The SF Active team is working towards a new release and all help towards this is much needed / appreciated.

there's a public site running the current cvs version at:
http://sfa.plentyfact.net/

Things that need to be tested:
* normal functioning of the site / admin
* security (xss and so)

If you want to test the admin parts, feel free to contact us or drop by at #sf-active in irc.

It would be cool if people can play with it and submit all bugs at the bugtracker, wishlist bugs/ feature requests should go here

February 2005: SF-Active developers have met and established a road map towards a 1.0 stable release. Features and changes for 1.0 include:

• Complete Admin Overhaul: New design, new GUI editors, new widgets system.
• Static Mirroring: Ability to fully mirror (by language) static sf-active sites on many servers.
• Syndication: Rewrite of syndication with many ways to configure outgoing or incoming syndication.
• Client/Server Framework: A framework to allow python-based daemons to schedule and fulfill tasks initiated by an sf-active server.
• Code Cleanup and Documentation: The final lingering code clean-up tasks, complete developer's API documentation, and user documentation updated.

This should be the most stable, complete sf-active release to date. An exact schedule for release is not set yet, however a 0.9.8 release will come out before the 1.0 final version.

September 11, 2004 - sf-active v0.9.4 is released in memory of those who lost lives, families or freedom during the US-supported Pinochet military coup in Chile which began on September 11, 1973.

A brief overview of changes to the code:

• Admin Control of Languages
• Many many bugfixes
• Taming Webcast Table Project
• Static Mini-Calendar
• Major Documentation Upgrades
• Sf-Active FAQ
• GPL-license add

A complete changelog can be found here

Dependencies:

• php 4.3.3 (install the cli as well)
• mysql 4 (3.23 should do for most)
• gd2

Download Sf-Active 0.9.4 | changelog / registro de cambios | overview changed files | release announcement / anuncio de lanzamiento

SF-ACTIVE IS LOOKING FOR VOLUNTEERS

We're currently looking for people who can volunteer on sf-active. We need people for coding, sql-improvements, site-administration, writing & translating documentation.

You can find additional info here

about sf-active

sf-active is a collection of object-oriented classes for content management, open publishing and news syndication. All the pages needed to run an indymedia site are built and distributed with the code. sf-active uses PHP4, MySQL and the Apache webserver. The design goals are:

1. Shared, reusable code for easy maintenance of indymedia servers
2. Separation of logic and presentation
3. Easy-to-use content management system