Marcus Estes wrote :
As for the software needed for this kind of venture, could "Freefilter" (http://www.bigbold.com/freefilter/) be modified to accomplish all of this? I've been considering developing a pd community along these lines, so I'd be more than willing to help out wherever I can.
Freefilter is a blog; it's basically a chronologic list of postings, like a mailing list, but on a fancy web page that looks like a personal diary, or in the case of freefilter, like a community journal. It could be one of the functionnality implemented in the portal, but that's not enough.
I was suggesting to try Nuxeo because I read its description yesterday: http://www.nuxeo.org/cps/
For a more conventional portal (php based), Drupal seems a good choice: http://www.drupal.org/ (I know two developers)
-- Marc
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