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 = tycker - a web-based ticker input form =
 
+
+== Overview ==
+
 tycker offers a very simple interface to be used for entering ticker information.
 Each entry consists of the current time, a title and content.
 The content may be written in wikicreole syntax:
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 generate the desired layout.
 Generated html files are stored in the parent directory of tycker's base directory.
 
+
+== Installation ==
+
+Debian-based systems:
+* apt-get install python-bobo python-genshi python-sqlobject
+
+Additionally you need a wsgi-capable webserver. The most popular solution
+would be the following:
+* apt-get install libapache2-mod-wsgi
+
+Get the sources and extract them within the tree of your webserver:
+* svn co https://svn.systemausfall.org/svn/codekasten/tycker /var/www/tycker
+
+Maybe you will need to enable "AllowOverride FileInfo Options" for this
+directory. Take a look at .htaccess for details.
+Alternatively you can also use "WSGIScriptAlias" directive
+(http://code.google.com/p/modwsgi/wiki/ConfigurationDirectives) for a
+cleaner URL.
+
+
+== Configuration ==
+
+Configuration is currently done via five settings:
+* DATE_FORMAT = "%H:%M %d.%m.%Y"
+** how the date is represented (and parsed) in the input field
+* PAGE_SIZE = 10
+** how many ticker entries should be displayed per html output file
+* FILENAME_TEMPLATE = "ticker%d.html"
+** basename of the resulting html files
+* FULL_PATH_FILENAME_TEMPLATE = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, os.path.pardir, FILENAME_TEMPLATE)
+** absolute path of the result html file (by default: in the parent directory
+   of tycker's base directory)
+
+Probably you will want to configure some http-authentifaction to protect your
+tycker directory from unintended access.
+
+
+== Usage ==
+
+Point your webbrowser to the installation directory:
+* http://localhost/tycker/tycker.py/
+
+The result is available (by default) at:
+* http://localhost/ticker1.html
+
+
+== Bug reports / feedback ==
+Just send a mail to devel@sumpralle.de.
+