General (backend) infrastructure

• install some news2rss thingy, e.g.
  • News2RSS
  • nntp2rss
• install RSS-Plugin for TWiki at http://netfrag.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/WebChanges?skin=rss:
  • http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Codev/RichSiteSummary
  • http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Codev/WikiRssExtension
• publish rss-feeds to http://netfrag.org/rss/ for performance reasons (cronjob)
• install basic xmlrpc-daemon @ netfrag.org (methods: ping, giveScalar, giveArray, giveHash, fraggleSync)
• patch php-frontend of mnoGoSearch to return results as rss-items

Python libraries

• XML-RPC: py-xmlrpc
• RSS & Co.:
  • RssLibraries
  • RSS for Python
  • PyRSS2Gen
  • A Python library for working with messages
  • RSS and stuff
  • Redland RDF Application Framework
• Twisted maybe worth a look...