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On 6/1/07, Mark Chitty <mark.chitty at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Really learned someuseful stuff last night.

> It's looks like a good way of extracting what clients mean rather than what
> they say. I'm quite tempted to sit down and have a think of trying to use
> Drupal to do the same thing.
>

It's definitely the way forward. Although Andy and Ben's stuff was for
direct discussion with clients, there are clear parallels I'm seeing
with the technical stewardship process with distributed communities;
I'm working with clients who are running big distributed networks and
we have all agreed to work towards getting the best community support
tool by considering the needs of the punters (more than 100
distributed) before what any platform can offer. Sounds like a no
brainer, but it's a rare enough thing for very few people to be able
to provide us with case studies, so we're having to make it up as we
go along.

This also means that 'platforms' as such need to be just that - rather
than products. Only a platform can be flexible enough (with plug-ins,
optional extras etc.) to handle the 'complex' requirements of a group
of people who don't know what they need until they are using it, and
those needs are likely to change as their community builds...