Welcome
Welcome to the Drupal churches group. This is a group centered around building Church websites with Drupal and a point for members of The Church to go out into the Drupal community. In this group we discuss how to use Drupal, modules to use, integrating other services with Drupal, and the ins and outs of building Church websites.
The Drupal church community extends beyond this group. You can find more information and help in the IRC channel #drupal-churches on irc.freenode.org and on the Geeks and God podcast website.
Utilizing Organic Groups
Hi,
I am trying to utilize organic groups for a group in my church. I would like this to be a private group and have members able to post content, comments, questions, etc.
I have it pretty much setup, however, in order to allow individuals to post content, I've had to give them permission to use the administrative toolbar. This caused me to create a new role (outside of OG).
Is there a better way to accomplish this? Am I really heading in the right direction?
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Get your Web site (re)made by a class of University of Michigan graduate students
Hello everyone—
I am seeking clients for a class at the University of Michigan, School of Information. This class breaks into teams to work on Web sites run by Drupal.
Volunteer Scheduling
We are a church of about 75 people. As a result a small umber of people have to wear many hats on any given day or event. I need a way to do effective scheduling for the volunteers where we can look acroos the board and see if people are over scheduled into different areas of responsiblity or to be able to look at a particular event and ensure that we are adequately covered. Has anyone run into this and have any ideas they could share?
Drupal Developer | SaberCloud Solutions LLC
The Designer is responsible for the creation of all online visual design, including typography, visual concept, logo and icon design for the Internet and interactive platforms. They effectively communicate and coordinate with the information architect, writer and production artists to ensure that the visual design communicates the desired message, and functions successfully for varying technical and performance specifications. The candidate must be capable of leading the creative aspects of a project and have demonstrated strong business acumen.
Read moreDrupal Developer | Kenneth Copeland Ministries
We’re searching for a Developer with demonstrated, creative Drupal experience to work alongside our team of developers in creating original web pages and websites for KCM.
This is a full time, on-site position at Kenneth Copeland Ministries Headquarters in Fort Worth, TX.
Qualifications
• Four or more years experience in Web site design and development
• Demonstrated creative experience with Drupal CMS is mandatory--installation, upgrade, module modification, theming, shopping cart, and workflow
• Demonstrated SEO and SEM knowledge
Flash Video on IPODs
Has anyone found a solution to flash videos that work well on your site but don't work on an iPod etc since Apple does not support the format? Is there a way to serve up a flah format for IE & Firefox but a different format for iPods? Introducing a simple video on our church site introduced complaints I did not see coming. Would appreciaate any insight anyone has ahd with this.
Issue Tracking In The Church
I'm wondering if anyone out there has any experience using any of the Drupal issue tracking modules in a church context. I've looked over this Project Management/Issue Tracking page here http://groups.drupal.org/node/17948 and I like the features of Storm. I'm a little distressed by the lack of a stable Drupal 7 version, but other than that it looks really good.
Read morePHP/Drupal Developer | The Seed Company
[NO AGENCIES. Individual applicants only]
International Bible translation organization is growing at a phenomenal rate. Seeks top flight Drupal developer that has expertise in frontend, backend and LAMP configuration and tuning. Ground up redesign of core website(s) begins this summer. We do a lot of data synchronization between Drupal/non-drupal systems.
Read moreElectronic Communications Coordinator | Mennonite Central Committee
Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) is an faith based, international relief and development organization. We currently have an opening in our U.S. office for an Electronic Communications Coordinator (ECC). The ECC will work closely with the Website Manager in Canada to help with website strategy, development, training, support and maintenance. The ECC will also be working on strategy and implementation for MCC's online communications including the website, social media and other technologies.
- Telecommuting is not preferred, but may be negotiable.
Adding several events as one operation
I am in the process of revising our church website from D6 to D7, almost certainly using OpenChurch. In the D6 version I have used a custom-PHP way of adding the events for each week because the normal Drupal way of adding one event at a time is too cumbersome and would not be acceptable in our church office.
I have found previous posts about this and a D6 module called 'Multi Node Add'. Does anyone know of a D7 module or proposal that might help? I only need one targetted at adding a set of events (perhaps 10 at a time) adding initial content to 'title' and 'when' fields.
Read moreOpenChurch apps.js
I'm getting an error that I don't understand. I'm using the beta 1 version of openchurch, but it was happening when I was on the alpha 3 version as well. I'm not sure it is really an openchurch issue. I've created an issue report, but I thought I'd ask here as well.
The error is:
There was the following error - Manifest: http://173.254.28.25/~njumccom/?q=profiles/openchurch/apps.js Not Found
Read moreOpenchurch & Story Content
Hi All,
Just purchased a new account for our church. For years I've been hosting our church website on my personal account.
Anyway, I installed OpenChurch and now have it setup (default setup) and have a question. I notice in OpenChurch there isn't a 'story' content type. Right now we are on a Drupal 6 implementation. We put our newletter on the website and use the story content type. I have two things I was hoping to do:
1) Continue to use "story" to do the newsletter articles and
2) have an easy way to export the data in our old site and import it into the new site.
Openchurch & Story Content
Hi All,
Just purchased a new account for our church. For years I've been hosting our church website on my personal account.
Anyway, I installed OpenChurch and now have it setup (default setup) and have a question. I notice in OpenChurch there isn't a 'story' content type. Right now we are on a Drupal 6 implementation. We put our newletter on the website and use the story content type. I have two things I was hoping to do:
1) Continue to use "story" to do the newsletter articles and
2) have an easy way to export the data in our old site and import it into the new site.
Too many systems
Many churches are using multiple systems. For example our church uses the Fellowship One Church Mgt. system, Constant Contact, Drupal and we have tried the Table Project http://tableproject.org/. My concern is that we are getting fragmented, with applications on different systems and multiple databases. All these system result in a confusing mess.
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OpenChurch and Aegir
Is anyone working with OC in an Aegir workflow? I have questions related to that which may just be due to my lack of familiarity with the distro process. I attempted to create a platform using git clone because I wanted to test the latest version. I directed the platform to the openchurch.make but it failed. Is there a particular make file I should set the front end on or should I build the core and distro. Any help in directing me to a more efficient workflow would be greatly appreciated.
Adding 3rd party App Stores to OpenChurch - an introduction
Several people have expressed interest in contributing back to the OpenChurch project.
The great news is that now with Apps, there is a functional way for 3rd parties to add their own modules/apps to OpenChurch as a way to extend functionality without baking everything into the core project.
See App Store screenshot: https://twitter.com/#!/drupalninja/status/184011723102101504/photo/1/large
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Facebook revisited
It has been several years since this group last discussed Facebook, so I pose this question:
Why does a church need a web site when they have a Facebook Page?
Nic
Having problems gathering content?
Hey guys,
It was great to meet you all at the BoF. I know the issues we all run into is gathering content from the churches we work with. My manager just found a solution that looks awesome to get into instead of sending them an online spreadsheet. It's very user friendly. Check it out: http://www.gathercontent.com/
Drupal for Churches - Distributions, Appstores, etc.
At the Drupal for Churches BoF (at DrupalCon Denver), we discussed the idea of discussing things like OpenChurch and Open Parish (and things that would revolve around Church-specific distributions and features) on Groups.Drupal.org. Here's a quick post just to kick off the discussion!
Site Optimization
I have our church website up and running. It is running in a shared hosting environment. The hosting provider has indicated that the site is using a large amount of memory and I need to optimize the site. I have not done that before and am wondering if anybody knows of a how-to-optimize-your-drupal-site link that can get me jump started.
