Welcome to the Oscailt website! Oscailt is an independent media centre content management system developed by the Indymedia Ireland Tech Group, and written using PHP and MySql. The word "Oscailt" is an Irish word meaning "open" and is pronounced kind of like us-kilt or us-cult or us-culch depending upon your accent.

Current Features

• A newswire and feature page allowing the publishing of features, stories, comments, images, audio, video and other files.
• A search engine and filtering mechanism allowing stories to be viewed by topic, region, type, media type and much more.
• An easy to use administration section allowing items to be hidden, deleted, upgraded and downgraded with automatic notifications sent to an editorial mailing list.
• A client side(webserver) sql query cache drastically reduces the load on your database with most page accesses being cached and requiring no database access at all!
• RSS and Javascript newsfeed syndication.
• An RSS newswire allowing RSS newsfeeds from other sites to be displayed, such as the Global Indymedia newsfeed (implemented with the Magpie RSS Parser).
• A latest comments and calendar view of the newswire(archives) allow easier navigation
• An event calendar.
• A frontpage headlines section which displays all the latest news divided by topic, region, and upcoming events.
• Easy customisation of the site look and feel using stylesheets.
• Automatic selection of custom stylesheets and banner logos for specific topics, regions, languages or combinations thereof.
• Mono lingual filter which allows a specific language filter to be applied automatically based on a browsers language preferences.
• A fully searchable image gallery
• A category exclusion mechanism allowing the newswire to be broken into multiple sub-newswires such as "Events" or "Other Press"

Download

Oscailt is freely available to use and download under the terms of the GPL. The download package contains the code, the latest release notes, design notes, customisation guide, faq, and install guide.

To download the latest version go to the oscailt project page on sourceforge

Developers

Oscailt is a continually evolving codebase and all contributions are welcome. To submit code please sign up as a user on sourceforge and contact the project administrator asking to join.

All discussion concerning Oscailt takes place on the Indymedia Ireland Tech Group Mailing List. Please subscribe if you wish to play a part in Oscailt's future development.

Bear in mind when submitting code that the primary focus of Oscailt is to serve the needs of Indymedia Ireland and this will be the primary factor in deciding whether to integrate submitted code. That said, the needs of Indymedia Ireland probably overlap a great deal with the needs of other independent media centres, so the code should be generally useful. And even then, as the code is open source you are free to create and maintain your own derivative branch if you so wish.

Let Us Know

If you use Oscailt on your own site, we'd love to hear about it, or if you have any questions, make sure to let us know! Also if you wish to keep up to date on latest releases or suggest new features subscribe to the Indymedia Ireland Tech Group Mailing List.

Give Us Your Cash!!

If you use Oscailt and want to express your gratitude financially to the Indymedia Ireland Tech Group, we're only too happy to oblige ;-) To donate money just go to the Indymedia Ireland Donations page and you can send us money via paypal.

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