By jlorance on

So, I'm a huge Drupal fan, working on several of my own Drupal-based site, and also a user of platforms like Tribe.net.

While Tribe.net, Friendster.com, Orkut.com, etc platforms provide significant FOAF-based communities, they are essentially "walled gardens"... Where do platforms that foster "local" communities like Drupal, Moodle, etc fit into this equation?

IMHO, I can foresee a "meshed-online-social-networking" platform where Drupal (and others) is extended so that each individual Drupal (or other compatible solutions) communities and members can find each other just as easy as I can find tribes and members on a place like Tribe.net.

I'm sure I'm not the only one who see this picture... Is anyone working on this?

Cheers,
John Lorance

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federico’s picture

federico commented

I am actually looking for the same,
look at: http://drupal.org/handbook/modules/civicrm
I don`t use it, if someone does please tell us your experience.

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edrupalec’s picture

edrupalec commented

check out gojoingo
http://www.drupalecommerce.com/node/547

Zack might be developing an elgg module
http://www.drupalecommerce.com/compared

civicrm is for managing clients/donors. it doesn't do this.
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jlorance’s picture

jlorance commented

These are great module suggestions for sure and facilitate group-like and social networking like behaviour within a given site; however, having access to a larger eco-system of folks (and their ideas) across Drupal sites and networks with a navigation system (maybe thats FOAF-like, maybe now) with a directory service would be sort of the holy grail in terms of finding otherss.

I'm also leading this discussion over on TechSoup (http://www.techsoup.org/socialnetwork) today and tomorrow and the community discussion over there are proving to be very interesting. There's a great deal of interest not only in online community but the larger networking question I'm posing here at least in the non-profit community that is focused there.

John

edrupalec’s picture

edrupalec commented

Drupal does have an FOAF module
http://www.drupalecommerce.com/node/565

also, someone might write a dutch pipe module

Do let us know what comes out of the discussion

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