[okeumeni]

I looked at the sample community and went: wow a village toolbox with no tools. I think you should spend more time thinking of tools for the community not just a message board and sending emails to people, something like ning does.

This bring me to the question, if you want to build a community site how are going to be different from ning, collectiveX? Is it worth the effort of trying to compete with these guys?

[MrFantsyPants]

My reasoning for building this was that our community had a need for an online presence, and none of the tools were quite right. The main differentiator come from the assumption that the community members are neighbours, often with a pre-existing relationship. The tool share and skill share start to leverage that.