I know that this is over the hill, but as some people
remember we had some discussion of how "hard" it is to
contribute other than on bboard. We should maybe also work out
a module called projects where community members can open
up a colaborative space like http://www.groove.net where they
can work with others (flexible permissions) on a certain project. I
was working a little bit with Lotus Quickplace recently, and I
thought it wasn't too bad either, although groove is a lot more
mature, but therefore you have to download an application, while
Quickplace is completely webbased. I always prefer completely
webbased...
David, you're heading down exactly the path I've been
thinking about. I've worked with Quickplace a bit too, and
although I think it has some serious flaws, it's not a bad starting
point. Alternatively, if you look at the class and group spaces you
can create in ACES, they are also a reasonably good starting
point for project spaces.
Ideally, you'd enter the system from one of two views. Either
you'd be coming into a project portal view, as described above,
or you'd be coming into knowledge base view, where content is
laid out taxonomically (if that's a word). In either case, you should
have easily accessible links to create a wimpypoint presentation,
start an FAQ, start a bboard thread, post a file to file storage, and
so on. Likewise, all existing relevant content items would be
listed in either the project portal view (e.g., the OpenACS XSLT
compatibility project portal) or the knowledge base category view
(e.g., the XML category). In both cases, content contributions
would be linked to rich contributor profiles.
I'll write up some functional specs for these pieces, though I
won't be able to do it until next week.
