New thoughts

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Alright, your local hacker here, reporting in after a hard week of 
school attempting to destroy all my life and especially free time. 

Some evolutions we're seeing over the past recent time:

Previously, I was looking at the project as something that would be 
mostly external, tying into Drupal only minimally for user accounts, 
while using Drupal as a backend to store all data. However, looking at 
the situation, it may be best to look at it the other way, to start 
with: create a new Drupal module that allows us to contain all the 
PeopleAggregator code in there.

I've described some issues and tasks associated with this module's 
development at http://devel.peopleaggregator.com/DrupalModule . This 
page lists the main issue I see, as well as the four main tasks to 
making it work. I'm no Druplicon, so I'm not offering suggestions (yet) 
I'm just working to outline what we need to do in order to get a working 
module that does what we need it to do.

However, at some point, we want to be able to have PA type abilities 
included everywhere - whether it be Drupal installs, or any kind of 
other service you might use it on or with. This is more of what the 
description at http://devel.peopleaggregator.com/DrupalIntegration 
involves: how to take an external PeopleAggregator Frontend and 
integrate into your existing model: Whether it be Drupal, LiveJournal, 
or whatever else you might be needing it for.

With the arrival of a lot of people more experienced with Drupal than 
me, I'm going to step back from the main Drupal development and let the 
Gods in the field take over in that sense. I'm still going to be working 
on tying things together - if you have a question, feel free to bring it 
to me and I can poke at the existing code until I get an answer, or poke 
whoever needs to know in order to get things done ;)

Really, I'd like to just act as a liason between you smart Drupal people 
and the existing code, getting all the functioanlity we have - and how 
we have it - across to the people who need to change it up and make it 
better.

The two pages I linked up there are both what I consider relatively 
informative, but please, feel free to add to either one of them. I 
typed them both up late at night, my brain could be utterly fried ;)

Just wanted to get some goal lists going so I could figure out exactly 
where everyone is on knowing how things are going and keep everyone up 
to date.

-- Chris