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It's only about 6 months old. My only experience was getting it up and running locally and testing out the functionality. It took a couple of hours to get goi

It's only about 6 months old. My only experience was getting it up and running locally and testing out the functionality. It took a couple of hours to get going (mostly due to updating gem versions). From my standpoint I was happy with how it looked. I had considered Wordpress and Drupal, but I liked the smaller, more manageable codebase - even if it meant I may be fixing bugs in the project code as I went. I hadn't checked in on the project in awhile. I'm surprised it's not more active. FYI it looks like there was a fork recently and Luvfoo is being more actively developed (but no existing community) http://www.justinball.com/projects/ http://www.justinball.com/projects/

pius 18y ago
Nice find with luvdfoo . . . somehow, I missed this before!
- jbasdf 18y ago
  We're currently working on building a community around Luvfoo. So far we have a few guys from around the world helping us out. I estimate that we are about a month away from having something that is easy for 3rd parties to deploy. Right now the project is centered around Teachers Without Borders as they are providing funding for the project. However, there is a need to make it easy to deploy the same system for other groups and so that is a focus. Now to be fair I have met the guys behind Elgg. Both of them are very smart and great guys. I think that project is still in development. Wordpress is working on a social networking project called buddypress which looks very promising. If you want something fast it is hard to beat Ning (but it is a hosted service). In the Rails world Acts as Community looks like a great project. Best of luck in your choice. There is a lot of really great open source software out there.
  - pius 18y ago
    You guys are doing an outstanding job -- kudos on the steady stream of solid commits. On a related note, I've actually documented a few of the steps I took in order to deploy . . . I'll send over a pull request for my README.

pius 18y ago

Nice find with luvdfoo . . . somehow, I missed this before!

jbasdf 18y ago
We're currently working on building a community around Luvfoo. So far we have a few guys from around the world helping us out. I estimate that we are about a month away from having something that is easy for 3rd parties to deploy. Right now the project is centered around Teachers Without Borders as they are providing funding for the project. However, there is a need to make it easy to deploy the same system for other groups and so that is a focus. Now to be fair I have met the guys behind Elgg. Both of them are very smart and great guys. I think that project is still in development. Wordpress is working on a social networking project called buddypress which looks very promising. If you want something fast it is hard to beat Ning (but it is a hosted service). In the Rails world Acts as Community looks like a great project. Best of luck in your choice. There is a lot of really great open source software out there.
- pius 18y ago
  You guys are doing an outstanding job -- kudos on the steady stream of solid commits. On a related note, I've actually documented a few of the steps I took in order to deploy . . . I'll send over a pull request for my README.