Groups.drupal.org

I've noticed a long-term problem with polls on Groups. Once a poll is created, it can not be edited or recategorized in any way or the data for that poll is completely lost. I take personal responsibility for messing up this poll on the NYC site:( I simply wanted to make it a featured post, so I added it to the featured category and hit save. To my dismay all the data in the poll vanished. Can anyone tell me what is going on here?

Wow. I really love the new panels integration. I wanted to share my quick impressions on using the new features to setup a group for BDUG.

• It would be great to be able to attach files to the group node. I created a Map tab with a single image a custom content, but since I could not upload/attach the image to the panel, or the group node, I had to attach it to a random, unrelated post.
• It would be cool to have hierarchical groups, so BDUG could be a child of the Bay Area group.

Is it planed for the next version of drupal.org ?

Would it be possible to implement this feature ?

Everytime i post something with a link, it seems, i face the captcha for potentially spammy content, even if the link is a relative link to another node on g.d.o.

It seems like links to g.d.o or relative links should be "trusted" and not trigger the spam filter.

I was a bit annoyed to notice that someone had (helpfully?) renamed the Portland group to Portland (Oregon). Honestly it was a good change but the problem is that it broke the URL (portland -> portland-oregon) which we'd just gotten printed on a banner. Any way to disable that auto updating and get our old URL back?

I've been working with members of the Drupal association, particularly Jacob Redding and Moshe Weitzman, and the infrastructure team to help calculate some statistics to measure the growth of GDO. I've got a blog post going into more detail coming up. I'll link to it shortly.

Jacob Redding and Kieran Lal will discuss growth of local groups on http://groups.drupal.org, best practices for organizing your local group, and request feedback on some improvements to GDO which will help local organizers. We will be presenting statistics calculated from http://groups.drupal.org, what we've learned by talking to 8 local group organizers, and request feedback on some improvements to http://groups.drupal.org to help local group organizers.

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Is it possible to activate comments on a specific wiki page?

We would like to do this on http://groups.drupal.org/france.

Damien Tournoud
drupalfr.org

We've produced a few videos at Acquia and would like to embed them in some http://groups.drupal.org groups. For example, one video is a showcase of 35 Drupal sites, another is a video of 50 Drupal newspapers and magazines.

For customers, I've used the embed filter module with a whitelist of video sites. What's the state of the art for videos on http://groups.drupal.org?

Kieran

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Hello,

The Theme used for Groups.Drupal site is very clean, and ergonomic !
Congratulations for this job !

Can I download somewhere this Theme ?
I have already searched in "About this site..." without success.

Thanks for your answer ! :)

Hello I'm trying to work with og galleries, but It seems that if have a lot of bugs without clouse.

The idea is that maybe the modules that can no be supported should be no in "Recommended" status. Maybe when a module have 5 o 7 bug open it should not be in another status.

I understand that people maybe do not have time to work in this, the idea is only a way to advice people to use the module.

Thanks

Oskar

I haven't researched this thoroughly, but it seems that implementing Panel Pages may break (or at least change) their pre-existing RSS subscriptions. I've recently noticed that four of my G.D.O. subscriptions are broken, right about the time that each of them implemented Panel Pages -- Alumni, Churches, Drupal Dojo and Drupal in Education (I implemented three of the four.

This has probably already been addressed, but since I haven't seen anything about it, I thought I'd mention it here.

I've implemented the new panel pages feature on two groups now: Churches and Drupal in Education. In both cases, I've noticed that the page tabs show up in the order I created them, not in the order I weighted them.

Anyone else notice this? How do I fix it?

groups.drupal.org now features Pages, a major new feature added this week. Group admins now have much more control over the presentation of their group’s content. You may see this feature in action by clicking on the tabs in the redesigned Drupal Dojo group, or Los Angeles or SoC 2008. To learn how this customization was achieved, watch this screencast (blip.tv) by Josh Koenig.

Group admins may add as many custom Pages as they desire to their group. The admin may choose her own page layout, and may place whatever content she wishes into each region of the page. If this sounds like Panels module to you, then pat yourself on the back. This feature is a happy integration between Organic Groups module and the Panels module.

Group admins are encouraged to build out their groups using Pages (see screencast), and report bugs or feature requests in the groups.drupal.org group.

Many thanks to Earl Miles for Panels and Views, and to Josh Koenig for the screencast, and to the Post Carbon Institute for funding og_panels module.

The nodes on http://groups.drupal.org/tracker differ much from the feed

http://groups.drupal.org/group/tracker/%2A/feed

Who can fix it?

I'm very pleased to hear Moshe will be giving a presentation on site building titled Building a groups site - explore the backend of groups.drupal.org.

Does anyone know if the presentation will be taped and made available for non-attendees to later view online? I've asked a similar question here: Will presentation be available later via video?

Is there anyway to be notified when someone changes a wiki that you create? Or to see a change log? Without those two features, the wiki pages here are g.d.o are kind of an information black hole.

Hi, im wonder how to show description of group like on this site
on top of group page?

i ask og creator but his reply yhat this is drupal theming issue
please help me!

I'm sure this is a dumb question, but hopefully someone will humor me. How do I mimic the exposed filter for group type select on http://groups.drupal.org/groups? Is it a Content Taxonomy field, or something else?

The ICT - INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES workprogramme from the European commission has calls for applications that could fit a Drupal project. Especially Objective ICT-2007.4.2 (ICT-2007.4.4): Intelligent Content and Semantics is very interesting, anybody interested in collaborating on a grant proposal for this?

Target outcome
Medium term:
a) Advanced authoring environments for the creation of novel forms of interactive and
expressive content enabling multimodal experimentation and non-linear story-telling.

Recently, there was a Poll put up in our local group to select which day of the week to have the local meet-ups. Since the Poll Module will only allow for a single radio button answer ... this brings up the question ... why doesn't Groups.Drupal.org us the Advanced Poll Module?

In my specific example, the use of Approval Voting would have been more practical for our vote than just pick one.

Is there some reason Adv Poll Module is not used? ... or is it as simple as no one has asked?

BTW, count this as me asking for the Advanced Poll Module!

Thanks.

Now that groups.drupal.org is using date.module for its events, we really need someone to help signup module understand this date format. Please read this issue and consider writing the patch.

I don't use OG, so I don't know if this is a minor change or a major one. But, after reading http://groups.drupal.org/node/6438#comment-20339 , it occured to me that "subscribe" is a confusing term. Calling it "Join Group" might be better.

Michelle

Currently, our event listing is a flowing river of information and it is quite hard to distinguish between different types of events. I proposed that we add an event type vocabulary, which allows events to be tagged as being of specific type. Let's collect the list we are interested in having for events:

• User group meeting
• Regional conference
• International conference
• Virtual meeting (IRC meetings, Drupal dojo)
• Training

Ok... strange question but is there a dedicated group for the OG Groups Module or is that just kind of part of this main group for all questions and such?

-- Dave

Hi all. I would love for someone out there to contribute six icons for this site. They would represent the node types in use here.

• poll
• event
• story
• wiki page
• job
• group

I need a small version which will go in each row on listings like on the tracker page. Also a larger version which will go at the front of every node title on the group home page.

If anyone can point me to freely available ones thats welcome as well.

I was looking at the Call for install profile ideas wiki page and noticed it had comments.

While there’s no link to leave the first comment, if you go http://groups.drupal.org/comment/reply/5653/ you can comment.

When I try that with the Unconference wiki page in the Newspaper on Drupal group or the TinyMCE FAQ in the TinyMCE Development group I get an error saying, “This discussion is closed: you can't post new comments.”

I have an old user account which is the owner of a group and I would like to transfer ownership to my new account. The My Subscription page lends a clue with the message:

You may not unsubscribe from this group because you are its owner. A site administrator can assign ownership to another user and then you may unsubscribe.

I have made my new account an admin in the group, yet no new options appear to transfer ownership. Surely there is a way to accomplish this.

I have asked this on main drupal and cant seem to get any answers. Since I am trying to do excatly as this site does hopefully some can help me. I imagine this must be a common problem. But I cant seem to find an documentation.

I cant seem to get pages (pagination) on organic group home pages. I did not do anything special.

Create a type called group content type. no special fields.

Enabled that as the home page. allowed blog and other content types.

When I post I see on the main page that it honors the post settings (I have set it at 3 and it creates pages)

I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this. Excuse me if it isn't.

Was groups.drupal.org built with organic groups? I believe I heard that groups.drupal.org built with organic groups in a podcast (maybe Lullabot?) in passing. The podcasters were very nonchalant about it like building groups.drupal.org was no big deal.

When creating a job in Groups, it posts them on the sideboard, and then also places them in the center column. For those of us who create jobs that can telecommute from anywhere, we have to sign up for every local group, and the local group gets spammed in the center column with our stuff. I figure the local groups would rather have the focus on what they are working on rather than a ton of us pounding them with job offers. And we're only allowed to choose 4 locales at a time.

So I suggest the following:
1. removing job listings from the main column.
2. Creating a new taxonomy for development groups vs locative groups (maybe broken down by country.)
3. Allowing job descriptions to be posted across all locations in said taxonomy with one click rather than signing up for a million groups.

OR

have a preference setting allowing group admins to choose wether job listings can be posted to the main section of their group.

Thoughts?

Right now when a post is submitted to multiple groups and a user is signed up to those groups we get multiple email notifications with the same email. Is there any "easy" way to set it up so there is only one email notification per post and that it lists the groups that the post belongs to? It's not a huge deal but would help when going through emails. :-) Moshe and anyone else, any ideas on this? Is it possible and how much work would it be?

I searched and found a feature request here:
http://drupal.org/node/124252

Thanks,
Chris

Actually, the title says it all - would be great to have the diff.module enabled for wiki pages, and to give the permission to view revisions to all group members. That would increase the usability of the "groups wiki" significantly, as it's currently not possible to track the revisions and changes of a certain page (at least for non-site-admins).

With tons of help from glendac and some assistance from simplymenotu, we've created a Google map that plots where all of the local user groups are on groups.drupal.org, along with their size, as of last week sometime.

You can check it out here:

http://generator.click2map.com/maps/webchick/drupal_groups

It's very cool to see how global our little community is. :)

One thing that's coming up in the Drupal Dojo group, one of the most active groups here, is the need to start sharing administrative rights with more users. There are times when I'm offline for a few days, and the group could use a administrative assistance. For instance, we're trying to run a new "patch spotlight" feature which involves setting a sticky node for each new patch. It would be great to let add1sun do this herself.

I'm interested and willing to put some development cycles towards this if need be. However, I also have a sneaking suspicion that this might be already possible and I'm just missing it. Anyone know?

Hey y'all -

Really glad to see that LA now has it's own group. I was involved in the tail end of the discussion (w/ jpklein), and I'm unsure if the point that mikey_p brought up was talked about. Seems to almost make sense. If we take out all the LA and SD people (from the SoCal Group) who/what are we left with? Not sure if and/or what the proper procedures/protocol are for these types of things....

I recently started the group vBulletin and I accidentally added a term I which I no longer need. When I try to edit any of my terms I just get an error that I'm not authorized to view the page.

Am I missing something somewhere that allows me to do that?

Maybe I'm missing something obvious here, but is there a feed for the most recent/new groups on the site? I subscribed to the main groups feed (http://groups.drupal.org/og/all/feed,) but that just listed all the groups, not the newest ones listed in reverse chronological order.
Thanks,
Chris

In taking a look at the contributed Event module, I noticed that its latest release is 4.7.x-1.x-dev. I also noticed that g.d.o's About page does not list the Event module.

What does g.d.o use for its members to post events? If it does use the Event module, how is that possible since g.d.o runs on 5.x and the Event module is still 4.7.x?

Thanks,
Walt

...when I visit this link:
http://groups.drupal.org/node/2364

It's a wiki page on the Drupal Dojo titled, "Wiki Class Notes: Lesson #2".

Any ideas on what's wrong?

Thanks,
Walt

Has anyone had any success getting bloglines to read the myunread feed (or any of the personalized tracker feeds)? I understand authentication is needed, and I have tried the form:

http://myaccount:mypass@groups.drupal.org/group/myunread/feed

but no luck. It just says "No feeds were found. Please verify that the website publishes an RSS feed."

The My Unread page/feed are cool, but I might be subscribed to a number of groups and only want to see updates for specific ones. Is this possible?
Sorry if this is already posted somewhere.

EDIT by Walt Esquivel:

As of today, g.d.o now has 10,385 group subscriptions! Surpassing 10,000 is, in my opinion, an important milestone that warrants a note of congratulations!

g.d.o will, in my opinion, continue to grow and improve. Thanks to everyone who has helped make it the incredibly useful and productive community that it is. I'm proud and happy to be a part of it. A particular note of thanks goes, of course, to Moshe.

I'm looking to try to replicate a bit of what is done here at groups.drupal.org. That bit that I wish to replicate is the display on the post that reads: group: group name and whether private or public. Any advice to how to accomplish this, which variables are used, etc, would be of great help.

Thanks.

Two problems I have noticed with the 5.0 upgrade of groups.drupal.org is that the href for the favicon is blank, and events don't seem to work. An example of one such event is at http://groups.drupal.org/node/2207

Hi all,

Not sure if this is the right group for this but I thought I would ask. My friend is creating a community site for me right now with Drupal and we are integrating organic groups. I want to have users post topics and comments (very much like how this group is laid out) in a clean format. Right now the only way to do it on our site is as a blog post or forum post.

There has been some recent work analyzing the growth on drupal.org, and I think we should do something similar for groups.drupal.org.

I would be interested in charts/histograms showing the distribution of:

1. Groups by number of subscribers
2. Groups by posts/week in the past three months
3. Users by number of subscriptions (without identifying information)
4. Users by number of posts (without identifying information)
5. Users by number of posts (without identifying information)
6. Total posts over time
7. Total posts per week over time
8. Total groups over time
9. New groups per week over time
10. Median subscriptions per user over time

Did I forget anything or should some of these be removed/tweaked? I am willing to generate the charts if someone can run the queries, and I can figure out the exact sql queries if needed.

If one visits this page, one can see that Michelle has added [Comment incorporated] to many of the comments in order to incorporate comments into her "Contrib modules version 5.x status" table.

I'd like to basically do the same thing and add [Comment incorporated] to comments that maintainers and developers add to Reverse Bounty Status of Projects Needing Financing in order to keep my table on that page updated. For example, I want to add [Comment incorporated] to the bottom of Classified Ads status. How do I do this? Thanks in advance!

Walt Esquivel, MBA; MA; President, Wellness Corps; Captain, USMC (Veteran)
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