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jonnyv · Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2006 2:22 am Post subject: DC News

As the description for this forum says, each BOINC project publishes their news items in an RSS feed. This makes it easy to gather them all in one place, which is what I'm attempting to do here. Unfortunately, it seems that they don't include the project name in the news item titles, so we end up with titles like "Project news for Feb 15, 2006" (project info is included in the bodies). That just won't work if we're going to have half a dozen or more projects' worth of news items here. I'll try to figure out a way to have the project name inserted into the title. In the meantime, updates will be intermittent as I mess around with it. Once I get that figured out, I'll add the feeds for the other projects and automate the process of updating.

I haven't decided whether I want to allow replies, or keep this to simply a news forum, so for the moment, I'm going to leave it open to replies. Please, try to keep any discussion on the topic of the individual news items, or about this whole experiment itself.

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jonnyv · Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2006 4:32 pm Post subject:

UPDATE: AthlonRob showed me how to get the project name inserted into to the topic title. There is one slight issue at this point - if the project posts more than one news update in a given day, the rss reader will only grab the first one. That shouldn't be a huge issue, so I'll work on fixing that later. I'll add the rest of the DC-project news feeds that I know about later tonight. I'm sure I'll miss a few, so if there's a project news feed that you'd like included, let me know.
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jonnyv · Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2006 10:30 pm Post subject:

I've added the RSS feeds of every BOINC project listed on our BOINC stats plus uFluids and Leiden Classical. If there are any other DC projects out there with RSS newsfeeds that you would like to see added, please let me know. The news is set to be retrieved once an hour 15 minutes after the hour (4:15, 5:15, 6:15, etc).
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jonnyv · Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2006 1:46 am Post subject:

The current list of project feeds:

BBC CPDN
BURP
CPDN
CPDN Attribution - for some reason, it's only adding the oldest entry in the feed even though there are newer ones
Einstein@Home
Leiden Classical
LHC Alpha
LHC@Home
Malaria Control
Predictor@Home
Primegrid
Ralph@Home
Rosetta@Home
Seti@Home
SIMAP
SZTAKI
uFluids
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Grawlfang · Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2006 5:46 pm Post subject:

Nothing yet from Planetquest Sad

that's one project I'm waiting to see get moving.
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UBT - Halifax--lad · Squire Joined: 19 Apr 2006 Posts: 11

Don't know if this helps but if you take a peep at our forum and click the link to project news its shows up all the news from the BOINC Projects

UBT Forum

or the direct link there for the lazy peeps

Project News

PS: Hope you don't mind me posting that, just wanted to show you what we got
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jonnyv · Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 11:17 am Post subject:

So I can regain the functionality of "new posts since last visit" for myself, I've created a new account "KWSN - News" which will be posting all of the DC news from now on.
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Killerrabbit · Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 5:08 pm Post subject:

Creating a another post ho?

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jonnyv · Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2006 2:15 pm Post subject:

CPDN has an invalid character "&" in their RSS feed. Since they were the 3rd feed in the list, this was preventing all the other feeds from updating. I've deleted CPDN from the list for the time being. If someone wants to contact the powers that be at CPDN and get them to fix their feed, that'd be great.
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JerWA · Prince Joined: 01 Jan 2007 Posts: 1497 Location: WA, USA

Don't suppose there's any chance of this being updated to include the 25 or so projects it's missing?
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jonnyv · Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2007 7:22 pm Post subject:

You may have noticed the small update to the number of projects in the RSS list.

The current list:

ABC@home
APS@home
BBC CPDN
BRaTS@Home
BURP
Chess960
CPDN
CPDN Attribution
DepSpid
DIMES
Docking@Home
Einstein@Home
Eternity2.net
Folding@home
HashClash
Leiden Classical
LHC Alpha
LHC@Home
Malaria Control
Nano Hive
Poem@Home
Predictor@Home
Primegrid
PS3GRID
QMC@Home
Ralph@Home
Rectilinear Crossing Number
RenderFarm
RieselSieve
Rosetta@Home
SciLINC
Seti@Home
SHA-1 Collision Search Graz
SIMAP
Spinhenge
Superlink@Technion
SZTAKI
TANPAKU
The Lattice Project
uFluids
vtu@home

I tried to add Cosmology@Home as well, but their feed isn't valid xml. Since that causes the feed reader to break, I left them out. I also updated a few of the older projects with the current locations of their feeds.
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jonnyv · Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2007 2:20 am Post subject:

Cosmology fixed their rss, so they've been added.
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jonnyv · Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 9:13 pm Post subject:

Milkyway@Home added. No word on Snickers.
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mohrorless · Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2007 6:38 am Post subject:

jonnyv · Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2007 2:48 am Post subject:

A few updates:

LHC - new location for their RSS
LHC Alpha - doesn't exist anymore: deleted
Hashclash - doesn't exist anymore: deleted
Eternity2 - doesn't exist as a BOINC or DC project anymore - deleted
Cosmology - new location for their RSS
Renderfarm - doesn't appear to exist anymore: deleted
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jonnyv · Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 3:19 am Post subject:

I had to delete SZTAKI - they've got invalid RSS and it's causing the importer to crash. There's a blank line at the start of the XML file. Can somebody who's active on that project contact the admins and let them know? This bug is also why there's a massive influx of news - the crashing was preventing the other news from being imported (since December 24).
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