An api to Boltwire would allow to use Boltwire as a convienent CMS and connect it with other programs or devices or do some mashups.
This is what people do with the tumblr api http://www.tumblr.com/docs/en/apps Greetings, Martin The Editor schrieb: > 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.
