OPML Editor community volunteer discussion

Need a reviewer or three

Could I have some comments on a draft howto page about distributed directories?

It would be good to have opinions both from people who already know how to make them and people who don't. Thanks.

Tools that understand OPML directory

Blair sent me the "Tools that understand OPML" file he started on.

I've put in a few more on the list I started, combing Lisa's blog. The Library Clips guy also seems to review all the tools so that would be a good place to look. Maybe he'd like to maintain the directory, if he had some node helpers. Anybody know him, willing to ask? It would be a good demonstration project.

I'm not going to be able to do it myself.

Setting up three directories today

Here's the the start of the first one:

Community-made OPML Editor tools.

Still assuming we're going to be making the 1.0 site in Manila, the directories in the production site would look something like that, unless we want to adopt some of the Javascript rendering stuff, which people might like.

When there are already links on a given level of the Manila directory, a link called "Suggest a link" appears. It leads to a form that sends e-mail to the editor of OPML file, keeping the maintenance distributed.

It must grab the e-mail address from the owneremail element of the OPML file. That will be a trickle-down change needed with OPML 2.0.

Note on docs

In filling in a few more blanks on the "What the editor does" page I can see we'll need a volunteer editor for the Word Press tool instructions.

I can't find Lisa's manual draft now, so I can't tell if she's done that part or not. I don't think so. Pretty soon we have to work out how to integrate the bits of manuals and how-tos. I guess I've been thinking that Lisa's manual would be the base and could have inclusions?

Synchronization tool: anyone remember?

Early on in the beta, probably late summer, someone made a tool making it a little more automatic to do the files changed since thing described here.

Anybody know who, where? Thanks.