Consortium Team

[Dhrup]

I will of course be offering my own server facilities for free
as long as
no one single individual is being over-highlighted or over-promoted

The repo should become a fair-for-all "Consortium Team"
that basically allows commercial plugins, services, products,
consulting
and links to the outside for any Developers' own sites..

A reverse "confluence" so to speak of..
A gateway,
A jumping off point..
for all things Elgg
for the general betterment of Elgg
and maybe few extra $$ for IceCream for us developers

+ I like to also keep a mirror of Existing Elgg PlugIns, Themes..
maybe with some more user-friendly categorization & searching,
perhaps some 1/2 formal-like review system by users/ developers.

+ There should be no real need to code "new plugins" to manage
all this activity if we can use existing Elgg PlugIns for the purpose,
e.g as Vazco has done with the Groups PlugIn on ElggDev.Com

There's too many Elgg-promotional domains already with "Elgg" in the
name
even my own "ElgGalaXy.Com ;-P
- which Elgg.Org have already said they don't like ('Domain Policy")
- typically when open source gets 'forked' (not quite what we're
aiming but we are
branching out to facilitate some newer angles) -- the original Pkg
name is never re-used
( Mambo-> Joomla )
- So - even tho I had at first thought of putting the mostly dormant
domain ElgGalaXy
to some use - I do have yet another domain name that kinda spells or
points to Elgg
without even using 'Elgg' in the phrasing.

[Mike (vazco)]

Dhrup, I think your idea of keeping things simple is very good. A
repository should contain only features which are essential to
functionality.

Still, it took us over 400 hours to create a plugin repository on
Elggdev.com and to make it secure. It's not a small task if you want
to make it right.

I still think we should ask Foundation to take part in creating
repository. Otherwise, how can we deal with situation where one
developer takes advantage over others by spamming on forum and eg.
posting multiple versions of the same plugin just to keep it on top of
the list? We have to have procedures against such situations. What if
this developer is you or me? What if there's a dispute between two
developrs? - we have to deal with this as well. I don't feel a
"Consortium Team" would work well here. Elgg Foundation already has
experience at running community.

I think we also need Foundation's approval to inform about non-GPL
repository on Elgg.org, otherwise idea will fail. I think Foundation
should have more control over repository - they won't have to ban
something they can control.

[Team Webgalli]

Dhrup, We are not planning to fork elgg. In no way this should be
allowed. We need to stick with elgg. We should respect the work of
Cash, Evan and Bret. So no question of forking elgg, like Joomla or
Maboo.

[Dhrup]

@TeamWebGalli
Could you please, please...
Use your *real name here rather than 'social web team" ?
We are all here as people, not companies;
and we all like to work out professional solutions as real people
Drop that anonymity and we can all talk like friends;-)

[Team Webgalli]

@dhrup : We prefer to use the same name we use in the elgg community. This is a public discussion board. Its open to all for individuals and companies who share a common Idea.

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Regards,
Sajjed M | CTO - Team Webgalli
http://webgalli.com

[manfred salomon]

i agree with drup-man
behind a nick should be one person 
with no exception

in my opinion this applies also to "tidypic team" and others 
mike (vazko) on this exern place is sympatico :-)
we should respect each other (as person) ;-)
@SocialWeb  Team in my case, i must say, you discuss on a poor level and disqualified yourself as consultant for anything

[Ismayil Khayredinov]

That's totally off topic. Let's get back to the point.

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[manfred salomon]

too much emotions . . . . smile .
. . . o.k. let's talk serious