<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 10:48 AM, Alec Taylor <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alec.taylor6@gmail.com">alec.taylor6@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Good Morning,<br>
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I'd like to utilise a social-network site for student-groups using<br>
only Free and Open-Source tools.<br>
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Mockup of the student-group homepage (dashboard):<br>
<a href="http://i.stack.imgur.com/ggEDC.png" target="_blank">http://i.stack.imgur.com/ggEDC.png</a><br>
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I am looking at various solutions both Drupal based (Drupal Commons,<br>
OpenAtrium &etc) and not (Diaspora, Insoshi, Yogurt Social Network,<br>
BuddyPress, Elgg, Mahara, CommunityEngine, Lovd by Less &etc).<br>
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Is Drupal the best platform for this site, or should I use something<br>
else? — If Drupal, please tell me which modules (or distribution of<br>
modules, or project) to use.<br>
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Thanks for all suggestions & information,<br><br></blockquote><div>Hi Alec,<br><br>We're using Drupal Commons for something similar to this. You might also want to consider buddypress, depending on your needs. It's the engine behind the CUNY academic commons:<br>
<a href="http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/">http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/</a><br><br>finally, you could think about just using google plus or some other existing semi-standards-compliant social network.<br><br>Best wof luck,<br>Matt<br>
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