[Go-essp-tech] requirements for scientific workspace

[Estanislao Gonzalez]

Hi,

in any case I would suggest an Open Source platform like
http://elgg.org/ instead of a comercial one...

Such a thing might be useful, if it's kept simple both to administrate
as to use.

Regards,
Estani

Mark Morgan (CDD denvil) wrote:
> Hi
>
> Not sure about the demand from the community but leveraging the ning
> platform could deliver such a system :
>
> http://www.ning.com/
> http://developer.ning.com/
>
> Regards
>
> Mark
>
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>   
>> Hi all,
>> 	as you might know, the Earth System Curator project is looking into
>> building a scientific workspace functionality to be integrated as part of
>> the services provided by the Earth System Grid Federation.
>> This project is still in the early phases of gathering requirements, and
>> in particular we are discussing wether the workspace should include some
>> limited "social" functionality to the purpose of facilitating
>> the scientific discussion among members of the community.
>>
>> We were wondering if there is any interest in discussing the importance,
>> or lack thereof, of this kind of functionality within a scientific
>> workspace, maybe as one of the agenda topics in a future GO-ESSP call.
>>
>> For example, requirements that might be worth discussing are:
>>
>> o Should ESGF provide blogging capabilities, for users to discuss
>> scientifically relevant matters ?
>> o Should ESGF provide the capability for a user to create a personal
>> (limited) profile, with the intent of establishing his/her scientific
>> credibility ?
>> o Should any user be able to create a group and allow other users of
>> his/her choice into the group ?
>>
>> If you are interested in having such discussion, please reply to the list.
>> We are especially interested in feedback from the GO-ESSP PIs...
>>
>> thanks a lot,
>> Luca for the ESC project
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