Gnomepal -- Open Source Community Platform
About Gnomepal	English (USA)
We're building an install profile of Drupal that makes deploying a community site easy. Drupal is an empty shell - a great framework for building a Web site upon, but it's incomplete all by itself. Almost every Drupal deployment uses a laundry list of third-party modules, themes, and custom code to make the resulting site feature-rich. Using modules and themes that are already available can help us get really close to a community server. We're doing the work to find the gaps and build things to fill them... to develop best practices... to create lists of recommended modules and themes... to write modules or even bridges between modules. All of this will result in an "install profile" someone can use to get a community site right from the start - whether they download and set it up themselves, or go through a recommended Web host for complete ease. Wherever you can help, we need you - the community needs you, and your next Web community needs this. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts, and we're just assembling those parts (with you) to make a more complete community experience for sites the world over. We believe the person (user, member) is at the center of the community experience, and tools for that person and his/her groups are meant to enable them (not restrict them). We are developing toward integration with OpenSocial, OAuth, and OpenID - and have at heart the Bill of Rights for users of the Social Web. We wish to create an integrated set of tools to further empower a community's members - to help them extend a single-tool site (a blog, a forum, a wiki) into a richer destination without the need to remember yet another Web address. We wish to help them discover other relevant communities throughout the Web, no matter the platform. If you have any skills to donate to the project, please let us know. If you know ANYBODY who might have interest in this project, please let us know. This list may be high-traffic - be forewarned. Flaming will not be tolerated. This discussion list was set up for convenience in communicating plans and ideas - do not feel like you MUST be on it to be involved with the Gnomepal project. Until "Gnomepal" exists, we have to rely on many disparate tools to keep ourselves organized: Live Gnomepal Survey Results are Here - based on this live questionnaire. Live Gnomepal Chat on Freenode in #drupal-gnomepal Expanding team roster is here, based on a form you may fill out (separate information from this list). To see the collection of prior postings to the list, visit the Gnomepal Archives.
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