fyi, insoshi has an active maintainer and is updated for rails 2.3.5. a few hints about doing due diligence on projects: 1. if something is stable and functional, what good is activity? 2. for github projects, the activity you're looking for is often in the forks.
if you consider forks, you will find that insoshi is not "dead in the water" cheers, tom On May 4, 12:43 am, Malcolm <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > The quick question(longer question with background below): > > Which is the best Ruby Open Source Social Networking > Platform(Community Engine, Lovd by Less, EngineY, Noofero, Inoshi, > Tog)? And why? Are there any Ruby OS Platforms that I missed? What > are the differences in the platforms(please explain in a way a newbie > can understand)? How will these differences affect future development > of any social network I create? How will these differences affect the > future development of the OS Social Network Platform itself? Which > platform will be easier to integrate custom code/modules with? Please > read longer question for comparison to Elgg, questions regarding it > and Ruby Platforms, later migration from Elgg to Ruby. > > Inoshi (http://github.com/insoshi/insoshi)seemsto be dead in the > water. This is the project that developed from RailsSpace. You go to > their website forum and there are no postshttp://dogfood.insoshi.com/forums/1 > > Engine Y (http://www.enginey.com/)has very little activity in their > google group: http://groups.google.com/group/enginey/topics > > Community Engine (http://www.communityengine.org/) has the biggest > Google group with 377 members vs 375 for Lovd by Less. This group has > the most activity on it of all the > platforms.http://groups.google.com/group/communityengine/topics > > Lovd By Lesshttp://lovdbyless.com/while having about the same number > of members as Community Engine, it's google group has half the number > of messages and recent activity is far less than Community > Engine:http://groups.google.com/group/lovdbyless > > Noosfero http://noosfero.org/ Brazilian based yet since I don't read > Portuguese, I can't determine the size/vibrancy of this > communityhttp://softwarelivre.org/noosfero > > Tog http://www.toghq.com/ Their google group has 118 yet this group > has been in existence since only Dec 2009 > http://groups.google.com/group/tog_users > > The longer question with background: > > I am currently evaluating Open Source Social Networking Platforms. > After much research, my thinking is that Elgg is currently the best > php or ,for that matter, Open Source Social Networking Platform. > While a Ruby Platform may allow for more rapid development by skilled > and beginning programmers, the reasons to choose Elgg are: A more > vibrant community, continued development, more php programmers exist > who can assist, feature rich. Yet, the limitations are that it is not > as future proof as Ruby and will be much more complicated to > independently develop features/functions and implement design changes > to a site as design/technology changes. This is the case with any PHP > based platform vs Ruby. > > Yet, platforms have to elavuated based on a variety of factors. This > will be different for each organization or person. > > I want to start a social network based on community activism that has > the potential of the a subsegment of the community build the site. I > want this site to be able to easily morph with functions as technology > changes. If this site does not take off then I want to have developed > a skillset that is the most marketable and will allow for rapid > development of different future sites. > > My factors: > > 1. Will be learning PHP or Ruby from scratch. While I understand > that comparing PHP to Ruby on Rails is not fair from a theoretical > stand point as one should compare it to CakePHP, it is fair from a > practical standpoint as Rails is the defacto standard. From the > research I have done, IMHO, ROR will be easier to learn, allow for > more rapid development of custom plug ins and future proofing the > site, modular design will better allow plug in intergration, learning > RoR will give a better skillset to be employed with. > 2. With the above, Elgg provides much more from the get go than any > of the other PHP or Ruby OS Platforms(Community Engine, Lovd by Less, > EngineY, Noofero, Inoshi)? Please correct me if you feel this wrong? > 3. If you had to choose a Ruby Platform over Elgg, which would it > be and why? > 4. If you choose Elgg over Ruby Platforms, why? > 5. Let's say one was to choose Elgg to build a social network. How > difficult would be to migrate this community into one built upon a RoR > Platform? > > Thanks in advance for your help, > > Malcolm > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "CommunityEngine" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group > athttp://groups.google.com/group/communityengine?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CommunityEngine" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/communityengine?hl=en.
