Hi there Thorsten,
Thanks for your comments. I realise I should probably disclose that PlanetCocoon is sponsored by two one-man personal service companies: www.rocket-media.net and www.efurbishment.com. It's not a commercial site.
On 28 Mar 2005, at 16:30, Thorsten Scherler wrote:
BTW doing a cocoon site with drupal. LOL Eat your own dogfood. ;-)
Indeed; that is one of my favourite phrases. You're talking to the guy who wrote the MIDI transformer for Cocoon, so choosing the best tool for the job may not be my strong point! ;)
Seriously though, I've worked with Cocoon for several years and I think that Cocoon's qualities as a tool for building web applications speak for themselves. As yet I don't have my hands on a Cocoon powered solution that answers my needs for a Cocoon developer community site. I'm looking for something that offers:
- blogs, forums, pages, polls
- high search engine visibility
- formatting of code snippets / recipes
- site-wide search
- collaborative books
- newsfeed aggregation
- taxonomy / folksonomy
- XML feeds for all content
- integration with del.icio.us
Do you know of anything I may have overlooked?
This can do harm to the cocoon community, have you thought about that?
What sort of harm can you foresee? I agree that we should think through the potential impact of independent initiatives like PlanetCocoon on open source communities like Cocoon. Can you think of any examples of independent sites in other communities? What worked? What went wrong?
(you mentioned that posts to planetcocoon are not going back to this list)
Personally, I read much more aggregated RDF than email these days. PlanetCocoon offers XML feeds to everything: blogs, forums, comments, etc. Having said that, any comments posted to PlanetCocoon could easily be relayed back to the cocoon list: that functionality exists already. I'm ambivalent about doing it.
Cheers! Mark
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