[Imc-alternatives] imc-alt and crabgrass

[Jonathan Lehman]

I'm also very excited about Crabgrass ... I'm wondering how modular
and flexible is it designed to be?  (Don't know much about ruby on
rails yet ...)

And I'm wondering, well, if it is very modular then we could
potentially put our development efforts into that platform.  We could
design alt-imc plug-ins, like for the newsfeed, and plug-ins for the
integration into other sites, and plug-ins for other features we've
been kicking around.  And we could brand that bundle of plug-ins as
the alt-imc site / social network.

I look forward to hearing back from folks on the details and specifics
of Crabgrass.

jonathan!


On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 1:31 AM, Jay <jay at fundamentalchange.net> wrote:
>
>  Hi Michael,
>
>  At 2/28/2008, M Hodgson wrote:
>
> I went ahead and set up a crabgrass group for imc-alternatives. I also
> invited all who I know on Crabgrass whom I know or think are interested.
> Here is the link: https://we.riseup.net/imc-alt
>
>  michaelv
>  I'm very excited about our starting to use Crabgrass.  I plan to set up a
> profile within in the next few days.
>
>  I agree with the ideal set out here recently by you and Aaron K -- a
> positive integration of WiserEarth, ActivismNetwork and Crabgrass would be
> amazing.  (not to mention sharing anything ZNet would be willing to share.)
>
>  A lot of this is out of our control, but I do think we should be able to
> make a reasonable stab at integrating Activism Network into whatever we do,
> and we don't have too far to reach out to connect to people in Crabgrass.
>
>  Most directly, we've talked a lot in the past about the best way to blend
> the news-gathering aspects of an Indymedia site with social networking.  I
> think reaching out to the Crabgrass developers sounds like an incredibly
> reasonable and productive way to start to figure out how to do this.
>
>  As I mentioned a few days ago, I sort-of know one of the Crabgrass
> developers.  She is out of the country but introduced me via e-mail to
> someone who she says I should talk with about this.  She gave me his number
> too.  I'll call him this week and tell him about our project.  We'll see
> what kind of ideas arise.
>
>  Jay