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John Dougan
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Brainstorming

This list is for anything that comes to mind, no matter how improbable.
  • Translate Mises.org into other languages.
  • Automatically transcribe and index all audio/video content on Mises.org
  • Created an open-source project for the Mises.org CMS
    • Create an open source control repository for Mises.org
  • Set up a Mises.org bittorent server
  • Setup an Austrian Economics progress metric to track growth of mises.org community and web traffic
  • Book/media rental subscription service (like Netflix)
    • At least for books that are freely downloadable, for those that would rather pay a little money to read a hard copy rather than read it on a computer screen, but don't want to, or can't afford to, buy the book
  • Organize the supporting arguments of Austrian economics as a directed graph or network (some nodes representing propositions that are either premises or conclusions of arguments) and the arcs connecting the nodes on the computer screen representing things like a logical supporting relationship.  One could then browse through the logic of Austrian economics in a graph (network) format.
  • create mobile version of mises.org like m.mises.org
  • Have RSS/ATOM feeds for the Mises.org media content split up by year (or quarter) first released. My rationale is that for those of us who want the whole firehose of media content, having a time organized split will make it easier to manage as the past time feeds will never change.

Recent Comments

By: gcopenhaver Posted on Mon, Aug 31 2009 11:01 AM

How does someone contribute code to mises.org?

By: gcopenhaver Posted on Mon, Aug 31 2009 12:27 PM

@pokho

Django is a framework. Drupal is a CMS. They're not directly comparable as a CMS. You can somewhat compare them as development frameworks, however, and they are a bit different in that respect.

As far as being able to build something better than the current mises.org (written in .Net), there's no reason to think that you couldn't using Drupal, or any other web development framework/language. I recommend Drupal over Django for mises.org because Drupal:

* is geared towards building online communities

* has a large and very active support and development community itself

* has high security standards

* has a very flexible and easy to use API

* has a large selection of freely available modules to add functionality to your site

I personally prefer Python for development, and like Django a lot. I do think that I'm going to be looking a little more at other Python web frameworks (TurboGears, Pylons, etc), as well, though, and I'm keeping a close eye on some new frameworks being developed in Clojure. But as far as out-of-the-box, Drupal will give you the most. You'll be able to re-create mises.org in Drupal relatively easily, and Drupal will make it easier to add new features to the site than I suspect it is using the current .Net code.

Using Git would be awesome, and Github is a nice site for hosting your repositories.

By: kenlefeb Posted on Mon, Nov 9 2009 4:51 PM

I just wanted to say that I think you made a wise decision, selecting the .NET platform.

Someday, when I get some spare time, I'll actually help out, too...

By: Scott F Posted on Tue, Nov 10 2009 5:48 PM

I Like the idea of a graph or flow chart representing the shift from praxeology to maybe something like the business cycle etc though it would be hard to simplify and time consuming to create. The one problem with austrian economics is it so far isn't easily condensed like this.That makes it more difficult for beginners to know where to start.I know I who some may say is a  something of a beginner would benefit alot from such a thing.I mean the randians have this sort of thing ,its high time we had it.

hopefully sometime in the future i can help with this project.

By: austinite Posted on Sat, Nov 21 2009 12:48 AM

How about adding an "Austrian" dictionary?  I am constantly looking up terms and having a central point of reference seems to me to be worthwhile.

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