Welcome to the Bright Content project

Bright Content is Python Weblog software built from reusable components.

http://notes.4suite.org/Bright_Content BR http://code.google.com/p/brightcontent/ BR

Long term home: http://brightcontent.net (currently down: apologies)

Mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/brightcontent Jabber: brightcontent@conference.jabber.org

Installation

Bright Content requires Python 2.4 or more recent. Install it using easy_install as follows:

easy_install brightcontent

If this does not work you are probably not set up for easy_install. Follow the simple instructions at

http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/EasyInstall

easy_install will automatically take care of installing dependencies for you.

See also the [http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/BrightContent Python Cheeseshop page].

Quick Start

Once BC is installed:

Initialize a test atom store by populating it with entries from an Atom 1.0 feed. For example:

python etc/import-feed.py http://copia.ogbuji.net/blog/index.atom /tmp/atomstore/

Run the server. You may wish to copy docs/devel_config.ini to a different file, edit the settings (["Bright Content:Customization:Main Config"]--you'll at least need to update flatfile_storedir to the directory specified above), and specify the new file, instead.

NOTE: If you create a seperate devel_config.ini (to manage the BC instance) and launch paster with the new devel_config.ini, all %(here)s paths in this config will be relative to the new location.

paster serve docs/devel_config.ini

Check out the test Weblog at http://127.0.0.1:8080/ (or other location depending on the .ini file you used)

If you want to use the PostgreSQL DB see ["Bright Content:PostgreSQL quick start"].

More ideas for getting started at: ["Bright Content:Sample setups"].

Development

For more on tailoring Bright Content to your needs see ["Bright Content:Customization"].

Development versions

You can always get the latest Bright Content from the [http://hg.4suite.org/brightcontent/ Main mercurial branch repository]. Eric Larson also maintains branches and repositories for related projects [http://ionrock.org/hg/ here].

Design docs

We do the best we can to maintain documentaton of the design principles underlying BC code: ["Bright Content:Design"]

For information on Project progress see ["Bright Content:Project progress"].

Sister projects

Developed by Bright Content folks:

[http://notes.4suite.org/FrontPage 4Suite] and AmaraXmlToolkit (used in BC)
WsgiXml (used in BC)

Also used by Bright Content:

[http://pythonpaste.org/ Python Paste]
[http://labix.org/python-dateutil python-dateutil]
[http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/Beaker Beaker]

Potentially used by Bright Content:

[http://trac.defuze.org/wiki/amplee AmpLee] (see also: ["Bright_Content:Using_Amplee"])