I have lurked on this list for well over a year but have never made any web app above demo level.
Now I would like to make an interface to the vacation program on our GNU/Linux mail server so that our mailusers can customize and enable/ disable their out of office message. Next I would like to make another simple interface so that the users can reset their mail server password. Both applications will be very simple and I hope I will learn a lot from it. (I know I could install a huge framework like horde or equivalent and even MS Exchange to get this functionality but I prefer a simple solution without getting locked in). I hope these two applications can be of use to other Linux mail admins as well. I have noticed that there are a lot of very skilled people on this list and that they use web2py professionally but I'm lacking to see and study some rather large applications. I got this idea that if web2py is so productive and easy to use why not kick off a lot of web application frontends to various opensource projects. Something like "Web2py Extreme Makeover". This way knowledge of web2py would rise. Really small apps: 1-2 times a month we could do a "Application of the Week". The week before we make a specification and then implement it in a sprint the next week. The goal should be a fully working app with nice css layout and documentation. We could implement a poll to choose which application to do next. Maybe every other month in a similar way we could make an "Application of the Month" for larger projects. Some of my ideas: Frontend for openvz virtual Linux machines: http://wiki.openvz.org/Main_Page Openvz just scales amazingly well for virtual Linux environments. Try out a cool bare metal installer and their VE interface (You can even evaluate it in a vmware): http://www.proxmox.com/cms_proxmox/en/products/proxmox-ve/ I would like to make a similar VE control interface in web2py and focus on user_beancounter reports and calculations. This could be rather usefull for web2py as openvz can be used to host a lot of web2py appliances. We could maybe setup some demo accounts on the fly. rdiff-backup: http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/ Wouldn't it be cool if your users could recreate version x of a file from last week using a webapp in stead of the commandline? Support site: Build a top class application for handling support tickets but there a lot of contenders in this field. Team sport site: A site where all kinds of sport teams can schedule trainings, competitions, mailing lists and so on. V4L: Frontend/backend for Video4Linux so that you could schedule your recordings and maybe integrate with mythtv and/or freevo. What do you say? Possible or a far off day dream? Peter --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py Web Framework" group. To post to this group, send email to web2py@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
