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Terry Hancock <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
License: gpl
Other License: 
Package: Narya Forum and Project Incubator
System name: narya
Type: non-GNU

Description:
The "Narya" Project is a web-application-based Forum and Project-Incubator 
which will (eventually) combine discussion, workflow and content management, 
collaborative development, full-text document and data archive, 
brick-and-mortar library integration, collective financing, reverse auction, 
catalog sales, and manufacturing and service resource planning into an open 
free-market model based on the principles of open-source development. Its 
central design paradigm is a hierarchical topic tree with multiple topic views 
derived from content and integrated applications.



More detail is available at http://www.narya.net and links thereunder.



The last published source code may be found in the Sourceforge project CVS for 
http://sourceforge.net/projects/spacelift .  I am currently in the middle of a 
massive reorganization of the code, and have not uploaded the result.  However, 
this does not involve substantial new code or dependencies so much as a 
reorganization of existing code. Basically, I'm looking to start over with the 
CVS, since the directory structure is now quite different from the original.



I wrote a paper for presentation at the 2003 International Space Development 
Conference in San Jose, which is included in (gv-compatible) PDF at 
http://www.anansispaceworks.com/papers_html

which describes the current design changes.



Other Software Required:
Python 2.1+

Zope 2.5.1+

VarImage 2.3+ (a Zope Product I maintain)

Various python libraries: stripogram, pystemmer, python imaging library

I expect to have components dependent on pythoncad, pyogg, pyvorbis, and  
several other components. Maybe even Blender at some point. By its nature, 
Narya will tend to accumulate a lot of dependencies, since it is basically a 
highly-pluggable framework.



Regarding "Java 2" and the clientside, I've written a description of some of 
the options at http://www.narya.net/client_html . We have a bit of a problem in 
finding adequate clientside tools to integrate that don't require Swing or 
other Java 2 features, and I feel I will need help from other people interested 
in an effective free clientside for more advanced Narya features.  But this is 
certainly an important goal for us.





Other Comments:
An older version of this project is in the Source Forge CVS for the "spacelift" 
project, but there have been substantial changes, and the project has grown to 
the point where it really needs to have its own site. Essentially this is a 
point where we need a "new start" on the CVS, anyway. Eventually, of course, 
Narya will be able to host its own project site, but it is not that stable yet 
(by a long shot!).




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