The architecture and motivations behind the upcoming 0.9 version of Deme are described in a new paper that will be presented later this month:
Todd R. Davies and Mike D. Mintz, “Design Features for the Social Web: The Architecture of Deme“, 8th International Workshop on Web-Oriented Software Technologies (IWWOST 2009), Donostia-San Sebastián, June 23, 2009
The project site for the Django version of Deme is deme.stanford.edu.
Over the last year, a new version of Deme as a content management system/framework has been developed in Django/Python. The home site for Django-Deme is Deme.Stanford.Edu
We are excited to announce an architectural release of Deme (0.7 Skeletal) written in the web framework Ruby on Rails. The free, open source software is released under the Affero GPL and is available to view / download on our Trac page. Our documentation is also online.
Please bear in mind that this is an architectural release of Deme, with limited functionality. Check back often, as new features will be added regularly as they are developed.
If you are going to RailsConf 2007 in Portland, Oregon, come to our BoF session on Friday evening, May 18, 9:30-10:30 pm at the Oregon Convention Center (rooms c123-c124). We’ll demo the new, Ruby on Rails version of Deme there.
Greetings, Deme loyalists. We’ve been hard at work on a brand new implementation of Deme in Ruby on Rails. The rewrite began last summer and we plan to show off what we have to people at RailsConf in Portland May 18-20. As before, the code will be free/open. Stay tuned.
We’ve been a bit delayed in getting the new AJAX version of Deme (v0.6) ready for release. The plan is to have it ready very soon, though, so stay tuned!
The slides from our presentation at CodeCon 2006 are now available on Todd Davies’ website.
The new version of Deme will be demonstrated on Sunday, Feb. 12, at CodeCon 2006 at StudioZ in san francisco. We will post the new code online beforehand so that conference participants can access it. In the past, CodeCon audio streams and an IRC channel have been set up for use during the conference - watch the conference homepage for more info.
A video of Todd Davies’ recent People, Computers, and Design seminar presentation, “Designing for Deliberation”, is available here. The slides are also available on Todd’s website.
While you’re waiting for the new version of Deme, Ben Newman (Deme Team developer) has written a course paper detailing how he’s solved a vexing problem for programming the new version’s interface: the “hidden fields” limitation in JavaScript’s inheritance scheme. His library-based approach, building on Prototype, is described here [pdf file].