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

Groups which have expressed interest in collaborating:

Hosting

  • I'd like to propose that Appropedia be hosted on an environmentally sustainable infrastructure, with a commitment to remain on the cutting-edge of environmental sustainability (within the reasonable limits of appropriate technology of course). Given the nice W stack that powers WikiMedia, the choice of hosting company can be fairly neutral, and the "environmentally sustainable" criteria simply added to the list of regular criteria for hosting. While such hosting is unlikely to be cheap, announcement of a targeted fundraising drive would likely gain better attention than Appropedia announcements alone (e.g. a response from the media/blogosphere along the lines of "Gee, I didn't know anyone could do sustainable hosting! Everyone should be doing that!") . Dhart 19:48, 28 March 2007 (PDT)
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