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Unless you aren't interested in using Ruby on Rails, you might want to check out LovdByLess: http://lovdbyless.com http://lovdbyless.com

jyothi 18y ago
thanks for the link. Seems to have a bunch of features I am interested in. I see that it has had close to 17K downloads and a quick search didn't result in many reviews or fan following. How mature is this? Would you have a first hand experience using this platform by any chance ?
- greatreorx 18y ago
  It's only about 6 months old. My only experience was getting it up and running locally and testing out the functionality. It took a couple of hours to get going (mostly due to updating gem versions). From my standpoint I was happy with how it looked. I had considered Wordpress and Drupal, but I liked the smaller, more manageable codebase - even if it meant I may be fixing bugs in the project code as I went. I hadn't checked in on the project in awhile. I'm surprised it's not more active. FYI it looks like there was a fork recently and Luvfoo is being more actively developed (but no existing community) http://www.justinball.com/projects/ http://www.justinball.com/projects/
  - pius 18y ago
    Nice find with luvdfoo . . . somehow, I missed this before!
    - jbasdf 18y ago
      We're currently working on building a community around Luvfoo. So far we have a few guys from around the world helping us out. I estimate that we are about a month away from having something that is easy for 3rd parties to deploy. Right now the project is centered around Teachers Without Borders as they are providing funding for the project. However, there is a need to make it easy to deploy the same system for other groups and so that is a focus. Now to be fair I have met the guys behind Elgg. Both of them are very smart and great guys. I think that project is still in development. Wordpress is working on a social networking project called buddypress which looks very promising. If you want something fast it is hard to beat Ning (but it is a hosted service). In the Rails world Acts as Community looks like a great project. Best of luck in your choice. There is a lot of really great open source software out there.
      - pius 18y ago
        You guys are doing an outstanding job -- kudos on the steady stream of solid commits. On a related note, I've actually documented a few of the steps I took in order to deploy . . . I'll send over a pull request for my README.

jyothi 18y ago

thanks for the link. Seems to have a bunch of features I am interested in. I see that it has had close to 17K downloads and a quick search didn't result in many reviews or fan following. How mature is this? Would you have a first hand experience using this platform by any chance ?

greatreorx 18y ago
It's only about 6 months old. My only experience was getting it up and running locally and testing out the functionality. It took a couple of hours to get going (mostly due to updating gem versions). From my standpoint I was happy with how it looked. I had considered Wordpress and Drupal, but I liked the smaller, more manageable codebase - even if it meant I may be fixing bugs in the project code as I went. I hadn't checked in on the project in awhile. I'm surprised it's not more active. FYI it looks like there was a fork recently and Luvfoo is being more actively developed (but no existing community) http://www.justinball.com/projects/ http://www.justinball.com/projects/
- pius 18y ago
  Nice find with luvdfoo . . . somehow, I missed this before!
  - jbasdf 18y ago
    We're currently working on building a community around Luvfoo. So far we have a few guys from around the world helping us out. I estimate that we are about a month away from having something that is easy for 3rd parties to deploy. Right now the project is centered around Teachers Without Borders as they are providing funding for the project. However, there is a need to make it easy to deploy the same system for other groups and so that is a focus. Now to be fair I have met the guys behind Elgg. Both of them are very smart and great guys. I think that project is still in development. Wordpress is working on a social networking project called buddypress which looks very promising. If you want something fast it is hard to beat Ning (but it is a hosted service). In the Rails world Acts as Community looks like a great project. Best of luck in your choice. There is a lot of really great open source software out there.
    - pius 18y ago
      You guys are doing an outstanding job -- kudos on the steady stream of solid commits. On a related note, I've actually documented a few of the steps I took in order to deploy . . . I'll send over a pull request for my README.