[Imc-alternatives] imc-alt and crabgrass

[Jay]

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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