Hello, I think this sounds like a very cool idea. Multi-user is definitely one of the things we are looking at in the future. Why don't you join us on #gregarius on irc.freenode.net and we can discuss some ideas. Gregarius is GPL software so you should feel free to use it in any way you like as long as you keep the same license. We already have most of the code for ratings via amphetarate. I think the only thing missing is the user interface. Regarding your question about the feasibility, I think Marco would be the best person to answer that question... Best, Sameer On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 08:48:01PM -0800, Steven Loeppky wrote: > To: gregarius-dev at sinless.org > From: Steven Loeppky <stevenl at cs.washington.edu> > Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 20:48:01 -0800 > Subject: [greg-dev] Expanding Upon Gregarius > Reply-To: gregarius-dev at sinless.org > > Note: I sent a similiar email to mbonetti at gmail.com - my apologies > for emailing this to you twice. > > Hello, > > My name is Steve Loeppky and I'm a senior computer engineering > student at the University of Washington. I am in a software > engineering class and am working on a project to bring more community > to feed subscribing and reading. Myself and 5 others would like to > provide a web-based aggregator where users could comment on articles, > be recommended articles depending on their interests, and be able to > interact with others in the reading community (e.g. if I wanted to > learn more about the situation in Africa, I may become a "fan" of > Bono's and thus get the articles that he flags as interesting). More > specifics are present in our first proposal to the class: http:// > www.cs.washington.edu/education/courses/403/06wi/LCO/gwu/LCO.pdf. > > In order to bring more community to RSS though, we must obviously > also provide a reader, and that's where I wanted to ask you about > Gregarius. We have considered a .NET project from scratch, but after > spending multiple hours going through over 500 sourceforge rss > projects, we believe Gregarius could serve as an incredible starting > point. I've been most impressed with the UI, extensibility, and > documentation. I'm emailing to see what your thoughts on us using > Gregarius as a starting base are. Would you have any issues with this? > > If we were to try and build off of Gregarius, some of the obvious > things we would need to do are: > > 1. Create a multi-user system > 2. Add the ability to comment > 3. Change or expand upon the navigation abilities on the left bar > 4. Provide recommendations > > Items 2 and 3 seem quite feasible given the plugin and theme > interfaces you've provided. Item 4 doesn't seem concerning with > AmphetaRate, and I saw that someone has already created a plugin for > it. The big issue would be scaling the system for multiple users. > We love the interface that you've currently provided, we just would > want to be able to customize and duplicate it for multiple users. I > saw in your roadmap that this is an intended feature, thus would > assume that you'd like to tackle the issue. > > Besides myself, none of my teammates have really used PHP before. > Most of their dynamic web work has been with ASP, thus we wouldn't be > able to contribute a huge knowledge base. What we could bring to the > table though is time - 6 computer science students for a six week > time period. In addition, we would bring our education in software > design and implementation principles and an eagerness to make a > contribution. > > If you would like us to help with the project, do our goals seem > feasible for the alloted? I realize I should be able to answer this > question by better understanding the code base, but being in the > quarter system, time is limited, and we're going to have to make a > decision about our architecture before I'll have time to understand > Gregarius well enough. > > If you have time to respond to my questions and/or have any > suggestions, they would be most appreciated. We would be most > excited if Gregarius was a viable option for us, and if it isn't, > that's totally cool too. At the very least, you've given us great > exposure to a wonderful open source project. > > Nice work and thank you again, > Steve > > > > _______________________________________________ > gregarius-dev mailing list > gregarius-dev at sinless.org > http://sinless.org/mailman/listinfo/gregarius-dev