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+# Brea
+
+A simple dynamic distributed web site generator for public & open data, combining:
+
+  - **Backend**: [Fossil][fossil] for resilient and distributed storage of information .
+  - **Front-end**:
+    - [Material Design Lite][mdl]: for responsive, beauty and mobile friendly web user interface.
+    - [Mustache][mustache]: a logic-less HTML template system to inject data into web interfaces.
+    - [Markdeep][markdeep]: for agile and structured light documentation.
+  - **Middleware**: [Teapot][teapot]: for defining behavior, data models and connecting front-end and backend.
+
+This is the [documentation and issues repository][brea-fossil].
+The [source code repository](http://smalltalkhub.com/#!/~Offray/Brea) is hosted in SmalltalkHub.
+
+To start run this code from [Pharo](http://pharo.org/) 6.1:
+
+```
+"Start by loading the configuration of Brea"
+  Gofer new
+    url: 'http://smalltalkhub.com/mc/Offray/Brea/main';
+    package: 'ConfigurationOfBrea';
+  load.
+
+"After that load Brea"
+
+ConfigurationOfBrea load.
+```
+
+For further instructions and documentation the recommended way to proceed is by downloading, reading and executing
+the [Brea Grafoscopio interactive notebook](./doc/tip/brea.ston)
+(you will need to have [Grafoscopio][grafoscopio:en] installed and to know how to use it).
+
+![The Grafoscopio interactive notebook documenting Brea.](https://i.imgur.com/Cq8ygi9.png)
+
+The name came out as part of a friends joke, talking about how [brea][w:brea] ([pitch][w:pitch])
+allows the easy creation and preservation of fossils. This is the current incarnation of an
+old project prototyped with the excellent [web2py][web2py], but this time with the advantages
+of Pharo ecosystem, particularly [live coding][w:live-coding].
+
+## Why two source code repositories?
+
+We split the repositories in two because the Fossil powered one is well suited for files and tickets,
+while the SmalltalkHub one is best suited for Smalltalk source code.
+For historical reasons, different Smalltalk communities developed and hosted their source code there,
+which gives them the autonomy of a simple and self-contained DVCS, that was wrote in the language they knew.
+That was before the popularity of DVCS advanced by Git and GitHub, and now most projects are being migrated to
+GitHub to get more visibility and improve collaboration (SmalltalkHub uses an simple optimistic versioning
+system that is showing its age), while sacrificing autonomy, simplicity and self-containment.
+We think that Fossil as a back end could provide the advantages of a modern DVCS, while keeping
+the properties we like to have regarding autonomy, simplicity and self-containment.
+At some point we hope that the work is being done in the Git/GitHub front to migrate
+source code from Smalltalk would be useful to host a single Fossil repository containing
+software and documentation (and issues for both).
+Meanwhile, we will split them in the ones mentioned before.
+
+[brea-fossil]: http://mutabit.com/repos.fossil/brea/home
+[fossil]: http://fossil-scm.org/
+[grafoscopio:en]: http://mutabit.com/grafoscopio/index.en.html
+[markdeep]: https://casual-effects.com/markdeep/
+[mdl]: https://getmdl.io/
+[mustache]: http://mustache.github.io/
+[teapot]: http://smalltalkhub.com/#!/~zeroflag/Teapot
+[w:brea]: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brea
+[w:live-coding]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_coding
+[w:pitch]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitch_(resin)
+[web2py]: http://web2py.com/