Community

I'm looking for someone to build the code for a question and answer site for a small community. I'm currently leaning towards implementing Drupal, but open to persuasion for other base architectures.

Site should include functionality of the ask.metafilter site; developer should be familiar (or familiarize him/herself) with its uses and implementation.

Looking for swift turnaround, with attention to detail and someone with an easygoing nature.

Location does not matter.

Please provide a bid for the project, rather than an hourly rate.

I have already completed a detailed site map and description.

Note: This site is not intended to compete with ask.metafilter, but to service a specific community with narrow interests and expertise.

This is a new job posting. We had previously posted a job for a similar position but were unable to hire the right candidate please consider this new posting.

The Science Museum of Minnesota is hiring a Drupal developer to work as part of the team that operates the award wining Science Buzz website and exhibit.
Application deadline: June 25, 2008.

Science Buzz is expanding in many ways. Your Drupal, PHP, and web coding skills will help us:

• develop Mentor Buzz, an online community focusing on the needs of mentors and their students talking about science
• create unique web features focusing on contemporary issues like the 35W bridge collapse, Hurricane Katrina, or even male pregnancy!
• build web enabled exhibits that allow other museums around the country that allow their visitors to hook into the Science Buzz community
• create new tools that help our visitors create content along with us...we like to share authority
• and more...

Introduction

The Internet has empowered people to share information and ideas in unprecedented ways. It has enabled people to easily and at almost no cost to be both producers and consumers of information world-wide. Nowadays, people are able to have their own channel of information, broadcasting ideas, photos, videos, etc. This is very exciting and brings many opportunities for education, research, business and entertainment. However, it brings many challenges as well.

Problem

[Edit by site maintainer: Jobs can only be posted to a maximum of 4 groups. If you add this to more than 4 groups again I'll just delete it and block your account.]

We provide after-school services using a Drupal website. Our service is custom, as are our data needs. Attendance is not tradition in the sense of "present" or "absent", but instead we track student time per-task.

Current Attendance Problem

This project will create two complementary sites: a Local Publishing Platform paired with a Regional Aggregation Hub.

The Publishing Platform will support a range of activities, from a K12 school magazine, a community paper, a writing project (something like the National Writing Project or Youth Radio), a college paper, etc.

The Aggregation Hub will provide a way for these different organizations to work together without losing any editorial control, or diluting the mission of the participating organizations.

Some use cases

Hello there!
If you want to give a user total control over a site (his/her site, area, or whatever you want to call it), what should be better? Creating a group for each user, as in drupal Groups, or creating a multisite installation?

When I say "total control" I mean everything: Blogs, polls, newsletters, have a fan´s group (not buudies, I mean actual users that are created just to enter his/her personal site).

Would multiple sites installations become a huge monster, that no server could manage?

What are your thoughts?

Rosamunda

PHP Drupal 5 Developer / Drupal Theming Ninja

** We are accepting applications for work that will start immediately **

We are building an online community for musicians to share their media and build profiles to tie the community in with a Social Network feel.

Project Features:

The website will have the following:

* Member Profiles - themed using drupal + views - already setup, just needs themed.
* Member Videos - uploaded and converted using flashvideo modules from drupal
* Member Youtube - using the CCK modules and Google/YouTube Video

LevelTen is looking for a sharp Drupal developer to work as part of a small team developing community music portals. LevelTen is a professional Internet consulting and Web development company based in Dallas, Texas. We specialize in best-in-class website design and online marketing. This is a three-month, contract-to-hire position.

Project Summary

Public Allies North Carolina is seeking proposals for a social networking site using Drupal. We anticipate that most of our functional requirements can be met using existing Drupal modules and the Drupal 5x core, but we seek an experienced CMS developer to select and configure those modules.

Preference will be given to developers in the Triangle area, with whom our organization can form a local working relationship.

About Public Allies North Carolina

The Science Museum of Minnesota is hiring a Drupal developer to work as part of the team that operates the award wining Science Buzz website and exhibit.
Application deadline: April 9, 2008.

Science Buzz is expanding in many ways. Your expert Drupal, PHP, and web coding skills will help us:

• develop Mentor Buzz, an online community focusing on the needs of mentors and their students talking about science
• create unique web features focusing on contemporary issues like the 35W bridge collapse, Hurricane Katrina, or even male pregnancy!
• build web enabled exhibits that allow other museums around the country that allow their visitors to hook into the Science Buzz community
• create new tools that help our visitors create content along with us...we like to share authority
• and more...

UPDATE

If you would like to be involved in the encoding of DV content, please post the following information and we will contact you with login information for the content.

• Your machine(s) specs - processor/memory/OS
• Your internet connection specs - up and down
• How many hours per week you can devote to encoding
• Do you have the ability to edit DV content prior to encoding - this is primarily to trim beginning and end of video along with boosting gain if needed.

Following up on John's post on his New Community-Powered Drupal Module Review Site, I suggested that we create definitions for the scores associated with each rating attribute.

Below is my initial draft of what those scores might be. Feel free to edit these directly or comment with suggestions/questions.

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Drupal Modules is a community-powered Drupal module review system I've been working on for about a year now. I'm happy to announce the site is finally open to the public!

Here's a brief list of what you can do on the site:

• Rate and review any module
• Compare modules to see which has the best features, documentation, etc
• Check how many downloads a module is getting
• Easily search modules and reviews for keywords
• Get automatic recommendations for similar modules
• And more!

My friend whurley has launched an online poll to bring open source to the attention of politicians -- specifically, the presidential candidates. He, like many of us, is troubled by the recent calls for patent reform put forth by larger companies that may wind up blocking innovation and threatening open source-oriented companies and contractors.

You can view the poll here and vote for which candidate you believe is best for the open source community. (Don't worry: "None of them" is an option!)

Hello all,

I'm currently developing a site for a group of political activists who want to be able to debate and vote on issues through the site. Everything about the Drupal project makes it the ideal tool for such a task.

I've checked out the various voting modules and with a little tweaking I'm pretty sure I can design what we need.

However, I thought I'd ask to see if anyone knows of any Drupal-based sites that have plenty of debate and democratic decision-making going on. Any ideas?

It would be great to get some inspiration.

Cheers,

James

My name is Matthew Pare and I'm a Co-Chair for the "Community and Core" track for Drupalcon Boston 2008. Over the last couple of weeks we have been planning and brainstorming to make Drupalcon Boston 2008 the best Drupalcon to date! One of our recommended track session topics is "Community Functions" and since your viewing this post on the Community group I thought you would be excellent candidates for submitting sessions on the topic.

We are beginning the development of a green building community site and we are wondering if there are any good general install profiles that cover many of the aspects of a good community site. We are eager to explore how by using a possible install profile or adapting an existing community site can expedite the launch of our site. We are open to work with other end-users in order to accommodate any development that may be needed.

Thank you,
Jeff
www.Skysiteproperty.com

Breaking Open Facebook with Open Source Software (Part 2)

it’s important for socially aware software developers to begin thinking about how to provide alternative services to proprietary social networks. While I acknowledge this is a very high level description scarce on implementation details, I hope that it spurs some spirited discussions and future innovation.

http://www.idealog.us/2007/10/breaking-open-f.html

A few technical notes for developers concerning how MySite interacts with non-Drupal data and application sources.

First, a little history. The core goal of the MySite module is to abstract content published to a Drupal site. So the MySie distribution supports content types native to Drupal. The reason for this is scope: I don't have time to solve every problem, so I focus on those.

I've been mucking around on FaceBook for the last week. It's cool, and the apps are nice.

And the dirty little secret is that MySite supports this type of "app" functionality through its plugin API -- it might even be made to read Facebook apps.

So where's the developer love?

/me stops whining

[UPDATE: I have stopped reading this thread.] 23-OCT-2007.

Last week we launched the beta of projectstars.com, an invite-only business network for consultants to share expertise, network, and find work.

projectstars.com comprises over 300 enterprise-focused communities and every three months we give shares to the top 100 scoring members, those who give most to the community. You get points from obtaining projects through the site (1,000 points per star, ranging from one to five stars), 100 point per star for posting a project, 10 points for a successful invite to the network, and one point per vote on any content you post.

The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation is a U.S. nonprofit foundation dedicated to the news industry. Since 1950 the foundation has granted more than $300 million to advance quality journalism and freedom of expression. The foundation focuses on projects with the potential to create transformational change.

Honestly I'm the one hating cross posts, but I know it will be lost in the drupal's forum torrent of help request posts, so I decided to introduce again in a more suitable place, this community group. Sorry for the inconvenience! :D

I've developed a little module (5.X version of drupal ONLY) to control and disrupt the login operation on certain situations, improving the site security with new options.

You can find the module here:

http://www.drupal.org/project/login_security

I've included the readme.txt of the module in the post for so you can read it withouth downloading.

I am looking for a drupal developer to create a new online community serving unpaid carers and caregivers. This site will be a hosted web application that features a community portal, social networking and custom functionality.

Drupal will be used to implement the community and social networking components of this site.

Community

1. RSS news aggregater for carer feeds and blogs

2. Digg style front-page

3. User evaluations and ratings of various service providers (Lawyers, Financial Advisors, Healthcare Service Providers, etc)

Just wanted to let any of you in the Southern California area know that there is a "Community Building" oriented group that meets roughly once a month in the LA area to share ideas, best practices, BS, and connect. The group site is at www.communitybuildrs.com. It is not a "Drupal" group by charter though there tends to be a Drupal bias since many of us use it. If you can make it to one of our meetings you are welcome!

Korak
Kirk Eisele

I am looking for a Drupal expert who can create an all-singing-all-dancing online video community for a new client.

The community will consist of the following integrated social networking features:
- Registration
- Blogs with integrated video/podcast/image capabilities
- Tags
- Comments
- Discussion groups/forum
- Full content moderation/user management
- Search
- Polls
- Ratings
- Member profile pages
- Friends (ie user networking)
- Favourited content
- Messages
- Events organiser
- Fully RSS enabled
- Newsletter signup
- Site stats
- Secure Back-end
- SEO friendly

Young Professionals in Foreign Policy (YPFP), a nonpartisan non-profit organization based in DC with over 1000 members in government, NGO, development, and related foreign policy fields, is seeking to upgrade website with numerous advanced features to streamline event planning, aid in fundraising and increase colloboration and communication opportunities between members. You can read more information about YPFP on our website.

Areas we are interested in pursuing:

I need an experienced e-comm developer (php/mysql) for a short term gig.

I'm new at the whole Drupal gig, so bear with me.

I need to have several blog tracks within my site. Each would have separate contibutors/moderators, separate subjects, unrelated topics, separate access by readers. Any idea if this is even possible in Drupal?

I'm glad to announce development of a buddylist 2.x module. Our team needs buddylist's functionality for a project, but decided that buddylist's (1.x) quality is too bad for use in our project and that the effort to fix it wouldn't be worth the trouble. So we'll build buddylist 2.x..

Buddylist 2.x design decisions:

• use views (for now with usernode..) for all buddy listing, so they are
  extensible and customizable
• use workflow-ng for all notifications, which provides e-mail notifications - or whatever you want (just write the appropriate action..)
• to simplify only the buddylist modus with "Confirmed buddies" will be
  supported - no one-way buddy connections
• only implement the basics in the module, other things should be built as add-ons.
  So there will be no buddy-group functionality, or tracker integration (for
  this views can be used nevertheless).
• we have also planned to develop an extension, which shows the shortest
  buddy connection to other people later
• Probably there will be no need for changing the db-scheme. So
  upgrading would be just a matter of replacing the module.

So in short the pros/cons of this design will be:
+ small, stable, performant module
+ good code reusing
- a lot of dependencies (views, usernode, worfklow-ng for notifications)

development will be done by nodestroy

I've been working with greggles on a community website for concert enthusiasts, called Concertology, which we'll present tomorrow evening at the DBUG meetup. Concertology runs Subgroups for Organic Groups, and allows concert fans to stay up to date about their favorite artists, venues, and concerts. Everyone can write concert reviews, post photos and more.

It's currently a little rough around the edges, but it'll be open to the public tomorrow night. Check it out and get your concert on!

CivicActions is seeking a rockstar Drupal developer, with strong module-building experience, to work with our 25+ person team, building an online publication with social networking features.

Contract to run from July through August and, of course, you can work from anywhere!

CivicActions is a "virtual" company that delivers innovative web strategy and FOSS solutions to progressive non-profits, political campaigns and socially responsible businesses. The need for our services has never been greater, and we're growing our team of web specialists.

I am reporting some findings that I hope will help others who decide to try any access control module currently available to Drupal 5.1 or earlier.

Greetings fellow Drupallers!
I began working on OpenMusic, a social network that aims at letting fans help music artists. By giving appropriate roles to its fans - thus getting them involved - an artist can build a network of valuable friends where each can provide a service to help the artist.

Blogging Systems Group, the leading blog services provider to the real estate industry, is seeking an Experienced Designer that is comfortable customizing themes for Drupal CMS. The following skills are required:

• Photoshop skills
• XHTML skills
• CSS skills
• PHP skills
• Drupal PHPTemplate skills
• Some MySQL skills
• Some JavaScript skills

Bonus if you understand:

• Cross-browser compatibility
• Accessibility (Section 508)
• Web Standards

Robert Douglass: So how? We make a wiki page for each section? Here's one for events.
BorisMann: I was thinking more about a wiki page per issue, and the issue could get flesh out over time.
Robin Monks: Boris, sounds good!
BorisMann: I was thinking that we could stick to Markdown rather than HTML, to make it easier to make a plaintext version. Still not ideal for links, of course.
Robin Monks: Boris, the text version is automatically generated from the HTML output Drupal creates, so it doesn't really matter.

The web producer executes technical and content objectives for the website, working with stakeholders to execute online business requirements.

The chosen candidate will possess the following skills and attributes:

• proven leadership of effective project teams
• professional and project management skills
• fluency in all technical and business aspects of the web
• the ability to communicate effectively with developers and nontechnical staff alike
• experience working with or within NGOs
• ability to assess and implement emerging web technologies

Hello,

I wrote a module derived from the drupal Video module to build a Youtube-like platform.
The site can be seen at http://www.kaouenn.net

Features:
- Creative commons licenses support
- auto transcoding to flash flv (with ffmpeg), with load balancing support (transcoding can be done outside the web server). Video formats supported include mpeg, realmedia, wmv... In fact the ffmpeg supported formats
- support video and audio only

The transcoding part is done with shell scripts updating the drupal DB through the XMLRPC interface.

I'm happy to announce nodeprofile 5.x 1.1!

Thanks to the great subform element API module, which I wrote originally for pageroute, it was quite easy to implement some great new features for the node profile module, which make building simple node profiles a lot easier. So node profile 1.1 features

• configurable user edit categories integration - edit a simple nodeprofile like a core profile
• configurable node profile display integration on the user's (my account) page or - if used - also on the usernode
• configurable user registration integration
• easy integration of a nodeprofile in any theme

You can find the settings to this new features in the also new per content type node profile settings - just edit your node profile content type and click on the new "Node Profile" tab.

Read more about the new features on http://more.zites.net/nodeprofile_1-1

Drupal Web Developer with strong understanding of XHTML and CSS along with previous experience developing in accordance with W3C specifications. Must be able to read and develop in XHTML without requiring the need of WYSIWYG editors such as Dreamweaver. Must also have strong UI design skills. Familiarity with the Drupal CMS system and previous experience developing Drupal themes from scratch required. Strong understanding of cross-browser support and compatibility issues related to multiple browsers (IE6, IE7, FireFox, etc) also required.

I and a friend are currently mapping out the plans for an online youth magazine targeting youth with disabilities. We've decided that Drupal is the best platform to produce the online magazine, but with so many options available to us with the modules that are available we aren't sure where to start.

I would be interested in any tips people have about setting up an online magazine/newsletter and in running the community side (e.g. blogs, forums, etc). Also, since our target age range is 16-25 I would like to hear thoughts on protecting the privacy of our members who are minors.

While I'm working hard on a new drupal website, I'm also thinking hard about the User and Content Points System I am trying to create for this website. Actually I had the idea of such a system before I started with drupal. But right now I'm very happy because of drupal's great module support, it seems to me that I'm going to work on only two additional modules and here we go:

(Submitted at five seconds of the deadline!)

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blockquote>Abstract: I will introduce several features to enable communities of users to create and manage categories directly. Users will be able to vote to combine terms or to move terms under one another in a hierarchy.

Note: this is not itself an SOC proposal. It is a clarification of work already done and work to be done.

The MySite module started as a simple summary view of a Drupal website. It allows users to select content from a list of categories, add RSS feeds, and see what's new on the site.

Since its first release, I've been adding new features and pushing in new directions, and I'd like some feedback.

I got in the Virb beta the other day. Virb is a social networking site on steroids with a facelift. I am amazed at how user friendly it is while packing in all of its features. It's highly customizable and embraces everything that web 2.0 is. Virb allows you take full control of the .css meaning that you can style everything. I'm amazed at some of the sites that were created with a little tweaking.

Have a look on Flickr for some screenshots of Virb profiles: http://flickr.com/search/?q=virb&w=all

I don't know if anyone here is interested, but I just finished (?) an update to the og_forum module. You can find it here: http://drupal.org/node/121822

Things to note:

-It is compatible with Drupal 5.1.
-Each group can have multiple forums
-Regular (sitewide) forums can be used side-by-side
-Group context is set whenever applicable
-Both forum and og_forum paths work - they are interchangeable
-A trip to www.yoursite.com/forum (or og_forum) will show all forums available to the user whether that forum is general or within a group they are subscribed to

Well... there are no fireworks nor a celebrity party with coctails and hors d'oeuvres. The site just opened. :-)

Drupal Norge is hoping for a very active community of developers, translators, users and providers of Drupal in Norway.

When?

March 22nd and 23rd from 8:00am 'til we pass out
(or 7pm, whichever comes first)

What?

A gathering of Open Source content management systems and the geeks who love them: the conference open to all open source CMSes and will host several "sub-conferences" including Drupal's DrupalCon. You'll find a list of the subconferences to the right. Click on each one for specific information about what types of sessions are being organized for it. Feel free to create and account here to add your own session or subconference.

Where?

The Yahoo! campus in Sunnyvale, CA

Digg this event!