# Spirit-News is a simple blogging system for the Faculty of Computer Science of the University of Applied Sciences Schmalkalden!

First lines of code were produced by students during a course on functional programming by Professor Braun.
Professor Braun is always seeking for students to improve code and functionality in this open source project!

Features:
* Auth against internal university LDAP Server
* Using Lift 2.1 with Scala 2.8.0 and MongoDB
* News will be directly posted on Twitter and Facebook
* Students can be notified via mailinglists
* lots more.....

In the future it is planned to create a plattform for students, where they can log in, read news ( which is possible now ) and manage their schedule and hopefully a lot more!

NOTICE: This code works with a MongoDB installation, but a login only works inside of the campus network since auth only works with the internal LDAP Server.

We know there is lots of room for improvement on the code. But most people working on it just started with real world programming, so don't be to hard on us ;)!

Ideas, friendly critisism and bugs are always welcomed!

Live version running at http://spirit.fh-schmalkalden.de

Running it on your local machine requires you to have a working Simple Build Tool installation. http://code.google.com/p/simple-build-tool/

Quickstart:

$ sbt
> update
> jetty-run

Then open http://localhost:8080/ in your favourite browser.