably.
is taught by ArsDigita at MIT and Caltech.
www.procuraduria-admon.gob.pa:8000 /doc/acs-faq.html   (916 words)

  
 ArsDigita Community System Documentation
/global/forbidden.html is served by AOLserver when the nsperm system isn't happy and refuses to say why (not sure why this should ever happen)
If you want to have a reliable service, you should read and apply this installation guide for the ArsDigita Server Architecture (don't confuse this with the ACS intallation guide in /doc/installation.html).
This software is mostly Copyright 1995-99 Philip Greenspun and licensed under the GNU General Public License, version 2 (June 1991).
ryanlee.org /doc   (1148 words)

  
 5.5. Working with XML Data in ArsDigita Community System   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The ArsDigita philosophy is not to put stuff into our toolkit that is part of the core Oracle RDBMS.
The XML support is made possible by the fact that the core Oracle server is capable of running programs in procedural languages such as Java and PL/SQL.
It applies the transformation to the document and updates the xmldocs table with the transformed version of the XML document, which can then be retrieved as before.
www.wgbh.org /doc/working-with-xml.html   (1310 words)

  
 onewwworld.com: a guide to business, strategy, and stupidity
The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier Revised Edition and the free web-version...
MIT's Philip Greenspun is the witty founder of ArsDigita, one of my favorite companies.
In April, Sinclair communications corporate counsel decided to pull a special Nightline broadcast devoted to reading the names of those fallen in combat from their 8 ABC affiliates
www.onewwworld.com   (4986 words)

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