Demisauce Summary, what is it?

A friend was asking "what is Demisauce", of which i have been horrible at articulating, so here goes an attempt:

Demisauce is a set of Services, and a Services framework

• A set of services to use within your app (as service oriented/easy to integrate javascript or xml): "feedback/help/ideas", activity tracking (per person google analytics), comment system, poll's, group management. All very boring EXCEPT: these are all services able to be plugged in to your app instead of having to build on top of wordpress/joomla/sharepoint to get access to them.
• A plugin services framework: think service oriented Wordpress plugin's, again available to any app for plugin. (cloud service plugin framework). The goal was to create an plugin based open source tool, that cater's to developer's adding in their own plugin's. However, since it was service oriented, a services framework was needed. Instead of having each developer integrate with 50 api's (see below) this provides a common place to exchange services similar to Opensocial gadgets, or Google gadget's but not based on javascript client side integration (slow, slow, slow).
• Integration as a service: As a side product of moving to a cross-application, cross-data-center services framework you can now provide integration as a service. Think of an "add user" web service that you call, you have previously configured through web based admin what you want to happen: "when new user gets added, add them to: (wordpress, google apps, salesforce.com, basecamp, etc,etc)". Think of having one api for add user, behind which is integrations' with services so instead of each developer/company doing integration with google apps, Salesforce.com, Wordpress, instead you call this one and it has pre done integration. The idea, as more and more cloud services pop-up you are going to need to register your user's on those systems. Why have each company do 50 "add user" integration services? Instead of integrate with one, then it integrates with the 50?

Help and Feedback system on Demisauce

I have been quiet but still making lots of updates to Demisauce. Most recently i have updated the Help and Feedback processing system. It is somewhat of a light scale embeddable app that can collect feedback and suggestions, ideas, and trouble from your user's.

It shows off several of the new features i have been working on. The biggest of which is the tagging system. I am working on extracting the tagging as a fully embeddable service (json, javascript, xml, html api's).

So, this help system is definitely not a full blown ticketing system. It is geared towards several things: More towards feedback, and easy to embed. If you are looking for full blown open source trouble ticket or help systems, here are a few: http://www.eticketsupport.com/, Simpleticket.net, OTRS.org, TroubleTicketExpress.com, http://www.osticket.com/, http://www.hulihanapplications.com/projects_mystic.php.

• Easy To Embed in Your App: Using Javascript, or xml api's easy to put collection of user's input. Since it is service oriented, you can serve many app's with the same implementation (hosted on Demisauce.com soon) or install on your servers.
• Feedback Processing: It is geared more towards feedback and suggestions by end user's. So, you can put a link inside your footer or in your website to ask for feedback. It pop's up a form that is hosted on Demisauce, allowing zero install implementation's other than javascript. But, more XML api's are available if needed. Currently tagging works great, working on ability to assign item's to other user's as task's that send notifications.
• Event Driven Architecture: Currently being worked on is a set of Event callback api's. So, you can recieve call back via web service api's or simple Web Hooks API.