Charon (ˈʃærən) is intended for communities of people, institutions or companies who blog. It aggregates all the feeds of the community into a single feed which all the participants can read to stay informed. It's concept, a proven and popular communication method of the Free and Open Source Software community, and basic functionality is borrowed from the software planet. However, Charon adds a couple of nifty features like administration through your browser, user self-service, categories and personalized feeds.

Getting more knowledge around the tools that drive the web page behind software.opensuse.org - and maybe trying to solve some issues reported on https://github.com/openSUSE/software-o-o

Why a Dashboard?

In the YaST team we use quite a lot of external or internal services like GitHub, Travis, Jenkins, Open Build Service, Bugzilla, Trello,... It is too difficult and time consuming to track all those tools and get an overview what is OK, what failed and what actions should we take to resolve the problems.

Telegram is a proprietary messenger that gained some popularity recently. It has FOSS client, API and binding for the API. It has private chats, group chats and "channels". Channels are content feeds. RSS allows users to access updates to online content in a standardized, computer-readable format.