Dear friends, I am a huge web2py fan and would like to propose an idea to the community.
I understand that web2py is a development environment and has it’s roots as an educational platform. One of the things that I have personally found most useful are the free appliances. However as web2py has matured over time a lot of these have become dated and as new developments have emerged I have often been confused about best practices going forward. I would like to propose that we develop a suite of products (open source of course) based on the best practices of web2py that would be: Useful and usable by non-programmers Serve as a focal point for the community on just how great web2py could be Serve as a template for developers To be clear the idea is to create a separate project from web2py itself and then find the best of breed products and develop them in web2py. Things like: A Wiki / Blog / CMS / Forum An Online Store A Personal Accounting System A Media Center etc ... The focus would be on producing complete usable and beautiful applications. I feel that the creation of a separate project will have some important advantages such as: We can create a “brand” around the products. It will not “hijack” the core web2py focus. Can have separate focus such as functionality and look and feel Can include complimentary, tested projects such as open source icons and skins Can have it’s own development cycle, (eg release every 6 months) Can have it’s own repositories etc. Ultimately the products could be made available by web hosts just by the click of a button just like the php ones are now. I am very interested in the thoughts of the community and if there is interest I will move to the next step and create a site (probably on GAE) for further discussion such as: decide on a name decide on goals decide on processes find a home decide on products etc ...
