Re: [hackers] Edge-to-Edge Principle / Reed's Law

2003-08-02 Thread zrosen
You can build just-as-effective slashdot moderation stuff into the aggregator as you could in the central site. The way in which the system collects metadata has no effect on this. There is no us and them. We are all on the same team. I am not accusing DFA of having bad intentions. I am

[hackers] Various ideas lifted from blog space: Rideboard and Phonebank

2003-08-02 Thread Aldon Hynes
So, I'm up this morning and reading the messages in the "Secret Surprise" blog. RIDEBOARD One person suggested a ride board for Dean events. Is there such a ride board up? Should we get something like that going in DeanSpace? Again, in spite of being a high tech person, I like quick,

[hackers] DFA's Kit, Media Team, and Time Frame

2003-08-02 Thread Zephyr Teachout
Hey all! From DFA's perspective, we're interested in getting this kit out as soon as possible -- and for a bunch of reasons, we don't think we can push DMT. (Most of them, but not all, are legal, fwiw, but as such critical to our lawyer's ok and getting this out the door.) If anyone has any

Re: [hackers] Notes From Meeting

2003-08-02 Thread Joshua Koenig
Excellent point Lynn. I think the stock drupal modules we're including are: - forum - blog - profile (which will be modded) - book - poll We may want to include more and/or have some of the above installed but turned off by default in our kit. This will allow administrators to add

Re: [hackers] Edge-to-Edge Principle / Reed's Law

2003-08-02 Thread Joshua Koenig
So either the media-network intelligence goes in the nodes of the network, or it goes straight to the center of the Dean Media Team mother-ship. A few times now you've talked about having to get permission from DMT or being controlled by DMT, and now the DMT mother-ship. It's clear that you

Re: [hackers] Edge-to-Edge Principal / Reed's Law and other esoterica

2003-08-02 Thread CMR
Note to List: I love chewing on this vision thing; it's the way I operate: identifying and evaluating grand principles, assimilating them into my personal philosophy and then seeking to practice that thru my words, actions and affiliations (and perhaps it is the same for everyone; we just choose

[hackers] Stupid GPL question

2003-08-02 Thread lynn
OK, so there's a postcard script I'd like to cadge a few ideas from. Not wholesale cut/paste, just a couple ideas. It's licensed under GPL. This is the first open source group project I've worked on; while I've been programming for a bit, it's almost entirely been private work for myself and my