Quick brainstorm on Gathering component -vs- bespoke -vs -CCK

[alanski]

I am looking for some ears to bounce off.
Currently I am planning/brainstorming how we do campaigning with
Joomla into phases of potential new developments.
Some possible routes and phases are:

Phase 1: assemble campaign from articles/mods and plugins - kind of
where we are now

Phase 2: Build a Gathering component that lets you assemble these/
group these into one instance of a campaign - a kind of gathering/
grouping component (eg nice ajax / drag and drop pick and choose
elements for campaign)

Phase: 3 Build a bespoke component that lets you specify within the
component itself the type of campaign elements desired and what
position and layout they should have

(Ideally I want to stay as close to 1.6 developments as possible but
am not quite prepared to bleed all over the leading edge yet)

Alternate Phases might be:

-CCK Phase use a CCK like Zoo or K2 - not so keen on moving
potentially far away from 1.6
-Hack com_content to death and rebirth it.

Any thoughts welcome on 1.6 future proof routes and whether what has
most mileage, eg
Gathering component -vs- bespoke -vs -CCK

Amy Stephens mentioned/hinted build your own extensions in 1.6 but not
sure what this means - Amy care to comment?

cheers

[Rafael Diaz-Tushman]

I'm not sure I fully understand what you mean by a "Gathering component".  I'm happy to assist in any way I can, but I don't quite get it yet.  Could you elaborate?  What are you trying to "gather"?  What do you mean by "campaign"?  My thoughts are circling somewhere between an Event Manager and/or Election Campaign Manager extension, but I still can't tell if that's right...

Cheers!
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[in...@joomkit.com]

I knew id get aske dfor more on gathering...

So to clarify.

Campaign - I am talking UK charities creating petition forms, email sign up forms and action forms (eg email the EU commissioner about trade agreements etc)

When you take the best practice of e-campaigning and start adding web2.0 stuff you kind of want to manage some of your campaign elements in a way that groups the elements of a campaign together. 

For some end use examples see www.waronwant.org and www.chickenout.tv

At the moment if I imagine a campaign landing page for a campaign it will have various elements like  media (imagesldieshow or video), call to action (form), facts opinion etc

Currently this kind of page can be built from modules loaded into articles.

What I am wanting to achieve is a way of organising these elements into campaigns rather than have them spread across the system in articles, modules and plugins etc.

So i thought creating a component to 'gather' these elements might work or make sense. EG Component 'campaigns', a campaign 'category' entry of this component would be a collection of articles , modules, form elements that actually make up one campaign.

Then I thought this is actually pretty laborious as you have to run all over the system creating articles and modules etc and then create a campaign component entry to gather them together.

So i was thinking  CCK, 1.6, drupal (haha) ZOO CCK, hacking com_content etc

does this make some more sense? :)

Alan