Why?
- save development effort across projects
- collaborate on fundraising, marketing, etc.
- deliver complete solution across application domains on one web framework: CMS, CRM, Course Ware, and Social Apps
What?
- Phase 1: light integration (single sign on / common installer / unified interface)
- Phase 2: Leverage Drupal frame-work as appropriate
It will work because
- Funders love joint projects
- LAMP is way cheaper than JSP/J2EE
- This is exactly what CTO's / CIO's at Universities want
- We have the community! (Drupal: 55,000, Moodle: 8,900, CivicSpace: 2,000 installs)
Precedence
- Sakai / uPortal / OSPI
- CivicSpace / Drupal / CiviCRM
Challenges
- application integration
- business models
Roadmap
- Project leads sign on
- Line up University partners (some paying members)
- Get industry partners to back project
- Merge fundraising targets
- Raise seed round from private donors to investigate
- Create prototype integration
- Raise real money from foundations
- Execute
- Win