RE: Drupal

[Marc C. <ma...@br...>]

Hey Dries,

Jonas Luster was telling me how to pronounce your name yesterday.

I lived in 'dam in 1975 and have been going back ever since.

In fact there is a certain tutorial that Dave Winer just posted - that I
created there in 1997.

Anyway - Howdy!

I was introduced to Drupal by Julian Bond almost a year ago and have
been watching your success ever since.  Congrats!

I recently met Chris Schmidt -who was Neil Drumm's room mate and we
decided that Drupal would be teh way to go - for our PeopleAggregator
project.

THEN I met Jonas Luster - who has introduced me to James Walker - and
THEN I got together with Zack Rosen and Neil - who introduced me to
Adrian Rossouw.

I has a four hour tutorial on Drupal yesterday and YES - we have many
plans.

Unfortunately I do not have the time to write it all up to for you now -
as I am with my kids - it is a wonderful day today and we are swimming
in my swimming pool.

So briefly (and I will followup later with many more details):

	- we do NOT plan on forking - so we MUST work with you and the
team!

	- we plan on adding the PeopleAggregator code into Drupal.  We
can discuss how we might maintain the PeopleAggregator 'brand' - while
at the same time provide full featured social networking to Drupal.

	- we also plan on enhancing Drupal to become a "digital
lifestyle aggregator"

	- and we plan on expanding Drupal's authentication to support
other systems (such as SourceID and the new TypeKey systems)

By full featured social networking I mean:

	- a central Commons screen

	- a public page (the About Me screen)

	- a private page (your private tools, data, setting controls,
etc.)

	- Group pages

These four kind of pages make up the PeopleAggregator architecture.

In addition we are in the midst of adding a decentralized 'distributed'
People's DNS to the system as well.

All to be handed to the Drupal Community.

:-)

I hope that is OK.

:-)

Anyway - maybe we can speak on the phone together?

We also have an IRC channel as well on freenode = #pa.

:-)

- Marc

-----Original Message-----
From: Dries Buytaert [mailto:me...@or...] 
Sent: Saturday, April 24, 2004 9:55 AM
To: Marc Canter
Subject: Drupal

Hi Mark, I read your post in the Drupal forum.  Care to elaborate a bit
about your Drupal plans?  (Btw, I went to look for you in #joiito but
you were not there.  You can - occasionally - find me in #drupal at
irc.freenode.net.)

This message was sent by Dries Buytaert to Marc Canter.

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