Sometime ago I wanted to do something like social.openoffice.org this is more like on the lines of "people" from KDE. http://behindkde.org/ although not exactly. The key here is to know what people in general are doing.
For example have a personal profile page that will aggregate from their activities on the CVS tree, mailing list, issuezilla and map to this activity to the user. So why is this social site useful: - Will improve to lower the level of confusion between the projects and the developers - Will expose areas that are too slow performance and maybe do something about it - Know what developers are working at and their expertise within the source tree OOo is one of the largest FLOSS communities out there, however that means is easy to get lost in the crowd and your work to not be as visible by others. You might be a NL project lead but also a strong contributor on XML project and that is not very visible on the OOo site. This will get us some karma points, something like ohloh.com but with a more deep searching and also with a more human touch. Something like ohloh.com meets behindkde.org / facebook.com. I am sure Elgg is not exactly what we need, Elgg is a different beast more like ning and there is no fetching and mapping of information traffic but it does provide a first stage to the project by providing the social aspect. Technical aspect will come either from extensions or just while we migrate to a platform that satisfy the needs. This effort is not new to OOo since there used to a time that there was a developer newsletter and it was also formed from a python script that went through OOo fetching the relevant information and changes on the CVS. It was written by CPH afaik. On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 12:05 PM, Benjamin Horst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey Alexandro, > > Thanks for this idea, and thanks for reading my blog! > > I think you are on to something here. I think Elgg could make a great > communication platform for the widespread members of the OOo project. > Ideally, we may leverage it to come up with new uses, like organizing a > campus representative program, inspired by Mozilla's. > > The big concern is whether this would overlap and draw energy away from > other existing efforts. Or, on the other hand, would it function as a new > focal point for users online and help to coalesce the global community > better? > > I think the model here could be the Spread Firefox project. They have used > social features to build a community of interested marketing/promotion > volunteers, and though Elgg is a different underlying engine (SFx uses > Drupal), it could fulfill the same purpose. We already have a global > community but I'm sure would all be happy to see it grow larger. > > Some sites already built on Elgg include: > > Eduspaces: http://eduspaces.net/ > Brighton University: http://community.brighton.ac.uk/ > > Do you want to create a test environment on a server you control to see what > we can do with it? I'll be happy to help you experiment and think about what > we might use it for. > > -Ben > > On Aug 22, 2008, at 4:42 PM, Alexandro Colorado wrote: > >> Reading on Benjamin Horst's blog I see a new utility called elgg which >> claim to be a free software social networking tool. We see that we can have >> something like ning.com completely distributed and free/open. >> >> Living in the Web 2.0 age we are seen that the social networking sites >> will caught up on the CMS as tools for activities on the web. Here is my >> proposal, should OOo pioneer by starting a social network site based on OOo >> community. >> >> This idea might be odd sounding but think about it, is an easy way to keep >> our members on the loop with a software that is thoutght on collaboration. >> >> Most of the OOo community is already in many commercial social networks >> including Facebook, Linkedin, Xing, Twitter, Identi.ca etc. >> >> If we start running our social network with the branding on OOo we could >> provide a great layer to collaborate and get a more human (social) view of >> the contributors. >> >> Please comment. >> >> http://elgg.org >> >> -- >> Alexandro Colorado >> CoLeader of OpenOffice.org ES >> http://es.openoffice.org >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > > Benjamin Horst > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 646-464-2314 (ET) > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Alexandro Colorado OpenOffice.org Español IM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
