This is the OpenACS Community System. OpenACS (Open ArsDigita Community System) is an advanced toolkit for building scalable, community-oriented web applications. The original ACS, which formed the foundation of OpenACS is described in http://photo.net/wtr/thebook/community.html The original ACS was Copyright (C) 1995-2000 ArsDigita Corporation and, in some cases, individual authors. OpenACS is a community created and supported software system, visit http://openacs.org for more information. The major change in OpenACS 4.x is its database-independence; it can use either PostgreSQL (7.1 or later) or Oracle (8.1.6 or later). This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA -------------- Documentation for this system is at viewable via your favorite browser at http://openacs.org/doc For installation instructions, please see http://openacs.org/4/ Once your service is up and running, this same documenation is available at http://yourservicename/www/doc/ The release notes for this release are available at packages/acs-core-docs/www/release-notes/. This is an early development version of OpenACS 4.x. Production use is NOT recommended. Please report bugs via http://openacs.org/sdm