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 <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> >> >> 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.
