Hi All,

I see that the forum idea is very well to make the SFD more interact with FOSS users, but what about Professional network to make more interaction and support events to be visible to the people form all the over the world, below is my suggest features which will help all SFD supporters and members to interact together:

Below is  a contribution offer by my Organization "Ofok NGO"  volunteers team, which we can establish the beta version of this network and open for membership in 4 weeks

Suggest Professional Network features:

 

1- Two Profile type (Individual  and Organization)

2- Personal Blogs: have your very own blog, post entries directly from your profile page, and share those blog posts with friends 

4- Working Groups “Roundtables for SFD teams to increase the awareness about SFD and invite more volunteers”

GROUPS allow like-minded members to build their own mini-communities, made up of members who share their same interests. It allows users to…

·Create and join groups

·Create group discussion

·Create Photo Albums, Videos

·Post on group walls

·Group owner can publish news bulletin

·Admin can control group membership and access

 

Example

SFD by teams or countries “SFD US, SFD Egypt, SFD China etc…”

 

5- Event Management “To promote events by teams or countries”
Members can create and manage events easily. It will display map as required with zero configuration. You can define how many "seats" available for the event, which allows you to limit event participants.

·Intelligent map support. If the event location is a valid address, a Google map will be automatically displayed. there is no configuration needed for the map.

·You can define how many "seats" available for the event, which allow you to limit event participants.

·We make it easy for you to invite your friends and allow other event guest to invite their friends.

·Export the event to iCal format or print it away nicely

·Send email to all event participants, perhaps to remind them about the event dress-code or notify them of last minute changes.

 

 

6- Interactive Photo & Video Galleries “To share events activities”

•   Upload videos directly to your community or embed videos from 3rd party video sharing sites. Video-posting capabilities are even built right into community....
•    Share videos, photos, group bulletins and discussions with all the major social bookmarking services as well as social networks.
•    Create, comment on & share interactive photo galleries with online friends.
•    Members can "tag" their friends in any of their photos.

 

7- Private messaging system

8- Profile Twitter feed and Flickr photo galleries

 

 

Other Features
Polls  and surveys

Open Source Glossary

Network Guidelines

iPhone & Mobile Friendly Site

Social Tools for Interaction “Twitter, Facebook, Youtube channel, LinkedIn”

 


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Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2010 13:32:34 +0700
From: Ivan Shmakov <ivan@main.uusia.org>
Subject: Re: [SFD-discuss] Forum
To: Open discussions about SFD <sfd-discuss@sf-day.org>
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>>>>> Frederic Muller - SFI <fred@softwarefreedomday.org> writes:
>>>>> On 07/25/2010 06:03 AM, Cat Scratch wrote:
>>>>> On Sat, 2010-07-24 at 15:42 +0800, Frederic Muller - SFI wrote:

 >>> We've been considering a move to using a forum as our main
 >>> discussion platform

 >> I really don't like using web forums.

[?]

 >> I understand some people do prefer web forums, but I don't think you
 >> should disengage those of us who prefer mailing lists.

 > The situation is that today the mailing list(s) is limiting us in the
 > way we interact with our audience.

[?]

 > Modern forum software allow you to RSS feed and get all the latest
 > posts well organized (no need to use your web browser - even though I
 > am sure we all have one open all day long), you can subscribe to
 > threads and receive emails notification, some even allow you to send
 > emails to post to the forum.

       ?  And I'd like to note that Gmane supports RSS, too.

[?]

 > I'm uncertain of the benefits of keeping both a mailing list and have
 > a forum. The way to ask question becomes unclear and might confuse
 > users (maybe it's just a matter of presentation only), however we
 > might also go along that road based on the community feedback.

       That's why Gmane may be of interest: it offers a forum- and a
       blog-like Web-interface for a mailing list.  In particular, the
       messages posted via the Web interface are instantly available to
       the mailing list subscribers and vice versa [2].  No separation
       between the two, and no confusion, either.

       So, why not just to fill the form at [2] and let the community
       test the usability?  Won't it prove to be worthwhile, the things
       could be undone pretty easily.

[?]

[1] http://gmane.org/post.php
[2] http://gmane.org/subscribe.php

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Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2010 15:06:56 +0800
From: Frederic Muller - SFI <fred@softwarefreedomday.org>
Subject: Re: [SFD-discuss] Forum
To: Open discussions about SFD <sfd-discuss@sf-day.org>
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On 07/25/2010 02:32 PM, Ivan Shmakov wrote:
>
> [?]
>
>   >  I'm uncertain of the benefits of keeping both a mailing list and have
>   >  a forum. The way to ask question becomes unclear and might confuse
>   >  users (maybe it's just a matter of presentation only), however we
>   >  might also go along that road based on the community feedback.
>
>       That's why Gmane may be of interest: it offers a forum- and a
>       blog-like Web-interface for a mailing list.  In particular, the
>       messages posted via the Web interface are instantly available to
>       the mailing list subscribers and vice versa [2].  No separation
>       between the two, and no confusion, either.
>
>       So, why not just to fill the form at [2] and let the community
>       test the usability?  Won't it prove to be worthwhile, the things
>       could be undone pretty easily.
>
Why? Because the SFI Board takes decision together and we don't want to
rush into things (you might have noticed - *irony* ). I looked (quickly)
at gname and was confused by the user interface. Not something that
seems that easy to me (and still looks very geeky as well).

But as I said, we're gathering feedbacks and at our next board meeting
(today in 5 hours - assuming we have enough time this week) we will
weight the pros and cons and maybe take a decision.

Thank you.

Fred
> [?]
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> [1] http://gmane.org/post.php
> [2] http://gmane.org/subscribe.php
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