<div>I'm personally a least effort guy, but that mostly because I'm overextended myself,</div>
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<div>the first thing is asking ourselves, but what it is for?</div>
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<div>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)</div>
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<div>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,</div>
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<div>this is what is appealing in alex' proposals, to devise a 3-year strategy for movement building and funding,</div>
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<div>I'm of course really for it, but it is beyond my individual effort,</div>
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<div>what I'm doing with Sam, through civicCRM is devising a mailing list of our sympathizers, for some more specialized outreach purposes</div>
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<div>Michel<br><br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 7:35 PM, Samuel Rose <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:samuel.rose@gmail.com">samuel.rose@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div class="im">On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 2:17 AM, Michel Bauwens <<a href="mailto:michelsub2004@gmail.com">michelsub2004@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> Hi Franz,<br>><br>> if you want to know what the p2p network is trying to find as solutions, you<br>
> can talk to Sam, who had some proposals for us, and we're working on them,<br>><br>> Michel<br>><br></div>My suggestion was that we can use ELGG <a href="http://elgg.org/" target="_blank">http://elgg.org/</a> as a<br>
replacement for Ning<br><br>There's currently lots of discussion, offers and ideas at<br><a href="mailto:p2presearch@listcultures.org">p2presearch@listcultures.org</a> as well, mostly centered around Drupal.<br>Drupal's great, but I still stick by my suggestion and offer of ELGG<br>
as the best 1 to 1 replacement for Ning, requiring the least amount of<br>effort.<br>--<br><font color="#888888">--<br></font>
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