[Imc-alternatives] My Introduction

[Aaron Kreider]

Hi,

I'm Aaron Kreider.   I've been working full-time on open-source 
activist-networking software called "Activism Network" / "Campus 
Activism" since Jan 2002, mostly by myself, with the hope of spawning 
dozens of local, state, regional, national, issue-based, and 
organizational based networks. I live in Philadelphia. 

Activism Network developers site
http://www.activismnetwork.org/developers

My Blog on Online Activism
http://www.campusactivism.org/blog/taxonomy/term/1

My Blog on Activism Network software
http://www.campusactivism.org/blog/taxonomy/term/22


Anyways, I'm very interested in working together - if it makes sense to 
do so (and I hope it does!).  Basically my software could be included in 
any imc installation to create local activist directories that are 
directly tied into national/international ones.

...

Are people familiar with the up and coming new ZNet site (zmag.org)?  
Unfortunately I cannot find the link to the beta... From my 
understanding, what they're trying to do is the closest thing to what 
imc-alternatives is up to (greater interactivity).  They are several 
months (or possibly a couple years) behind schedule (target was March 
last time I heard), but I'd guess it should come out sometime this 
year.  How people use it might be a good indicator of "what works" / 
"what doesn't". ZNet is probably the highest-traffic left of liberal 
activist website in the US and has a massive base of subscribers 
(200,000 to their email list).  If I remember correctly they aren't 
using drupal (does anyone know different?)... I think they might be 
interested in releasing/sharing their code as open software.

Aaron