The document discusses Elephas, an open source blogging software project. It introduces the motivation for creating another blogging platform, which is to build a feature-rich and customizable showcase using cutting edge technologies. It then lists the core team members and key planned features such as multiple blogs, user roles, tags and categories. Finally, it outlines the intended technical stack including Wicket, Spring, Hibernate, and options like JCR and OSGi, and invites the reader to get involved.

1. The Future of Blogging Software (c) by http://flickr.com/photos/digitalart/

2. In the beginning ... there was a post on users@ by C.Bergström no known Wicket/Java based blogging software people willing to invest time

3. The Name – &quot;Elephas&quot; &quot; <mr_smith> should just call the project Elephant since that's how big it will be once it's finished.&quot; &quot;big&quot; == feature rich new name has been discussed: confab, transcript, parlance, palaver, …

4. Why yet another ... build a (successful) showcase have fun collaborating earn experience in cutting edge technologies

5. The Team Ryan Gravener Nick Heudecker Justin Lee Robby O'Connor Gerolf Seitz Igor Vaynberg

6. The Features Multiple Blogs Multiple Roles Tags, Categories Trackback, Pingback RSS WYSIWYG/..M/ML Themes Plugins

7. The Stack Wicket (obviously) Spring Hibernate (and db of your choice) Salve (dependency injection for POJOs) JCR ? (replacement for hibernate) OSGi ? (dynamic/easily deployable plugin architecture)

8. Salve salve.googlecode.com allows proper encapsulation POJO --> data & behavior reference dependencies, yet remain lightweight by instrumenting bytecode blog.findPosts(criteria) blogService.findPosts(blogId, criteria)

9. Let's talk code Demo...

10. Getting involved http://elephas.googlecode.com ##elephas@freenode.net