Indymedia

The following are ongoing and/or proposed projects pertaining to Drupal media. Many of these have shared needs for features, documentation, and qualified talent to do the much needed work.

Drupal products, distributions, and installation profiles

Open Media Project

Anyone have favorite modules for implementing moderation in Drupal five or six?

I have been thinking of using a views and actions-based approach

Hi,

Just wanted to pop my head in and let everyone know of the new release of ProsePoint (www.prosepoint.org), a CMS for publishing online newspapers and magazines.

If you look closely at ProsePoint, you'll discover it's derived from Drupal. In fact, it's a Drupal distribution bundled into a single tarball for easy download. Of course, that means there's third party code in there, but it's all in the name of making life easier for end users.

I'd like for us to start compiling a comprehensive picture of the history of successes and failures in developing PEG2.0 tools to be shared among Public Access, PEG, CTC, Community Media groups. I've known of several such efforts, but was surprised to learn over the past few months that there are actually a few groups who have received recent grants similar to ours, aimed at producing open-source tools to serve and be shared by these communities. I'm not sure where all these projects are outlined, but I'm hoping we can summarize most of them here.

Hi,

Just wanted to announce the availability of the first (alpha) release of ProsePoint, a newspaper content management system.

Some things to note:

ProsePoint is a distribution built on top of Drupal 6.

It is currently alpha software and this is the first release. Hence, there are most likely all sorts of bugs and design inefficiencies. Please be welcome to try it, but use at your own risk.

It has the most customisation and add-on functionality of any distribution that I know of. The eventual aim is to have everything ready to go out of the box. No more searching for extra modules or testing of combinations of modules. Just install and go!

I thought some of the folks here might be interested in a project we're working on - it's called Rootswire - http://www.rootswire.org - and is an aggregation of different political and place blogs. Our first big effort is to build a group site for all of the bloggers covering the Democratic convention. The site is up in beta right now (yeah, yeah, I know - it needs a lot of theming love) and we're currently working on the mechanical aspects of it, and getting bloggers on-board. It's all Drupal, and we're using feedapi and the calais module to import the feeds and automatically tag them.

A little off-topic, but it seems to me there could be a nice fit with this initiative– code tools for journalists while learning more about being a journalist: Still seeking coders interested in journalism.

^{benjamin, Agaric Design Collective}

Hi,

I have the question. Does the technical possibility of the transfer exist from the system MIR on the system DRUPAL? I write in the name Polish indymedia and we want to know if such possibility is. How?

As a result of the recent TechMeet meeting that happened last Sunday, it has been decided to revive the Imc-CMS discussion and to try and pick a CMS to focus indymedia developer attention to.

I volunteered to try and coordinate it with whoever else wants to help.

They are trying to have this info ready by December 1st.

The other teams are the IndyPlone and a lot of IMCistas trying to develop a code-base from scratch with CakePHP.

The goal:

• work on an environment they assigment for and investigate it
• collect the pros and cons