[Openpacket-devel] Site Proposal

[Jacob H. <ha...@gm...>]

Hello. I just joined the list, and interested in helping with the
development of OpenPacket.org  I have to admit I was pretty excited
about such a site once I had found Richard's blog. :-)

I read the previous post that Mark Mason had made about creating the
site on the Ruby on Rails framework.  Although I really like the
framework, I don't think it fits the site requirements.

My recommendation would be Django (http://www.djangoproject.com).  It
has many things built in, and we wouldn't have to spend the time
re-creating them.  This includes comments (very extensible),
administration, user management, and caching.  I am not going to just
give you a run down on what it all can do, the web site does a very
good job at that.

Because Django has very good quality web applications built in, it
already gives us a great head start on the site.  I have been working
on a prototype application, and if I have time, I might have something
this weekend to show.

I will let you know when I have more done.

Jake