A loomio plugin to Noosfero as alternative to forums?

[Bráulio Bhavamitra]

It is quite a good (but tough) to think on how existing rails applications
may become noosfero plugins.

After looking to the source code (https://github.com/loomio/loomio) I went
to see its dependencies (https://gemnasium.com/loomio/loomio).

Basically, it would certainly depends on noosfero rails 3 migration, plus a
number of other gems (see the gemnasium link), which now we just can't
rely, as noosfero can only depend on debian packages. Loomio uses postgres
as noosfero does.

Even with if we had gems dependencies, a number of other issues would
appear. The first I would think would be user and permission structures.
For permissions loomio uses the cancan gem, which eventually could be of
use for noosfero togheter with access_control.

The only option left today is to study and reimplement their idea inside
noosfero and its forums.

best regards,
bráulio



On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 8:02 PM, Daniel Tygel <dtygel at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
>    A cooperative from New Zealand, coming out of the processes of occupy
> wall street, created a wonderful tool called "loomio". It's open source,
> developped in Ruby on Rails, and is very independent (their business model
> is based in contributions from informal groups and a monthly subscription
> from enterprises and bigger organizations).
>
>    The idea is really simple and nice to use, and I think that it would
> integrate beautifully to noosfero, as a replacement (or an alternative) to
> the actual forums, which are really limited today (too similar to blogs
> with comments activated).
>
>    I'd like to see your reactions, and maybe have an exchange with the
> people from loomio and see if they'd be interested in a possible
> cooperation for a noosfero plugin.....
>
>    Basically, it has in the left column a simple discussion. But at any
> time, during the discussion, any member can create a proposal, and the
> others can vote. These votes can be changed at any time during the process,
> up to a final decision from the group members.
>
>    Like in googledrive, a discussion can be configured to be open only to
> the group members (which could be the community members in noosfero), or
> open to anyone who arrives there (has the link to the debate).
>
>    I'd like to hear a little bit from the noosfero community, about how do
> you feel about this possibility.
>
>    For more information (and a very nice and small video-tutorial), check
> http://www.loomio.org/
>
>          Hugs,
>
>                  daniel (EITA)
>
>


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