[advocacy-discuss] Proposal

[Uros Nedic]

Hi to everyone,

  I was thinking, since we are in transition to the new website,
why we couldn't add more community functionalities to os.o so
we will not be pushed to use Facebook, or similar social networking
sites. We could add similar functionalities to existing one.

  I'm talking about that since I'm member of IEEE Communications Society
(IEEE - Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers), or IEEE COMSOC
shortly, and we implemented our internal social networking functionality
so we could interact without dependence from external sites. We are
dramatically
improved our communication and research development since that.

  Also, there is another benefit. Facebook and other similar sites have
lot of plug-ins which make our life not easier but rather harder (from my
experience). It is because they are designed for teenage population where
we obviously do not fit (maybe some of us feel like that, but that is
different story :) ). By implementing our own social network we could
interact at more professional and effective level without having problems
with lots of annoying plug-in what Facebook, for example has.

  What are you saying, folks?


Regards,
Uros Nedic