UF Community platform

Currently our community website is a simple Mediawiki. This wiki will now be used to bootstrap the development of the real thing. What functionality do we need? What should serve as the hub? Let us federate an answer to those questions.

There are several groups around here that also need a platform with similar functionality: Media X, Continuing the dialog, the Tech Museum. So this project has a general, researchy side.

An interesting part is federating people and projects: As long as we work in our companies and universities we are part of a functioning human organism. But in the changing world, we will need to be able to re-configure quickly around emerging projects, and then re-configure again. And after that comes the co-creating, or federating everyone's work and ideas. What functions and processes do we need to support? What sort of platform will serve best as the hub?

Ideally we should federate also the functionality of the site. This means providing something like an operating system, and letting the members create applications. This means a website which is itself developed as an open source project.

Members should have private spaces and profiles.

How does a member register his or her interests and receive only pertineng information? A primitive solution would be to use Mediawiki pages for interests and have each member watch a subset of those.

What software should be used as a hub?

Mediawiki:

Pros and cons

Drupal:

Pros and cons