Release Often - Port 25: The Open Source Community at Microsoft
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Release Often by jcannon on July 23, 2006 08:15PM

We’ve rolled out additional updates to the site this past Friday in response to feedback, and created a new section of the site: Forums

You’ll also notice:

  • Threaded comments update – replies are now visible in flat view
  • Count of comments visible on the feature listing page
  • Trackbacks (at last!)
  • Changed the home page font to improve readability
  • New “Mission and Contributors” page with Port 25’s mission and short bios of the lab crew

We are behind on providing transcripts for all of the interviews, but this work is still under way.  It’s important to us both for accessibility and to make it easier for non-English speakers (enabling machine translation).  We got a suggestion to try using Amazon’s Mechanical Turk for transcription but we haven’t tried that yet ;)

Finally, I hope that the podcasts are useful.  I enjoyed learning about Martin Woodward’s work on an open source, cross-platform (Eclipse-based) integration to Team Foundation Server. 

Hope you have a great week,
Sam


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  1. fluke said:

    Nice update!  :)

    Is the ASP for Port25 available on CodePlex?

    posted at 01:04PM 07/25/2006
  2. nmcfarl said:

    If you do want to use mturk for transcription, the easy way is to use my company, CastingWords.  It's what we do - podcast transcription using the mturk workforce.

    posted at 11:31AM 07/26/2006
  3. fluke said:

     Is the removal of whitespace (two or three enters in a row to create blank lines) a purposily done feature?

     I just posted in the ISC DHCPD talkback and it does not read the same without the whitespace.  It just ends up jumbled together.  I'm considering adding lines with just a single character (period or dash) to force whitespace to remain in the formatting.

    posted at 04:59PM 07/26/2006
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