That's a very interesting project. I'm certainly open to making BoltWire available in some way to another CMS, but am not familiar enough with any to lead out in such a project. I could just provide support to someone else taking the initiative.
I'm curious though what prompted you to think along these lines? Do you feel BoltWire is deficient on the CMS side of things? If so where, and could we strengthen BoltWire somehow? It seems simpler with our architecture to expand BoltWire where needed, than to try and connect it to a separate system. I use BoltWire for an active and quite complex online school and it works beautifully for all my CMS functions. There is significant custom coding, but I plan to generalize some of that if we ever get around to a BoltWire 4.xx plus version... I don't know much about BuddyPress, though of course I've heard of WordPress. On my site for example, I have pretty much everything listed on their home page: activity streams, extended profiles, friend connections, private messaging, a blog, and groups (classes). Can't compare the caliber of the two, but all of these were quite easy to build into BoltWire. I'm not sure how scalable my solution is though, as it is not currently database driven. This is an interesting thread if others want to chime in. Particularly as strengthening BoltWire on the CMS side of things is one of my main goals for 4.xx. It's also one of the reasons I left PmWiki--it was too hard to use as a real CMS. My preference however is not integration but expansion of BoltWire to make it more competitive as a CMS. Piggy backing on WordPress might be a smart move, and likely result in a better product, but it would take some really committed to making it happen. Cheers, Dan On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 11:13 AM, Erlend Sogge Heggen <[email protected]> wrote: > Have you ever considered integrating BoltWire with an existing CMS? I > kept this question pending for quite some time, thinking maybe it was > too far-fetched to even mention, but then I came by this discussion: > > http://buddypress.org/community/groups/creating-extending/forum/topic/plugin-pmwiki-in-buddypress/ > > I happened to come by it exactly because BuddyPress was the CMS, or > more precisely the collaborative suit I was going to suggest you could > integrate BoltWire with. Such a plugin could very well be a commercial > one, and through the WordPress ecosystem you could very easily market > yourself. > > Just a thought. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BoltWire" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/boltwire?hl=en.
