[Grok-dev] Proposal: Flint, a simple Grok-based CMS

[Sebastian Ware]

I have looked at your project description and website and it sounds  
very interesting! I would be happy to share some GUI ideas with you if  
you choose to proceed with this project.

Mvh Sebastian

31 mar 2008 kl. 18.57 skrev Luciano Ramalho:

> After some calendar juggling and partner negotiations, I've submitted
> a proposal to participate in GSoC 2008 as a student with the Zope
> Foundation.
>
> Here is the abstract:
>
> =======================
> Flint is a pragmatic and light-weight CMS based on Grok which is
> useful out-of-the-box, allows trivial customizations to be done
> trivially, but showcases Grok best practices and therefore leverages
> the flexibility and pluggability of the Zope Component Architecture to
> allow deep customization and extension.
>
> In order to be immediately useful, Flint follows the Plone lead by
> providing ready to use content management and public interfaces.
> However, Flint's content management interface is not embedded in the
> public interface, for two reasons: to make it easier to customize one
> interface without touching the other, and to avoid a single-hierarchy
> mindset which is detrimental to current content management best
> practices.
>
> Besides Plone, Flint is inspired by three other pragmatic and
> light-weight CMSs which aim for flexibility while remaining easy to
> learn: Radiant (Ruby on Rails, see http://radiantcms.org/), Página-1
> (a pre-CMF Zope Based CMS developed by Hiperlógica), and  Django,
> which although is not a CMS comes quite close with it's powerful and
> ready to use admin interface.
>
> The Flint project recognizes that it is not the goal of Grok to be a
> customizable web app, just as Zope 3 gave up this idea early on. Grok
> and Zope 3 need to be generic frameworks for building web apps. But a
> simple, customizable CMS built on top of Grok makes it easier to
> demonstrate and provides beginning developers with a valuable starting
> point for many common use cases. Having a simple Grok-based CMS ready
> to use when Grok 1.0 launches can help to attract and retain more
> users.
>
> =======================
>
>
> The full text of my proposal is here:
>
> http://code.google.com/p/flint-cms/
>
> Cheers,
>
> Luciano
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