Thank you for response Michelle. I have attached snapshot of our community portal. It is very large Society, and have branches all over the world. Actually anyone who want to do serious research has to be member of one or more of many IEEE's Societies. Our community portal started less than six months ago and people accepted it very well.
Basic functionalities consists of your personal home page, where you can view all approaching conferences of your area of interest, ability to write your own blog and to see the newest posts, polls plug-in where you could do survey about some important topic, etc. Also there are your page where it is written everything connected about your professional career, jobs you did, conference papers you presented, etc., so people could discuss with you and give their opinion. Pretty much same as in os.o but with more capabilities, and ability to adjust portal according to your needs. I studied at Univ. of Belgrade, Faculty of Elec. Eng., and have to majors (Telecommunications (wireless) and Software Engineering). It was possible since I studied according to old-fashioned style designed by Russian idea. There, I'm trying to integrate OpenSolaris platform in embedded wireless systems, since trend in industry is that everything should be done at software level, not hardware, so you could easily update software when you want to expand features. OpenSolaris is excellent platform for that since you could start only those modules that you need and you could write your own specific modules if you need. And of course, it is more reliable than any other platform. It'll be my future Ph.D thesis, I hope. Regards, Uros Nedic P.S: SolBook XML file I'll send you off-line, very soon. I have to find it where I put it on my computer :(. -----Original Message----- From: Michelle Olson [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: June 11, 2009 10:14 PM To: Uros Nedic Cc: 'OpenSolaris Advocacy' Subject: Re: [advocacy-discuss] Proposal Uros Nedic wrote: > Hi to everyone, > > I was thinking, since we are in transition to the new website, > why we couldn't add more community functionalities to os.o so > we will not be pushed to use Facebook, or similar social networking > sites. We could add similar functionalities to existing one. > Hi Uros, Could you give more specifics about the functionality you might want or the features that IEEE COMSOC integrated? At very least, we can start a 'wish list' and see what we can do after we get through transition phases 1&2. To answer your question about 'why not?' I think it is because we have so many priorities for code development functionality (repo.opensolaris.org, bugs.opensolaris.org, pkg.opensolaris.org, etc.) these types of features have been our top priority. One of the most important new features will be a true language translation module (I'm not sure if we'll have this immediately in phase2, Jim will know), so we can translate the pages of the new web site effectively and keep things up-to-date. This was a major benefit of using Xwiki. Xwiki is also open source, so if there are social networking features we want to develop, we'll have a much greater opportunity to do that in the future. > I'm talking about that since I'm member of IEEE Communications Society > (IEEE - Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers), or IEEE COMSOC > shortly, and we implemented our internal social networking functionality > so we could interact without dependence from external sites. We are > dramatically > improved our communication and research development since that. > > Also, there is another benefit. Facebook and other similar sites have > lot of plug-ins which make our life not easier but rather harder (from my > experience). It is because they are designed for teenage population where > we obviously do not fit (maybe some of us feel like that, but that is > different story :) ). By implementing our own social network we could > interact at more professional and effective level without having problems > with lots of annoying plug-in what Facebook, for example has. > > What are you saying, folks? > I think it is a good idea to discuss this more! Thank you! -Michelle > > Regards, > Uros Nedic > > _______________________________________________ > advocacy-discuss mailing list > advocacy-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/advocacy-discuss > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: COMSOC.JPG Type: image/jpeg Size: 59526 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/advocacy-discuss/attachments/20090612/e36f4c5d/attachment.jpe>
