Django all the way baby! I will try to make this meeting but there's a high chance I wont be able to depending on how much work I get done in preparation for my business trip to LA next Monday. Either way, I'd be interested in seeing how my team could contribute to this project. It's a wonderful idea. Please do let me know if you choose Django. We're avid supporters!
P.S. Have the Portland Pythoneers found a new place to host meetings at yet? I know there's a location for this month but is it going to be a consistent location? Thanks, -- *Rami Kassab* - Chief Executive Officer M 503.888.8605 [email protected] LinkedIn Profile <http://www.linkedin.com/in/RamiKassab> *Typethink* - Creative Web Firm P 503.626.6231 F 503.626.6233 111 SW 5th Ave., Suite 1000 Portland, OR 97204 www.typethink.com On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 5:00 PM, Michael Schurter < [email protected]> wrote: > 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 > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/portland/attachments/20090708/0ce15d45/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ Portland mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/portland
