On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 12:18 AM, Michael Bunsen<[email protected]> wrote: > New Website Brainstorm & Planning Meeting for Urbanedibles.org > > When: Sunday July 12th, 3pm > Where: Backspace (115 NW 5th Ave) > > We have been envisioning a new website for a long while and it's time > to make it happen. The current site is was built using Rails 3 years > ago, but since then I have become a full-time Pythoneer and am leaning > towards Django for the next urbanedibles.org > > We have lots of ideas for new features, including opening it up to all > cities, searching for what's ripe now, submitting sources via > SMS/Twitter, an API, iPhone app, etc. (Many at: > http://wiki.urbanedibles.org/index.php?title=New_Feature_Ideas) > > This will be a very open meeting, but I would like to come out of it > with some specific problems and tasks that need to be tackled. I think > this could be a great community coding project that could follow in > the foot steps of Calagator and their development process > (http://code.google.com/p/calagator/w/list). > > Urban Edibles has gained a lot of momentum and international press > over the last few years and I would love to see it fulfill the many > requests we've had for expansion. > > If you are interested in collaborating but can't make it to the > meeting, please send me an email. I have been the only C.S. focused > person on the team thus far (others work on education, leading plant > walks, publishing, etc.) There are needs for graphic design, > interaction design, mapping/GIS, javascript, scaling, API design, > social media integration, clustering...the list can be as long as we > are willing to make it.
Argh, can't make it because I'm moving cross-town this weekend! Would love to make it to a future sprint though. Django seems like the right choice for a mix of technical and social reasons: - "proven" (popular sites use it) - GIS integration via PostGIS & GeoDjango - basic social networking features via Pinax - significant mindshare and positive growth in the web development community - has a conference coming to town in September for you to demo at! ;-) So while thats just my $0.02, it might be a more productive meeting if you decided on Django ahead of time and laid out some immediate implementation goals (like: get feature X working). At any rate please keep posting meetings to this mailing list. I'd love to write some code for it in the future! Michael Schurter @schmichael on twitter @ irc _______________________________________________ Portland mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/portland
