Comments on: We’re Taking an Open Direction with Web Communities: Are You In?

By: Friendster Graphics

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By: Chris Pirillo of Lockergnome announces Drupal-powered Community Participation Platform, hackfest in Seattle | IO1

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 22:24:01 +0000

[...] in Seattle Chris Pirillo is picking up the torch first raised by Marc Canter over 4 years ago: open community platforms available for everyone, powered by Drupal. Chris is a long time friend and colleague, and it's great to see him stepping [...]

By: Brian

Brian — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:48:09 +0000

Grand idea! How can I help?

By: Chris Pirillo - .net magazine

Chris Pirillo - .net magazine — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 12:57:18 +0000

[...] blog and more without having to touch any code. Chris announced the project, dubbed Gnomepal, in a 2,738-word post and a 47-minute video, and of course he also plans to live stream as many of the project’s efforts as possible.It’s a [...]

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GBTV #0335 (small) | GeekBrief.TV | TechTV Update — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 03:33:05 +0000

[...] spent most of Brief 335 highlighting an open source project proposed by Chris Pirillo. I’m in. I want to do whatever I can to help make his vision happen. It’s a great, and [...]

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blackrimglasses.com » 2008 » March — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:35:34 +0000

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Blogroll autodiscovery :: Adam Kalsey — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 07:08:53 +0000

[...] f$#@ is my market? Sacramento DUG meetup, April 17th Knight Drupal Initiative | groups.drupal.org We’re Taking an Open Direction with Web Communities: Are You In? Activity Stream =?WINDOWS-1252?Q?Todays_Tech-Support_Nightmare_-_Pogue=92s_Posts?= Scaling it up [...]

By: Hooray! Campaign to ‘de-geekify’ Drupal. E-book publishing wrinkles ahead? Opp for .epub? | TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 18:50:15 +0000

[...] Pirillo is starting a project to address those issues, and I wish him much luck. That said, let’s keep in mind the risks of [...]

By: chris

chris — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 15:25:18 +0000

This is an exciting and wonderfull idea. So what’s the status? I would love to use something like this in the future, to build a community of my own.

Also, have you tought about grassroots funding for this? Like, via chipin ?

And do you realise this free webcommunity software would become a revolution, the wordpress.org to wordpress.com (aka, Ning)

This is awesome

By: Lucy

Lucy — Wed, 21 May 2008 14:00:22 +0000

love this concept

By: Thomas Moseler

Thomas Moseler — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 02:57:36 +0000

Man, you frighten me ;) I slowly fear Drupal might not be a system but a sect. I just jumped into the middle of the video and feared sometime you might jump out of the screen and grab me :D

Good thing: I absolutely share your vision. Question: what has Windows given to the world though only striving for profit? Yes, a standard most people could communicate on. Still there were borders between operating systems, be it ideological or technical.

Question 2: what has overcome these borders (no, definitely not Internet Exploiter 6!) Yes, the web. So what you talk about, as I understand it, is to start to give people, who have something to say, the technical means without bothering them. This is a very democratic idea. And just as you say: It can be done. Its up to us to put it up.

Go, go, go.

By: Scott Koegler

Scott Koegler — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 14:39:56 +0000

I totally agree with this effort, but think that getting all the relationship information will be difficult without either:
- some heavy structured programming in the backend, and some intense manual data entry.
- inclusion of some kind of semantic technology (www.semanticreport.com, http://www.twine.com) that will automate the discovery of the relationships that make up and promote the ‘community’.

There are lots of efforts, some open source and some proprietary, that could/should be included in this effort.
Scott

By: AphisOne

AphisOne — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 06:54:17 +0000

I’ve been working on a very customizable and powerful content management system for the last year. My view is that of much the same as yours, interoperability of divergent systems. I’ve been developing the core platform to be as minimalistic as possible, yet have the power to handle anything that may be required. The concept is simple, ease of use with the power of a herd of rhinos. With the minimalistic approach power is not consumed when not needed.

By: laaabaseball

laaabaseball — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 06:11:42 +0000

Hey Chris, I love this idea! I am currently in the process of setting up NUKE’s site http://nuke1.net in Drupal and this is just the kind of thing that our site is looking for. I am using 5 different modules that currently only support half of the stuff I would like to do with it. Thanks for the great ideas, and I hope this fills up to the potential that is can be.

Thanks again
– laaabaseball

By: Tim Burke

Tim Burke — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 00:42:44 +0000

I personally think this is a great idea. I’m in, it’ll be a great system for my community. Drupal’s a great system for communities, and this will definitely enhance it.