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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Alexandro Colorado
CoLeader of OpenOffice.org ES
http://es.openoffice.org
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