I collaborated on projects to gather profiles of people with a certain attribute. This was in my view a success, and we gained a lot of insight on immigration of the Dutch into other places. We could also start collaboration on our own attributes. I noticed for example people working with genealogy professionally. Other collaborations are possible....?
I think other collaborations are possible indeed, Private User! When I started the 'Geni's Project Producers Plaza', I thought I'd introduced the Personal Project Page for the first time here on Geni. See:
http://www.geni.com/projects/Geni-s-Project-Producers-Plaza/26580
But I was so wrong. I wasn't the first at all. George J. Homs was way ahead with the idea already! See:
http://www.geni.com/projects/George-s-Personal-Index-of-Projects/17143
With the Plaza idea, I have created squares for people where they can gather with the same interests, like project making for example.
At the moment I am busy developing a new Plaza, together with Private User. It is a Plaza for Artists. See:
http://www.geni.com/projects/Geni-s-Artists-Plaza/26929
This new way of collaborating by trying to gather like minded Geni users, in there professional lives or interests/hobbies etc., is hopefully creating a new dimension to the social media aspect of Geni, that hasn't really taken off yet, in my point of view.
I think there are plenty more social groups that can be formed in various categories :)
Private User one thought I had had was to offer to make projects (out of a theme / element template Dimitri can help with) to offer a Geni project presence to affiliated & existing groups in the genealogy space.
We have in fact done that with a couple of cemeteries & a major archive.
Soc.Gen.med (they have several repositories archiving the mailing list) is a wonderful idea.
Many of the core members maintain their own websites -- for example
http://www.genealogics.org/index.php
But this would be different. As you say, a place for like minded to come together.
Medieval Plaza?
Private User, Erica Howton, can you suggest to Private User and me for visual hints of how this Plaza could look like? (Post some websites with pictures or whatever, anything just to get us going really)
By the way, Private User and I are working closely together now on the visualisation of the Plaza projects, (David) BANNER & Pretty Projects.
Dimitri Gazan if you do a google seach on the images tab for "medieval manuscripts" it will give you lots of great inspiration.
The Pretty Projects and the (David) BANNER project has been extended with the fabulous creations of Private User
From now on, we are working closely together on the design part of projects.
The plan is to rotate selections of banners, lines and dots etc. This way, we keep ourselves busy creating, and keep our projects under the attention.
http://www.geni.com/projects/David-BANNER/26445
http://www.geni.com/projects/Pretty-Projects/26552
There is now even a new short tutorial on how you can add text on top of a banner.
For images, feel free to roam the internet and paste them into your projects. Can't see what I can be of extra help on that part, I feel.
If you have personal requests for images, I can always help find them for you, if you want me to :)
Anette Guldager Boye is the third Geni'astic who will soon join up on the Plaza with a PPP!
She is very much into the Medieval and Viking age as well.
Let's give her the support she needs, because she is very new to the PPP concept, ok?