[HacktionLab] can we recommend crabgrass still? is the current version being maintained?

[flawer]

> https://labs.riseup.net/code/projects/crabgrass/roadmap
> http://coactivate.org
> https://n-1.cc (lorea.org)

also there is libertree, http://kune.org (on beta), noosfero ( 
http://softwarelivre.org ), etc.
paralelally, there has been a very interesting related project 
http://gnu.org/consensus started this year.


i am wishing to set up a lorea software just for global projects, or 
just in english (maybe including other langs if they are subgroup of an 
english global one)

n-2.cc looks like the domain to be.. it's available for that.

there is some strange thought on some n-1ers that just because english 
is allowed there, there's not need of such a separated platform. they 
reason that non spanish speaking people should be disconforted to 
receive messages in spanish in their mailbox, but they 'at the same 
time' know that they won't like receiving messages in german in their 
groups / mailbox.

i have had this recurrent discussion many times and in many "latin 
willing to be global" projects, and there's always some defensiveness in 
the latin core volunteers but i can see the reason of a proper 
globalizing (killing spanish-portuguese language for globalisms 
channels) having more weight even in those froends local circles, but 
someone else has to push it too - show the example new road.





i see lorea as the best featured platform, due to integrated mailing 
lists, moveable subgroups, friends management, tasks (small tracker), 
galleries and custom widgets for users dashboard and profile. in the 
past there was encrypted mailings and ostatus crossplatforms federating 
working for public contents (was dropped due to compliance with elgg - 
no forking in the new version, but now the lorea distro has 4 or more 
elgg core patches.. ). there is planned register by invite module, but 
it could be done more manually too, which as shown , it is posible a 
needed feature for sustainability (and quality!)


there are organizational flaws at lorea , but i guess there could be 
patched much better if we had that new just english (or just global 
projects) platforms running with such rich features.