[p2p-research] [globalvillages] Ning eliminates free networks

[Samuel Rose]

I agree with Michel and Alex on what Michel talks about below. We can
discuss and plan first, then choose tools and build together. Makes
sense to me.



On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 11:31 AM, Michel Bauwens
<michelsub2004 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm personally a least effort guy, but that mostly because I'm overextended
> myself,
>
> the first thing is asking ourselves, but what it is for?
>
> as i said, the social features and threading were the added value, but
> otherwise, the Ning site underperformed, and I was the only one taking care
> of admin tasks (but thanks to sepp especially for his forum articles which
> attracteda lot of discussion)
>
> personally, I won't necessarily miss Ning that much, but of course, would be
> happy for others to really build the p2p foundation as a movement,
>
> this is what is appealing in alex' proposals, to devise a 3-year strategy
> for movement building and funding,
>
> I'm of course really for it, but it is beyond my individual effort,
>
> what I'm doing with Sam, through civicCRM is devising a mailing list of our
> sympathizers, for some more specialized outreach purposes
>
> Michel
>
> On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 7:35 PM, Samuel Rose <samuel.rose at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 2:17 AM, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Hi Franz,
>> >
>> > if you want to know what the p2p network is trying to find as solutions,
>> > you
>> > can talk to Sam, who had some proposals for us, and we're working on
>> > them,
>> >
>> > Michel
>> >
>> My suggestion was that we can use ELGG http://elgg.org/ as a
>> replacement for Ning
>>
>> There's currently lots of discussion, offers and ideas at
>> p2presearch at listcultures.org as well, mostly centered around Drupal.
>> Drupal's great, but I still stick by my suggestion and offer of ELGG
>> as the best 1 to 1 replacement for Ning, requiring the least amount of
>> effort.
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