Matt, simply said, Pandora is a wiki engine in Ruby.

It is a little bit different in that it uses a 'book' metaphor for
managing its contents.  As a Pandora user, you would publish books,
with chapters, and pages.  As the publisher, you decide who can author
the books contents, who can edit them, and who can view them.  All of
these and the associated user management functions are built into the
system.

To see a live example, visit The Ruby Bookshelf, which is hosted using
Pandora:

    http://books.rubyveil.com/

I hope that helps.  Don't hesitate to ask more questions if you have
any...

Best regards,

Julian I. Kamil <julian.kamil / gmail.com>

Matt Todd wrote:
> Hi Julian,
>
> Forgive me, I read through the introduction on the Pandora page, but I
> just didn't understand what exactly Pandora is. The site called it a
> collaborative document and application platform, but that doesn't
> really make it clear what it does and what it's used for.
> 
> If you could enlighten me, that would be great! :)
> 
> M.T.