Here's an email I sent today to all people who are registered for Gnomedex...

Good morning and Happy Father's Day!

As you may know, I have been working on an OPML Editor. It's an outliner,
grown out of last year's open source release of Frontier, and is itself open
source, licensed under the GPL.

Its native file format is OPML, the standard format for lists of RSS feed
subscriptions. So you can use the OPML Editor to open and edit subscription
lists for all the major feed readers and aggregators, tune them up, merge
them and split them, publish and share them. Finally, there's a rational way
to edit the subscription lists.

OPML has also become the standard format for the podcasting directories. All
the nodes in the community directory are edited in OPML, many of them by
hand. Now there's a tool that's designed for exactly this purpose.

The OPML Editor is good for all kinds of lists, directories, project
planning, designs. The tool can be used by professionals and managers,
doctors, professors, lawyers, accountants, writers -- basically anyone who
thinks for a living.

Another way of looking at it -- RSS is great for news, but not everything is
news, some things, like the distance between the Earth and the Sun, or the
elements of the periodic table, don't change. Or change slowly, like the
teams in major league baseball, or the top home run hitters. For information
like that, knowledge, representing the relationships between nuggets is
what's important, and that's where outliners like the OPML Editor, that's
now in beta, excel.

It's so exciting that we're all going to be getting together later this week
in Seattle, and I wanted to take this opportunity to invite any of you who
are coming to be part of our test group. To me, it's an incredible
opportunity to have face-to-face discussions with people who have used the
software and have ideas they want to share.

Would you like to be in the test group?

If you would like to be part of the test group, please reply to this email
as soon as you can. Note that I will be travelling on Wednesday, and may be
hard to reach after that, since I'll be actively schmoozing with Chris and
Ponzi and everyone else at Gnomedex.

And I'm totally looking forward to seeing you at Gnomedex in Seattle! (I
hear the weather will be great.)

Dave Winer
Gnomedex Keynoter

PS: I know this is terrible, but the software is only available for Windows
at this time. We're looking for Mac people with experience designing user
interfaces with MacBird. As soon as the dialogs are converted we'll begin a
Mac test group.

# Posted by Dave Winer on 6/19/05; 3:24:33 PM - --