Belenix ScoopZone

I would like to thank the developers and contributors of Drigg for developing such an outstandingly great module for Drupal. I am the webmaster of Belenix.org, the official website of Belenix, a community driven open source distro based upon OpenSolaris. We have recently launched a new overhauled version of the website, Belenix.org with several new features, leveraging the power of Drupal software and it's modules, some of which include:

-> Belenix ScoopZone: Read the "Learn More" page here:
http://www.belenix.net/scoopzone/learnmore
-> Belenix Map: Read the "Learn More" page about it here:
http://www.belenix.net/map/learnmore - using location + gmap module plus some custom coding to get the geocoding working.
-> Forum to mailing list bridge (using listhandler, mailhandler and smtp modules) - http://belenix.org/forum/learnmore
-> Mailing List subscription manager: now you can subscribe to
belenix-discuss from within the website -using mailman_manager
-> Belenix Planet - just an aggregator for the belenixy blogs
-> Pretty icons, collapsible blocks, lots of drupal modules, tweaks and hacks.

I'd like to highlight the user of Drigg. I found Drigg while looking for a compelling solution to create a knowledge sharing community for Belenix and OpenSolaris developers. The Belenix.org theme has been modified and tweaked all over to adapt and support the Drigg module, and it wasn't as easy as installing any other Drupal module.

The Belenix Community ScoopZone provides a platform to developers and enthusiasts working in or on Belenix as well as OpenSolaris to be able to share their contributions (in the form of code samples, tips, tricks, FAQs, news items, articles and reviews) with the community at large through a social information sharing system. It is meant for driving community participation on the website. A lot of people accomplishing new hacks / tricks on Belenix or OpenSolaris share their ideas/work on mailing lists and in the OpenSolaris community. People blog about the latest news about open source. People bookmark good stuff, Digg it, share it on social bookmarking sites, etc. I thought we could provide a platform for this, just like SDNShare and Netbeans Zones is, with the voting / rating system in place for motivation. This is somewhat like the way Slashdot news is published. You can say that this concept is quite similar to Slashdot, though I would rather associate it with SDNShare since that's what inspired it to be made in the first place. It will serve as great way to aggregate knowledge in one place which might otherwise get scattered.

I had initially thought about this idea when I had seen the Belenix Fanspeak Section. I am a regular user of SDNShare, Digg and the Netbeans DZone. Digg is familiar to more than half of the internet, especially the Web 2.0 Junkies. SDNShare is a Digg-like portal for contributing developer info/tech tips/samples with a built-in rating and voting system for both its content and the users who contribute. Its inspired from Digg. Similarly, there is Netbeans Dzone. And if you're geek, you probably (should) be knowing about Slashdot.

With the help of drigg, we aim to create a knowledge sharing community around Belenix.org and set a trend for all OS community websites.

Do visit Belenix.org/ScoopZone

Thank you Drigg!