[maemo-community] Community annoucements

[From: Andrew Flegg]

On 28 June 2012 20:44, Craig Woodward <woody at rochester.rr.com> wrote:
>
> Unfortunately, the feed service for the site does not offer a self-signup e-mail
> version.

  1) Subscribe council at maemo.org here:
        https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-community

  2) Write code to parse RSS here:
        http://maemo.org/community/council/rss.xml

  3) Write code to send parsed RSS as email:
        --------8<--------
        From: "Community Council blog" <council at maemo.org>
        Subject: [Council] $item->{title}
        To: "Maemo Community mailing list" <maemo-community at maemo.org>

        $parsedText

        -- /* sig sep, note space after two dashes */
        This was automatically syndicated from the Maemo Community Council
        blog: http://maemo.org/community/council/
        For more information on the Maemo Community Council, visit the
        homepage: http://wiki.maemo.org/Community_Council
        -------->8--------

This'd be a good test for people talking about community
infrastructure. If they can't write a Perl/Python/Ruby/... script to
do this in less than an hour, they're not qualified to be involved ;-)

Cheers,

Andrew

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