Hi, I'm thinking about putting together a web based contract management framework and Turbogears looks like the weapon of choice for getting this done relatively quickly and relatively easily. Now, I'm certainly not the most versed in either Turbogears or any other framework, so I thought I'd see if there are subscribers to this list who might want to help.
I don't intend selling this - in fact, it's currently licensed under the GPLv3+ (it was one of the choices on Google Code). I want to do it because it could make some jobs easier - entering contract data and receiving reminders before key contract events occur (to give a basic example, is there anyone here who ended up staying with a DSL provider for an extra year because he forgot to terminate the contract by a certain deadline?). There are a few proprietary contract management applications out there - most of them seem a bit dated though, and almost all of them don't provide source and are pretty much tied either to Windows or to Internet Explorer. I thought that with a bit of work, a good model, and components like Turbogears, repoze and JQuery, something at least as good could be pieced together. As well as that, the requirements and challenges of an application like this make working/hacking on it quite fun - at least it has been up to now. I hacked together some basic functionality - you can enter records, attach events to records, attach parties to records, attach documents to records, attach reminders to events etc. I hacked in support for TGScheduler as well - it is going to be reponsible for seeing if reminders have to be sent. The model has the standard basic Turbogears user/group support, but I think it would also make sense to add support for ldap through repoze. I tried doing th at at the start but failed miserably. Apart from adding ldap support, the functionality that already exists needs to be upgraded to actually support authenti cation - this shouldn't be too hard, though, as record ownership etc is supported in the model. So far, I've started a project at Google code: http://code.google.com/p/lifepyscle/ The code is in a mercurial repository so you can get it with hg clone https://lifepyscle.googlecode.com/hg/ lifepyscle There is a demo at http://lifepyscle.foxhall.de If you want to hack on the project, just send me a mail and I'll add you to the group members at Google Code. It's been quite fun to hack on up to now. Ciaran -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TurboGears" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears?hl=en.
