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+===========================================
+ Beardomatic: Infrastructure Documentation
+===========================================
+
+What the hell is Beardomatic?
+=============================
+
+You might be wondering, "Gah!  What the hell is Beardomatic!?"
+
+Well, I'll tell you.  GNU MediaGoblin is a piece of software that sits
+on a stack of libraries that do a bunch of stuff.  It makes it easier
+to differentiate the bits of code that encompass GNU MediaGoblin from
+the bits of code that GNU MediaGoblin sit on top of.  Thus, we came up
+with the TOTALLY AWESOME name Beardomatic.
+
+Now you might be saying, "Holy crap!?  Another web framework?  Are you
+going to write a mocking framework and an enumeration library, too!?"
+
+No, we're not.  We're just calling this Beardomatic so that it's
+easier to talk about things.  However, at some point, we can take
+these infrastructure bits from GNU MediaGoblin and turn them into a
+full-blown "web framework".  We wouldn't do this to compete for
+mindshare with other web frameworks.  We would do this to make it
+easier for us to bootstrap other similar projects.
+
+
+Beardomatic software stack
+==========================
+
+Beardomatic is a software stack "web framework" composed of the
+following bits:
+
+* Project infrastructure
+
+  * `Python <http://python.org/>`_: the language we're using to write
+    this
+
+  * `Nose <http://somethingaboutorange.com/mrl/projects/nose/>`_:
+    for unit tests
+
+  * `buildout <http://www.buildout.org/>`_: for getting dependencies,
+    building a runtime environment, ...
+
+* Data storage
+
+  * `MongoDB <http://www.mongodb.org/>`_: the document database backend
+    for storage
+
+* Web application
+
+  * `Paste Deploy <http://pythonpaste.org/deploy/>`_ and 
+    `Paste Script <http://pythonpaste.org/script/>`_: we'll use this for
+    configuring and launching the application
+
+  * `WebOb <http://pythonpaste.org/webob/>`_: nice abstraction layer
+    from HTTP requests, responses and WSGI bits
+
+  * `Routes <http://routes.groovie.org/>`_: for URL routing
+
+  * `Beaker <http://beaker.groovie.org/>`_: for handling sessions
+
+  * `Jinja2 <http://jinja.pocoo.org/docs/>`_: the templating engine
+
+  * `MongoKit <http://namlook.github.com/mongokit/>`_: the lightweight
+    ORM for MongoDB we're using which will make it easier to define
+    structures and all that
+
+  * `WTForms <http://wtforms.simplecodes.com/>`_: for handling,
+    validation, and abstraction from HTML forms
+
+  * `Celery <http://celeryproject.org/>`_: for task queuing (resizing
+    images, encoding video, ...)
+
+  * `RabbitMQ <http://www.rabbitmq.com/>`_: for sending tasks to celery
+
+* Front end
+
+  * `JQuery <http://jquery.com/>`_: for groovy JavaScript things
+
+
+How to ... in Beardomatic?
+==========================
+
+FIXME - write this