It's been long overdue to set up this EduForge site for Feed2JS - a project that started back in 2003 with my own experiments in how to make RSS data usable by non technical web page owners.
This project originally resided on a server I ran while working for the Maricopa Community colleges at http://jade.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/feed/ -- which was serving up some 10000 different feeds cached per day. Since I left Maricopa in April 2006, and unure if the server would be maintained (and the server seems to be MIA), I have moved the primary public site to its own host at http://feed2js.org/ on a server donated by Modevia Web Services.
A long detailed history sits now at http://feed2js.org/index.php?s=history
It's always been my intent to move the code to an open source forge site so others could contribute to the code (I am aware that manhy have done their onw imrovements), so this is the starting point (I need to learn a bit more about all the EduForge Tools, but they are awesome).
This site will allow people interested in contributing to the code to join as developers, and others just interested in using it to participate via the discussion forums and wiki.
For the short term, things I'd hope to see happen include:
- better provisions for mirror server support, perhaps via AJAX approaches that would known when a server is not responding and not hang a page when this happens
- better interface for the build a feed tool (maybe an AJAX preview mode)
- Addition of features to allow keyword filtering of output
- Anything others can offer to improve efficiency of the code
Stay tuned....
