Open Pario

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Open Pario is the official repository for Open Source Ecology's source files.

Contact Mike or Richard -

Richard Schulte ✆

Richard Schulte ✆ admin@openpario.net

open+pario is going through some substantive changes, and we just wanted to make sure that all current and past users are in the loop regarding new developments.

1. Scheduled Downtime:

There will be scheduled downtime tonight at 8pm Pacific Time. We are moving open+pario to a new host (a linode datacenter in NJ, USA), as we are now transitioning from being university affiliated to an independent, not-for-profit organization. The site will be down for one hour. Because of some latency issues (moving 6 gigs of files across the US!), it may be an hour or two after uptime until all file attachments are fully restored. Uploading new files will not be an issue, however.

Also, the site will only be available at openpario.net. All old links to openpario.mime.oregonstate.edu will be temporarily broken until OSU approves a year long 301 redirect that should help us avoid confusion!

Michael Koch and myself (Richard Schulte) are paying out of pocket for all costs associated with open+pario from here on-out! Donations will be gladly accepted once we add a paypal widget to the site this weekend.

2. Bugfixes and Updates:

Tonight, we will be upgrading to the latest version of Redmine - a wonderful Ruby on Rails project management system that makes up most of the tools that open+pario provides. We are aware that there are several outstanding bugs - for example, calendar field issues, attachment size limits, and more. We will fix as many as are feasible by upgrading and moving to a new host tonight, and then open up the open+pario issue queue to members for bug reporting, feature requests, and more.

3. New Features

We will also introduce several new features this weekend. They are designed specifically to make redmine easier to use in an educational and collaborative setting. They will also improve file management. If you chose to remain subscribed to this list, we will send out a message next week that announces these new features, with links to documentation that will explain how to take advantage of them.

Why now? Well, though we thank Oregon State University tremendously for their support since 2009, we are excited to finally have full control over the hosting environment so that we can more flexibly introduce new functionality, fix bugs, and more. This will be quite a game changer for open+pario!

We are also, as I suggested above, going to be opening up a project on open+pario for feature requests, including suggestions of features we have though of ourselves. We will be implementing a voting system so that the community can decide which features will be most useful. Just as a preview:


 * WebGL rendering of 3d models from blender
 * Assetts tab to access all file attachments for a project
 * Thumbnails for image/pdf uploads
 * Private Uploads (for providing assignments to instructors securely)
 * SSL Encryption
 * LaTeK support
 * BOM management
 * Gitolite Access top repos (upload your pubkeys!)
 * R plotting (is that overkill?)

These are just a few ideas, some of which already exist for redmine, others will require custom development. Exciting huh? You can explore what plugins are already out there here: http://openpario.us4.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=92ba5de6d1e8096ece1e7baf2&id=f08e5dd71a&e=12f5a254dd or by searching on github.

I understand that many of you are students who may no longer be using open+pario, however this is the best way we had to reach everyone!

We look forward to continuing to engage the needs of the open+pario community and make it a powerful tool for open and collaborative projects.

Thanks!

Richard Schulte, Community Outreach, Support, Systems etc. open+pario richard@openpario.net richard.j.schulte@gmail.com

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