Intranet/volunteer management with Drupal
Hi folks,
I began working on a side project a month or so ago to create a system with Drupal that will allow organizers to collaboratively manage volunteers, events and field operations. I have been surprised by the demand for a system like this and I would like to take this past idea stage and formalize a fork of Drupal for campaigns/organizations.
The general functionality I am looking to build in (some of which is completed) is:
1) Calendar
2) Management of campaign requests
2) Task management
3) Volunteer database
4) Mapping of events, volunteers, and other nodes (i.e. yard signs, etc)
5) Community blogging and discussions
6) IRC integration for chat among staff with storage of conversations
7) Basic social networking functionality
8) Basic campaign stats
Is anyone interested in working on this project?
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I think what you're looking
I think what you're looking to do is create a distribution of Drupal for volunteer management, which is a very different process from forking. Similar to what http://www.funnymonkey.com/drupaled-latest has done for an educationally focused version of Drupal.
Basically you want to end up creating an install profile. However, you would probably first need to get a working proof of concept together to show what you want to do.
Exactly
Bad choice of words. I don't want to fork off from Drupal, but create an implementation with contributed modules that will make this easy for organizations/campaigns. I have been having some conversations with people and it seems like there is alot of interest in this. I have a rough version up at vnet.mgauge.com. Still working on it, but it is a base that people can take and work off of for their own needs. I have some bigger plans for this after the campaign cycle when I have more time.
Install profiles
I'll pick up Install profile tips from Alex at the DC meetup. Do you have a list of modules, or settings that you need for this?