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Kete 1.1 is now available with a giant helping of new features and improvements. This is also the first release where you can grab Kete from our code repository's new home at Github.com. See the downloads page for details or browse the code online at http://github.com/kete/kete/.
- Privacy Control - ability to designate any item version within a basket as only viewable to its members (guide
Kete is an open source Ruby on Rails application. As such it exists in a vibrant technical community where people are constantly reevaluating how to do things.
When Kete started, Subversion was the version control software of choice. Subversion was a big step up from other systems, such as CVS. However it did have some annoyances. There was some experimentation with other distributed version control systems like Mercurial. After some debate, the Rails community has largely settled on Git (http://git.or.cz/) and the Ruby on Rails project repository is a Git repository.
It didn't stop there though, the project eventually moved its
The Creative Commons Australia national conference is getting underway here at the State Library of Queensland in Brisbane. I'll update this post through out the day with highlights and items relevant to the Kete project.
Updates:
9:10 -
Jessica Coates has just given a rundown of the day. I'm excited to see the new works that are being created under the CC in Australia. It's nice to have a conference that mixes legal and logistic issues with the arts that are effected.
9:30 -
Rachel Cobcroft is talking about the newly launched wiki for CC Australia case studies. We
