Hi,
A lot of people are posting feature requests and ideas for Gossamer Community. I thought I'd try and summarize in one post the concept of Gossamer Community, so you can see where we are headed here.
Gossamer Community provides a central user database, and offers signup, login and authentication services to applications. Think of it similar to MS Passport. When you use an application like Windows Messenger, you login through passport, but your messenger screen name and all your settings are controlled through messenger. This is very similar to how Community works.
So don't look for too many more user side features in Community (except for ones related to signup, login or profile), but rather we will be putting out applications that work with Community. The first of which will be a mailing list manager to handle announcements, mass mailings, etc.
Cheers,
Alex
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Gossamer Threads Inc.
A lot of people are posting feature requests and ideas for Gossamer Community. I thought I'd try and summarize in one post the concept of Gossamer Community, so you can see where we are headed here.
Gossamer Community provides a central user database, and offers signup, login and authentication services to applications. Think of it similar to MS Passport. When you use an application like Windows Messenger, you login through passport, but your messenger screen name and all your settings are controlled through messenger. This is very similar to how Community works.
So don't look for too many more user side features in Community (except for ones related to signup, login or profile), but rather we will be putting out applications that work with Community. The first of which will be a mailing list manager to handle announcements, mass mailings, etc.
Cheers,
Alex
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Gossamer Threads Inc.
Community Concept