Zaltana

Why Zaltana ?

If you want a child with the self-expression for sharing their vision with others, Zaltana would be a good name.

Zaltana was started in 2005 and was released as Alpha mid 2006 and Beta early 2007. Further details contact Scott Penrose - scottp@dd.com.au

To reuse existing Open Source applications
To allow the integration of closed source applications
To appear as one consistent interface, incorporating applications written in different languages by different people
To provide a common look and feel for the user across all of these applications
To provide single sign-in across all applications
To document the techniques used to achieve this integration
To encourage the use of standard schemas (e.g. Micro formats)
To encourage the use of Open Source and Open Documents
To act as a catalyst for new standards where they are required
To enable the addition of advanced interfaces (DHTML, AJAX) within existing legacy applications
To integrate applications that encourage the Social portion of the Internet (e.g. Wiki, Blog, Gallery, Calendars, Forums).
To facilitate generation of new styles (look and feel as well as functional) without the need for a complete understanding of the applications
To be able to use existing styles with new applications and design new applications without understanding styles
To encourage and provide accessible web styles
To be lightly customisable (e.g. change style with only CSS) and heavily customisable (e.g. change style with XSL or Apache modules)

As an example, I use Zaltana to run this and many other sites (e.g. glidingclub.org.au) - however there are improvements to make: