New installs for drupal on the wind from Chris Pirillo
Derek Chirnside
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/27/pirillo-starts-large-scale-community-cms-project/
Comment: having just been through a drupal install, some built in installs would be great.
There are several things I don't really know much about in Chris's talk..
Chris is behind "activity streams", a Drupal plugin. http://drupal.org/project/activitystream
He is a little polemical and evangelistic in this video.
and the original post:
http://chris.pirillo.com/2008/03/26/were-taking-an-open-direction-with-web-communities-are-you-in/
A SNIPPET:
For the community of community owners, operators, moderators, and
members: we need better options, and I believe we need them to exist on
open platforms. We all have different tastes and we all use different
tools, but I think we all can accept that community software should
help us grow and flourish. One potential platform for us is found in
Drupal, an open source
content management system (CMS) that can be molded into a powerful,
integrated suite of community experiences - something that can help us
make sense of all these social networks we belong to.
For the geeks: Drupal has so much power in its core, and enough fantastic community-contributed modules, that I think it's time to assemble an Install Profile, complete with beautiful (accessible, microformat'ed, high quality) themes, pre-set Views for any Web community to either install on their own or have hosted at any given Web host that supports Drupal with optimizations. The benefits to you should be more than obvious.
And I don't mean just the framework for the community platform, I mean… like, it's ready to go. "It's not the features, it's the implementation." This all started when we began to migrate the existing Lockergnome community to Drupal (5.x, as 6.x had not yet been released and many favorite modules have not yet been brought up to speed). OpenSocial, OpenID, OAuth… just there.
I'm posting this because it's my hope that I can find partnerships, angels, brain-power, etc. - either from other communities or businesses willing to take part in an open source project that could benefit everybody and themselves at the same time.
My idea is not a unique one, and therein lies its greatest potential.
I don't want a social network, I want a socially *RELEVANT* network (both on-site and beyond). I don't want a community platform, I want a participation platform where members are rewarded and ranked appropriately. I don't want a place where people can just blog, because I'm going well beyond the blog. It's not just about hosting videos, audio files, or any piece of random media - it's the discovery mechanisms between them that make them more relevant.
It's discovery - no matter the community, no matter the type of content. Imagine coming to a site and not just reading about what other people are interested in, but what interests they SHARE with you! Imagine coming to a site and seeing how someone ranks in answers pertaining to your own questions! Oh, I'm confident you may have seen these features elsewhere - but what about for your own site, what about for your own community, what about for your own ideas?