Leonardo for John.

In the latest Locusts & Honey: Methodist Blogs Weekly Roundup # 29 John has only this to say about 42.

Dave Warnock blogged about computer stuff completely over my head, but I think that it's about a web development language called Leonardo.

Clearly some clarification is needed, and more theological posts! ;-)

The problem is probably that John is totally overwhealmed by the task of producing the Methodist Blogs Weekly roundup which back in February covered 8 blogs and now covers 45. Obviously the problem can't be my writing!

Anyway for John.

Leonardo is a tool that

• written in the programming language Python (a good thing)
• is easy to install on even the cheapest internet hosting services
• allows a website to be edited from anywhere using just a web browser
• allows a website to be edited without needing to learn a programming language or complicated formatting
• integrates two useful elements of websites (weblogs and wiki's)

As a result I believe it is a very good tool for Church websites, particularly small churches such as Raunds Methodist Church (one of the churches that am minister for). In particular it frees

Leonardo is not yet at version 1 and is probably not yet ready for non technical people to setup, so John youy don't need to do anything yet. But at the same time things are changing fast for Leonardo, for Python and for many python tools for web sites. So it is worth watching.

Critically as with a great deal of quality software Leonardo is free software that gains a lot in reliability, flexibility and of course cost. All important for Church websites.

Comments

[John]

Thanks for the explanation! The problem isn't your writing, of course. I'm just terribly rushed, as you state. Also, your computer knowledge is so far beyond mine that it's hard for me to grasp what are for you simplistic concepts.

I'm not sure about the future of the MBWR. The Methoblogoshere is so big these days, and it's only going to get bigger.

Maybe if our movement were to shrink and become less popular....