One reason I don’t trust Google services beyond the amount for which I need them is that historically, exporting data from them has been way more work than it should be. They certainly do have “data liberation” APIs but they tend to be slow, cumbersome, and fragile, and they seem to love changing the protocols from the standard just BARELY enough to make it way more work than necessary. (That and Google does plenty of stuff to make it obvious that they ARE spying on me and they ARE using all the data they’re accumulating about me to try to get me to pull everyone and everything into their services. Nuts to that.)

https://github.com/strange/django-usergroups/tree/master/usergroups

https://github.com/brosner/django-groups

Spencer

Absolutely critical to making this work is that the list of shared items is itself available as RSS/Atom+PSHB. And the same with any composite lists of shares aggregated from multiple people, the results of tags[1] or searches. Which is why it’s intensely irritating that G+, Twitter, Facebook don’t or no longer provide RSS/Atom+PSHB output.

“hey look at this” is one of the most common internet games people play. There’s been lots of attempts at code to support this game. Stumble, tumblr, del.icio.us, Reader sharing, Flipboard magazines, etc, etc, but nobody’s ever really cracked it. Then there’s the professionals who specialise in the game. “Novelty Curators”. Whatever we come up with needs to support both casual and full time actors. The 99%, 9% and the 1%

[1] I have a number of synthetic feeds I still follow like the output of Google News searches. That used to include del.icio.us searches for specific tags but it feels like those died a long time ago.

I keep on thinking about how to do things with push-based APIs and so on but then it always ends up re-evolving into email.

I actually stopped using it a couple months ago and switched back to FeedOnFeeds because I’d seen one too many asshole responses from him on the forum.

Honestly, I haven’t done much code review of the thing, and only dove in here or there to tweak a few things that annoyed me. I’m kind of all Dread Pirate Roberts about the thing, as I keep meaning to get back to writing my own aggregator again: “Good night, TT-RSS. Good job. Sleep well, I’ll most likely delete you in the morning.”

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Hrm, I also swore I saw a Django app a while ago that tried to mimic the Drupal Groups/Roles behavior which similarly sounds like what you’d want. Mining my pinboard link is returning a blank though. I think it may have been something buried in the Pinax effort http://pinaxproject.com (which means there’s probably some undesired coupling.)

Some other non-drop-in parts:

Does everything need to be done in roles? Are something things more like feature flipping? https://github.com/jsocol/django-waffle

Could you mine anything useful out of: http://code.google.com/p/django-mmo/

There’s also django-rubberstamp: https://github.com/eldarion/django-rubberstamp, brabeion https://github.com/eldarion/brabeion , & agon https://github.com/eldarion/agon that you could probably coerce into something.