On a page I havent showed to anyone, havent linked to from any where. That’s sweet.
I am guessing it’s just a case of searching for blog.* on domains, and if it’s got a wordpress, hit it up. Still, kinda cool.
So, working hard on Drupal. I like Drupal, but boy is there a major steep learning curve to go beyond simple site. I’m working with Organic Groups. I figure a “Cause” on HFC can be a Group, and a “Need” be a response. Thing is, when I think about a fully working HFC, I kind of see hackers browsing through a catalog of “Needs” looking for ones that meet their skills.
So that to me speaks of Taxonomoy. I think I can go one further. What if there was a shared taxonomy between Needs and Hackers? A Hacker selects from a set of skills that they have, or things they are interested in. When a Cause posts a Need, it fills out the same skills. We can then match up hackers to needs in many ways. Show a “New Needs” box to Hackers browsing that only show them Needs that require their skills. All kinds of possabilities become available.
Before that though, I need be able to get this Organic Group crap working. Installing XAMPP right now to experiment. I have Ubuntu VM with things on it, but it’s a pain to star tup and shut down. TR/TF box is hosed and can’t host Drupal. Don’t have enough access to HFC stuff to put up a test site. So XAMPP it is for now. Sucks that I can’t show it to anyone as I am working though.
Still struggling with How Hacker, Cause and Need interact. Need is pretty simple, something needs doing. Hacker is pretty simple too. Cause. Cause. Cause? Are you a person? Are you a umbrella concept for Need? A Group? What if Cause was a person? You sign up as a “Cause”? No. Cause is, well a Cause, a Charity. Need a name for the person creating the cause. Hackers are the tech people, so Cause owners would be? Charity? I dunno. Might just go with Charity for now. When people sign up they can select that they are a Charity who needs help, or a hacker who can help.
Actually that might work with the front page concepts I have in mind.
I smell dinner, later.