I agree, these are two separate ideas that would also reinforce each
other.
Alexandro did point out the site Ohloh, which solves most of the
developer-side of this network. But the marketing/PR/end-user side is
still not addressed, and I think Mozilla's Spread Firefox campaign
site shows how strong this idea can be. Working with them may be the
best starting point, however.
-Ben
On Aug 27, 2008, at 3:14 AM, Alexandro Colorado wrote:
On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:24:08 -0500, Charles-H.Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
Hi,
all good ideas here. I don't really bring a solution or a specific
comment aside that I'm in favour of using more social tools for our
project.
What I would like to point out though, is that what is described here
is basically the usage of a set of social networking tools for two
distinct goals.
One is internal to our project and is a better trackability of who
does what, for informative purposes, adding a social dimention to it
Another one is the promotional/conversational aspect of the social
network.
Those two aspects are by no way walled garden, it's even better when
we mix the two. But I just thought that summarizing those ideas could
help our discussion :-)
Yes I think this both 'features' will help our community a great
deal. Also not everything coudl be done by the application but
having a series of interviews with some of the people that conform
OOo would be great. Having some insight on their culture,
background, family friends would also can add a human aspect to the
whole mix. I like what the 'kdepeople' did for KDE and would love to
see something similar in OOo.
So if we have a journalist in our community with an interest to do
this, it could be pretty good thing to enterprise.
Best,
Charles.
Le 23 août 08 à 19:05, Benjamin Horst a écrit :
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
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CoLeader of OpenOffice.org ES
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