Tom, et al. (01)
You might be interested to look into the iCan project which the BBC is
working on. It was discussed at ETCon by Matt Jones[1] and James
Cronin. (02)
The precis of the presentation and slides are at (03)
http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/et2003/view/e_sess/3711 (04)
There is certainly (to my fuzzy view) some overlap in system ideas with
what you'd hope to gain by reworking savannah or sourceforge (but with
some backing of those handy telly licensing fees). (05)
I've got some hydrated notes from the talk with further information if
you're intrigued. (06)
-Eric (07)
[1] http://www.blackbeltjones.com/ (08)
On Thursday, May 15, 2003, at 09:34 America/Chicago, Tom Munnecke wrote: (09)
> Thanks, Paulo. What a wonderful way for me to start a day with such a
> nice suggestion! I am circulating this list among some of the others
> in the GivingSpace circle for their comments.
>
> To all: Paulo discovered GivingSpace via surfing, and has volunteered
> to help out with the technology. As an initial idea, I asked him for
> some ideas on infrastructure to support our work and community
> activities. He came up with the idea below. I've poked around
> http://savannah.gnu.org/ as well as www.sourceforge.net and they seem
> to have some tantalizing possibilities:
>
> Does it make sense to use this software as a tool to be modified for
> managing uplift communities and projects? Could a new uplift community
> register itself, akin to the way a new software project would register
> itself in Savannah or SourceForge? Could this open up pathways for
> development for community project management, detecting and
> communicating patterns of uplift, social network connections, webs of
> trust, topic maps, controlled vocabularies, RSS syndication, etc?
> Could
> we call this an "Open Community Development System," substituting
> "community" for "software?" Would this software be an acceptable
> foundation for future development, and could we tap into the open
> source
> (or free) community to help evolve the software? (010)
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