Development in the pipeline

Yesterday was the quiet launch of the Ubuntu Planet social network on: www.ubuntuplanet.org

This is only the beginning of development on this service...

The immediate new features in the pipeline are:

• An integrated blog - which will automatically link posts between the blog and the social network. This will allow those of us who have the need, to make full blown blog posts...
• A Google map of all members (Lisa's idea)
• A link to a 'contributionism' etc Wikipedia page
• An integrated gifting/matching tool (see http://ubuntusocialnetwork.blogspot.com/2013/04/giftegrity.html for the functional spec). This will be our first tool which will enable us to implement contributionism on-line
• An integrated contributionism tool (busy working on the spec, based on Michael's book). This will help us to implement full-blown contributionism on-line

Important Note

In my opinion, once contributionism has become the way we operate as people, much of this on-line activity may become redundant... but at the moment on-line communities can be of tremendous assistance to get the idea going... but yeah, the tool is only a tool, and should never become an end in itself... :)