[kde-community] A change of heart

[Jaroslaw Staniek]

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On 25 August 2014 13:53, David Wright <david.wright12886 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I did send this originally to the kde-www address but I thought I'd send it
> here as well for a bit of fun.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> David
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: <david.wright12886 at gmail.com>
> Date: 17 Aug 2014 00:24
> Subject: A change of heart
> To: "kde-www" <kde-www at kde.org>
> Cc:
>
> Hi guys,
>
> I've been doing a bit of research lately on CMS's and stumbled across
> http://commonsinabox.org/ which is basically a bundled buddypress plugin
> which powers http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/ amogest other.
>
> Given the social nature of this setup, and the fact it is built upon
> wordpress
> (it is basically a set of wordpress plugins that have been tested together),
> I
> felt that this might be something that KDE might like to take under
> consideration?
>
> A standard install would include forums, groups, collaborative docs, social
> @
> mentions, user profiles etc, etc.
>
> Also, using the multi user aspect of wordpress it would still allow certain
> projects to keep their identity, but remain under the networks umbrella, as
> evidenced by: http://helpwanted.commons.gc.cuny.edu/
>
> Naturally, being exposed then to the wordpress plugin ecosphere would allow
> then a better integrated events management, job board, even a store if
> desired.
>
> Ultimately though, the goal is to increase funding. The KDE websphere is too
> spread out, and this would help reign it in so we can really do focused
> funding campaigns on users. That would be the advantage of the groups, as we
> could tailor funding drives to particular interests and hopefully have
> better
> success.
>
> Administration might also be made easier as we could get rid of a fair few
> subdomains by moving to this kind of platform.
>
> Anyway, it's late, and I'm jabbering. Let me know what you think!
>
> :-)
>
> ps
>
> There is also a buddypress app that could be rebranded:
> https://github.com/yuttadhammo/buddydroid
>
> Mozilla were also working on bugzilla intergration a while back:
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=643570
>
>
>
>
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