http://code.google.com/p/lrbserv/
By plugging together Django apps and adding a few (very crude) templates it has already several useful features:
- User registration with email verification.
- Login/logout
- User profile
- User Groups
- Tagging support
- Image Avatars
- Django Admin
I'd like to use the project to serve several purposes simultaneously, to wit:
- For the client who desires the web site in itself.
- As a reference Django project for myself and anyone else who would use it.
- To explore advanced methods, e.g. "Lean", model- and behavior-driven, etc...
- A way to teach web application development to anyone who would like to learn.
Even as rough and minimal as it is at present it can still be a fairly compelling foundation for a number of different social networks or online communities. It reminds me of how a single square of origami paper can become unlimited specific forms just by folding it different ways.