[Chicago] Integrated wiki + forums

Garrett Smith g at rrett.us.com
Thu Oct 16 23:27:51 CEST 2008


A couple marque apps (e.g. MediaWiki + WordPress), tied together with a simple skin and common authentication scheme would work.

Wow, that'd be a proof of concept!

----- "Ian Bicking" <ianb at colorstudy.com> wrote:

> Bob Haugen wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 3:31 PM, Ian Bicking <ianb at colorstudy.com>
> wrote:
> >> Garrett Smith wrote:
> >>> This looks pretty cool. It's nice to have something that's
> tackling
> >>> the "composite application" story in Python. It'd be interesting
> to
> >>> see if this model could be peeled away from dependence on a full
> >>> stack like Django and turned into a middleware architecture --
> like
> >>> wsgi but for apps.
> >> That's kind of the idea of a project I'm working on:
> >>  http://deliverance.openplans.org
> > 
> > Ian,  I'm also interested in Deliverance.  But you might ponder the
> > history of Pinax.  People talked about composite apps and built
> little
> > tidbits for a year, but it took off when a few of them actually
> built
> > and deployed (over a weekend, I think) a working demonstration
> > composite app.  Got anything like that in mind?
> 
> In part I want to scrape together the right process management pieces
> 
> and whatnot, so I can actually put up a demo that works and stays up.
> 
> I'm afraid I've had too many fragile demos so now I go with
> conservative 
> deployments (like the current static site) until I... well, until I 
> figure out how this should all plug together beyond just the HTTP/HTML
> 
> parts (which is another separate but highly related piece).
> 
> -- 
> Ian Bicking : ianb at colorstudy.com : http://blog.ianbicking.org
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