[Clipart] nearest authors

[Greg Bulmash]

RE: Nearest author

IPs won't necessarily be accurate predictors of location. Proxy
servers, remote logins to corporate/university networks, etc. can
throw that off.

First, it would be better, IMO, to have them electively provide their
location. You can then either geocode their IP, or if that fails for
whatever reason, geocode the provided location info via free services
from Yahoo or Google.

OTOH, it's not going to be of much use to know who's in your community
if there's no way for the community to communicate. If you really want
to promote geographic communities, it's probably going to require a
forum system to allow geographic community groups to form and grok
together about meet-ups and community-based projects. It might even be
reasonable to define communities by affiliation. For example, alumni
of a certain university could all band together regardless of
location. Might want to create a set of forum admins (like librarians)
who can police for spam/trolling and approve newgroup requests for
communities.

On the upside, if this worked out, there could be community-based
contests for community pride and bragging rights. Pit archrival
cities/universities against one in an upload drive (or a bug hunt
drive). You could also pit Ubuntu supporters against Fedora
supporters, etc.

- Greg

On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 8:52 AM, Jon Phillips <jon at rejon.org> wrote:
> Yes, actually think we need this on the top of the page and the lifetime
> greatest at the bottom...the reason is, that the lifetime doesn't change
> very much.
> Jon
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> On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 4:39 AM, Oleg Koptev <koptev.oleg at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> great idea!
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