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+.. _AvailableCubes:
+
+Available cubes
+---------------
+
+An instance is made of several basic cubes. In the set of available
+basic cubes we can find for example:
+
+Base entity types
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+* addressbook_: PhoneNumber and PostalAddress
+* card_: Card, generic documenting card
+* event_: Event (define events, display them in calendars)
+* file_: File (to allow users to upload and store binary or text files)
+* link_: Link (to collect links to web resources)
+* mailinglist_: MailingList (to reference a mailing-list and the URLs
+  for its archives and its admin interface)
+* person_: Person (easily mixed with addressbook)
+* task_: Task (something to be done between start and stop date)
+* zone_: Zone (to define places within larger places, for example a
+  city in a state in a country)
+
+
+Classification
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+* folder_: Folder (to organize things by grouping them in folders)
+* keyword_: Keyword (to define classification schemes)
+* tag_: Tag (to tag anything)
+
+Other features
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+* basket_: Basket (like a shopping cart)
+* blog_: a blogging system using Blog and BlogEntry entity types
+* comment_: system to attach comment threads to entities)
+* email_: archiving management for emails (`Email`, `Emailpart`,
+  `Emailthread`), trigger action in cubicweb through email
+
+
+
+
+
+.. _addressbook: http://www.cubicweb.org/project/cubicweb-addressbook
+.. _basket: http://www.cubicweb.org/project/cubicweb-basket
+.. _card: http://www.cubicweb.org/project/cubicweb-card
+.. _blog: http://www.cubicweb.org/project/cubicweb-blog
+.. _comment: http://www.cubicweb.org/project/cubicweb-comment
+.. _email: http://www.cubicweb.org/project/cubicweb-email
+.. _event: http://www.cubicweb.org/project/cubicweb-event
+.. _file: http://www.cubicweb.org/project/cubicweb-file
+.. _folder: http://www.cubicweb.org/project/cubicweb-folder
+.. _keyword: http://www.cubicweb.org/project/cubicweb-keyword
+.. _link: http://www.cubicweb.org/project/cubicweb-link
+.. _mailinglist: http://www.cubicweb.org/project/cubicweb-mailinglist
+.. _person: http://www.cubicweb.org/project/cubicweb-person
+.. _tag: http://www.cubicweb.org/project/cubicweb-tag
+.. _task: http://www.cubicweb.org/project/cubicweb-task
+.. _zone: http://www.cubicweb.org/project/cubicweb-zone
+
+To declare the use of a cube, once installed, add the name of the cube
+and its dependency relation in the `__depends_cubes__` dictionary
+defined in the file `__pkginfo__.py` of your own component.
+
+.. note::
+  The listed cubes above are available as debian-packages on `CubicWeb's forge`_.
+
+.. _`CubicWeb's forge`: http://www.cubicweb.org/project?vtitle=All%20cubicweb%20projects