[Imc-alternatives] imc-alt and crabgrass

[lancaster-imc at riseup.net]

I agree, researching ruby on rails as the cms for imc-alt makes sense to
me, as I have mentioned in a previous thread. Perhaps Yosserian can add to
this pondering....Yo Y, what do you think? Michaelv

> 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
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