[NCUC E-team] BuddyPress

[Tapani Tarvainen]

On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 12:36:39PM +0000, Maryam Bakoshi (maryam.bakoshi at icann.org) wrote:

> Couple of months ago, in my meeting with Bill, he suggested we add a functionality to the NCUC website that allows members interact on a ‘social’ platform.
> I began to research this idea and came across BuddyPress; BuddyPress helps you run any kind of social network on your WordPress, with member profiles, activity streams, user groups, messaging, and more.
> I have played around with BuddyPress and it seems to me, that it would be a good fit for Bill’s idea.
> I have installed the plugin on the NCUC website, but I am holding off doing anything until I get approval/suggestions.
> Please, I would really appreciate your input.
> To learn more about BuddyPress, please visit https://buddypress.org.

At first look it looks very promising to me.

Ideally though we'd like to link its members directly to existing
NCUC member database. I'll try to find time next week to see how
hard that would be to do.

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Tapani Tarvainen