How about we do something similar to what Blender foundation is doing for Blender? Build an interesting web app every year as a community project, and deploy it somewhere, get some publicity, have people try it... While doing that, we could focus our efforts on improving web2py etc.
The project will focus on a subset of features. Like "Let's do an app that focuses on session handling." or "Let's do an app that focuses on real-time communication", or "Let's do an app that deals with nodes.", or "Let's do an app that runs on a mobile platform." We could ask for sponsorship, and develop an app that a sponsor will have vested interest in, etc. On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 7:17 AM, pbreit <pbreitenb...@gmail.com> wrote: > This is a good discussion as it is apparent that web2py is an > incredible framework for rapidly building well-designed applications > but it's not totally clear what happens in a high volume situation. > But let's not forget that pretty much every framework experiences this > exactly. While Massimo is with us and we hope he will be for a long > time, let's really push web2py. That's the best way to identify and > resolve issues. > > Many projects like this begin with one visionary and it is > understandable to be concerned about the future of the project. But > with valuable projects such as web2py, they figure out a way to > endure. That's the beauty of open source. > > One thing that would help (me, at least) is spec'ing out a solid > server configuration. It's so easy and inexpensive now to pick an > environment on Amazon or Rackspace ($0-8/month)(for US people, at > least). There are already some great docs and scripts to get web2py > running on Ubuntu and Apache. It would be great to see some > information on Nginx and Cherokee (on Ubuntu 10.04). -- Branko Vukelić bg.bra...@gmail.com stu...@brankovukelic.com Check out my blog: http://www.brankovukelic.com/ Check out my portfolio: http://www.flickr.com/photos/foxbunny/ Registered Linux user #438078 (http://counter.li.org/) I hang out on identi.ca: http://identi.ca/foxbunny Gimp Brushmakers Guild http://bit.ly/gbg-group
