Introductions

[Eric Larson]

Hi All,

I thought I would introduce myself for those folks that don't know me
or stumble on up BC in future.

My name is Eric Larson and have been hacking on BC for about a year
and a half. I have worked on the AtomPub portions along with simply
using it and deploying it on my website, http://ionrock.org. I also
wrote the majority of initial implementations for features as well as
helper middleware. I should mention I could not have done anything
without the guidance and help from Uche.

One helpful bit that came out of working with BC is the creation of
XSLTemplates (http://code.google.com/p/xsltemplates), a simple WSGI
middleware for using XSLT. It supports adding extension elements/
functions, parameters and working with files in python eggs.

Recently, I rewrote the majority of BC to utilize Amplee, an AtomPub
library that helps abstract storage and operations for creating an
AtomPub implementation. This allows BC to handle the HTTP and
validation portions of AtomPub, while handing off storage details to
Amplee.

I am very excited to work with everyone and feel free to say hello on
IRC (irc://irc.freenode.net/#brightcontent) or
bright...@conference.jabber.org!

Eric

[Uche Ogbuji]

Following Eric's lead...

On Nov 16, 5:33 pm, Eric Larson <ionr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I thought I would introduce myself for those folks that don't know me
> or stumble on up BC in future.
>
> My name is Eric Larson and have been hacking on BC for about a year
> and a half. I have worked on the AtomPub portions along with simply

> using it and deploying it on my website,http://ionrock.org. I also

> wrote the majority of initial implementations for features as well as
> helper middleware. I should mention I could not have done anything
> without the guidance and help from Uche.
>
> One helpful bit that came out of working with BC is the creation of
> XSLTemplates (http://code.google.com/p/xsltemplates), a simple WSGI
> middleware for using XSLT. It supports adding extension elements/
> functions, parameters and working with files in python eggs.
>
> Recently, I rewrote the majority of BC to utilize Amplee, an AtomPub
> library that helps abstract storage and operations for creating an
> AtomPub implementation. This allows BC to handle the HTTP and
> validation portions of AtomPub, while handing off storage details to
> Amplee.
>
> I am very excited to work with everyone and feel free to say hello on
> IRC (irc://irc.freenode.net/#brightcontent) or

> brightcont...@conference.jabber.org!
>
> Eric

[Uche Ogbuji]

Following Eric's lead...

I've shared a Weblog http://copia.ogbuji.net with Chimezie for a few
years. It runs on PyBlosxom, which is fine for a start, but is
architected in a monolithic way that makes it a bit unpleasant to hack
on, especially if you're coming from a REST background and following
latest Web developments such as APP, WSGI, OpenID, Lonked Open Data,
and such. I've had in mind a project called Bright Continent,
A social community for connecting Africans in diaspora with those back
home, and certainly more than just a Weblog, and I conceived Bright
Content as a lightweight CMS that can scale from individual Weblogs
such as Copia to more sophisticated needs such as Bright Continent.
Julian Krause joined me pretty much right away in architecture and
initial development. Eric Larson, as he says, has been the most
active contributor lately.

I now have a paying mandate to work on BrightContent, and will thus be
ramping up my efforts, and hope to collaborate with others interested
in such a system. To that end we've already had an initial meeting,
with notes at:

http://notes.4suite.org/Bright_Content%3Ameetings%3Adevelopers-07-11-14

We'll continue to have such meetings Thursdays at 4MT each week,
excluding this Thursday, which is a US holiday.

> I am very excited to work with everyone and feel free to say hello on
> IRC (irc://irc.freenode.net/#brightcontent) or

> brightcont...@conference.jabber.org!

For my part I hang out only in the Jabber chat room
brightc...@conference.jabber.org . This is where our weekly
metings will be held. Hope to see you there.

--Uche