Drupal Community Participation Platform
From "We’re Taking an Open Direction with Web Communities: Are You In?"
I don’t want a social network, I want a socially RELEVANT network (both on-site and beyond). I don’t want a community platform, I want a participation platform where members are rewarded and ranked appropriately. I don’t want a place where people can just blog, because I’m going well beyond the blog. It’s not just about hosting videos, audio files, or any piece of random media - it’s the discovery mechanisms between them that make them more relevant.
It’s discovery - no matter the community, no matter the type of content. Imagine coming to a site and not just reading about what other people are interested in, but what interests they SHARE with you! Imagine coming to a site and seeing how someone ranks in answers pertaining to your own questions! Oh, I’m confident you may have seen these features elsewhere - but what about for your own site, what about for your own community, what about for your own ideas?
We're building aan platforminstall on topprofile of Drupal that makes deploying a community site easy. Drupal is an empty shell --- a great framework for building a site upon, but it's incomplete all by itself. Almost every Drupal site uses a laundry list of third party modules, themes, and custom code to flesh out the site. And usingUsing modules and themes that are already available can help us get really close to a community server. We're doing the work to find the gaps and build things to fill them. To develop best practices. To create lists of recommended modules and themes. To write modules or even bridges between modules. All of this will result in an install profile someone can use to get a community site right out of the box.
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