Re: [OSCOM] Plan: some resources as web services

Hi Sandro,

I just forgot to hit Reply All (many of our mailing lists do this 
automatically). I will post it now.

I wish I could say I recall you at OSCOM 3. I videotaped quite a bit of 
it, so I am sure I have your face somewhere there.
http://www.cmsreview.com/OSCOM/AudioVideo.html

Sandro Groganz wrote:
> Hi Bob,
>
> this all sounds good and I of course remember from OSCOM 3 (my name 
> was then Sandro Zic).
>
> Did you deliberately send the mail to me only or did you forget to 
> reply to all (including [email protected]) ? It would be good if the 
> others would also hear about your great suggestions.
>
> Sandro
>
> Bob Doyle wrote:
>> Hi Sandro,
>>
>> I can volunteer to provide some resources to OSCOM that might be 
>> valuable to members.
>>
>> 1) A Glossary. We can syndicate to the new OSCOM website a large 
>> glossary of content management terms that is being developed 
>> collaboratively on http://www.cmswiki.com. So you could have a strong 
>> glossary page without a lot of work from members. Members who want to 
>> contribute definitions can join the CMS Wiki (http://www.cmswiki.com) 
>> and get editing privileges.
>>
>> (CMS Wiki runs on OS TikiWiki. The Glossary has a Creative Commons 
>> license.)
>>
>> 2) A News Aggregator. We have built community aggregators for content 
>> management bloggers at http://www.cms-news.com. The bloggers are 
>> tagged as general CMS, CM Pros members, and a couple of other 
>> categories. We could make an OSCOM category.  Then the subset of 
>> bloggers tagged as OSCOM will appear on their own page at CMS News 
>> (http://www.cms-news.org).
>>
>> (CMS News runs on OS Drupal).
>>
>> More important is the fact that we can syndicate the top news items 
>> from the OSCOM bloggers onto the OSCOM home page.
>> See the CM Pros home page where we have the top five blog posts 
>> changing dynamically (http://www.cmprofessionals.org)
>>
>> 3) A Calendar. OSCOM could syndicate a calendar of content management 
>> related events worldwide. These events also have metadata for type of 
>> event and related organizations. So we could create an open-source 
>> tag, then OSCOM members can subset for OS events. More important, 
>> OSCOM members could have edit privileges to submit OS events. See the 
>> CMS Calendar (http://www.cmscalendar.com)
>>
>> (CMS Calendar runs on our GPL skyBuilders "consulting ware.")
>>
>> 4) The CMSML project. (http://www.oscom.org/projects/cmsml/ and 
>> http://www.cmsml.org)  Although little progress has been made on this 
>> concept over the past couple of years, it grew out of OSCOM's 
>> original SoftwareML project, a way to classify CMS's to help people 
>> understand the differences. Erik Hartman now has oversight of this 
>> project (Erik is also President of CM Pros, so he is pretty busy), 
>> but if OSCOM members want to help in this effort, they are quite 
>> welcome.
>>
>> The CMSML is a faceted classification scheme that can be syndicated 
>> to any website. It can be seen from OSCOM Projects pages.
>>
>> I look forward to helping you set up any of these "web services" that 
>> you think might benefit OSCOM and its members.
>>
>> On a historical note, my initial introduction to the content 
>> management community was when I helped organize OSCOM 3 at Harvard 
>> University Berkman Center for Internet and Society in 2003. It led to 
>> the major mailing lists for the CMS community, some of which I first 
>> built for OSCOM promotion, like [email protected], and the 
>> main CMS list, [email protected], now about 700 subscribers. It 
>> also led me to create CM Pros, because I wanted a community for 
>> everyone interested in content management. But I am still a strong 
>> supporter of Open Source and look forward to a revitalized OSCOM.
>>
>> Bob.
>>
>> Sandro Groganz wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I know from some of you from private conversations that they have
>>> further ideas and comments on the future of OSCOM. Please, share them
>>> with us within one week.
>>>
>>> The next action after April 9 is that I will summarize all input and
>>> present a new plan.
>>>
>>> Most importantly, this new plan will contain a list of volunteers and
>>> tasks they have committed themselves to. We need clear responsibilities
>>> and realistic projects to build something big from various small
>>> building blocks.
>>>
>>> Sandro
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>
>>


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