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

[Pete Stidman]

wide distribution is OK by me.  This is a crucial
issue in my opinion.  I am not a tech person, but I
have been working with a number of techs out here in
Boston on a Drupal IMC prject.  We still have not
completed it, but we were inspired to do it because of
the lack of developers on IMC based lingos.  It would
seem better to fix the problems with Drupal, or find a
language with more developers, than to keep on with
one of our own, unless we can find other large groups
of people to join in.  Just my opinion...

-Pete


--- lotu5 <lotu5 at resist.ca> wrote:

> 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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> 
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