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• **unknown user**
  
  

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  Posted: Oct 22, 2005 - 07:59 AM

  Hi:
  
  Anyone with knowledge and time to check or update this module??:
  http://mods.postnuke.com/Downloads-req-viewdownloaddetails-lid-302.html
  
  Demo:
  http://www.aesculapius.nl/modules.php?op=modload&name=Alumni&file=index
  
  Thanks.

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• **unknown user**
  
  

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  Posted: Oct 24, 2005 - 08:47 AM

  I took a quick look, tried it on PN 0.761 and gagged a lot.
  
  It's no where CLOSE to what it should be to work. There are 4 or 5 tables but a quick look indicates they are VERY similar to Thomas Smiatek's pnAddressBook 2.1 which WILL work (generally speaking) and will likely do MANY of the things you want.
  
  However, if you're looking for "Friend-of-a-Friend" (FOAF) or "levels of separation" features, the pnAddressBook won't work either...without major revisions/updating.
  
  There are some interesting things being done in Sweden under the "social networking" heading on http://www.barnraiser.org. I've been thinking of revising their "AroundME" package. Since its written in PHP and uses ADODB, it caught my attention, but so far I haven't done anything except download their package.
  
  Send me a PM if that's along the lines you're interested in. I've tinkered with pnAddressBook a while back and remember that it could have some potential also, but wouldn't be an "instant" solution, I'm sure.
  
  HTH.
  Dave Nuttall
  San Antonio, Texas

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• **unknown user**
  
  

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  Posted: Oct 24, 2005 - 06:45 PM

  wow wow wow wow
  This AROUNDME script its the BEST think a never see online!
  WOOOOOOOOW!
  I CAN PUT REAL CASH TO SEE THIS AS A MODULE !

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• **unknown user**
  
  

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  Posted: Oct 24, 2005 - 09:49 PM

  Shouting about cash usually gets a chuckle from some of us because (to paraphrase an American president), "it depends on what the definition of is..." or in this case "real" is! (Pardon the poor grammar, please.)
  
  If you examine "AroundMe" in detail, you'll see that its features/functions tend to overlap and duplicate some core and some common add-on modules. There are roughly three dozen tables including forum, bookmarks, groups, blogs, etc.
  
  I'm not completely sure, but it seems likely that it could be made to run "as-is" but appearing to have been PN'ed by installing/configuring with PostWrap or similar technique. The immediate downside of course will be that while it will appear to have been 'Nuked', it will NOT be integrated since it has its own user ID controls. I have personal experience with at least one other good environment (Darrin Lythgoe's The Next Generation genealogy software) which Cas Nuy built a PN-interface. In real life its somewhat problematic because you have to modify the 3rd party application to get PN registrations, etc. to link to the 3rd party app or be aware of a login under PN so that appropriate features can become visible to a valid user. Seems to me that a nearly identical situation would evolve with this application.
  
  If you're truly serious about the migration of AroundMe to PN, your cash might be best invested in a joint-venture with the folks at BarnRaiser who are a nonprofit, but seem to be entrepreneurial. They may not have the interest or resources to apply. I'm pretty sure it would NOT be difficult, but quite time-consuming to revise their model to comply with PN. Truth-be-told/known, what they have going is somewhat like Nuke looked like in its early days, except that their approach isn't as "portalish" as Nuke and others have become.
  
  I don't have any relationship with the BarnRaiser.org folks but I have a good deal of respect for their efforts and the quality of their workmanship so far as I've had time/energy to examine their stuff.
  
  PM me with/for your/my contact info or specifics of your needs/wants/desires for this alumni thingy. I'm intrigued by the need/market for social networking technologies.
  
  Dave

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