-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Adam Zimowski wrote: >> In regard to the future: I want us to have a larger Tapestry ecology - I >> see a >> future with open source and commercial tools, where there are Tapestry CMS >> products, E-commerce, support, etc. There was a thread regarding promoting >> Tapestry - how can we as a community follow up with this in an organized way? > > At least nowdays, the best way to promote Tapestry is to build open > source apps based on it that have a potential for high appeal to > general public. You see all that PHP crap out there (like open source > forum tools, etc). If we build apps on top of Tapestry, that in > itself will promote the framework better than you tool you can build > for it. > > Adam
I don't see the two statements above as being contradictory. The question is: How? I've been interested in a Tapestry-based + Tapestry-capable CMS for quite a while (allowing designers to do the HTML is great - until it has to be 'built' and packaged into a war and deployed... don't know about you, but not what I consider a designer's job). That's the single 'missing' cog in the "we got it right" scenario in my view. I delved into the Lenya/Drupal arena to see how those methodologies could be applied, but a more fundamental issue led me to Geoff and his efforts at getting Spindle to work past 3.X. Getting that piece accomplished would allow more general purpose "have a component" mixing - but those would be possible now although more at a developer level if they existed (and they might - but where?). Going the other route - blogging, forums, and wikis. I can (and have) set these three up with little effort. Granted, I end up with JSPs, Velocity macros, XSLT and a slew of other technological approaches, but I can do it. Why not "install" and voila - "Powered By Tapestry"? No reason - just hasn't been done (standard 'or if it has, where?' caveat applies) What I see from the Tapestry Support Network is specialized. May be wrong - but that's the impression I get. While I wouldn't mind being a part of that, I'd rather be a part of the "roll out" of products developed with Tapestry. Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day, but teach him to fish - and sell him the bait. That kind of thing. ;-) So. The "how". heh - beats me. If you figure it out, let me know. As I said - I'd like to be a part of that. :-) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (MingW32) iD8DBQFEKMrSaCoPKRow/gARAgdNAJ4/QKHAlws+OI6XgNc//BHAG6EAiQCg2LU3 U9Bt1ICdnHyN6ACoJFBhvPY= =oBmV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
