ContentBox

Open Scalable Content Delivery project

Project general objective

Distribution of social and virtual content with an open and collaborative educational environment, available to communities around the world in one place, with a standard format and quality.

• Repository and UI to store and distribute content in a scalable, simple and consistent way
• Metadata to organize and discover content through search
• Sign-in and subscription s to particular content
• Content Update process, and user alerts
• Metrics of content usage and behaviour User and content Admin: accounts and permissions
• Web Mobile Friendly (Tablets and CellPhones)
• General concept of boxes of content.

General Structure Features

Users (feature options)

• Google Sign-in
• Boxes subscription
• Search Boxes
• Friendly Boxes urls

Manage (feature options)

• Admin site for managing
  • Boxes
  • FAQs
  • Term/conditions
• Roles in admin site. Content creator and super-admin
• Responsive admin site
• Whitelist login with csv import (invitations model)
• Global configurations
• Translation ready

Prototype

Testing Portal You can validate the model using this test portal. (Remember that this website is into a test instance)

Dependencies

pip install -r requirements.txt -t third_party/

Install config

Localhost testing

• Create app in Cloud Console. https://console.developers.google.com/
• In APIs & auth -> APIs Enable Google+ API.
• In APIs & auth -> Credentials Create an OAuth ID and an API Access
• Visit http://localhost:8000/ (or the corresponding admin port) and enter the datastore viewer. Select the entity kind config_siteconfiguration edit the entity listed, copy the client id, client secret, and API key from the previous step and save.
• Go back to http://localhost:8080/ and sign in.
• Go back to the datastore viewer, select the entity kind auth_user, edit your user and make yourself admin by checking is staff and is superuser and saving. Now you can access the admin site in http://localhost:8080/admin.

More details about the project and support http://google.github.io/contentbox/ You can visit this website contentbox.info for more installation details