[advocacy-discuss] Proposal

[Michelle Olson]

Uros Nedic wrote:
> 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.
>   

Hi Uros,

Could you give more specifics about the functionality you might want or 
the features that IEEE COMSOC integrated?

At very least, we can start a 'wish list' and see what we can do after 
we get through transition phases 1&2.

To answer your question about 'why not?' I think it is because we have 
so many priorities for code development functionality 
(repo.opensolaris.org, bugs.opensolaris.org, pkg.opensolaris.org, etc.) 
these types of features have been  our top priority.

One of the most important new features will be a true language 
translation module (I'm not sure if we'll have this immediately in 
phase2, Jim will know), so we can translate the pages of the new web 
site effectively and keep things up-to-date. This was a major benefit of 
using Xwiki.

Xwiki is also open source, so if there are social networking features we 
want to develop, we'll have a much greater opportunity to do that in the 
future.

>   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?
>   

I think it is a good idea to discuss this more! Thank you!

-Michelle

>
> Regards,
> Uros Nedic
>
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