Free from publishers weekly software for linux

Panda Publisher provides a lightweight, standards-compliant content management system.
Panda Publisher is a lightweight content management system. It aims to be fast, scalable, standards-compliant and meta-data rich in order to serve page viewers better and allow Web masters to concentrate on writing content rather than all the little things that make visiting Web sites easier for users.
Meta-data is created on the fly to ensure that it is up-to-date. Menus, Site Maps, Searches, etc. are all generated automatically to give consistent navigation to the end user.
Enhancements:
- Shiny new installer
- Standards Compliance improvements
- Fixed style sheet selector in admin
- New Offline-mode
- Code clean-ups
- Security Fixes

SomaList is a part of the Soma project.

Soma project started in summer 2003 to manage the digital version of an acitvists radio old spools.

The first release just gave just the chance to play random some audio files in a directory using an external program (at that time mpg123). In despite of that this software was never used, i kept on thinking about soma project for some weeks, until i started directly to work with a group called Reload, which was experimenting at the time a project called "eterete" and creating a place for a web radio at Pergola Tribe (a selfmanaged house in Milan).

We used, of course, a release, which was a little bit better to manage the radio-playlist and of course we implemented the software itself. From september till december soma became a software suite, configurable through file and (remote administration...). Thats thanks to the relationships and the inputs that such a community like Reload can create.

A group of passionate activists was able to make broadcastings and broadcast schedules, to find out new problems and to give implementation advices. They also suggest me the idea that soma (originally a simple play-list manager) could become a programs suite, which has a player, a software for deferred broadcasting, a more user friendly admininstration, documentation and distribution.

Some time after came soma player and soma admin. The player was still very behind compared to my implementation ideas. Somadmin was straight away on line and advertised on radio.inventati.org/somadmin/

In January 2004 we showed Soma at the first italian (web and air-waves) radio meeting in Naples.The meeting was technologically and politically profitable and it was an attempt to build up a real radio-network. Radio.inventati.org was actually the only example od direct cooperation among even very different people: individuals, improvised groups, very old and movement radios and experiences from overseas countries.

On the web site there are occasional streamings, weekly streamings, and 24hrs music flows.

The object of the technical research was a digital environment, which could let individuals or whole communities gain access to a common schedule with resum?s,
repetitions, deferred programs, live broadcastings, regular broadcastings as one national and international network. Soma could satisfy this need and could be easly managed through the web thanks to somadmin, which could update the soma admin in real time.

The developments went on. Somaplayer is now reality. The only music player which can stream directly an mp3, an ogg vorbis, a wav, a track from an audio cd or a streaming directly on an icecast server (icecast 2 or shoutcast) or just play it on a computer using sound drivers or sound daemons.

At the moment more other people work at this project, who debug the software, write docs, work at the website and make installation packages (for debian).

PROPS is an open, extensible Internet publishing system designed specifically for periodicals such as newspapers and magazines who want to publish online, either exclusively or as an extension of their print publication.
PROPS is written entirely in PHP4 using a MySQL database backend, and is free software released under the GNU General Public License (GPL).
Main features:
- Easy to install
- Well-documented, robust API allowing third party developers to create plug-ins to extend base functionality
- Delivery of content to multiple target platforms (HTML, XML/XSL, WAP/WML, text, etc)
- Readers may format a story for printing, or email to a friend
- Pages are presented as static URLs so that spider type search engines may crawl and index them
- Strict separation of design and content - designers control site look and feel by developing templates using standard site editing tools such as Dreamweaver, GoLive, BBEdit, etc., while editors manage site content via a web interface
- Permissions-based multiuser site management screens allow a PROPS site to be maintained by a distributed team of reporters and editors
- Will support the XML-based News Industry Text Format
- Will speak various XML dialects for both import and export, allowing syndication in both directions, and enabling PROPS sites to participate in distributed news networks
- Is targeted at mid-sized publishers serving fewer than one million page views daily, however will be architected to scale through deployment of multiple front-end web servers, separate image servers, etc.

PoJoe Component Libraries project is a set of Java POJO components, originally developed for OSMQ. Developers have found these components useful in building robust enterprise applications.
Of note are: a FIFO queue that utilizes memory until a size threshold is reached, paging overflow elements to a disk cache; a dynamic discovery mechanism for locating remote processes by name over an IP network, eliminating the need to identify a remote service with a specific host computer; and a set of peer-to-peer async message components that support n concurrent message publishers for each named subscriber.
Enhancements:
- Minor enhancements and bugfixes, and changing the license from GNU Lesser to Apache 2.0.

OpenDDS is an open-source C++ implementation of the Object Management Groups Data Distribution Service for Real-time Systems specification (version 1.0). This project implements most of the minimum profile of the Data-Centric Publish-Subscribe (DCPS) layer of the DDS specification.
DDS provides demanding applications with a high-level, object-oriented publish-subscribe model while enabling efficient, direct data transfer between publishers and subscribers. More information about the OMGs DDS specification can be found at the OMG Data Distribution portal.
OpenDDS is built on the ACE (ADAPTIVE Communication Environment) abstraction layer to provide platform portability. OpenDDS also leverages capabilities of TAO (The ACE ORB), such as its IDL compiler and as the basis of the OpenDDS DCPS Information Repository (DCPSInfoRepo). In addition, OpenDDS leverages MPC to ease the maintenance burden of supporting multiple build environments and platforms. For a current list of supported platforms and build environments, see the OpenDDS FAQ.
Enhancements:
- Support for built-in CORBA:: sequences was added.
- DDS entities have changed to local IDL types and now support zero-copy reads.
- User-defined DDS types are now correctly scoped.

MMBase is a Web Content Management System with strong multi media features and advanced portal functionalities. MMBase also has a large installed base in The Netherlands, and is used by major Dutch broadcasters, publishers, educational institutes, national and local governments.
MMBase is written in Java, it is Open Source Software (MPL) and all standards used are as open as possible. The system can be used with all major operating systems, application servers and databases.
Enhancements:
- The MMBase community released its latest and greatest MMBase release today: version 1.8.0. A long anticipated release which packs a lot of new features and applications: optimized and cleaner code, new datatypes and improvements on fields, new taglib features like integration with EL, configurable caching mechanisms, RichText and other functionalities.