[NGO] Re: mailing list integration - folks are working on Sympa + Drupal integration

[Rob Miller]

Rocky Burt wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-11-10 at 19:56 -0700, Jon Stahl wrote:
>> Folks intersted in CMS + Mailing list integration might find it
>> interesting to note that our peers in Drupal-land are working on
>> integrating Drupal with Sympa.
>>
>> http://listes.cru.fr/sympa/arc/sympa-dev/2006-09/msg00032.html
>>
>> http://listes.cru.fr/sympa/arc/sympa-dev/2006-10/msg00002.html
>>
>> http://wikis.bellanet.org/floss-dgroups/index.php/Technical_Plan
>>
>> http://wikis.bellanet.org/floss-dgroups/index.php/Main_Page
>>
>> For those of you not already familiar with Sympa, it is a solid,
>> battle-tested-at-scale email discussion list server.  It's Perl + MySQL.
>> But most significantly, it has a SOAP interface, which is what makes
>> cross-platform integration possible.  We have run Sympa here at
>> ONE/Northwest for over five years now, serving over 180,000 users with
>> 1000+ lists.  It's good stuf.  
>>
>> Thought it might be interesting for those who are pondering these issues
>> to have on their radar screen.  The issues and use-cases they are
>> grappling with are quite similar to ours.
> 
> I didn't realize having SOAP integration for mailing list software was a
> useful feature.  If it truly is (and I'd like to hear more use cases)
> then it shouldn't be hard to expose the listen (the plone mailing list
> thing by Alec M) api via SOAP.

i'd much rather see a REST API for listen than a full-blown SOAP interface. 
having a REST API has been on my wish-list for a while, now.  i'd love it for 
folks to host mailing lists on openplans.org, but to be able to expose those 
lists (including the web interface) on their own site.  and i'd REALLY love to 
see drupal, wordpress, mediawiki, [INSERT WEB APP OF YOUR CHOICE HERE] 
plug-ins to be written that would automatically interface w/ listen.  folks 
aren't likely to do so if they have to deploy listen themselves (who wants to 
deploy Plone just to get a mailing list?), but they may do it if it means 
they'd be able to make easy use of a free hosted service.

-r