[Imc-alternatives] questions about indy-alt implementation

[john duda]

hey folks,

this is john, i'm helping get your drupal off the ground. i'm at the
point now where I thought it'd be helpful to clarify what I'm seeing
on the designs before doing too much more work.

let's start with this one:
http://thunderwhip.com/imc/Home-Page.jpg

so we have on the one hand a "newswire" and a "knowledge wire" by
understanding is that the newswire should really be a "solutions
wire"?  or should the "solutions wire" be renamed the "knowledge wire"
and should i make a new "news wire"?  

in any case, these are two parallel open-publishing systems, with the
first focused on more ephemeral reports and the latter on longer-term
howto-type info, right?

you can see a working version of the basic structure for a
newswire+tiered features in the center column at domain23.info -
obviously needing work on pictures and styles, but coming along.
we'll be able to quickly replicate this setup for the three wires, but
i want to get the details straight first.
	
my understanding is that the "knowledge wire" pieces should have some
editableness to them, i.e. it should be more wiki like.....do we want
these pieces to be "structured", i.e. more like books with chapters,
or just plain flat articles?  do we want to just have a wiki
free-for-all, or do we want to have groups (could be user managed) to
manage specific areas?  my vote would be for the former for now (the
free-for-all), moving to the latter as the site gets more traffic.

finally, what is the "network wire"?  is this rss feed based? manually
entered by editors?  another open publishing wire?  some combination
of all three?

-john



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