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diff --git a/_posts/2011-07-04-asktheeu-and-informata-zyrtare-at-okcon201.markdown b/_posts/2011-07-04-asktheeu-and-informata-zyrtare-at-okcon201.markdown index 89c4c0bce..e61907bee 100644 --- a/_posts/2011-07-04-asktheeu-and-informata-zyrtare-at-okcon201.markdown +++ b/_posts/2011-07-04-asktheeu-and-informata-zyrtare-at-okcon201.markdown @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ _AskTheEu_ will help NGOs, journalists and citizens to exercise their right to k The right to know at a European level is based around access to _documents_ rather than information. This means that all emails should be accompanied by the correct boilerplate text to ensure that they count as FOI requests. European-level software also opens up some interesting localisation issues: a request can be made in any language, but the information in the response can just be supplied in the original language. We agreed that for the initial launch we'll just invite people to use Comments to provide informal summaries in other languages, but longer term we might consider some kind of community-run translation service. -Another interesting localisation challenge will be providing user support. A successful Alaveteli site [needs plenty of resources to keep it running](https://github.com/mysociety/alaveteli/wiki/Adminstrator%27s-manual): responding to legal requests, providing tech support, helping people to progress with difficult requests for information. _[WhatDoTheyKnow](http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/)_ usually has 3 or 4 active volunteers supporting it at any one time – and that's just in English. Providing great support in 21 or more languages will need considerable community involvement. +Another interesting localisation challenge will be providing user support. A successful Alaveteli site [needs plenty of resources to keep it running](/running/admin_manual): responding to legal requests, providing tech support, helping people to progress with difficult requests for information. _[WhatDoTheyKnow](http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/)_ usually has 3 or 4 active volunteers supporting it at any one time – and that's just in English. Providing great support in 21 or more languages will need considerable community involvement. _Informata Zyrtare_ will launch in three languages: Albanian, Serbian and English. As the majority of requests are expected to be in Albanian, and there are plenty of bilingual speakers available, support is less likely to be an issue. The team from FLOSSK has been busy working on internationalising the Alaveteli templates and already has a working prototype site in three languages. diff --git a/_posts/2011-07-13-forks-and-themes.markdown b/_posts/2011-07-13-forks-and-themes.markdown index 0edc0207e..adb59b67e 100644 --- a/_posts/2011-07-13-forks-and-themes.markdown +++ b/_posts/2011-07-13-forks-and-themes.markdown @@ -24,4 +24,4 @@ _Merging_ is the process of taking someone else's changes and mixing them with This is now complete, which means we can once again start to benefit from each others' work. -As a side effect, I needed to come up with ways to keep customisations separate from the core code. All such customisations should now live in "themes", which I have [started to document](https://github.com/mysociety/alaveteli/blob/master/doc/THEMES.md). One such theme is the Informata Zyrtare theme, which is now on Github, should anyone want to experiment with it. +As a side effect, I needed to come up with ways to keep customisations separate from the core code. All such customisations should now live in "themes", which I have [started to document](/customising/themes). One such theme is the Informata Zyrtare theme, which is now on Github, should anyone want to experiment with it. diff --git a/_posts/2011-07-13-pret-a-porter-alaveteli.markdown b/_posts/2011-07-13-pret-a-porter-alaveteli.markdown index cff884d1a..cf8a679a0 100644 --- a/_posts/2011-07-13-pret-a-porter-alaveteli.markdown +++ b/_posts/2011-07-13-pret-a-porter-alaveteli.markdown @@ -16,10 +16,10 @@ As part of my recent work on the Alaveteli code, I've needed to repeatedly test It seemed a good idea while I was doing this to set up an Amazon Machine Image (AMI). This means that anyone with a correctly set up Amazon Web Services account can get a running Alaveteli server with just a few clicks. Not only does it have the core software deployed, it also comes with a web server and mail server configured, so it should in theory just work out of the box. -[caption id="attachment_22" align="alignnone" width="517" caption="Alaveteli instancces running in EC2"][](http://blogs.mysociety.org/alaveteliorg/files/2011/07/ec2.png)[/caption] +[caption id="attachment_22" align="alignnone" width="517" caption="Alaveteli instances running in EC2"][](http://blogs.mysociety.org/alaveteliorg/files/2011/07/ec2.png)[/caption] As a nice side-effect, it means I can run the automated tests really quickly by running them on an "xlarge" EC2 instance (which is equivalent to a server with 14Gb of memory). People thinking of trying out Alaveteli should therefore consider using the AMI to get started quickly; not least because new AWS customers have access to a "[free tier](http://aws.amazon.com/free/)" for a year. -The only down side is that actually getting started with EC2 can be a bit fiddly if you've never done it before. [Read more about the AMI on the Alaveteli wiki](https://github.com/mysociety/alaveteli/wiki/Alaveteli-ec2-ami). +The only down side is that actually getting started with EC2 can be a bit fiddly if you've never done it before. [Read more about the AMI here](/installing/ami). diff --git a/_posts/2011-07-29-you-need-volunteers-to-make-your-website-work.markdown b/_posts/2011-07-29-you-need-volunteers-to-make-your-website-work.markdown index 2bf77195a..9de9214ba 100644 --- a/_posts/2011-07-29-you-need-volunteers-to-make-your-website-work.markdown +++ b/_posts/2011-07-29-you-need-volunteers-to-make-your-website-work.markdown @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ categories: - Uncategorised --- -A successful Alaveteli website is nothing without its volunteers. These are people who care so much about transparency and the right to know that they are motivated to help run a busy website. There's [some detail on the wiki](https://github.com/mysociety/alaveteli/wiki/Adminstrator%27s-manual), but in short, volunteers do things like: +A successful Alaveteli website is nothing without its volunteers. These are people who care so much about transparency and the right to know that they are motivated to help run a busy website. There's [some details here](/running/admin_manual), but in short, volunteers do things like: diff --git a/_posts/2011-09-20-how-to-get-started-with-an-alaveteli-site.markdown b/_posts/2011-09-20-how-to-get-started-with-an-alaveteli-site.markdown index f8f7a0cfa..629aa889d 100644 --- a/_posts/2011-09-20-how-to-get-started-with-an-alaveteli-site.markdown +++ b/_posts/2011-09-20-how-to-get-started-with-an-alaveteli-site.markdown @@ -11,4 +11,4 @@ categories: - Partners --- -Just a quick blog post to note that there's now a rudimentary [Getting Started](https://github.com/mysociety/alaveteli/wiki/Getting-started) guide, which is recommended reading for anyone thinking of starting their own Alaveteli website. +Just a quick blog post to note that there's now a rudimentary [Getting Started](/getting_started) guide, which is recommended reading for anyone thinking of starting their own Alaveteli website. diff --git a/_posts/2011-10-15-a-general-update.markdown b/_posts/2011-10-15-a-general-update.markdown index ac0b219d3..be6ee4630 100644 --- a/_posts/2011-10-15-a-general-update.markdown +++ b/_posts/2011-10-15-a-general-update.markdown @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ categories: As I'm about to go on paternity leave, I thought it would be a good time to summarise what's been happening the last few months. -The Alaveteli software is starting to look in reasonable shape. We have a lovely new theme designed by Nick Mason of [thetuttroom.com](http://www.thetuttroom.com), which can be seen on the new test server set up at [http://test.alaveteli.org](http://test.alaveteli.org). It no longer takes a day or more to install the software; we have some way to go to achieve a 5-minute install, but the[ documentation is better](https://github.com/mysociety/alaveteli/blob/master/doc/INSTALL.md), and it's [now possible to run a development version on Mac OS X](https://github.com/mysociety/alaveteli/wiki/OS-X-Quickstart). +The Alaveteli software is starting to look in reasonable shape. We have a lovely new theme designed by Nick Mason of [thetuttroom.com](http://www.thetuttroom.com), which can be seen on the new test server set up at [http://test.alaveteli.org](http://test.alaveteli.org). It no longer takes a day or more to install the software; we have some way to go to achieve a 5-minute install, but the[ documentation is better](/installing), and it's [now possible to run a development version on Mac OS X](/installing/macos). There have been lots of small improvements to the user interface, such as the beginnings of a [user-friendly advanced search](http://test.alaveteli.org/en/search), and a better way for the user to decide who followup messages should go to. In the backend, moderators' lives are getting a bit easier now that user alert bounces are handled automatically. There's also now some spam protection in the form of reCaptchas (only for users coming from abroad). Finally, the software performs around 30% faster on [WhatDoTheyKnow](http://www.whatdotheyknow.com), thanks to new caching settings and a better backend storage system for emails. @@ -20,6 +20,6 @@ On the development front, we have adopted the [git flow model](http://nvie.com/p Beyond the software itself, the most exciting news is that there are now two more Alaveteli websites launched: [AskTheEU](http://www.asktheeu.org) and [InformataZyrtare](http://informatazyrtare.org) (Kosovo). The sites look great, and the first requests are starting to come in. -Over the next few months, we hope to continue to support groups in other countries who are hoping to launch Alaveteli websites. We also hope to learn from the recent new launches to make it easier to customise and deploy Alaveteli. If you're thinking about using Alaveteli, please have a read of our new [Getting Started guide](https://github.com/mysociety/alaveteli/wiki/Getting-started), and get in touch! +Over the next few months, we hope to continue to support groups in other countries who are hoping to launch Alaveteli websites. We also hope to learn from the recent new launches to make it easier to customise and deploy Alaveteli. If you're thinking about using Alaveteli, please have a read of our new [Getting Started guide](/getting_started), and get in touch! diff --git a/_posts/2012-06-20-alaveteli-0-6-fancy-admin-released.markdown b/_posts/2012-06-20-alaveteli-0-6-fancy-admin-released.markdown index 780a93529..e07eac7cc 100644 --- a/_posts/2012-06-20-alaveteli-0-6-fancy-admin-released.markdown +++ b/_posts/2012-06-20-alaveteli-0-6-fancy-admin-released.markdown @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ categories: - Development --- -Finally Alaveteli 0.6 is out of the door! Grab it from the [github master branch](https://github.com/mysociety/alaveteli/) and try it out. The most obvious new feature is a glossy new administrative interface, based on work started at AlaveteliCon by [@wombleton](https://twitter.com/#%21/wombleton). If you are upgrading, be sure to read the upgrade notes in [CHANGES.md](https://github.com/mysociety/alaveteli/blob/master/doc/CHANGES.md), and the [new section in the install docs](https://github.com/mysociety/alaveteli/blob/master/doc/INSTALL.md#upgrading-alaveteli) about upgrading Alavetel[i](https://github.com/mysociety/alaveteli/blob/master/doc/INSTALL.md#upgrading-alaveteli). Drop a note to the [alaveteli-dev mailing list](http://groups.google.com/group/alaveteli-dev) if you need any help with your upgrade. +Finally Alaveteli 0.6 is out of the door! Grab it from the [github master branch](https://github.com/mysociety/alaveteli/) and try it out. The most obvious new feature is a glossy new administrative interface, based on work started at AlaveteliCon by [@wombleton](https://twitter.com/#%21/wombleton). If you are upgrading, be sure to read the upgrade notes in [CHANGES.md](https://github.com/mysociety/alaveteli/blob/master/doc/CHANGES.md), and the [new section in the install docs](/installing/manual_install#upgrading-alaveteli) about upgrading Alavetel[i](https://github.com/mysociety/alaveteli/blob/master/doc/INSTALL.md#upgrading-alaveteli). Drop a note to the [alaveteli-dev mailing list](http://groups.google.com/group/alaveteli-dev) if you need any help with your upgrade. [A full list of changes](https://github.com/mysociety/alaveteli/issues?milestone=13&state=closed) is on Github. Interesting features and bugfixes include: diff --git a/_posts/2012-06-28-api-update-now-you-can-create-and-update-requests.markdown b/_posts/2012-06-28-api-update-now-you-can-create-and-update-requests.markdown index acabd54f8..76254e4d9 100644 --- a/_posts/2012-06-28-api-update-now-you-can-create-and-update-requests.markdown +++ b/_posts/2012-06-28-api-update-now-you-can-create-and-update-requests.markdown @@ -10,4 +10,4 @@ categories: - Uncategorised --- -Version 0.6.1 of the software was recently released with an urgent security update. Also included in this release was an extension of Alaveteli's API, which allows developers to write apps that create and update requests on a per-public body basis. There's the start of some documentation [on the wiki](https://github.com/mysociety/alaveteli/wiki/API). +Version 0.6.1 of the software was recently released with an urgent security update. Also included in this release was an extension of Alaveteli's API, which allows developers to write apps that create and update requests on a per-public body basis. There's the start of some documentation [here](/developers/api). diff --git a/_posts/2013-06-12-454.markdown b/_posts/2013-06-12-454.markdown index 37b3856d5..eaf0901f1 100644 --- a/_posts/2013-06-12-454.markdown +++ b/_posts/2013-06-12-454.markdown @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ Alaveteli will now be using the Rails 3 series - the series we were previously r Rails cognoscenti will be aware that series 4.0 is imminent - and that we've only upgraded to 3.1 when 3.2 is available. We will be upgrading further in due course - it seemed sensible to progress in smaller steps. But meanwhile, we're happy with this upgrade! The bulk of the work was done by Henare Degan and Matthew Landauer of the [Open Australia Foundation](http://www.openaustraliafoundation.org.au/), as volunteers - and we are immensely grateful to them. Thanks, guys. -[Find the Alaveteli code here](https://github.com/mysociety/alaveteli/) - or read our [guide to getting started](https://github.com/mysociety/alaveteli/wiki/Getting-started). +[Find the Alaveteli code here](https://github.com/mysociety/alaveteli/) - or read our [guide to getting started](/getting_started). **This entry is cross-posted from the [main mySociety blog](http://www.mysociety.org/2013/06/04/alaveteli-gets-an-upgrade/).** |