[Fwd: Re: [Lopsa-tools] Ok, now what?]

[David Nolan]

--On Monday, March 27, 2006 17:38:50 +0000 Doug Hughes <doug at will.to> wrote:

> Most of these we could do out of the box with drupal. (not sure about
> voting, but tags, submission, voting, comments, categories, structure,
> subscriptions for sure)
>
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>
> The grand idea is that all categories for things should be interrelated.
> Thus, with the standards project, we have categories for the different
> standards (I just put some together last night), and tools should/can
> interlink into the sames sorts of categories to provide some really
> useful cross-referencing capability.
>

Ok, so the implication to me of that plan is that the two databases 
probably need to be designed together and implemented in one common system. 
Is drupal the existing primary system for lopsa.org?  (I couldn't find any 
indication of what the site is running on...)  If its drupal I guess I'll 
go play around with drupal a bit to see if it can do what I want.

The more I think about this the more I think the key elements to me are the 
tagging and voting.  Once you've got tagging categories almost become 
irrelevant, though perhaps in this context we would re-invent categories as 
"suggested tags" or "tag prefixes"


-David