We're starting the ideas on this community on the talents Ariel and I have and we're looking for a way to put it all together. Ariel's got a contact of Jerky Boys fame who might be willing to back an effort at minimal cost and leverage his reputation to build up the community and to understand the process of film making for our requirements analysis needs.

Some ideas to get us started - We'd like to build a credentials based system that let's people sign up

We'll like to thing of some roles:

(1) Collect what languages they speak

(2) Point to their IMDB entry

(3) Have them tag their profiles by creating a taxonomy of terms related to the filim industry

(4) Create a "Film Project" content type that links people, their roles, a project schedule, GMAPs on locations, clips of the production effort, etc.

Out of the box, we'll start of with choices of the content management platform - Drupal. We'll leverage some of the work my interns did to integrate with Twitter and Facebook. We might also want to look at seeding promotional videos on Youtube etc.

Problems to solve:

(1) Requirements gathering - How Does It Work? What Improvements Can We Make.

(2) Prototype

(3) Scalable solution - Perhaps an Amazon Web Services play

(4) Cost / Money Raising / Building a support staff

(5) Community participation

Other implementation tasks

(1) Drupal Media implementation

(2) Tagadelic

(3) Acquia Drupal Subscription to add Apache Solr Search

(4) Five star ratings on jobs people did

Taxonomy Terms

script writing, titling, special effects, actor, actress, ... maybe we can grab some taxonomy data sets from wikipedia or dbpedia.