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Scott Albritton & myself discussed using {{WP|MediaWiki}} as a back-end, with a tweaked user interface with extra features. This would give us greater compatibility, and more ability to take advantage of future develoments in MediaWiki. --[[User:Chriswaterguy|Chriswaterguy]] · <small>[[User talk:Chriswaterguy|talk]]</small> 23:53, 27 March 2007 (PDT) | Scott Albritton & myself discussed using {{WP|MediaWiki}} as a back-end, with a tweaked user interface with extra features. This would give us greater compatibility, and more ability to take advantage of future develoments in MediaWiki. --[[User:Chriswaterguy|Chriswaterguy]] · <small>[[User talk:Chriswaterguy|talk]]</small> 23:53, 27 March 2007 (PDT) | ||
MediaWiki has huge effort and momentum behind it, and is an excellent platform that is growing and changing rapidly. I think it's important to work carefully on changes, always coordinating and submitting code-level changes with the upstream MediaWiki project; otherwise, changes can become a messy hairball and incompatibilities can arise with future versions of MediaWiki. The question "what happens when we upgrade MediaWiki versions?" should always be foremost on the mind when making changes. For social networking, I favour choosing best-of-breed outside services and asking Appropedia members to standardize on those, for example [http://www.linkedin.com LinkedIn]]. [[User:Dhart|Dhart]] 00:36, 28 March 2007 (PDT) | |||
==Tech-focused people involved with the Appropedia/Sustainapedia project and partners== | ==Tech-focused people involved with the Appropedia/Sustainapedia project and partners== | ||
Revision as of 07:36, 28 March 2007
- Note: I'm just creating this as a stub, to encourage discussion and collaboration. Feel free to add, edit or move as you wish. --Chriswaterguy · talk 23:53, 27 March 2007 (PDT)
Developments/tweaks wanted
- Social networking: what features exactly? Built in chat feature?
- Design & project ratings, like Open Architecture Network. Or do we do this on a different site, say Open Design Network (talk to Cameron Sinclair and Kate Stohr about this.)
Approach
Curtbeckmann said, via email, that I think the key to success will be to bootstrap the current state of the art while growing the community. I agree entirely. --Chriswaterguy · talk 23:53, 27 March 2007 (PDT)
Scott Albritton & myself discussed using W as a back-end, with a tweaked user interface with extra features. This would give us greater compatibility, and more ability to take advantage of future develoments in MediaWiki. --Chriswaterguy · talk 23:53, 27 March 2007 (PDT)
MediaWiki has huge effort and momentum behind it, and is an excellent platform that is growing and changing rapidly. I think it's important to work carefully on changes, always coordinating and submitting code-level changes with the upstream MediaWiki project; otherwise, changes can become a messy hairball and incompatibilities can arise with future versions of MediaWiki. The question "what happens when we upgrade MediaWiki versions?" should always be foremost on the mind when making changes. For social networking, I favour choosing best-of-breed outside services and asking Appropedia members to standardize on those, for example LinkedIn]. Dhart 00:36, 28 March 2007 (PDT)
Tech-focused people involved with the Appropedia/Sustainapedia project and partners
- User:Goodsignal who (with User:Lonny) has done most of the tech stuff for Appropedia so far (23:53, 27 March 2007 (PDT))
- User:Vinay Gupta
- User:Dhart
- (Is someone from Sustainapedia working on tech questions? Ryan Legg?)
Groups which have expressed interest in collaborating:
- Open Architecture Network, whose open-source platform was developed by Sun Systems.
- Ram from EWB-Australia's ICT4D wiki
- Scott Albritton & Gabriel Bauchat Grant (Purdue University)