BuddyPress.org

Skollie, the core for implementing categories is already there. Laying about the place. It’s really just deciding that content and containers in the path /category are sitewide categories and building the permissions and UI around the concept.

I’m ‘tweaking’ the alpha 2 version to have the perspective of categories that are tightly controlled by the site/group/blog admins but selectable by the user. Tags will remain the free form folksonomy approach to categorization of content.

The control over who gets to create and change what in bpc is pretty rigid right now. It’s not very flexible because we need a sitewide access control mechanism. That’s in the works for buddypress though. There’s a couple of devs laying about doing absolutely nothing so we poked ’em with sticks and they are working on it.