I wanted to build a community todo list so that we could array the results of the silly workshops. No such application existed, and according to my friend Mike, all the cool programmers already have dates to the prom. Who knew? But, I will accept that as the answer as to why no programmer responded to my inquiries. I think a 43Things-Digg mashup would have worked well. This (http://h2obeta.law.harvard.edu/home.do) would have been brilliant but I could not figure out how to load it on our servers. Anyone?
There is no open source version of 43Things, which is too bad. But, there are open source clones of Digg. That is the path I took. So, until some code jedi helps us with the H20 thing (heh, H20 = Harvard 2.0?) we are going with Pligg.
The One Million Splotz of Glue Campaign Online Splotz Monitoring and Tracking Webthing
It was the best I could do, but I think it will serve our purposes. Ideas for Splotz of Glue are entered as you would a news item in Digg. Splotzes are then committed to (think votes) by community builders. Not quite what I envisioned but okay for version, uhm, let us call this version 0.71. This allows us to array and track Splotz. There is a discussion feature as well as a way to see who is doing what in your neighborhood, sort of.
What do you think?
digg h20 harvard open source clones
Posted on March 28th, 2007 by Lloyd Y. Asato
Filed under: Backstory
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