2008/11/3 Pharos pharosofalexandria@gmail.com:
On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 9:13 AM, Brianna Laugher brianna.laugher@gmail.com wrote:
Is it too much to say we need our own Facebook? If only Ning was open source.
I've done some a little research on this issue, and this appears to be the most promising option:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elgg_(software)
It's open source, relatively popular, and is used in academic communities.
Looks neat. I also note http://openacademic.org/ which is apparently trying to achieve some integration of Elgg, Moodle, Drupal and MediaWiki. MediaWiki-related posts: http://openacademic.org/taxonomy/term/4. I think they are just talking about using OpenID + Special:Export/Special:Import to share data, which to my mind is not particularly integrated, but I guess it's something.
Brianna