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December 1, 2005
Get involved!
Maybe you're a Python developer interested in getting involved in our project. Or maybe you're a web designer and you think you can make Melt look nicer. Perhaps you're a HCI guru and want to tell us how to make Melt more usable. Are you just curious and want to look under the hood? Could it be that you've heard about Django and want to see it in action?
Right now we haven't got a process for taking Python/HTML/CSS/etc contributions from you but we really want to so comment on how you think we could work together.
What you can do now is take a look under the hood. You can also get a copy of Melt for yourself (use a subversion client to check it out from the repository) and try running it and playing with it on your system (check out the INSTALL file for help on this).
Posted by xeightee at December 1, 2005 5:27 PM
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Greenpeace.
Thoughtworks.
Django.
Open Source.
Social Software.
What an awesome combination. Count me in.
I have been looking for a project to contribute to, but haven't had the time/energy/expertise to delve into the internals of Django. But, helping create an application that runs on Django is right up my alley.
Subversion and Trac seem to work nicely for DjangoProject.com and I see no reason not to carry on the tradition.
Please add me to any mailing list or group notice.
Ian Maurer
Posted by: Ian Maurer at December 1, 2005 10:27 PM
I know you all have looked at CivicSpace, but that was before the CiviCRM releases started accelerating.
CiviCRM is a CMS independent (so you could integrate it into python) CRM system tailored for the needs of NPOs/NGOs. We provide via UI and API most of the functionality at http://melt.staging.greenpeace.org/ & a lot of the stuff that is in the design document.
But more importantly we have a stable and growing open source community of international NGOs developing on the CiviCRM platform.
Feel free to drop me a line if you would like to know more (infor@socialsourcefoundation.org) or check out our demo/ code/ documentation/ community at www.openngo.org.
Posted by: David Geilhufe at December 1, 2005 10:40 PM
I know you all have looked at CivicSpace, but that was before the CiviCRM releases started accelerating.
CiviCRM is a CMS independent (so you could integrate it into python) CRM system tailored for the needs of NPOs/NGOs. We provide via UI and API most of the functionality at http://melt.staging.greenpeace.org/ & a lot of the stuff that is in the design document.
But more importantly we have a stable and growing open source community of international NGOs developing on the CiviCRM platform.
Feel free to drop me a line if you would like to know more (infoATsocialsourcefoundation/org) or check out our demo/ code/ documentation/ community at www.openngo.org.
Posted by: David Geilhufe at December 1, 2005 10:41 PM
Trying to check out the subversion repository, but it asks for a login and password. Is it not public yet?
Posted by: KD at December 2, 2005 10:44 PM
Fantastic.. kudos for releasing the code, I'm sure there about a dozen other non-profits who could make use of it as well.
Regards
Ian
oh.. and if you could either publish the userid/password to the repo, or make a 'public' one that would be great!
regards
Ian
Posted by: Ian Holsman at December 5, 2005 11:06 PM
Sorry about that folks, I believe the svn repository should be public now. Should make life a little easier for those dozen non-profits :-)
Posted by: Martin at December 6, 2005 9:27 AM
I hate to repeat what the previous poster said, but I believe the svn repository should be public now. The url is diffeerent than the one given in the side bar - https://svn.greenpeace.org/repositories/custard/trunk, and you need to log in as ('anonymous', '')
Posted by: Nis at December 6, 2005 5:00 PM
Correction - the url is http://svn.greenpeace.org/repositories/custard/production/trunk/melt.
(whoever created this directory structure will be shot when he comes home from Brazil)
Posted by: Nis at December 6, 2005 5:03 PM
thanks!
Posted by: Ian Holsman at December 6, 2005 10:47 PM