Matt Raible wrote: > Sounds like a very cool project Phil! Do you know of any comparable > applications? It sounds like Drupal with the blogging and forums > components, but no CMS component.
Matt: I'm not aware of anything that is exactly comparable, but there are other projects underway that overlap. I think the key thing about this project is really going to be designing a way to manage the federated social graph (which also implies dealing with federated identity, I think) and then create hooks so the parts of the suite (Roller and JavaBB in the current configuration) can consume / publish that information. That gets to what I meant about eventually wanting to work back around to where the Roller code and the JavaBB code aren't really *part of* OpenQabal. If some of the ideas I'm chewing on can be made to work, the ideal case would be to have a way to expose social graph information so that it can be leveraged by *any* application using a standard protocol. So, if an enterprise wanted to wire their CRM system into the system and take advantage of social graph information, that should be possible. Likewise for CMS, Knowledge Management, whatever. One thing I really need to do is sit down and write up some use-cases to help illustrate what this is for. But I wanted to get something started before starting to think too much about the more abstract stuff... I'm one of those people who needs something to look at, poke, play with, etc., in order to help me think about the larger issues. It's like starting to implement something, even if it's wrong, forces me to think about things in the terms that actually lead me to where I want to go. :-) TTYL, Phil
