Forum OpenACS Development: "The Secret" Forum 2B built with OpenACS

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1: "The Secret" Forum 2B built with OpenACS
Posted by MaineBob OConnor on 12/01/05 02:39 PM
We have chosen OpenACS to rebuild our community website
Powerful Intentions.com (PI). It is currently built and
running using Java Tomcat and Mysql. We chose to rebuild
so that we can take advantage of all that OpenACS is.

We chose the OpenACS developer "Solution Grove" to
rebuild PI to be bigger, better, faster and able to
serve *alot* more people. We are rebuilding NOW
due to the aliance that we, PI, have with the producers
of the two hour worldwide TV premier coming on
February 15, 2006.

Powerful Intentions is the official online community
for "The Secret"!

For your enjoyment:

Here is the first clue contained in the "Secret Scroll"

http://whatisthesecret.tv/the-secret-scrolls/scroll1.html

It contains the link to the first (video) "clue":
http://whatisthesecret.tv

Early this morning (December 1st), the second "clue"
was released in this second Scroll:
http://whatisthesecret.tv/the-secret-scrolls/scroll1.html

It contains the link to the second (video) "clue":
http://whatisthesecret.tv/newera/

AND People are discussing "The Secret" at PI:
http://thesecret.powerfulintentions.com/forum/thesecret

Are you interested?

Wanna Know The Secret? 😉

I am excited that we are rebuilding PI with OpenACS.
It will be a great example of how OpenACS can be used
effectively for an online community like ours. It will
enhance the "OpenACS" brand as a great solution
for other communities. Yes!

ENJOY!

-Bob

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2: Re: "The Secret" Forum 2B built with OpenACS (response to 1)
Posted by Rocael Hernández Rizzardini on 12/01/05 05:55 PM
Good! is always nice to see new important adopters of OpenACS, please keep the community posted.
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3: Re: "The Secret" Forum 2B built with OpenACS (response to 1)
Posted by Malte Sussdorff on 12/02/05 08:21 AM
Excellent news and you have chosen a great supporter of OpenACS to help you launch your community using it.

Now I just have to figure out what "Worldwide" means and if it contains any German TV channel or access via the internet.

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4: Re: "The Secret" Forum 2B built with OpenACS (response to 1)
Posted by Caroline Meeks on 12/02/05 10:11 PM
The Geeky side of the secret!

Actually this is GPL, the code ain’t no secret! Here are some technical details on the new PI site and what the community should expect back from us in the next month or two as we move towards launch.

We started with dotFOLIO, because each user needs their own subsite (My Stuff). Photo-album and blogs are used within the dotFOLIO framework with a few cosmetic changes. ECommerce is used to allow for paid memberships.

Forums and file-storage are used with somewhat more interesting modifications. We’ll write up some mini-case studies on how we used file storage to create private/shared library functionality and how forums and acs-groups were used to meet the client specific shared forum requirements.

New packages this project will contribute back are:

Messaging – users can send internal messages, turn off/on email notifications, vacation messages.
Friends – Users request “friendship” and the other user must confirm to be listed on their friends page.

We will also write up a case study on the site as a whole and how it uses online collaboration tools to builds a world wide community.