Just want to put out this thought: that I really think OpenBD for GAE has the potential to be *the* platform for Gov 2.0.
This note was prompted by stumbling upon this site http://dcfoodshed.appspot.com/ just now. But it's an idea that's been brewing for a while as I've watched the Gov 2.0 movement start really gathering momentum with http://codeforamerica.org/, http://civiccommons.org/, http://govhubs.org/ the whole dream of building a "Civic Stack," etc. And CFML always seemed an obvious language for the job for reasons with which we're all familiar. But now the ease with which OpenBD can be deployed to GAE... Absolute genius. This whole package of the world's best language for Rapid Application Development, the ease of learning CFML, its robustness and scalabality, free and Open Source engines and now stupid-simple deployment to free hosting?!?! Does any other platform/community offer anything like that whole package? Just seems to me once the Gov 2.0 community catches wind of all of this, they're going to crap themselves. I'm building a kind of Gov 2.0-ish app right now for OpenBD for GAE and trying to get more involved with the hackfest app from OpenCF Summit (http://trac.mach-ii.com/enlist) and my mind is just reeling from all the possibilities here... Can't praise/thank the BD team enough. Really really brilliant work. Anyway, just wanted to put that thought out there. If anyone wants to explore it offline drop me a note. Perhaps we can do an unconference on it at cfObjective. I hate to have to wait till next year's OpenCF Summit! -Jason -- official tag/function reference: http://openbd.org/manual/ mailing list - http://groups.google.com/group/openbd?hl=en
