This software is OSI Certified Open Source Software. OSI Certified is a
   certification mark of the Open Source Initiative.

The Python Desktop Server is a web application framework that uses several
techniques to create a personal server product that can be used to create
weblogs, websites, middleware solutions or just weird hacks.

For the license under that this software is distributed, read LICENSE.

For an overview of contained modules look into the file OVERVIEW.

For an installation instruction read the file INSTALL-FROM-SOURCE.

For better documentation of what this software actually does and how it
accomplishes it, go to http://pyds.muensterland.org/ or - more content, but
mostly in german - http://muensterland.org/users/0000006/ or ask me :-)

Since I am a quite reluctant documentation writer, many parts of the system
are heavily underdocumented. The best documentation is the source, but that
might not be what you need. But the easiest way to learn is to jump in and
give it a try. And write down what you discovered so I can include it in
the package ;-)

There is a mailing list for users of PyDS:

Users-Mailinglist: http://www.westfalen.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pyds-users

There are some resources for developers (and interested users, of course!)
interested in the inner workings of the PyDS:

Mailinglist: http://www.westfalen.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pyds-dev
CVS Tree: http://simon.bofh.ms/cgi-bin/cvsweb/PyDS/
RSS Feed for CVS checkins: http://simon.bofh.ms/~gb/pyds-rss.xml

Additionally the commits of the PyDS project are mirrored at the CIA
Open Source Notification System under the following URL:

http://cia.navi.cx/stats/project/PyDS

This will give you an additional RSS feed for commits, notifications
over IRC or XMLRPC and other stuff.

Current sources can be checked out of CVS via anonymous CVS:

cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@simon.bofh.ms:/pyds login

password is "anoncvs"

cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@simon.bofh.ms:/pyds co PyDS

This gives you the working tree that usually is one version above what is
available in the pyds-latest.tar.gz.

People who helped creating this software:

   Phillip Pearson - his PyCS gave the infrastructure to build on

   Hal Wine - he helped with getting it going under Windows

   Garth T. Kidd - he wrote the new-style restructured text handler
                   and lots of other parts connected with that.
		   And he wrote the WikiTool and the stray link
		   resolving stuff.

   Louis Feges - he built the binary installer for windows and started
                 work on the users guide.

   Yasushi Iwata - he wrote the unicode support patch for PyDS and PyCS
                   and created the japanese language file.
   
   Austin Acton - he maintains the PyDS RPM for Mandrake

   Bob Ippolito - he built Darwin packages for PyDS and wrote the
		  python code coloring support for reST.

   Michel Alexandre Salim - he built RedHat Fedora packages

   Jeff Hodges - he built Lunar Linux packages

   Matsuu Takuto,
   Bryan Østergaard - they built a Gentoo ebuild description (don't know
                      who actually built the file and wether Bryan only was
		      the gentoo maintainer who imported the ebuild file)

   Thomas Kläger - he wrote the ShutdownTool

   Omar Rabhi - he translated the message file to French

In 0.4.16, Hal was accidently named "Hal Winer" - maybe some freudian slip
on the fact that Dave Winers Radio Userland gave me the idea what to implement.
So I think I should send thanks to Dave, too, for having the idea and the
implementation first, so I had something to copy ideas from :-)

Other contributors are named in the changelog. Thanks go out to you all!

Note: if you built a packaged version of PyDS, created a translation file or
      did other stuff on PyDS I don't know about (or that isn't listed here),
      please drop me a note so your name is included!