i guess what's still needed on top of that (and the wiki) is a clean,
simple to understand and navigate UI.

i have been in discussion with the folks who built the ideas project
website (http://ideasproject.com/index.jspa), which is all
semantically linked, so for example, it could be built so that it
showed all organizations, and then listed specific projects they are
working on or in support of or things they are associated with. the
same way, you could search by project, and see what other similar
projects/related projects were out there, and what issues the project
was seeking to solve.

in my mind, this would be a great solution, allowing the info from all
these places to pipe in.... automatically updating blog posts from all
the different sites and providing a snapshot overview of the entire
ecosystem, and making it very easy for projects and people to become
aware of one another and share data instead of duplicating it over and
over.

this is a much bigger project than creating a spreadsheet, but it's
something that would be nice. i love the p2p foundation site, it's
absolutely packed with gold, but it is a bit overwhelming to
understand where to look and to get context. the thing i'm envisioning
would be a lot of work to set up, but then it would be intelligent.
for example, as we've had the conversation many times about how to
evaluate projects or break down the criteria about them.... if these
values were defined, they could then be entered into this database,
and it would show you the 9 projects that were related/similar/
identical. it just seems that if there was more granular information
about all of this, and it was openly available and easy to navigate,
we'd have a much more effective method of allocating resources to
efforts that will go furthest.

- v