[Imc-alternatives] imc-alt and crabgrass

[lancaster-imc at riseup.net]

Great, Jay!
Michaelv

> Hi everyone,
>
> Elijah from Crabgrass wrote back and said he'd love to connect.  He's
> in grad school and is finishing up a quarter over the next couple
> weeks, but after that we'll talk.
>
> Jay
>
> At 3/3/2008, you wrote:
>>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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