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

[Doug Hughes]

David Nolan wrote:
> 
> 
> --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)
>>
> <snip>
> 
>>
>> 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.
> 
yes, lopsa.org is drupal.
we also have a test/devel server.

> 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"
> 
there are several tagging modules, one works with del.icio.us

categories are very powerful means for content browsing though. Don't 
totally write them off yet.
(can do RSS feeds and multiple inheritence, slices of content, and other 
interesting things)