Hi Venki and all,
Thank you for reply. It actually pushed me to think about portlets exchange within sites deploying OpenACS-based solutions. By portlets I do not mean simply technology but rather content. Some sort of library of portlets ready to be embedded in other organizations platforms would be a good idea. There are some extremely easy to make like Asia-Pacific News, Oanda Exchange Rate calculator etc. but some organization-specific portlets could be a good way to cross-fertilize platforms. For instance, if Greenpeace would have news portlet Environmental news and Heidelberg University would have portlet New publications from Heidelberg and AIESEC would be able to add it to some relevant communities at www.aiesec.net, - it would be additional benefit for all organizations deploying OpenACS. It could also help in marketing efforts for other organizations and help developers to add content to their platforms, not only work with the code. Of course, it is subject to organizations information-related policies.
Maybe there is already such repository of portlets that I am not aware of, would be great to here about it,
Wishes from Brussels,
