What I am hoping to achieve by writing this article, is to receive community feedback regarding the construction of this community resource. Now that I have said all that, here are the things I hope to see achieved by the creation of this community resource.

1. Community written module/widget hosting that is outside of the scope of the Dojo Contributor License Agreement
2. Support forum for posted modules/widgets
3. Community written FAQ/How-to articles
4. Community driven content (Relating to but not necessarily limited to technoligies where Dojo can be used)
5. Community written JS Library/Toolkit/Framework etc. comparisons
6. Dojo anything! Links to articles, personal blogs, write ups, news articles websites that showcase Dojo, companies that use Dojo.... Literally ANYTHING! (anything legal anyways ;))

Note: This is not a replacement to the http://dojotoolkit.org website but rather a collaborative site that allows for unofficial modules and widgets to be collectively offered to the Dojo Community. Code contributions to this site would not require Contributor License Agreements, the poster will maintain liability for content provided by him/herself in this case. Just because this site won't require a CLA, this should not be seen as an easy way out to contributing to the Dojo Community, contribution of good ideas and useful code is still encouraged to be made directly to the Dojo Toolkit project. As everyone knows, the Dojo community has been expanding at an enormous rate since the release of Dojo 0.3.0, and with it that growth has come the question; "Where can we find Dojo resources on the web, that aren't direct products of The Dojo Foundation?". This of course has been addressed in the past, but in a passive manner, nobody has yet taken an active role in solving this problem. Consider this article step #2 in the process of solving this problem. Step #1 was of course my brainstorming and researching possible ways of approaching this. As of this past weeks IRC meeting in #Dojo-meeting, it has been decided to work towards integrating a Forum system into the current list of Dojo resources and the need for a "Dojo Resources" type community was also addressed. At this time, I believe that the "Dojo Community Resources" site could very well be hosted off the normal domain, in fact I would encourage it to be on its own namespace (to steal a term from Dojo/Javascript). By moving this project to a seperate domain, it will I believe, remove liability from the Dojo Foundation, for submissions that may have been made without prior authors consent. My idea on this is that the submitter would maintain liability for their submissions, if this is at all possible. Of course I am not a lawyer, so this is just my idea how I would like to see things work. Why I am writing this article? Well, I believe that this is to be a resource for the Dojo Community, that it is only right that you the community, should have some idea of what is being considered for your benefits. As it stands, I have volunteered web space from my personal account, as well as to purchase the domain name (yet to be determined). As for the resources available to make this happen, I have been considering using a PHP framework/CMS to meet the "community" aspect of the site, and preferably one that has a forum project integrated into it. It has been suggested that the scope of this search should be extended beyond just PHP software, so I'll be entertaining a few suggestions on that as well, however my strengths lie in PHP and JavaScript so I'll admit that I am biased towards that as a solution. What projects have I looked at? Well in my years of playing "Web developer" I have experimented with several of the CMSs out there. Among them I have used: Joomla, Mambo, phpCake, MKP, and most recently Seagull. Of all these, there are various forums associated with them or that have been integrated by third parties, however only one of the forums really supports the features that we were looking for to integrate into the current Dojo resources; FUDforums which is integrated into the Seagull Framework. So that is what I am hoping gets adopted by as the forum of choice for Dojo; not only because it supports all the features we want, but it is also supported by the PHP framework that I am wanting to use for the community site. Basically what I am aiming for is a site where the community contributes most of the content. I am hoping for a small amount of help from at least 1 other Dojo contributor in order to be mediators between the Community and the Dojo contributors. I would also hope for several trust worthy and knowledgeable community members to help maintain the community forums and such as well. These people would be working on site layout etc, forum moderation, and if capable, feature modification/creation to meet the needs of the community site. If you have any comments or suggestions regarding what would aide in creating the best "Community Resource" website out there, by all means post a comment below with your ideas and recommendations. As I am wholly expecting the Dojo Community to play a major role in how this project starts, evolves, and runs. To make that possible, I'm counting on loads of feedback and cooperation from you, our Community.