Bright Future Commons (BFCom) is being developed to serve as an intranet for intentional networks. Context Institute is developing it as a platform to provide web support for the Bright Future Network (BFNet).
It is a fork of CUNY’s Commons In A Box, which is built on BuddyPress and bbPress, which are in turn built on WordPress. Like Commons In A Box, Bright Future Commons will consist of a theme and an associated set of plugins— some our own and some developed and maintained by others. Our value-add is in the integration and customization. This is a user-driven project focused on meeting the needs of the Bright Future Network, but we are making it open source since we expect BFCom will be useful for others as well.
Additional information about the project is in the github repo Wiki …
… and in our public Google Drive.
Interested? We’d love to have your involvement on any level:
Everyone has access to this github repo and to our public Google Drive. We recommend you start with Project Table of Contents on the G-Drive and feel free to leave comments here as issues.
If you are interested in actively commenting on the project on an ongoing basis, we can give you access to our test site, to our Slack channel and to commenting on our Google Docs. If this is something you’d like to explore, send an email to rgilman@context.org.
If you would like to do more than commenting, we would be happy to have help designing, coding and documenting. If this is something you’d like to explore, again, send an email to rgilman@context.org.
As a project, BFCom got its start in mid July 2016. Since then we have been gathering a team, doing prototyping and developing design guidelines (please see the Wiki for a timeline and our public Google Drive for details).
As of December 2016, we’re just starting into coding. The files in the repo are the start of the child theme: bfcom-theme. This is still in the early stages of development, not even alpha yet.
In keeping with the software it is built on, Bright Future Commons has a GPL v3 license.