Jean, any news on the sites below, and or modules? If necessary I can make a start
(add person schema properties to user module so that users can enter values to describe themselves according some existing reusable schema)

From: "Jean Gazis" <jgazis@gmail.com>

There are some organizations that have people in the NYC Drupal Group are
using Drupal to develop "social networking" sites. They are launching in
the next month or two and some of the development will be contributed back.

Rusty Cog:

is there a way to integrate taxonomies now in the v6 version? the rationale for integrating vocabularies is because we use the same terms in different sectors, but hang such terms from different classification systems depending on what sector is used. I am looking to the functionality to support the following procedure (see the slide at the end which shows how different taxonomies are connected at the term level(node) despite different structures

www.dtic.mil/mlw/2004/presentations/Bedford.ppt

J>
> is there a way of implementing a better people xml for drupal?
> doesnt have to be foaf has to be a people schema, flaxible so that
> users can create their own field
> I think profile module can be easly used for that (add a field)
> but I need to export the profiles via xml, both individually,
> selectively as an aggragate feed
> (select all the profile with tha criteria and export to xml)
>
> does drupal have something like this in mind? If not, I can put in the
> pipeline and work at it
> if useful to others too
>
> cheers
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