Re: [Social-discuss] Which framework?

[Story Henry]

On 24 Mar 2010, at 23:21, Henry Litwhiler wrote:

> On 3/24/10 6:14 PM, Melvin Carvalho wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> 2010/3/24 Matt Lee <address@hidden <mailto:address@hidden>>
>> 
>>    I'd like to see a discussion on which PHP framework we should be
>>    using,
>>    if any.
>> 
>>    Symfony 2.0 -- http://symfony-reloaded.org/ is one that has
>>    already been
>>    mentioned.
>> 
>> 
>> Yes this seems to be probably the leading candidate from our research too.
>> 
>> http://fatfree.sourceforge.net/
>> 
>> Was mentioned on #irc too
>> 
>> Would be interested to see the thoughts of others ...
>> 
> While PHP could be a very good tool for displaying data and providing an 
> interface with GNU Social, I feel that it might be worth considering making 
> the "core" GNU Social application a desktop one that would perhaps interface 
> with an existing, standardized stack (LAMP, etc.) to serve the files to other 
> users' web browsers. The (Python? C?) desktop application could include basic 
> setting options, but would probably be mainly just something running in the 
> background, keeping the server/p2p connections live.

If you work at the semantic web layer of abstraction, it does not matter what 
kind of application reads your data: a web app, a thick client app, or agents 
with no user interface at all.

See the work that from the semantic desktop comminuty [1] is being incorporated 
by KDE.

It'a all data, and the data is on the web.

Henry


[1] http://www.semanticdesktop.org/
     http://nepomuk.semanticdesktop.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main1/

> 
> --
> Henry L.