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on Aug. 11 2007

Nominations for the Open Source CMS Award, 2007

05:57 pm

Help us to help you!
Rhodes, Nick has drawn this to our attention, and you are kindly encouraged to nominate YACS before end of August. This will take only two minutes of your time, and each vote can make a difference. Many thanks for your contribution.

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on Jul. 6 2007

YACS 7.6, a major version

10:57 pm

After only two months of hard work, we are proud to release this brand new piece of software.
We promised you more of web 2.0, and a large part of this has been made available, including a tag cloud, the integration of Google maps, and user-driven content classification similar to what Digg is doing.

New authentication schemes have been implemented to leverage e-mail boxes, meaning YACS allows you to stretch your community to billions of people with ease.

YACS has been made stronger on URL rewriting as well, with the clear intent to fight sharply on SEO battle front.

There are so many new things in YACS 7.6 that some time will be required to document these progressively. Will Summer time be enough?

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on June 18 2007

Alors, Paris, capitale du libre ?

10:25 pm

Quelques notes prises pendant la conférence du 13 juin 2007, relative à l'impact du logiciel libre sur les services informatiques
Peu de monde dans la salle et pourtant l'animation fut de bonne qualité. Animateur-journaliste rodé à l'exercice.

Pierre Audoin Conseil en introduction

Le chiffre d'affaires 2006 lié au libre représente 450M euros en France, à peu près équivalent à celui de l'Allemagne, et ce chiffre nous positionne devant les autres pays de notre petite planète. Si si.

Ceci représente entre 1,5% et 2% du chiffre d'affaire total en informatique en france, donc il y a encore du chemin à faire ...

A l'horizon 2009, le chiffre d'affaires lié au libre atteindra le milliard d'euros en France. Ceci représente une croissance de 40% à 60% par an.

Le succès du libre en France s'explique par une forte culture du sur-mesure et du spécifique. La répartition est d'environ 84% pour le blended source et 16% pour l'open source.

L'usage du libre dans les projets est privilégié pour l'infrastructure (banalisation du service, type Apache pour le web) ou, à l'autre extrémité, pour le super-critique et l'innovation (exemple: business intelligence)

Le marché était traditionnellement structuré autour des éditeurs et des SSII. L'apparition des SSLL et des communautés change ce paysage, sans doute de façon durable.

linagora

Linagora annonce sa croissance par consolidation avec une autre société du secteur, pour atteindre 100 personnes environ.

Pour Linagora, la croissance du libre en france s'est faite essentiellement sur les marchés publics jusqu'à présent, mais est en train de se rééquilibrer sur le marché privé. En gros, le marché public recherche des solutions industrielles d'infrastructure, alors que dans le secteur commercial l'intérêt est plutôt dans les applis et les desktops.

L'ambition de Linagora est d'évoluer d'un statut de SSLL à celui d'éditeur à service ajouté. En gros, dans le schéma traditionnel, cela revient pour la société à se substituer à l'éditeur vis à vis de l'utilisateur final.

Aujourd'hui, la voie est plutôt aux packages qu'aux solutions. Tof, tu les as payés ou quoi ?

Reste la question essentielle dans les business cases, autour du financement de la mutualisation. Qui la fait et comment ?

IBM

Pour le géant internatioal de l'informatique, pas de surprise. Même pour le libre, le succès se mesure suivant deux critères :
  • intégration dans l'existant
  • business model


Sur le plan technologique, le plus important est le respect des standards. Le logiciel libre en découle, et non le contraire.

steria

Le directeur développement explique l'intérêt du logiciel libre pour l'entreprise :
  • open source = forte croissance (60% par an c'est pas rien)
  • qualité du code = fiabilité (nécesaire pour les applications critiques et temps réel)
  • le respect des processus du libre et des people facilite la motivation des collaborateurs


april

En réalité, il y a un continuum qui va de l'éditeur à l'intégrateur.

L'avantage économique engendré par le libre provient de l'accompagnement de la diffusion et de la mondialisation des connaissances permises par les nouvelles technologies. Ne pas faire du libre, et dresser des barrières à l'usage, est aussi efficace économiquement que d'entasser quelques tas de sable en face d'un tsunami.

En revanche, la définition d'un business case n'est jamais évidente, et il faut prendre en compte des critères indirects :
  • time to market
  • innovation
  • agilité dans le changement
  • coopération à l'échelle internationale


Le plus souvent, on aboutit à un modèle par la demande (plutôt que par les coûts) bâti sur la valeur d usage du logiciel libre.

Paradoxalement, le développement des communautés à grande échelle s'apuie sur des petites structures, et il n'est pas dit que le logiciel libre vive les concentrations habituelles dans d'autres secteurs.

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on June 4 2007

TinyMCE is a great WYSIWYG editor

09:50 pm ~ 7.4

Some days ago I have activated the TinyMCE editor, which is fully WYSYWYG, on my account, with the aim to assess how this would enhance the comfort of contributing to this site.

I had a similar test some time ago with FCKEditor, but reverted to the bare textarea mode because of some conflicts with direct inclusion of HTML tags.

At the end of the day, TinyMCE is very pleasant to use. The full-screen mode, in particular, helps a lot on long or complex articles. And the editor is preserving YACS codes, meaning a smooth integration of my previous skills...

Of course, the editor has been integrated in most forms, and it is available to create articles, but also comments, to sections, to categories, and even to user profiles. Enjoy!

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on May 24 2007

Towards web 2.0

09:21 pm

On every release YACS is providing more of the web 2.0 promise. The version 7.5 is no exception, and the integration of Google Maps and the addition of a tag cloud is a significant step to this moving, yet exciting target.

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on Apr. 26 2007

YACS has been agile for a while...

08:56 pm

... even if I have signed the Agile manifesto only recently.

" We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and helping others do it. Through this work we have come to value:
  • Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
  • Working software over comprehensive documentation
  • Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
  • Responding to change over following a plan


That is, while there is value in the items on the right, we value the items on the left more. "


The Manifesto for Agile Software Development has popped up late 2001, and this has given us plenty of time to digest related ideas before starting the YACS initiative.

Since its inception, YACS is about applying agile principles exposed above to the development an open-source piece of software. No more, no less.

If you are new to YACS, you may ask yourself: "What should I do to become a smart community member?" Well, the answer may be quite long, and they are a number of things to consider. But, at least, you can start with an easy step: read the manifesto, understand it, and sign it.

This may become the very first item checked during our future certification process anyway...

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on Apr. 6 2007

Yetanother in Italian...

08:38 pm

You will not notice this if you are speaking French, English or another language except Italian.

But for people who are using Italian-based browsers, this site has suddenly became a friendly place, because all menus and commands have turned to this language.

For this to happen, I have simply added translation files submitted by Luginbuhl Anselmo, who speaks Italian as mother language, and who has gently translated 5600+ strings that are part of YACS in this language.

If you want to do the same at your web site, visit the repository of translations, download the archive that contains Italian strings, and upload files to your server.

For those who want to translate YACS, we have published the full set of English strings used throughout the software. To spot differences with previous versions, the easiest way is to look at [article=how_to_cvs]. And we have started a Translator handbook, including software tools to use.

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on Mar. 31 2007

Warning, server has been upgraded

02:30 pm

Because of the growing success of this site we had to move to adjusted resources. This has happen tonight, and yetanother... is now hosted at a XXLPLAN of OVH. Before we were using a 90Plan. We apologize for inconvenience related to this transfer, if any.

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on Mar. 23 2007

YACS version 7.3 is coming

10:37 pm

This version confirms the move to professional solutions, with the addition of LDAP authentication, and with the support of background processing through cron.

Audio, music and podcasts will be better supported as well with the addition of dewplayer (in French), a small Flash player for automatic in-line audio rendering.

Ease of use has been improved, with easy locking/unlocking of sections and articles.

Overall, [section=219] have been made available in this version.

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on Mar. 11 2007

YACS brings the French touch to the web

09:13 pm

France has given a lot to the World, including at least the famous "Déclaration des droits de l'homme et du citoyen" (in English: "The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen") and famous cooking recipes.

YACS can be considered as a tentative effort to bring both things to the web.

YACS opens the web to the humankind

" All the citizens are equally admissible to all public dignities, places, and employments, according to their capacity and without distinction other than that of their virtues and of their talents.
-- from Article VI of the Declaration "


While drafters of the declaration had not anticipated the Internet, this has become a very important place-to-be, and the French team that has initiated the YACS project is aiming to support web presence of every citizen or, more generally, human being.

YACS helps cooking chiefs

" French cuisine is considered to be one of the world's most refined and elegant styles of cooking, and is renowned for both its classical ("haute cuisine") and provincial styles.
-- from Wikipedia "


Actually, what surprise many tourists is that French cuisine is characterized by its extreme diversity, and style. YACS reflects this as well. Whether you are looking for a blog, for a wiki, for a forum, for a dynamic planning of your events, or for something else, you have powerful mechanisms to put these in place, eventually within one server. And do not hesitate to submit new requirements, we have a profound respect for ideas coming from other people. Listening is the right way to improve cooking recipes and web sites, right?

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