The Spark Project & Asset Manager is a web application originally developed at Spark Digital Entertainment to help manage the production workflow of a 3d animation or VFX pipeline

Installation and Setup of a development environment for SPAM

Create a directory where to install SPAM:

$ mkdir ~/spam_development

Move to the newly created directory:

$ cd ~/spam_development

Create a virtual environment:

$ virtualenv --no-site-packages spamenv

Activate the virtual environment:

$ source spamenv/bin/activate

Clone SPAM repository:

$ git clone http://github.com/lento/spam.git

Move to the newly created spam source directory:

$ cd spam

Install all requirements, create egginfo and install in the virtualenv in develop mode:

$ python setup.py develop -i http://lorenzopierfederici.net/download/spam/index/simple

Edit the configuration file development.ini for your environment

Setup the application (this setup a database and creates data directories):

$ paster setup-app --name=SPAM development.ini

Allow the virtualenv to access locally installed packages (needed for gstreamer-python):

$ rm ../spamenv/lib/python2.6/no-global-site-packages.txt

Serve SPAM through a paste server:

$ paster serve --reload development.ini

Access spam from a web-browser:

http://localhost:8080

Log-in as:

User name:  admin
Password:   none

Enjoy :)