[Imc-alternatives] Integrating activist networking (was: any forward motion?)

[M Hodgson]

oops, this is the direct link to open social:
http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/
Michaelv

On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 11:52 PM, strypey at riseup.net <strypey at riseup.net>
wrote:

> Kia ora koutou
>
> At the risk of repeating the discussion we had last year, I think the
> magic
> bullet that is missing here is inter-operability. I want to sign up once,
> to one
>  activist networking system (be it an iteration of Crabgrass, Aaron's
> ActivismNetwork, or something else integrated into my local Indymedia),
> and be
> available to every other activist who has signed up on an activist
> networking
> system - not just the same system I'm using.
>
> I wrote a commentary on this earlier this year which I posted to Aotearoa
> IMC:
> http://indymedia.org.nz/newswire/display/74838/index.php
>
> I'm aware there are challenges to engineering, securing and maintaining a
> distributed system, but as I say in my commentary, imagine you could only
> send
> email to people on the same email host as you - would that really be a
> useful
> networking infrastructure?
>
> The stumbling block seems to be defining standards for information
> exchange
> between different services, running on different software. What we need
> are
> widely-supported open protocols (or microformats?). Where they don't
> already
> exist, we need to bring groups of techs together to define them.
>
> RnB
> Strypes
>
>
> Dimitris M. wrote:
> > The concept of embedding Indymedia open publishing with activist
> > networking/collaboration tools, also exists in Indycore. To check out
> > the current status of indycore go to the development site:
> > http://dev.indy.gr
> >
> > It's not quite ready yet but we're getting very close to a
> > feature-complete beta release (expected by mid March). Shorty afterwards
> > it will be deployed live at http://indy.gr which has been running on an
> > older version of Indycore during the last year.
> >
> > If you're willing to try out the dev.indy.gr site I would suggest you to
> > create an account and log in first, since there's a bug that prevents
> > some anonymous postings in the dev site. If you find any issue that
> > hasn't been reported yet, feel free to submit a ticket at
> > http://trac.indy.gr
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Dimitris
> >
> > Στις 21-02-2008, ημέρα Πεμ, και ώρα 08:21 -0800, ο/η
> > lancaster-imc at riseup.net έγραψε:
> >> I heard from Elijah that Yossarian (unless I am disremembering the
> correct
> >> name) was/is in Crabgrass, but left and is working on the php cake cms
> for
> >> Indymedia--they of course wish he would come back (to crabgrass) and
> are
> >> very interested in developing the indymedia/crabgrass merged model
> >> (probably only in ruby/rails, but this idea of embedding could be
> >> interesting), but given his cross knowledge, that is good. Hey, my
> riseup
> >> account is now giving me back imc-alt posts, yey.
> >> Michaelv
> >>
> >>> I know that Yossarian has been working on integrating a ruby calendar
> into
> >>> UK imc stuff.
> >>>
> >>> Yossarian: where can we see your calendar and did you get the chance
> to
> >>> check out crabgrass yourself?
> >>>
> >>> Cheers,
> >>>
> >>> Josef.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On 21/02/2008, Jonathan Lehman <jonathandlehman at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>> Howdy y'all ...
> >>>>
> >>>> On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 8:27 AM,  <lancaster-imc at riseup.net> wrote:
> >>>> <snip!>
> >>>>
> >>>>>  2. Is there any possibility of any level of collaborative or joint
> >>>>>  connections between IMC-Alt and Crabgrass (built with ruby on
> rails)
> >>>> by
> >>>>>  riseup?
> >>>> </snip!>
> >>>>
> >>>> I think this is a *very* good idea!  I'm also curious about how we
> >>>> could piggyback off that social network, instead of creating our own
> >>>> separate one?  If not through a direct collaboration with their
> >>>> developers, perhaps we could embed crabgrass into our alt-imc
> platform
> >>>> somehow (this might require development of a special module/plug-in
> >>>> for whatever cms we choose to use!).
> >>>>
> >>>> By the way, if anybody is on crabgrass now, you can add me as a
> friend!
> >>>>
> >>>> https://we.riseup.net/jonathandlehman
> >>>>
> >>>> Peace!
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> jonathan!
> >>>>
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