Between February 2005 and March 2006 we have successfully restructured and consolidated OpenPKG into three distinct organizational units:
openpkg.ORG openpkg.COM openpkg.NET OpenPKG Project OpenPKG Corporation OpenPKG Foundation OpenPKG OpenPKG GmbH OpenPKG Foundation e.V. Rules & Results Services & Support Equipment & Evangelism While the OpenPKG Project remains the organizational head and central interface of OpenPKG and continues to provide the project rules and product results, the OpenPKG Corporation provides commercial services and support to OpenPKG business customers and the OpenPKG Foundation provides both the computing and manpower resources and the social network and evangelism of OpenPKG. Each organizational unit now stays under a fully separate administration domain and is located on its own independent computing environment. Nevertheless, as intentionally all three strongly belong together, their Web sites were now finally cleaned up, consolidated and migrating onto a new shared uniform visual representation. They even share the contents of their top-level pages now ;-) You can find OpenPKG now under the URLs: http://www.openpkg.org/ http://www.openpkg.com/ http://www.openpkg.net/ The three new websites were mostly re-created from scratch and now hopefully provide a much better structured information pool for OpenPKG. A few highlights are: - On the right hand upper side of each top-level page the active messages of the new OpenPKG News Ticker are displayed in a rotated way. The News Ticker is a global information and its full content can be found under http://www.openpkg.org/news/. We'll use this global News Ticker from now on to announce OpenPKG related news messages at a central place. - At the bottom of each page there is mini Search form and link to the larger search form under http://meta.openpkg.org/global-search.php. With this you can search all three websites at once. The database is updated once per day. This way you should be able to more quickly find your information. - Also at the bottom of each page there is a link to the global Sitemap under http://meta.openpkg.org/global-sitemap.php. Use this to have an all-at-once overview of the three websites. - Under http://www.openpkg.org/news/feeds.php you now find 4 distinct News Feeds which provide information about CVS Repository transactions, FTP Download Service file changes, published Security Advisories and the News Ticker. The format is Atom/1.0 and RSS/1.0 and this way allow you to subscribe to those news feed channels with your favorite content syndication application. - Under http://www.openpkg.org/download/ you find a page for easy accessing the FTP Download Service. Just enter you registered Email address and this way both store it in a cookie and open the restricted FTP download areas. After this you can just click onto the areas in the matrix and this way directly access the area without having to fiddle around with the FTP URLs and their escaping. - Under http://www.openpkg.org/download/registration/ you can now find a small overview of the OpenPKG Registry procedure for those of you who are still not registered as an OpenPKG Fellow. The overview hopefully reduces the resistance at least to some extend. - Under http://www.openpkg.org/documentation/faq/ the F.A.Q. is online again. This time DHTML based and this way hopefully easier to read. Just click on your question and the answer opens or closes. Or click "ALL" at the top to open all answers for reading everything at once. - Under http://www.openpkg.org/security/advisories/ you now find the Security Advisories. We tried to assemble them in a compact overview page to give you easy and quick access to each advisory. If you see any remaining design, content or structuring problems, please do not hesitate and just drop me a note... Yours, Ralf S. Engelschall [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.engelschall.com ______________________________________________________________________ The OpenPKG Project www.openpkg.org User Communication List openpkg-users@openpkg.org
