[Grok-dev] Re: Amazon EC2/S3 control panel in Grok

[David Bain]

My headspace is more around creating finished products for grok. So as
a community we can say "look, see what grok did".

 If grok is for cavemen, I'm the caveman who will use the tools to
create the products, I'm not as motivated to make the tools at this
point.

That said, megrok.s3 sounds cool.

On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 6:40 AM, Laurence Rowe <l at lrowe.co.uk> wrote:
> David Bain wrote:
>>
>> I think I'll start by surveying the "landscape" of EC2/S3 tools. For
>> example Elastic fox seems to only do S3 and rightscale is a paid
>> service.
>
> ElasticFox only does EC2 (and S3fox only S3).
>
> Rightscale has a free developer account (definitely worth getting an account
> to see some of their features). Actually, I think a more interesting project
> would be to build some tools in grok that let you apps a bit like
> rightscale, with content on s3. megrok.s3 perhaps?
>
> Laurence
>
>
>> On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 4:34 PM, David Bain <david.bain at alteroo.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> so I guess that would be wheel reinvention then?
>>>
>>> On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 12:33 PM, Laurence Rowe <l at lrowe.co.uk> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> David Bain wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I think we need a simple project that validates grok. A project that
>>>>> speaks to the geek world and says "look what we did" in 3 minutes!
>>>>> (okay
>>>>> maybe not 3 minutes).
>>>>>
>>>>> I think that project would be a Grok based implementaton of an Amazon
>>>>> EC2
>>>>> control panel. It would allow an individual to manage their EC2 images
>>>>> and
>>>>> keys etc.. and their S3 buckets, all through the web.
>>>>>
>>>>> I think this is relatively low hanging fruit because there is already a
>>>>> nice python library (boto http://pypi.python.org/pypi/boto), which can
>>>>> do
>>>>> the backend work.
>>>>>
>>>>> Just throwing this out there.
>>>>
>>>> I'm not sure it's worth the effort. There already exists rightscale.com,
>>>> and
>>>> the firefox extensions ElasticFox
>>>> http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/entry.jspa?externalID=609
>>>> and
>>>> s3fox https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3247
>>>>
>>>> Laurence
>>>>
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