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Modules that are useful for Scouting sites

Downeast Devo — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:53:34 +0000

This wiki page lists modules that are useful for Scouting sites.

A few tips on choosing modules

Make sure that the module fits the Drupal version you're using.

Read the readme, to make sure that the module does what you want it to do. Some modules have quite misleading names.

Check the feature-request list and bug report list for the module. If they are close to empty, it means that the module is barely used, and probably won't continue to be developed (unless you do it yourself). If the bug list contains serious bugs that haven't been fixed for some time, it means that maintainance of the module is poor.

Be sure the module works with your version of PHP. Some modules, i.e., Date2 and FileField, require PHP 5.2 versus 5.1 or 4.x. Many ISPs are still using PHP 4, and RedHat Enterprise Server 5 ships with PHP 5.1.

Always try the module on a test site for a while before installing it on your live site.

Content Delivery

CCK, Content Construction Kit, is used to customize node types. Use with sub modules to create data fields with dates, links, buttons, etc. With CCK, you can create a article node type containing fields for section, lead image, editor, publish end-date, location, et cetera. Also, check out the Contemplate module for extended node template customization. There are a number of sub modules.

Views module allows creation of lists of nodes based on flexible criteria, for example last commented articles, most popular articles, sports articles tagged as top stories. You can choose which fields to display in the lists, and the lists may be themed individually. Also, the lists may be displayed as blocks or pages, and lists can be exported as documents or CSV tables, and may also be broadcasted as RSS feeds. There are a number of sub modules.

Panels module will help you to create complex, multi-column page layouts that can be managed by editors. With Panels, it's possible to change the layout of the homepage or section pages based on the needs of news content. Panels allows node, view, block or custom content to be assigned arbitrarily to zones in custom layouts, freeing you from the ordinary limitations of the 1:1 relationship between blocks and regions.

The Pathauto module provides support functions for other modules to automatically generate aliases based on appropriate criteria, for example yoursite.com/year/issue/title-of-article. This is a huge boost when it comes to search engine optimization.

Print Friendly Pages module allows you to generate printer friendly versions of any node by navigating to www.example.com/node/nid/print, where nid is the node id of content to render.

Search 404 If an url doesn't exist, Search 404 makes a search using the terms in the path and presents the result to the visitor. If there is only one page hit, Search 404 can optionally take the visitor to that page directly.

Membership and Networking

Logintoboggan module provides a number of neat functions for logging in and registrating, such as re-typing e-mail for verification.

Invite module allows your users to send and track invitations to your site.

Service links module enables admins to add links to a number of social bookmarking sites, blog search sites etc. Includes sites are del.icio.us, Digg, Reddit, ma.gnolia.com, Newsvine, Furl, Google, Yahoo, Technorati and IceRocket.

News letters

Simplenews sends html or plain text newsletters to the subscription list. It may be extended with the Simplenews template module.

Statistics

Download count increments a download counter and logs a descriptive message each time an attached file is downloaded.

Google Analytics module adds Google Analytics javascript tracking code to all your site's pages. This could be the best choice for sites where non-tech people would like to see statistics.

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Scout sites using Drupal

Downeast Devo — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:30:43 +0000

Sections below include Council Sites, District Sites, Unit Sites, Scouting Blogs, Stores, Scouting Related Community Sites, other online Scout sites, public and commercial Scout sites, and more.

Please add your website, or a site you know of, if it is missing.

Unit Website Hosting

SOAROL: Scouting Online Affordable and Reliable: Provides web hosting for Boy Scout Troops, Cub Scout Packs, and Girl Scout Troops

Boy Scout Troops

Layout question - over here in Norway - we don't have Boy Scout Troops and Girl Scout Troops - we have Scout Troops - mixed. So - the Longship group here is a mixed group. However - I didn't want to just plough in and restructure - I was wondering how best to handle different associations around the world having a different setup - thoughts? How about title Scout Troops but link to association at the end of each entry:

Troop 734 - from Hilliard, Ohio - Simon Kenton Council - Boy Scouts of America
Troop and Crew 224 - From Oak Ridge, Tennessee - Boy Scouts of America: News, Calendar, Upcoming Events, Contact-Form
Troop 424 - From Savage, Maryland - Boy Scouts of America: News, Calendar, Upcoming Events, Sitemap
Longship - From Oslo, Norway - Norges speiderforbund: Translate with Google Language Tools
News, Calendar (currently broken), Upcoming Events, Polls, Contact (do we want the whole module lists here - many to add if so ;))
Troop 256 - From Las Vegas Area Council in Nevada - Boy Scouts of America: Event module, Contact Module

Districts

Downeast District: From PineTree Council in Maine: News, Calendar, Upcoming Events, Contact-Form, Forums, Polls, Newsletter,

White Rock District: From Circle10 Council in Texas: News, Calendar, Upcoming Events

Museums

Scouting Museum of Norway: (Translate with Google Language Tools) Storgaten 3, 4 floor in Oslo, Norway: Drupal 6 based with a fair few contrib modules. Photos, Newsletter, Tag Cloud - some details

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Anyone interested in collaborating on a "recipe" for Boy Scout Troops

dgnova3@drupal.org — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 21:55:30 +0000

I have been working with Drupal for about 3 years and am active in BSA as an assistant scoutmaster. I have a vision for a troop recipe. I would like to do this in version 6 because it will rely on CCK and views extensively. I do not have particularly strong skill sets in CSS and PHP but I know my way around drupal pretty well and am learning as I go with the other items.

If you have a troop site or pack site, or are working with a pack or troop, I would like partners who could help with the vision and test concepts.

So far the concept is

-CCK for activities with locations, maps, packing lists, signup and calendar
-Organic groups for patrols and possibly ASMs and committee
-Forums for documents and resources
-Link library for external resources
-Content type for Eagle scout "hall of fame" listing project, scout, organization, service hours

Want to help? Want some help?

Jump in!

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Speidermuseet (Scouting Museum of Norway) online

chrissearle@drupal.org — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 14:38:46 +0000

A new (since september - am a little late) scouting site is now up. Drupal 6 based with a fair few contrib modules.

For those of you who can read Norwegian it's up at http://www.speidermuseet.no

English speakers - sorry - no english text there at present.

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Using Organic Groups for a scouting site?

drea — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 16:13:26 +0000

Hi, I'm going to turn this into a bit of a support forum, so let me know if I should take this question back to, say, the support forums :-)

My scouting site, under development, is:
http://www.pqpack621.org.

I'd love to get a sense of what works for the other scouting sites out there.

I'm new to Drupal, and I came to it in the middle of setting up a site for my son's Cub Scout pack. I'm hoping that each of the den leaders will be able to post their meeting and event announcements. I'm gradually adding in modules that I think I'll need.

the question:
I'd like the dens to be able to see their own events, but also be able to see the pack-wide events. I was planning to build some filters onto the individual Den pages so that the event listings would have the right stuff. But it sounds like Organic Groups handles some of that.

On the other hand, I don't need the groups to be "organic" - packs are small enough that I can manage membership, and with our scouts being this age (6-10 years), I'm not interested in random people joining the site.

Thanks for any advice, and I'd love to see what folks are doing out there.

Cheers,
Andrea

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Using Organic Groups for a scouting site?

drea — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 16:13:26 +0000

Hi, I'm going to turn this into a bit of a support forum, so let me know if I should take this question back to, say, the support forums :-)

My scouting site, under development, is:
http://www.pqpack621.org.

I'd love to get a sense of what works for the other scouting sites out there.

Thanks for any advice, and I'd love to see what folks are doing out there.

Cheers,
Andrea

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Will you be participating in JOTA/JOTI 2006?

chrissearle@drupal.org — Sun, 10 Sep 2006 09:28:10 +0000

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Will you be participating in JOTA/JOTI 2006?

chrissearle@drupal.org — Sun, 10 Sep 2006 09:28:10 +0000

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JOTI 2006

chrissearle@drupal.org — Sun, 10 Sep 2006 09:27:03 +0000

JOTI 2006 will be running 21-22 october this year

http://www.scout.org/wse/joti.shtml

I've run a few JOTI competitions before - but these were custom coded. They were based on a set of questions to be answered, plus online chat between the teams, and the ability to use lifelines (yes - very who wants to be a millionaire I know) - get a hint, ask another team and ask all other teams.

I won't be running one this year due to personal time constraints (although I will probably be in the JOTI IRC channels on the 21st).

However - I'd be interested to hear if any others will be running anything special for JOTI/JOTA this year - and if so - will it be integrated into a drupal based site? I mean - I can see forums for it etc - but is there something better out there?

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JOTI 2006

chrissearle@drupal.org — Sun, 10 Sep 2006 09:27:03 +0000

JOTI 2006 will be running 21-22 october this year

http://www.scout.org/wse/joti.shtml

I won't be running one this year due to personal time constraints (although I will probably be in the JOTI IRC channels on the 21st).

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chrissearle — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 05:47:12 +0000

Well, as an active leader in the Longship group (www.longship.org) I got the suggestion for the group from David, an ex-longshipper who is now an active leader with 4th Caterham (http://www.4thcaterham.org.uk/).

Longship is running drupal, Caterham is looking at switching.

It seems that drupal is a good match for such youth group sites - so - here's a group to allow discussion on what works well, what not so well - a place to ask questions and to exchange ideas.

I have a feeling that drupal is also well suited to large events - think for example about JOTI, or a site during and after a jamboree.

So - any scouters/guiders out there who are using drupal or who think they might benefit - come along and join us :)

Yours in Scouting

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chrissearle — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 05:47:12 +0000

Longship is running drupal, Caterham is looking at switching.

It seems that drupal is a good match for such youth group sites - so - here's a group to allow discussion on what works well, what not so well - a place to ask questions and to exchange ideas.

I have a feeling that drupal is also well suited to large events - think for example about JOTI, or a site during and after a jamboree.

So - any scouters/guiders out there who are using drupal or who think they might benefit - come along and join us :)

Yours in Scouting

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