Re: News Feed: PHP/Postgresql Advocacy

On Feb 21, 2004, at 5:07 PM, Magnus Hagander wrote:

>> Basically everyone with a website and an rss parser can add the
>> postgresql.org news anytime using our raw feed  at
>> http://www.dotgeek.org/pgnews/news.rss
>
> This is great news - both for my personal aggregator and an internal
> portal site. And thanks for the quick fix of the XML-schema issue on
> the
> original file.

you are welcome.
We made yet another step, there is now a gborg feed available at
http://gborg.postgresql.org/news.rss

>
> Now, if we could also have the events... ;-)
>

yes that is simple to add

> How often is the feed updated?
>

every 2 hours normally

>
>> Oh.. of course if Marc or Dave would like to see/try the
>> sources for an
>> official adoption, all yours, not urgent thou.
>
> I think it would be nice with an official link on www.postgresql.org to
> the RSS feed, and in that case the actual feed should probably be
> located there too.

Thanks for your support. We are now testing the gborg one at
http://gborg.postgresql.org/news.rss and if it works fine we can extend
it to
news and events, provided that everyone/the majority is fine with this
:D

Regards,
David Costa, PostgreSQL Advocate      http://postgresql.org
david at postgresql ddoot org                 gurugeek att php dot net
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