i have an exciting idea that has a serveral interested teahers. i have a workup in a CMS but i think a standalone version would be great and marketable. i am a teacher and have little money to pay someone at scriptlancer to do it. i was wondering if anyone toook on charity cases and maybe turn it into a partnership if successful.
Ok, so you are certainly not going to pay and maybe the scripter will share in the profit. Tempting, but no thanks.
Yeah, If you could explain a little more, it might be helpful. Are you looking to do a custom blog or more than that?
Well I am sorry one of you feels that way but as a teacher trying to implement technology on my own free will, it is all I have. I am just asking so there is no need for negative comment please. As far as more information, I was using several components in Joomla to create a multi user blog for a history teacher. It works very well. However the developer of the blog component decided to take a different direction and so now the that scheme has changed I can't recreate my goals. An example is at http://stratford.dreamhosters.com/history/ See in most blogs, the blogger makes the categories in which he classifies his /herblogs. The only difference here is that admin makes the categories and the bloggers (the students) select which category to put the blog in. The Section is the topic/ unit and the category is the assignement. Students then blog about that assignement. Students can interact by commenting or reading others blogs. Hope this is a better explanation.
It wasn't ment to be harsh or anything, sorry for that So the developer you recently worked with decided to start a fork? I don't think you will find people to do "charity" work on a commercial site like DP. Your chances of finding developers will increase if you make it an opensource project. By the way, have you searched for similar completed blog packages alreay. Your project looks like a normal blog program and there are much blog packages out there (I guess, since I'm not a blogger). Good luck!
the difference is controlling the categories under which they post in a mulituser environement instead of the user having the power to create cats.
i am unfamiliar with it. does anyone have a demo? my main concern is the blogger can't create their own categories only submit to a directory of topics.
Ive played around with it in the past and each user can create their own categories. They have complete control over their own blog and can customize it anyway they want. The administrator can set global permissions to users...or on a user-to-user basis. Heres the "showcase" page on the wordpress mu site. Im sure by looking through some of the users sites, you will be able to tell if it does what you need it to. http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/forum.php?id=11