It Keeps me Abreast of the Future 
It's worth a look.
sharing LA InterMix Hub
The  
InterMix  
Web Club 
 
 InterMix is Community Software for the Web with messaging, cataloging and collaborative filtering capabilities that set it apart.  InterMix is designed to promote unity within a diverse community.  The civic/non-profit community is our number one target here in Los Angeles.  Check out: sharing LA, civic forum and community resource database.

Soon to be available on SourceForge.net.   SourceForge Logo 
InterMix is free software with open source. It is owned by Collective Communication, Inc., a California non-profit with 501(c)(3) status. InterMix is licensed under the GNU Public License.  You can download and modify at no charge, but you can distribute your changes only under the same GNU license.

Major features include: xml forms control, ratings, filtering, threads that can cross forum boundaries, forum nesting to any depth and much much more.  Coming this fall: email access, virtual private networks and the ability to extend a basic form with xml "extensions".
 

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The sixth beta release, including source, is now available for download. InterMix 0.9.06 runs as a Standard or Windows CGI program with any cgi capable Windows NT or Windows 95/98 web server. The InterMix server is written with Delphi 4.0, a popular 32 bit visual environment for the object oriented Pascal programming language from Inprise (Borland)  -- soon in 5.0.

Delphi is going to be available for the Linux operating system in mid 2000, and the word is that Delphi programs written for Windows will be portable to Linux without too much trouble.  Getting InterMix onto Linux will substantially improve our visibility in the open source arena.

Join us in the development effort. Tell us what you're doing with it and we'll list it here.

In the spirit of fidonet, InterMix also targets a Windows 2000 user with dsl or a broadband cable hookup who wants to co-publish a globally shared catalog on the web.  The database of ALL music.  The database of ALL books.  And inevitably, the database of ALL people.  Such huge databases can only come about as a collaborative effort of tens of thousands of users, each collecting and making available their own portion of the database on their own InterMix system.  This is doable.

John Crane did the major work to get InterMix off the ground, codewise.  Roger Eaton is now the chief coder, with portions of the development farmed out to CygNET in India.

InterMix -- INTERnet Metropolitan Information eXchange. Aka XimRetni, our very own word coined so the search engines will find exactly us.

A short list of public Delphi resources

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page maintained by Roger Eaton and Flemming Funch

InterMix is also known as XimRetni so the search engines will find us, exactly.
Last changed May 28, 2000.

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