[VBbuilders] [p2p-research] [globalvillages] Ning eliminates free networks

[Michel Bauwens]

I'm personally a least effort guy, but that mostly because I'm overextended
myself,

the first thing is asking ourselves, but what it is for?

as i said, the social features and threading were the added value, but
otherwise, the Ning site underperformed, and I was the only one taking care
of admin tasks (but thanks to sepp especially for his forum articles which
attracteda lot of discussion)

personally, I won't necessarily miss Ning that much, but of course, would be
happy for others to really build the p2p foundation as a movement,

this is what is appealing in alex' proposals, to devise a 3-year strategy
for movement building and funding,

I'm of course really for it, but it is beyond my individual effort,

what I'm doing with Sam, through civicCRM is devising a mailing list of our
sympathizers, for some more specialized outreach purposes

Michel

On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 7:35 PM, Samuel Rose <samuel.rose at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 2:17 AM, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi Franz,
> >
> > if you want to know what the p2p network is trying to find as solutions,
> you
> > can talk to Sam, who had some proposals for us, and we're working on
> them,
> >
> > Michel
> >
> My suggestion was that we can use ELGG http://elgg.org/ as a
> replacement for Ning
>
> There's currently lots of discussion, offers and ideas at
> p2presearch at listcultures.org as well, mostly centered around Drupal.
> Drupal's great, but I still stick by my suggestion and offer of ELGG
> as the best 1 to 1 replacement for Ning, requiring the least amount of
> effort.
> --
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> ambition." - Carl Sagan
>



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