[Fle3-users] Fle3 is still alive!

[Teemu Leinonen]

Hello all,

Sorry for the cross posting, but I wanted to reach with one message  
all you who are - or at least use to be - interested in the Fle3  
development.

First at all: Fle3 project is alive. :-) We basically have two major  
tracks of development going on. The first one is a huge improvement  
to the direction to achieve our original vision. The second one is  
more technical, but really necessary thing to do. More details here:

-----------------------------------------------
(1) Map view in Knowledge Building
-----------------------------------------------

We are progressing - not fast, but anyway - to have a "map view" in  
the Knowledge Building.

This means that you can have a background image - or just use some  
color as a background - and carry out the knowledge building  
discourse on top of it. The KB notes are then displayed in a space  
where you can drag-and-drop them to different location. You may also  
zoom the map/image and drag-and-drop it.

We do not yet have a demo of the map view online, but the feature is  
based on the Imanote product - another product we have been  
developing - ad from the Imanote screen shots in here:

http://imanote.uiah.fi/screen-shots/

The KB map view is a feature we have been dreaming about and  
(actually designing it, too) already since 1998 :-) Only now there  
are web technologies that really makes this possible. We are very  
excited.

-----------------------------------------------
Fle3 to work with the latest version of Zope
-----------------------------------------------

This is actually a huge task. In the current Fle3 we are using the  
DTML to build the user interface. The latest version of Zope are  
using Zope Page Templates (ZPT), another way to generate web pages.  
The Zope 3 which will be released soon do not anymore support DTML.  
So, this really must be done. In the end of September we will have a  
new developer in the team who will focus only to this task.

Please, send us emails and notes to the Fle3 mailing lists. We love  
to hear about you.

Cheers,

        - Teemu

-----------------------------------------------
Teemu Leinonen
http://www.uiah.fi/~tleinone/
+358 50 351 6796
Media Lab
http://mlab.uiah.fi
University of Art and Design Helsinki
-----------------------------------------------