website python engine (slashdot)

[Karl Ulbrich]

SquishDot, which runs on Zope (which is written in Python), is
already a pretty-well-developed SlashDot clone.

Last I looked, it could use some technology updates to take
advantage of some of the new frameworks and features available
in the latest versions of Zope.  

Especially with something like Slashdot, understanding the
Perl code isn't nearly as useful as understanding a model of the
data you want to work with.  

Zope      http://www.zope.org
Squishdot http://www.squishdot.org

Karl Ulbrich
""""@""""""".org (turn my name into my email address)


Quoting jtoy (toyboy at toy.eyep.net):
> Hi,
>  I was wondering if anyone is interested in helping me write a html
> website engine (or whatever you call it) based on the slashdot code
> written in perl that websites such as http://www.deadly.org and
> http://www.slashdot.org (There are at least 20 other sites).  My main
> reason for wanting to do this is to get some good hands on experience
> writing in Python (Im 18 yrs old and new to all programming) and I would
> like to help the python community grow.  I also see this as a test to
> see if python can handle such huge loads of code.  This project would
> probably need people who have some good web/cgi/html/xml developing and
> python and perl (have perl knowledge so we can understand the slashdot
> code, not for actually writting perl code)programming knowledge.  I am
> really serious about this and will start the project even if no one
> helps, so please make suggestions, comments, and questions via this
> newsgroup and by email.   Thanks all!