Optaros Labs

Django Solr Project

Optaros colleague Sean Creeley (and others) have just published the Django-Solr-Search project to Google Code, under the New BSD License.

Check out the tutorial and documentation at Sean’s blog.

I especially appreciated the lessons learned, including:

“Hey, we should open source that.” I’ve often heard the sweet words fluttering softly around the office. I now know why it’s never done. Simply because it’s a lot more than writing a good piece of code. Making it easy to use and telling people how to use it is a lot harder.

It’s always more difficult to make something reusable rather than solving just the specific one-project problem, but the result is also always more valuable.

It isn’t that it’s never done, of course – just not as often as we’d like.

Check out these projects officially sponsored by Optaros or lead by Optaros employees:

• OForge – “an enterprise collaboration tool that helps development teams work together to assemble great software”
• DoCASU – an RIA front-end to Alfresco document management
• Knurl – a URL-shortener as a Drupal module
• Comfortable OpenID Login Box – creating a better user experience for OpenID login on Drupal sites
• WPBook – a WordPress plugin for integration with Facebook

Look for more such projects in 2009, and let me know in the comments (fellow Opstars) if I’ve missed some.

Tags: Django, DoCASU, OForge, open source, optaros, Solr

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