It's not an unknow fact that we all have our opinions about TheSpoke. A lot of critics and suggestions we would love to see live in TheSpoke at the same rithm we already have more and more ideas... and thinking about that something came to my mind, a question that i bet we all have thought at least once; what would happen in theSpoke became an Open Source project?

A community like those in PHP we all know, which code could be open to be changed by us, the Students that give life to it every day. What if our code could be validated and added to the official TheSpoke?

Would It work? You, that took the time to read this, would you do it?

I think i would. I know that it would need an special treatment because everything of ImagineCup is here, and it would be necesary to make it independent from the Forum System... but it would be a great way to help making it better.

At least it would be a nice start to have a repository of Skins ((we all would like to change the black when we're in a good mood, right?)) and we could develop nice WebParts for the Hubs.

I would like to hear your opinion about it!!

I've made an Spanish topic about it and it's here: http://thespoke.net/forums/954104/ShowPost.aspx

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Maclau Gonzalez
Microsoft Student Ambassador

oh,oh,I have no idea about this,but  TheSpoke's skin feels not good,and i hope it will be changed.

The web style is not good ,I wish it will simple.

 

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TheSpoke open source? would need a complete rewrite dont u think? isnt theSpoke running on CommunityServer (Check the HTML source of any page, u'll come across some evidence, plus all CommunityServer sites look the same :D) CommunityServer is a propriatory community portal. So making theSpoke OpenSource would be impossible without dumping CommunityServer, and switiching to sumthing built from scratch or an already existing open source alternative, all in all this would be rather delicate, because all the existing data (blog posts, forum posts, image galleries) would need to be ported over.
However communityServer should be extendable with themes and addons, but still those features dont seem to be enabled (along with some other neat stuff like smilies for posts), theSpoke seems to be very restrictive when it comes to these matters.
Anyways, it'd be cool to have some API's or Code to fool around with :D