design reuse

being open source is not enough. for a small startup like wyona, it is important to grow a community around our project. apache lenya is standards-driven, probably more so then most content management systems. but why stop at the plumbing level? for all users care, having your data in xml and your framework open source doesn’t give them immediate benefits.
this is where reuse at the site level comes in. real problems are not solved by frameworks per se, but rather with concrete uses of the framework on a real site. we therefore encourage the sharing of and collaboration on complete sites, with navigation, information architecture, workflows..
in due time, it should be possible to capture best practice in sample publications, and thus distribute improvements to these default publications to all our customers.

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