[IMC-US] Re: [mir-coders] newsvine: the indymedia killer? not really

[lotu5]

Sorry for the wide distribution of this email. I'm just trying to spur
some discussion about how we can move forward with the technology we're
using.

As bradley reminded me, a few good reasons not to use drupal are:

- crappy handling of photos (but good handling of mp3/video)
- crappy support for translations. mir's internationalization is some of
the best i know of anywhere.

In my opinion, our biggest problem with mir right now is a lack of
developers. We have lots of big ideas, but very few people contributing
code (including myself). So, I guess this is a call out for more
developer help with mir.

I started this page a while back:
http://docs.indymedia.org/view/Devel/MirNeedsAndRequests

and we have it linked from sd imc, but I haven't heard anything come of
it yet. I know that clara has also recently been working a lot on
documentation, so maybe this overlaps.

solidarity,

  lotu5


lotu5 wrote:
> http://www.simplefuture.org/?p=615
> 
> "Also sounds like, well, just about every single feature and the exact
> structure of I could have hoped for in a new codebase for Indymedia
> websites (or any independent media making platform). User created
> stories with a tagsonomy based navigation, voting capabilities for
> moderation and promotion, the integration of user accounts, the robust
> network, the ease of tagging and browsing tags via simple URLs, local
> news subdomains… everything in the direction of an organic news network
> created and maintained by its users. Perfect."
> 
> well, here's why it's NOT an indymedia killer at all:
> 
> 'Newsvine is a large-scale news media site which gives you almost all
> the same stories you read on sites like MSNBC and CNN but presents them
> in a much more attractive package.'
> 
> but hopefully it can point the way technologically to some features we
> should work towards.
> 
> drupal has a lot of these features, why not move more imc's to drupal?
> 


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