http://groups.drupal.org/newspapers-on-drupal A place for newspapers running on Drupal to share ideas, problems and solutions en http://groups.drupal.org/node/12929 <p>The magazine I’m working for magazine looking to reproduce a rich layout of the paper on there website.<br /> Each article (mixe of different asset :interview, blog post, discution, pool, article) have different layout<br /> 1 teaser node on the home page "teaser.jpg"<br /> 2 teaser node on the channel page node "teaser bis.jpg"<br /> 3 full length</p> <p>There is a nice write up at <a href="http://drupal.org/nyobserver" title="http://drupal.org/nyobserver">http://drupal.org/nyobserver</a> about this solution that involved creating one cck content type for the home page and an other for the channels edition</p> <p>Previously I was involved (on the client side) of an other newspaper's website <a href="http://next.liberation.fr" title="http://next.liberation.fr">http://next.liberation.fr</a> and <a href="http://voyages.liberation.fr" title="http://voyages.liberation.fr">http://voyages.liberation.fr</a></p> <p>We will be able to use a new search panel and drag and drop facility of <a href="http://www.France24.com" title="http://www.France24.com">http://www.France24.com</a><br /> We will help them to package it and release it to community</p> <p>The france24 content search and drag and drop faciltity will a allow us the creat a rich article with different asset :<br /> -interview<br /> -blog post<br /> -discution<br /> -pool<br /> -article</p> <p>and spare use lot of the burden of choosing each asset with drop down menu on a fixed grid.</p> <p>However I would like to find a more satisfactory way to store the content that a cck content type. A sort of list of the content and choosing for each of them is they will be include :<br /> - in the teaser home or channel<br /> There position on the page and on the teaser view :<br /> - in a vertical inset<br /> - in a horizontal inset.<br /> There layout :<br /> - Teaser en defonce<br /> - Title<br /> - Like a citation<br /> - ETC…</p> <div class="og_rss_groups"><a href="/newspapers-on-drupal">Newspapers on Drupal</a></div> http://groups.drupal.org/node/12929#comments support Newspapers on Drupal Sat, 05 Jul 2008 10:44:31 +0000 jbi 12929 at http://groups.drupal.org http://groups.drupal.org/node/12926 <p>Hi all,</p> <p>We are evaluating a new server configuration, looking at going from a single server setup to a dual server setup (web server/database).</p> <p>Our existing server is a Dell PowerEdge 850 with 10K RPM drive (not sure what drive type/RAID config), 1 GB RAM, and a dual-core Pentium 3 GHz processor, 2MB cache.</p> <p>The new servers are both Sun X2100 M2, 10K RPM SATA RAID 5, 4GB RAM, and a dual-core AMD Opteron 2.6 GHz processor, 1 MB cache.</p> <p>Performance for static file serving seems to be about half as much on the Opteron as our existing server. Database performance on our new servers are good for reads, but seem about half speed for writes.</p> <p>Anyone have any scaling wisdom to share?</p> <p>Cheers,<br /> Mike</p> <div class="og_rss_groups"><a href="/newspapers-on-drupal">Newspapers on Drupal</a></div> http://groups.drupal.org/node/12926#comments Newspapers on Drupal Fri, 04 Jul 2008 20:37:41 +0000 mcantelon 12926 at http://groups.drupal.org http://groups.drupal.org/node/12780 <p>PLEASE RESPOND TO <a href="mailto:jobs@printcasting.com">jobs@printcasting.com</a></p> <p>The Bakersfield Californian is looking for experienced Drupal<br /> developers for an exciting new social media project. Using funds from<br /> a Knight News Challenge project, we're going to make it possible for<br /> anyone to be their own local media mogul. Sound interesting? Read on<br /> for details!</p> <p>WHO ARE WE?<br /> The Californian is an independent, family-owned newspaper in central<br /> California that has a reputation for innovation. We're leaders in our<br /> industry in applying "Web 2.0" concepts locally, and among the first<br /> newspapers in the United States to adopt social networking and citizen<br /> journalism as part of our core offerings.</p> <p>We focus not just on our newspaper, but on growing local audiences<br /> through 11 niche-focused local brands. All of them have participatory<br /> Web sites, and 6 also have print magazines or newspapers that feature<br /> users' content. We are the leaders in our industry when it come to<br /> delivery fresh ideas which others are eager to adopt, and have been<br /> covered widely, including in a front page story on The Wall Street<br /> Journal.</p> <p>WHAT'S THE PROJECT?<br /> As one of 16 winners of the 2008 Knight News Challenge, we have the<br /> support of Knight Foundation (<a href="http://www.knightfoundation.org" title="http://www.knightfoundation.org">http://www.knightfoundation.org</a>) to<br /> develop a revolutionary set of tools that will allow anyone to create<br /> a local newspaper, magazine or newsletter by mixing their own content<br /> with content from participating local blogs and news providers. Normal<br /> people will be able to publish printable content without the need for<br /> money, technical skills or design skills. The end result will be<br /> hundreds of magazines which are also full of local ads that were<br /> submitted using self-serve tools.</p> <p>WHAT'S THE KNIGHT NEWS CHALLENGE?<br /> The 2008 Knight News Challenge is the second stage of a 5-year program<br /> to award at least $20 million for innovative ideas using digital<br /> experiments to transform community news. Since its creation in 1950,<br /> Knight Foundation has invested nearly $315 million to advance<br /> journalism quality and freedom of expression. Learn more at <a href="http://newschallenge.org" title="http://newschallenge.org">http://newschallenge.org</a></p> <p>WHY DRUPAL?<br /> Under the terms of our Knight Foundation grant, we're developing these<br /> tools under an open-source license in order to start a new movement<br /> around print.</p> <p>What better place to look than the Drupal community? We want top<br /> developers to provide their knowledge and expertise to this project.<br /> We know that the Drupal community can develop a realiable, feature-<br /> rich application that can then be used by thousands of other Drupal<br /> sites.</p> <p>Our project requires multiple skillsets. Please review our needs<br /> below, and let us know if you can contribute.</p> <ul> <li> <p>Drupal - Ability to create modules correctly within the Drupal<br /> framework</p> </li> <li> <p>PDF Generation - PDF generation with advance layouts and<br /> functionality. Do you have ideas on how to generate PDFs within PHP?<br /> We want to talk to you!</p> </li> <li> <p>RSS/Atom - Key content is derived from RSS and Atom feeds. Knowledge<br /> of these standards and how they can be used is invaluable.</p> </li> <li> <p>MySQL - You should know how to effectively design a scalable<br /> database which will work well with Drupal.</p> </li> <li> <p>UI (Javascript/Ajax/DHTML) - TWe'll need a rich interface to control<br /> content. Anyone who likes a challenge needs to work with us.</p> </li> </ul> <p>PLEASE RESPOND TO <a href="mailto:jobs@printcasting.com">jobs@printcasting.com</a></p> <div class="og_rss_groups"><a href="/pdf">PDF</a></div> Drupal PHP PDF RSS ATOM Module AJAX Javascript Denver/Boulder Colorado User Group (DBUG) Knight Drupal Initiative Newspapers on Drupal PDF Fri, 27 Jun 2008 22:40:46 +0000 ronpac 12780 at http://groups.drupal.org http://groups.drupal.org/node/12563 <p>I tried to check out the Drupal "Learning Resources" wiki page linked at the top of the Newspapers on Drupal group and was directed to a blank wiki page instead. Anyone know what's going on with this? I hope the page wasn't deleted. If so, does anyone have access to restore it?</p> <p>Thanks.</p> <div class="og_rss_groups"><a href="/newspapers-on-drupal">Newspapers on Drupal</a></div> http://groups.drupal.org/node/12563#comments support Newspapers on Drupal Thu, 19 Jun 2008 05:09:12 +0000 femrich 12563 at http://groups.drupal.org http://groups.drupal.org/node/12492 <p>I want to start a business directory to generate revenue to improve some existing newspaper sites (please forgive me for not providing specifics on the sites themselves) and have been recommended to use drupal for not only the business directory but also content management.</p> <p>The issue, I'm not a programmer or developer and I'm concerned I won't have the technical expertise to get this done.</p> <p>That having been said, if I had to hire someone to develop the server, load the software, design the templates, etc and get everything running, what kind of costs would I be looking at?</p> <p>Also, is this the best FREEWARE solution for a business directory? Are there other's using drupal for business directory revenue???</p> <p>I guess I'm grasping at the wind somewhat because I'm not sure if drupal will be over kill for what were trying to do now or if it's the best plan for now and the future (I have no doubt drupal is a GREAT CMS).</p> <p>Please help.</p> <p>Thanks.<br /> J</p> <div class="og_rss_groups"><a href="/newspapers-on-drupal">Newspapers on Drupal</a></div> http://groups.drupal.org/node/12492#comments development Newspapers on Drupal Tue, 17 Jun 2008 00:28:48 +0000 drupalNEW 12492 at http://groups.drupal.org http://groups.drupal.org/node/12365 <p>We are currently looking at changing our hosting company so that we can ramp up our resources.</p> <p>One of the options we looked at was Amazon's EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud). However, we backed away when our intial tests showed that transfer speed weren't very fast.</p> <p>But, I was just wondering if anyone in the Newspaper on Drupal group has successfully trialled Cloud Computing and, if so, whether there were any tricks and traps if you wanted to run a good-sized Drupal newspaper site on a cloud-based infrastructure.</p> <p>Cheers,</p> <p>Geoff</p> <div class="og_rss_groups"><a href="/newspapers-on-drupal">Newspapers on Drupal</a></div> http://groups.drupal.org/node/12365#comments Amazon EC2 cloud-based infrastructure development Newspapers on Drupal Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:15:17 +0000 geoffb 12365 at http://groups.drupal.org http://groups.drupal.org/node/12355 <p>Hi. Does anyone know where I can find free (open source) taxonomies that I could use for an online newspaper?</p> <div class="og_rss_groups"><a href="/newspapers-on-drupal">Newspapers on Drupal</a></div> http://groups.drupal.org/node/12355#comments howto Newspapers on Drupal Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:44:53 +0000 SciFiGuy 12355 at http://groups.drupal.org http://groups.drupal.org/node/12093 <p>ION Publications, publisher of <a href="http://www.scientificblogging.com">Scientific Blogging</a> is in need of a programmer with a strong CSS background for its California office. We have openings for full time, part time and contract work. You must have excellent experience in Drupal theming and some strength developing Drupal modules or outstanding CSS work for another high-profile project. Experience with Javascript, Ajax, cross-browser development, Linux, Subversion, Java/other programming language, some server admin skills, understanding of SEO and design skills.</p> <p>It goes without saying that PHP competence is crucial. Knowledge of LAMP stack would be nice.</p> <p>Please send your resume to <a href="mailto:hank@ionpublications.com">hank@ionpublications.com</a></p> <div class="og_rss_groups"><a href="/newspapers-on-drupal">Newspapers on Drupal</a></div> css development drupal development css php employment hiring job job listing jobs php High performance Newspapers on Drupal Sun, 08 Jun 2008 02:46:24 +0000 sciblogs 12093 at http://groups.drupal.org http://groups.drupal.org/node/12032 <p>I am very excited to announce the first <a href="http://developer.daylife.com/contest" target="_blank">Daylife Developer Challenge</a> for building applications using the Daylife News Aggregation APIs. Folks hosting Drupal based websites on <a href="http://ecproject.org" title="http://ecproject.org">http://ecproject.org</a> and <a href="http://comminit.com" title="http://comminit.com">http://comminit.com</a> have built drupal pages/blocks/modules serving syndicated content using the Daylife APIs earlier.</p> <p>The prizes are: a $3500 first prize and two $750 runner up prizes. The contest ends <strong>midnight of July 25th</strong></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>More information about the contest is on <a href="http://developer.daylife.com" title="http://developer.daylife.com">http://developer.daylife.com</a> . Simply sign-up there, receive the API credentials and start building! We look forward to folks building cool drupal modules and applications to win this contest!</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>- Vineet Gupta<br /> <a href="http://vangelist.wordpress.com" title="http://vangelist.wordpress.com">http://vangelist.wordpress.com</a></p> <div class="og_rss_groups"><a href="/semantic-web">Semantic Web</a></div> http://groups.drupal.org/node/12032#comments Newspapers on Drupal RSS &amp; Aggregation Semantic Web Thu, 05 Jun 2008 20:31:41 +0000 vineet 12032 at http://groups.drupal.org http://groups.drupal.org/node/11877 <p>I would like to form a relationship with a contractor that can create theme(s) based on photoshop designs which we will provide. The majority of the site(s) are using panels 2 - panel pages and mini-panels to deliver views to the reader. I prefer working with those experienced with working with Drupal for newspaper / magazine / media related sites and can show examples of the previous work performed.</p> <p>Our immediate need is for 1 theme to created but we're in the process of migrating many of our sites to Drupal.</p> <p>Please contact me through my drupal.org contact form.</p> <p>Thank you very much.</p> <p>-Lance</p> <div class="og_rss_groups"><a href="/newspapers-on-drupal">Newspapers on Drupal</a></div> media newspaper Panels 2 theming Newspapers on Drupal Fri, 30 May 2008 17:17:32 +0000 DrewPool 11877 at http://groups.drupal.org http://groups.drupal.org/node/11833 <p>I work for a newspaper publisher that produces 9 weekly newspapers. I'm looking into using Drupal as a CMS for our web products. I read Building powerful and robust websites with Drupal 6 which helped me to understand how drupal works and to set up a site. I really like how the New York Observer is laid out and could use some help on setting up a newspaper site.</p> <p>Below is a list of what I'd like to do and would really appreciate any pointers or suggestion you may have.</p> <p>• How to implement different templates on different sections of the site. (ie. home page, sports, lifestyle, etc.) Home page would display new stories from the whole site. Sports or an other section would display the newest stories for that section.</p> <p>• How to create our own styled templates for story page.</p> <p>• How to set up ad space on the site.</p> <p>Thanks in advance.</p> <div class="og_rss_groups"><a href="/newspapers-on-drupal">Newspapers on Drupal</a></div> http://groups.drupal.org/node/11833#comments newspaper need help howto Newspapers on Drupal Thu, 29 May 2008 13:11:53 +0000 JayCally 11833 at http://groups.drupal.org http://groups.drupal.org/node/11809 <p>Hi all. We're in the final stages of developing TheDigitel.com, a local news site, and I'm trying to decide on the best avenue to integrate e-mail and SMS subscriptions. Before I go installing a bunch on the test server, I thought I'd ask for your thoughts.</p> <p>Ideally, we want to offer people the ability to subscribe to a daily or weekly digest (perhaps based of our RSS feed), or to subscribe to a particular topic (i.e. e-mail me when there's a new story tagged with "road development") or to say SMS me when there's a new top story or story tagged with "wreck".</p> <p>A mouthful, I know. So, thoughts?</p> <p>p.s. We're a small outfit and can do some code tweaking, but we're lacking a true programmer.</p> <div class="og_rss_groups"><a href="/newspapers-on-drupal">Newspapers on Drupal</a></div> http://groups.drupal.org/node/11809#comments email sms subscriptions development Newspapers on Drupal Wed, 28 May 2008 19:27:41 +0000 Ken H. 11809 at http://groups.drupal.org http://groups.drupal.org/node/11753 <p>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: <a href="http://www.pbs.org/idealab/2008/05/still-seeking-coders-intereste.html">Still seeking coders interested in journalism</a>.</p> <p>^{benjamin, <a href="http://AgaricDesign.com" title="Open Source Free Software Web Development the Agaric Way">Agaric Design Collective</a>}</p> <div class="og_rss_groups"><a href="/newspapers-on-drupal">Newspapers on Drupal</a></div> http://groups.drupal.org/node/11753#comments journalism process Indymedia Knight Drupal Initiative Newspapers on Drupal Tue, 27 May 2008 03:48:21 +0000 Benjamin Melançon 11753 at http://groups.drupal.org http://groups.drupal.org/node/11647 <p>I Just wanted to let you know about a new service which we have just launched in Beta Mode.</p> <p><a href="http://www.handsetdetection.com/" title="http://www.handsetdetection.com/">http://www.handsetdetection.com/</a></p> <p>It is the first step in solving the mobile and web crossover issues which website owners / developers face when someone views their website from any device other than a normal computer (I-phone / mobile phone / PDA etc).</p> <p>The service is free to use and we believe the best channel to market would be through the open-source CMS community. We are therefore looking for Beta Testers out there to try the service and provide feedback on their experiences.</p> <p>To use the free service, just clip the code supplied at our site into your web pages. Then, when someone visits your site, a live request is sent to us, and we return a result back to you on a live basis with details of the device, screen size, GEO IP, make, model and many other fields of information.</p> <p>From that point, you can do one of two things:</p> <ol> <li> <p>Depending on the result returned, you can then display an appropriate view for the consumer i.e. A website that will fit their device’s screen size and UI which is controlled by the way in which they are browsing (i-phones suit touch screen menus, N95’s suit joystick controls and so on...)</p> </li> <li> <p>If option 1 is too much of a first leap, after you add the code into your website, you can just login to our online reporting system and view your traffic results based on device make, model, country, city etc... This would be a great first step in understanding whether you are getting traffic to your site from non traditional browsing devices.</p> </li> </ol> <p>As I mentioned, we are in Beta stage, so we would value your feedback on this.</p> <p>Hope you get a chance to check it out. Also, if you know of anyone else who may be interested in participating in this Beta stage, I would be grateful if you could pass our request on...</p> <p>Regards,</p> <p>David Manjra<br /> skype: dmanjra<br /> m: +61 419 7000 68</p> <div class="og_rss_groups"><a href="/newspapers-on-drupal">Newspapers on Drupal</a></div> http://groups.drupal.org/node/11647#comments iphone mobile cell Newspapers on Drupal Thu, 22 May 2008 01:07:28 +0000 davemanjra 11647 at http://groups.drupal.org http://groups.drupal.org/node/11614 <p><a href="http://www.vimeo.com/979664?pg=embed&amp;sec=979664">Drupal Rocks Newspaper and Journalism Websites</a> from <a href="http://www.vimeo.com/user469990?pg=embed&amp;sec=979664">Drupal Rocks</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com?pg=embed&amp;sec=979664">Vimeo</a>.</p> <p>Screenshots are available here: <a href="http://skitch.com/drupalrocks" title="http://skitch.com/drupalrocks">http://skitch.com/drupalrocks</a></p> <div class="og_rss_groups"><a href="/newspapers-on-drupal">Newspapers on Drupal</a></div> http://groups.drupal.org/node/11614#comments drupal sites Marketing of Drupal Newspapers on Drupal Tue, 20 May 2008 23:24:43 +0000 Amazon 11614 at http://groups.drupal.org http://groups.drupal.org/node/11601 <p>ThompsonReuters and Phase2 have released the <a href="http://drupal.org/project/opencalais">OpenCalais Drupal module</a> for both D5 and D6. Note that this is not the same as the previously announced but unreleased <a href="http://drupal.org/project/calais">Calais</a> module.</p> <p>It submits content to OpenCalais and gets back a set metadata that it maps to Drupal vocabularies and terms. The results can be automatically inserted into the database or merely suggested to node authors.</p> <p>I've been trying to test it on some full-text RSS feeds, but I'm having some issues with FeedAPI, so I'm doing a lot of cutting and pasting of newspaper content for my test. So far, I can see some opportunities for generating good related-item linksets, but there's a lot of work to do.</p> <p>In the Drupal instance at least, there's no disambiguation among the many possible John Smiths, so proper name detection may not be as useful as we'd like. But other vocabularies may be more useful. For instance, in one story it detected "Fleming Island High school football field" as a facility, and "Clay County school,Clay County Sheriff's Office,Fleming Island High School,Green Cove Springs Police Department,W.E. Cherry Elementary School" as organizations.</p> <div class="og_rss_groups"><a href="/newspapers-on-drupal">Newspapers on Drupal</a></div> http://groups.drupal.org/node/11601#comments OpenCalais Newspapers on Drupal Tue, 20 May 2008 15:55:01 +0000 yelvington@drupal.org 11601 at http://groups.drupal.org http://groups.drupal.org/node/11545 <p>Hello,</p> <p>In a newspaper website, there is a lot of pictures uploaded.</p> <p>So the question is quite simple :) : how do you manage to name all of your pictures/images or the way you organise them so you can find them easily later. Or you dont care about that and you just upload them ?</p> <p>Or is there an automatic renaming module (dont know if there is one) and you just add a description and a few keywords and hope to find it back when you need it.</p> <p>Thanks for sharing your experience about this matter.</p> <div class="og_rss_groups"><a href="/newspapers-on-drupal">Newspapers on Drupal</a></div> http://groups.drupal.org/node/11545#comments howto Newspapers on Drupal Sun, 18 May 2008 09:35:02 +0000 merlinus3000@drupal.org 11545 at http://groups.drupal.org http://groups.drupal.org/node/11392 <p>These are two new African projects that I am about to sign off . The first is self-descriptive and it is the online edition of a magazine named IT Business in Africa which is meant to be a meeting hub for CEOs, CIOs and all ICT professionals in Africa . The second is a public appraisal website for Nigerian leaders.</p> <div class="og_rss_groups"><a href="/united-kingdom">United Kingdom</a></div> http://groups.drupal.org/node/11392#comments africa Drupal nigeria Africa Consulting and Business Converting themes to drupal London Newspapers on Drupal Nigeria United Kingdom Sun, 11 May 2008 16:36:13 +0000 websesame 11392 at http://groups.drupal.org http://groups.drupal.org/node/11335 <p>The Observer Media Group, the company that runs Observer.com and Politicker.com, is hiring again! We're looking for solid developers to join our team to support our continued growth efforts. We're open to full time, part time, and contract work. We would consider a remote arrangement for the right person. You should have some experience developing Drupal modules (we'll ask for a completed module as a code sample), using Views/CCK, and some exposure to Drupal theming. Specific experience in high performance sites is appreciated, but not required. Most importantly, you should be highly competent in PHP and MySQL, preferably also competent in at least one other language and one other Database system, and be able to demonstrate knowledge of fundamental computer science topics.</p> <p>Submit your resume and any questions to <a href="mailto:asmith@observer.com">asmith@observer.com</a></p> <div class="og_rss_groups"><a href="/newspapers-on-drupal">Newspapers on Drupal</a></div> High performance Newspapers on Drupal Thu, 08 May 2008 22:33:01 +0000 netaustin 11335 at http://groups.drupal.org http://groups.drupal.org/node/11281 <p>Kieran Lal of Acquia put together a slideshow of 50 newspapers and magazines using Drupal - it's great to see how many news organizations that have adapted Drupal as a framework.</p> <p>You can watch it here:<br /> <a href="http://vimeo.com/979664" title="http://vimeo.com/979664">http://vimeo.com/979664</a></p> <p>And read more about it here:<br /> <a href="http://acquia.com/blog/kieran/50-drupal-newspaper-and-magazine-showcase-video-newstools-2008" title="http://acquia.com/blog/kieran/50-drupal-newspaper-and-magazine-showcase-video-newstools-2008">http://acquia.com/blog/kieran/50-drupal-newspaper-and-magazine-showcase-...</a></p> <div class="og_rss_groups"><a href="/newspapers-on-drupal">Newspapers on Drupal</a></div> http://groups.drupal.org/node/11281#comments drupal sites Newspapers on Drupal Wed, 07 May 2008 08:00:12 +0000 Nikolai Thyssen 11281 at http://groups.drupal.org http://groups.drupal.org/node/11163 <p>Generally speaking I find that SEO articles are light on details and heavy on the same old simple ideas, so I was quite happily surprised by <a href="http://www.joostdevalk.nl/seo-newspapers/">Newspaper SEO</a> by Joost de Valk.</p> <p>Of course, all of these things are easy to achieve with Drupal (if not already standard) :)</p> <p>Some interesting tips:</p> <blockquote><p>Make sure the article title is in the tag too, and include the category. - - works best in my experience.<br /> ...<br /> I understand that people want to track how many visitors came from their RSS feed, but there are better ways to do this than using ?source=rss in your links and not redirecting them out... Another case of duplicate content I often encounter is when articles are placed in multiple categories, and have a URL in each category. You should pick one category as the main one, and redirect all the other entry points to that main URL.<br /> ... </p></blockquote> <p>Etc.</p> <p>Great stuff!</p> <div class="og_rss_groups"><a href="/search-engine-optimization">Search Engine Optimization</a></div> http://groups.drupal.org/node/11163#comments newspapers SEO Newspapers on Drupal Search Engine Optimization Fri, 02 May 2008 18:41:38 +0000 greggles 11163 at http://groups.drupal.org http://groups.drupal.org/node/10941 <p>The Public Press <a href="http://www.public-press.org">www.public-press.org</a> is a concept for the next-generation daily newspaper. We're organizing a group of journalists, technologist and nonprofit managers to organize a new newsroom for the San Francisco Bay Area that would produce a Web site, daily print newspaper and collaborations with nonprofit news-gathering organizations locally and nationally. We've built a simple Drupal 6 site that we will be growing in the coming weeks and months, and we plan to start publishing on the Web using this platform. Our current target date for the first-phase content roll-out is September 2008.</p> <p>The basic concept is to reintroduce competition to local journalism, and do it on the noncommercial model, much like a local public broadcast station. Revenues will come from a combination of print subscriptions, street sales, public-broadcast-style "pledges," foundations and individual philanthropy. The current plan is not to take any advertising at all -- a format that will allow a radically restructured print product that is, among other things, more userfriendly and ecologically sensible.</p> <p>We're developing the organizing Web site in Drupal, and would like to stick with it. We'd also like to adopt some of the development mechanisms and community tools that Drupal.org itself utilizes to coordinate volunteer efforts from many community members. This open, accountable, collaborative approach dovetails nicely with the way the Public Press continues to be built.</p> <p>So we're looking for collaborators and local contributors who can help us brainstorm new ways of doing things, but on the Web and as a backend system to manage the print-side production. Designing this system from scratch will enable a whole lot of exciting possibilities, creating, for example, a truly Web-first publishing environment in which Web-news organization principles are back-translated into print.</p> <p>Join us for Drupal Day, May 2, at the NewsTools 2008 conference at Yahoo. Or Flag me down at the event. If you can't make it and are interested in participating, I'd love to hear from you! E-mail mstoll [AT symbol] public-press.org.</p> <p>Thanks!</p> <p>Michael Stoll<br /> San Francisco</p> <div class="og_rss_groups"><a href="/newspapers-on-drupal">Newspapers on Drupal</a></div> http://groups.drupal.org/node/10941#comments bay area journalism newspaper noncommercial nonprofit Public Press reader-supported reverse publishing san francisco development drupal sites events hello Bay Area Newspapers on Drupal Wed, 23 Apr 2008 05:12:40 +0000 mstoll@drupal.org 10941 at http://groups.drupal.org http://groups.drupal.org/node/10811 <p>This is not a Drupal job per se, but all of the New America Foundation's sites are Drupal-based, so a "power user" who's familiar with and interested in the Drupal community would be ideal. Details below, and at <a href="http://www.newamerica.net/about/employment_opportunities/6956" title="http://www.newamerica.net/about/employment_opportunities/6956">http://www.newamerica.net/about/employment_opportunities/6956</a></p> <h3>Managing Editor, NewAmerica.net</h3> <p>The New America Foundation is seeking a managing editor for NewAmerica.net to help improve and expand our online presence. The ideal candidate will have a love of both journalism and technology, and be keenly interested in a wide range of public policy.</p> <h3>Primary Responsibilities</h3> <ul> <li>Overseeing day-to-day editorial operations of NewAmerica.net, which includes a rapidly growing array of issue-specific blogs;</li> <li>Ensuring that the NewAmerica.net homepage is consistently current and compelling;</li> <li>Coordinating with and coaching colleagues throughout the organization on issue- and program-specific new media projects;</li> <li>Managing multiple longer-term projects, both internally and with outside partners and developers;</li> <li>Helping to raise the online visibility of New America;</li> <li>Encouraging active online participation, among both colleagues and outside audiences; and</li> <li>Helping to identify opportunities for innovation, and chart New America’s online strategy for 2009 and beyond.</li> </ul> <h3>Qualifications</h3> <p>Ideal candidates will have the following qualifications:<br></p> <ul> <li>A bachelor’s degree is required;</li> <li>3–6 years of professional online editorial experience;</li> <li>Strong writing skills, particularly for blogs and other online media;</li> <li>Stellar editing skills, including a thorough knowledge of AP style;</li> <li>Solid grasp of HTML and basic CSS, understanding of web design and usability;</li> <li>Proven record of deadline performance and ability to work without close supervision;</li> <li>Exemplary attention to detail and an energetic, team-player attitude; and</li> <li>Experience with web video, basic PHP and/or Drupal-based websites is ideal but not required.</li> </ul> <h3>Application Process</h3> <p>E-mail a resume, cover letter and links to online work samples to: Human Resources, New America Foundation, 1630 Connecticut Avenue, NW, 7th Floor, Washington, DC 20009. Fax: 202-986-3696. E-mail: <a href="mailto:jobs@newamerica.net">jobs@newamerica.net</a>. Please state “Managing Editor, NewAmerica.net” in the e-mail subject line. No phone calls, please.<br></p> <p><br><br /> Generous salary package commensurate with experience; excellent benefits. The New America Foundation is an equal opportunity employer.</p> <div class="og_rss_groups"><a href="/washington-dc-drupalers">Washington, DC Drupalers</a></div> journalism nonprofit politics Newspapers on Drupal Washington, DC Drupalers Fri, 18 Apr 2008 02:23:35 +0000 TKS 10811 at http://groups.drupal.org http://groups.drupal.org/node/10718 <p>NewsTools2008 -- a conceptual mashup for journalists, technologists and entrepreneurs</p> <p>Register to attend one day of NewsTools2008 -- "Drupal Day at NewsTools2008," on Friday, May 2 from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. The registration fee of $50 includes lunch and end-of-day reception. If the fee is a hardship, email <a href="mailto:densmore@mediagiraffe.org">densmore@mediagiraffe.org</a> to request a fee waiver. Otherwise, <a href="https://s08.123signup.com/servlet/SignUp?P=1520178191156415200&amp;PG=1520178182300">REGISTER HERE</a>, choosing the "Drupal Day FRIDAY ONLY" button.</p> <p>More info about the full conference: <a href="http://groups.drupal.org/node/10046" title="http://groups.drupal.org/node/10046">http://groups.drupal.org/node/10046</a></p> <div class="og_rss_groups"><a href="/newspapers-on-drupal">Newspapers on Drupal</a></div> http://groups.drupal.org/node/10718#comments Bay Area Newspapers on Drupal Tue, 15 Apr 2008 03:28:45 +0000 sooz 10718 at http://groups.drupal.org http://groups.drupal.org/node/10713 <p>Folks -</p> <p>Wondering if there is/are any modules that integrate events (think classic community-calendar stuff) with places (think of directories of restaurants, nightclubs, parks, other places where those events might take place).</p> <p>A "big iron" / proprietary CMS example are the sites being launched by my corporate masters and Gannett: <a href="http://newyork.metromix.com">Metromix New York</a> <a href="http://denver.metromix.com">Metromix Denver</a> .</p> <p>What are some examples of similar event/place driven sites that use one or more Drupal modules?</p> <p>cheers,</p> <p>-tgd</p> <p>Tom Davidson<br /> Tribune Interactive</p> <div class="og_rss_groups"><a href="/newspapers-on-drupal">Newspapers on Drupal</a></div> http://groups.drupal.org/node/10713#comments Events Places Venues development Newspapers on Drupal Mon, 14 Apr 2008 22:17:58 +0000 tgdavidson 10713 at http://groups.drupal.org http://groups.drupal.org/node/10712 <p>Hello,</p> <p>I'm hesitating to choose image module for my online newspaper. It's rather large one, which tens posts everyday (and I'm sure there'll be about 100 posts from members everyday soon). Each post contains 1-2 images. There should be a few galleries embedded in certain posts.</p> <p>I have now two solutions to start with:</p> <ul> <li> <p>img_filter (<a href="http://drupal.org/project/img_filter" title="http://drupal.org/project/img_filter">http://drupal.org/project/img_filter</a>): use Upload to create attachment for node, simple and light. But I don't know if it's possible to embed one image into multiple posts (for instance, some logo).</p> </li> <li> <p>image (<a href="http://drupal.org/project/image" title="http://drupal.org/project/image">http://drupal.org/project/image</a>): new content type. Easy to use, too, with Image Assist (<a href="http://drupal.org/project/img_assist" title="http://drupal.org/project/img_assist">http://drupal.org/project/img_assist</a>). But I think it's difficult to manage a large number of images.</p> </li> </ul> <p>Any one can point out something please ? Or should I use both ?</p> <div class="og_rss_groups"><a href="/newspapers-on-drupal">Newspapers on Drupal</a></div> http://groups.drupal.org/node/10712#comments image support Newspapers on Drupal Mon, 14 Apr 2008 22:11:18 +0000 jcisio 10712 at http://groups.drupal.org http://groups.drupal.org/node/10634 <p>Hi everyone</p> <p>I work for the University of Sheffield's Department of Journalism Studies as IT Officer. For the second year running I've developed a convergence website. This year using Drupal.</p> <p>We run postgraduate courses in print, broadcast, web and magazine journalism and for the past two years have added a convergent element to the courses, as we understand (as does the rest of the journalism education community) the importance giving students a relevant and broad understanding of new media within journalism.</p> <p>In a nutshell we run a week long course involving around 80 postgrad students where we introduce the web and teach writing for the web, publishing using a CMS, video and audio recording and editing. The students then have a number of weeks to write four stories including images, audio and video and present these on a CMS website.</p> <p>All this is in good preparation for the local elections in May, where the PG students work all week covering the election in their own disciplines to produce a website, newspaper, and radio and TV bulletins and programmes.</p> <p>The website is here:<br /> <a href="http://jusnews.shef.ac.uk/convergence_08/" title="http://jusnews.shef.ac.uk/convergence_08/">http://jusnews.shef.ac.uk/convergence_08/</a><br /> The convergence stories are under Featured stories on the homepage, and <a href="http://jusnews.shef.ac.uk/convergence_08/lists" title="http://jusnews.shef.ac.uk/convergence_08/lists">http://jusnews.shef.ac.uk/convergence_08/lists</a></p> <p>Last year's site was made with Joomla! <a href="http://jusnews.shef.ac.uk/convergence_07" title="http://jusnews.shef.ac.uk/convergence_07">http://jusnews.shef.ac.uk/convergence_07</a></p> <p>As developer, the website for me is pretty much a beta site. It's the first time I've produced a Drupal site for students to contribute to and I've learned lots. I'm now working on the next version of this using the experience I gained in the newsroom troubleshooting and helping students.</p> <p>Yesterday was deadline day for the students and I was run ragged all day! :) What I found was that wysiwyg editors are no use; a good number of students failed to grasp the rigidity of placing items on a page, and ended up with elements clashing and in the wrong place (as you can see if you browse the content, there are some very good efforts and some truly awful ones!). Which kind of defeats the point of having a CMS i.e. house style, uniformity..</p> <p>Currently the default content type is Story with teaser module, TinyMCE and Drupalimage. What I'm doing next is building a comprehensive content type called "news Story", doing away with TinyMCE, and really going to town with CCK.</p> <p>The idea is to give the author the least control over style and layout as is possible, and to do this with lots of fields. (see attached image) Currently I have fields for teaser, teaser image, links in teaser (aka bbc news top story) then the body is created using chunks - basically I needed a way of adding images, quote boxes, links or fact boxes into the body without using wysiwyg; I came up with splitting the story into chunks. Each time you want an image or any other item than a par, you use a new chunk where you can have image/fact/quote and text.</p> <p>It would be really good to get some feedback and discussion on this project!</p> <p>Cheers<br /> Hadrian.</p> <div class="og_rss_groups"><a href="/newspapers-on-drupal">Newspapers on Drupal</a></div> http://groups.drupal.org/node/10634#comments convergence education drupal sites Newspapers on Drupal Fri, 11 Apr 2008 10:53:58 +0000 hadders 10634 at http://groups.drupal.org http://groups.drupal.org/node/10581 <p>Hi everyone</p> <p>I have relaunched the Newswatch (<a href="http://www.newswatch.in" title="http://www.newswatch.in">http://www.newswatch.in</a>) site, and of course it has been remade with Drupal. I am calling this a Beta version primarily because the site isn't populated much.</p> <p>Just briefly:<br /> i) Two major section pages: NewsBlog and Features. Other section pages will be developed as and when there is sufficient content to play around with.<br /> ii) The site makes extensive use of Contemplate, CCK, Views, NodeQueue and Node Images: best example for a variety of such combinations would be the homepage itself<br /> iii) Number of content types: 16<br /> iv) Total number of TPL files: almost 100<br /> v) Number of regions (as of now): 16</p> <p>Comments please!</p> <p>Cheers.</p> <p>Subir</p> <div class="og_rss_groups"><a href="/newspapers-on-drupal">Newspapers on Drupal</a></div> http://groups.drupal.org/node/10581#comments India portal drupal sites Newspapers on Drupal Wed, 09 Apr 2008 12:03:09 +0000 newswatch 10581 at http://groups.drupal.org http://groups.drupal.org/node/10522 <p>The Job:<br /> I'm looking for someone who rightfully considers themselves to be a top drupal developer to do extensive work on collegehoopsnet.com/collegehoops.net.</p> <p>The site:<br /> CHN is a college basketball site that is known for having the BEST content in our realm, but unfortunately we currently have a SECOND RATE site. This needs to change. Now.</p> <p>The site is currently a mix of static html pages (like the front page) and a drupal section. I'm looking for the developer that will take our site fully to the top of the Drupal universe using the best practices possible.</p> <p>You:<br /> We're looking for someone who understands the needs of the readers/users of a media content site, that will help substantially improve the functionality and usability of the site (both for the readers and the writers/editors).</p> <p>I am NOT looking for theming work to be done as we have someone who will handle this down the line.</p> <p>Understand that there is already a core site in place, that is functional, but I am looking to take our site to the next level. You need to prove to me that you are the person who I will be able to trust in coming months to do this. Prove this by showing EXTENSIVE references or a quality portfolio. I'm not looking for someone to merely install modules or update the site to 6.1, this is for a serious programmer looking to DELVE into a new project.</p> <p>Preferably, you have a strong understanding of the structure of college sports and sports websites. (Being a sports fan wouldn't hurt either).</p> <p>Rate:<br /> I'm looking to pay an hourly rate that is commensurate to your skill. Depending on the scope of your involvement, this project may end up including dozens of hours of work and I have a budget into 5 figures to get this taken care of appropriately. However, my target is to complete this project at about $5-6,000.</p> <p>Timeframe:<br /> Ideally, I'm looking for someone who can get going on this project as quickly as possible. The new updated site needs to be fully functional by the beginning of the 2008-09 college season, if not sooner.</p> <p>Opportunity:<br /> CHN might not be the largest site in the world, but we are respected in our community and amongst brand advertisers that have included ESPN, Adidas, Nike, and GM amongst others.</p> <p>Do a quick search on Google News for "collegehoops.net" to see some of the dozens of national newspaper and official college athletic sites that have referenced CHN in recent weeks. The point being that this could be a very nice addition to your CV.</p> <p>Besides the rebuild, due to the nature of drupal and the evolution of the web (and college sports), there are always tweeks and updates down the line that I need help on, so once we get going.. there is the possibility of a long-term relationship here.</p> <p>Please:<br /> Please send your resume/portfolio/references to <a href="mailto:shawn@collegehoops.net">shawn@collegehoops.net</a> . Include your hourly rate when contacting me. I'm not looking for the cheapest alternative but the best.</p> <p>I'm located in Northern Jersey. I look forward to working with you!</p> <p>Shawn Siegel<br /> <a href="mailto:shawn@collegehoops.net">shawn@collegehoops.net</a></p> <div class="og_rss_groups"><a href="/newspapers-on-drupal">Newspapers on Drupal</a></div> Drupal Jobs - Developer Needed Jobs New York City Consulting and Business Newspapers on Drupal Mon, 07 Apr 2008 03:48:17 +0000 collegehoopsnet 10522 at http://groups.drupal.org http://groups.drupal.org/node/10316 <p><em>Clarification posted. Sorry. </em></p> <p>An FYI. The <strike>finalists</strike> list of projects under final consideration for the Knight News Challenge were announced today. <em>This list does not include the 17 winners, to be announced in May.</em> Of the 29 projects, 5 were Drupal-related. Drupal projects include:</p> <ul> <li> <p>Aaron Presnall -- Mapping Local News – Building the Virtual Model of a Local Community<br /> <a href="http://www.newschallenge.org/top_proposals/06.html" title="http://www.newschallenge.org/top_proposals/06.html">http://www.newschallenge.org/top_proposals/06.html</a></p> </li> <li> <p>Oiwan Lam -- Chinese-language platform for community journalism<br /> <a href="http://www.newschallenge.org/top_proposals/17.html" title="http://www.newschallenge.org/top_proposals/17.html">http://www.newschallenge.org/top_proposals/17.html</a></p> </li> <li> <p>Antonio Profetto -- Online Collaborative 3d Story and 3d animators Resource<br /> <a href="http://www.newschallenge.org/top_proposals/25.html" title="http://www.newschallenge.org/top_proposals/25.html">http://www.newschallenge.org/top_proposals/25.html</a></p> </li> <li> <p>Ryan Szrama -- Drupal Advanced Survey Module with Geo-specific Result Reporting and Mapping<br /> <a href="http://www.newschallenge.org/top_proposals/26.html" title="http://www.newschallenge.org/top_proposals/26.html">http://www.newschallenge.org/top_proposals/26.html</a></p> </li> <li> <p>Richard Wyles -- The People's Times<br /> <a href="http://www.newschallenge.org/top_proposals/28.html" title="http://www.newschallenge.org/top_proposals/28.html">http://www.newschallenge.org/top_proposals/28.html</a></p> </li> </ul> <p>There is also a proposal -- very wrong and full of FUD, IMO -- to write a new CMS that is "friendlier" to Newspapers than Drupal.</p> <p><a href="http://www.newschallenge.org/top_proposals/10.html" title="http://www.newschallenge.org/top_proposals/10.html">http://www.newschallenge.org/top_proposals/10.html</a></p> <p>17 <em>additional</em> projects were chosen for funding. Those projects will be announced on May 14, 2008, at the E&amp;P Interactive Media Conference in Las Vegas.</p> <div class="og_rss_groups"><a href="/newspapers-on-drupal">Newspapers on Drupal</a></div> http://groups.drupal.org/node/10316#comments process Knight Drupal Initiative Newspapers on Drupal Mon, 31 Mar 2008 15:17:24 +0000 agentrickard@drupal.org 10316 at http://groups.drupal.org http://groups.drupal.org/node/10047 <p>You're invited to help define the future of technology and journalism:</p> <p>-- By adding to a dialogue about the 10-most-disruptive technologies affecting journalism today (or in the future) How? Go to this link: <a href="http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Jtm-sv-disruption" title="http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Jtm-sv-disruption">http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Jtm-sv-disruption</a></p> <p>Then reply to this post with your additions/deletions/comments on the 10-most list.</p> <p>-- By attending some or all of a three day conceptual mashup and "do team" facilitation at Yahoo! Sunnyvale on April 30-May 3.</p> <p>Your invited to:<br /> Technology and the New Ecology of News<br /> How will technology innovation support journalism and participatory democracy?<br /> INFO AND REGISTER: <a href="http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Jtm-sv-drupal" title="http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Jtm-sv-drupal">http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Jtm-sv-drupal</a></p> <p>WHERE: Yahoo! Inc. Conference Center, Sunnyvale, Calif.<br /> WHEN: 4 p.m., Wed., April 30 through 5:30 p.m., Sat., May 3, 2008</p> <p>Journalism’s ideals meet Silicon Valley’s tools in a three-day, conceptual mashup hosted by the Journalism That Matters Collaborative, the Media Giraffe Project, the Northern California Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) and Yahoo! Inc.</p> <p>NewsTools2008.org is three days to describe and invent tools for sustaining "journalism that matters." Strip away the legacy platforms, and what remains of journalism that is needed to support participatory democracy and community?</p> <p>Spend a day describing those core values and essential elements. Then journalists and technologists together launch projects, form design circles and breakouts to conceive or deploy the best tools -- off the shelf and invented on-the-fly -- to put those values and elements into practice.</p> <p>Learn about the key technologies now driving innovation in the news. On Saturday morning, present and enjoy a JournaTech Expo as companies and individuals display their ideas, products and services.</p> <p>-- Bill Densmore / The Media Giraffe Project / Journalism That Matters<br /> <a href="mailto:densmore@journ.umass.edu">densmore@journ.umass.edu</a> / 413-458-8001</p> <p><hr /></p> <p>Excerpt from: <a href="http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Jtm-sv-disruption" title="http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Jtm-sv-disruption">http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Jtm-sv-disruption</a></p> <p>2 Ten technologies disrupting journalism</p> <p>2.1 Suggested categories</p> <p>2.1.1 1. Social/civic feeds, news and gaming networks<br /> 2.1.2 2. Data mashups and portability<br /> 2.1.3 3. Measurements of trust and confidence<br /> 2.1.4 4. Tagging, filtering<br /> 2.1.5 5. Personalization and localization<br /> 2.1.6 6. Syndication and multiple distribution / widgets and feeds<br /> 2.1.7 7. Open mobile / tablet technology<br /> 2.1.8 8. Audience measurement and tracking<br /> 2.1.9 9. Authentication and identity managment<br /> 2.1.10 10. Print on demand / distributed printing / video-on-demand</p> <div class="og_rss_groups"><a href="/newspapers-on-drupal">Newspapers on Drupal</a></div> http://groups.drupal.org/node/10047#comments NewsTools2008 NewsTools journalism siliconvalley newspaper future mashup events howto Newspapers on Drupal Sat, 22 Mar 2008 15:07:20 +0000 Bill Densmore 10047 at http://groups.drupal.org http://groups.drupal.org/node/10046 <p>See: <a href="http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Jtm-sv" title="http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Jtm-sv">http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Jtm-sv</a></p> <p>Drupal programmers, user -experience experts, social-network innovators and web 2.0 entrepreneurs, are invited to attend: NewsTools2008.org at Yahoo! Sunnyvale, April 30-May 3. "Technology and the New Ecology of News: How will technology innovation support journalism and participatory democracy?"</p> <p>It's journalism’s ideals meeting Silicon Valley’s tools in a three-day, conceptual mashup hosted by the Journalism That Matters Collaborative, the Media Giraffe Project, the Northern California Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) and Yahoo! Inc.</p> <p>NewsTools2008.org is three days to describe and invent tools for sustaining "journalism that matters." Strip away the legacy platforms, and what remains of journalism that is needed to support participatory democracy and community?</p> <p>Some key technologies to be covered:<br /> <a href="http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Jtm-sv-disruption" title="http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Jtm-sv-disruption">http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Jtm-sv-disruption</a></p> <p>Spend a day describing those core values and essential elements. Then journalists and technologists together launch projects, form design circles and breakouts to conceive or deploy the best tools -- off the shelf and invented on-the-fly -- to put those values and elements into practice.</p> <p>Learn about the key technologies now driving innovation in the news. On Saturday morning, present and enjoy a JournaTech Expo as companies and individuals display their ideas, products and services.</p> <p>See: <a href="http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Jtm-sv" title="http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Jtm-sv">http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Jtm-sv</a><br /> <a href="http://www.newstools2008.org" title="http://www.newstools2008.org">http://www.newstools2008.org</a><br /> <a href="http://newstools2008.ning.com" title="http://newstools2008.ning.com">http://newstools2008.ning.com</a></p> <p>-- Bill Densmore / <a href="mailto:densmore@journ.umass.edu">densmore@journ.umass.edu</a> / 413 458-8001<br /> <a href="http://newshare.typepad.com/about.html" title="http://newshare.typepad.com/about.html">http://newshare.typepad.com/about.html</a></p> <div class="og_rss_groups"><a href="/newspapers-on-drupal">Newspapers on Drupal</a></div> http://groups.drupal.org/node/10046#comments Newspapers on Drupal Sat, 22 Mar 2008 14:58:28 +0000 Bill Densmore 10046 at http://groups.drupal.org http://groups.drupal.org/node/10045 <p>Hi all,</p> <p>We are working on a high school newspaper. We are wondering if anyone will share their theme for their front page. We won't just change the images and titles and use it ourselves. We just want a starting point. We plan to use panels and 4 views. (one for each section), we are just looking for example html to use as a starting point. If you would like to share this privately, use the contact form.</p> <p>Thanks you very much,<br /> Sara.</p> <div class="og_rss_groups"><a href="/newspapers-on-drupal">Newspapers on Drupal</a></div> http://groups.drupal.org/node/10045#comments themes howto Newspapers on Drupal Sat, 22 Mar 2008 13:37:03 +0000 Sara June@drupal.org 10045 at http://groups.drupal.org http://groups.drupal.org/node/10042 <p>As I have worked with different content management and middleware solutions, one problem I have encountered numerous times, and that I think needs a better solution in drupal, is import and export of data and provision of web services. I think it would be good for drupal to create an import/export framework that would allow drupal developers to make re-usable, sharable import and export modules by implementing PHP objects to a few commmon interfaces and then adding their new import/export type into a central, common import/export module.</p> <p>This is especially relevant for modern corporate newspapers that need to integrate content from different legacy systems, produce that content, then send it off to a number of different web publishing systems, and then also face the prospect of their systems changing if they are bought or sold. The framework as outlined in the design below could also be a means of implementing REST services (SOAP or XML-RPC would probably require another layer on top of this, though you probably could do it in this framework).</p> <p>In analyzing what a modern corporate newspaper needs in a middleware product, here are some requirements I've seen:</p> <ul> <li>needs to be able to import from pagination systems and other systems, as well, to allow flexibility in pulling the results of existing workflows into online without requiring the people who create the content to change what they do.</li> <li>needs to be able to export to multiple different content management systems and repositories, including news archives, content management systems, search indexes, text-taggers, etc.</li> <li>need a way to add and develop these imports and exports so that they can be swapped in and turned on or off by adding plugins to an import/export framework module.</li> <li>Want to be able to develop import and export modules to an API, so you can implement a class with certain methods and be guaranteed that it will work within the import/export framework.</li> <li>common delivery and receipt mechanisms should be abstracted out and included in module, so that you don't have to re-implement a directory file sweeper every time you need one for inbound XML files, and so that an HTTP or FTP client need not be implemented each time you need to send data over HTTP or FTP a file.</li> <li>the flow of an imported and exported document should be abstracted out and only pieces of the workflow that are different for a given import and export should require implementation to implement new import or export type.</li> <li>modules to support a given import or export format should be easily added to framework, so that once someone implements a great NITF import, for example, you can easily grab it and re-use it.</li> <li>probably need some object-oriented way to represent drupal nodes, too, so that we can take imported data and place them in these drupal objects, allowing us to then abstract out the processes for placing data into and retrieving data from drupal.</li> </ul> <p>An import or export type could be defined as:</p> <ul> <li>method for identifying a file as one the type is designed to process</li> <li>inbound transformation</li> <li>implementation of import/export</li> <li>result transformation</li> </ul> <p>The flow in would look something like this:</p> <ul> <li>receipt mechanism accepts incoming data (to start, would probably build a directory sweeper and an HTTP/HTTPS receipt page).</li> <li>figure out the type of incoming file. For directory sweeper, you could have one directory per type to start, so the directory where the file is dropped tells you what type it is. For HTTP, you can allow an HTTP parameter to contain import type, probably want a hook for each import type so you can pass the contents of an incoming file to a predefined method in the implementation of each import type that returns a boolean, true if it is a document or file your type is able to import. Might then create a master function accepts that accepts a file, goes through these functions and returns the type.</li> <li>based on type, call incoming transform, then pass the result to object for the selected import type that implements ImportExportProcessor interface. Easiest initial options for import transformation would be XSLT and a PHP class that implements a Transformation object interface (same interface for import and export, in case you ever need to re-use).</li> <li>depending on the type, deliver response that the ImportExportProcessor returns to submitter (if HTTP/HTTPS and not asynchronous, return result as response to request). Could have an result transformation as well, and make a hook in an import type for transforming the result, too, so you could re-use ImportExportProcessor implementations and just change the import and export transformations.</li> </ul> <p>The flow out would be similar:</p> <ul> <li>receipt mechanism accepts data for export (could have a directory sweeper, could have PHP code that lets a process look up a service and submit directly, could also just re-use the HTTP/HTTPS listener page and let it do the looking up and processing).</li> <li>figure out the type of file. Probably use the same method as above.</li> <li>for the type, figure out how to transform and what ImportExportProcessor instance to use to do the export, then transform, export, and file the result. Would probably want HTTPImportExportProcessor, HTTPSImportExportProcessor, and FTPImportExportProcessor implementors, so that you could define many different types of export that are different transformations and then an HTTP or FTP request.</li> <li>return result to process that invoked the export, be it a PHP function call return value, an HTTP response, or something else (could even make a way to send an asynchronous confirmation via HTTP or FTP, but abstract it out so that it is part of overall framework, so that it is something you define by setting properties in a each type's definition, not something you have to implement in each type).</li> </ul> <p>The framework would be configured through either an XML file or database tables that hold the type definitions. You would probably want to build an easy way to add, edit, or remove a type.</p> <p>Thoughts? I have implemented this before in Java and I think implementing the framework and a few test import/export types would be at most a summer-long project using PHP 5.</p> <div class="og_rss_groups"><a href="/newspapers-on-drupal">Newspapers on Drupal</a></div> http://groups.drupal.org/node/10042#comments api export import NewsML NITF Object-oriented PHP 5 RSS transformation xml XSL SoC 2008 Newspapers on Drupal Sat, 22 Mar 2008 11:51:13 +0000 jonathan.morgan 10042 at http://groups.drupal.org http://groups.drupal.org/node/10012 <p>I'd like to propose building a web-to-print module for Drupal as a SoC project.</p> <p>Most newspapers still work with a print-to-web workflow (all editorial work is done on a platform other than Drupal, and is subsequently imported) which can be a hassle because in effect it means that you have to work with two content management systems and get them to work together. A web-to-print module for Drupal that exports content to XML so it can be easily imported into InDesign and Quark would be the first step in establishing Drupal as a one-stop solution for newspapers. It could also help online media that are already using Drupal to expand their market with a print product. And I mean "media" in a broad sense: schools could use the module to make a print newsletter (or let a designer make it with less effort) based on their online news/announcements page.</p> <p>Some of us at the Newspapers on Drupal group, including myself, already have modules that accomplish this in a production environment (so the usefulness is not in question), but the functionality is accomplished with very workflow-dependent solutions that were written specifically for one use-case. The dilemma is that it is more costly and takes time to develop something sufficiently generic so that it can accommodate different sorts of web-to-print workflows, but at the same time it's wasteful to reinvent the wheel every time. Ken Rickard wrote some time ago "What we need to design is a module flexible enough to support multiple use cases. ... I don't think that [a web-to-print module] should dictate work habits; I think it should support them." and I agree fully.</p> <h3>Features</h3> <p>Therefore, one of the challenges will be finding out what kind of features users want from this module. Here are some possibilities:</p> <h4>What to export?</h4> <ul> <li>export based on user-selected content (e.g. "let's select the most interesting articles for our print edition")</li> <li>export based on a shared term from a vocabulary (e.g. "I want to export everything from this edition its sports section")</li> <li>export based on a search</li> <li>...</li> </ul> <h4>How to export?</h4> <p>(XML is supported by both Quark and InDesign so that seems like the obvious choice)</p> <ul> <li>Automatic export: instantly, on a cron-routine ("I want my print edition to be in sync with what's online")</li> <li>Manual export ("Alright, everything is proofread, let's send it to the designer")</li> </ul> <h4>Content of the exports</h4> <ul> <li>special formats like NITF or NewsML</li> <li>entire nodes; only selected fields; in its original form or with computation on the fields (e.g. "I want the date of this event to display as 'x days from now'")</li> <li>...</li> </ul> <h3>The Plan</h3> <p>As you can see, there is a plethora of options (lots of which I've probably haven't even included) and it won't be possible to add all those to the module within the timeframe of a Summer of Code project. Therefore, the main focus should be on writing a solid basic module (or an API if needed) that is flexible enough to accomodate all these features. There have been different suggestions so far: an approach based off Views, something that uses the import/export api, or a start from scratch. It's not clear yet what approach would be most futureproof, so researching that and trying out some different possibilities before committing to a specific approach will be part of the project. Once that is decided upon and coded, the remainder of the time should still be ample to add the most-requested features.</p> <p>Previous discussions: <a href="http://groups.drupal.org/node/5004" title="http://groups.drupal.org/node/5004">http://groups.drupal.org/node/5004</a> and <a href="http://groups.drupal.org/node/3009" title="http://groups.drupal.org/node/3009">http://groups.drupal.org/node/3009</a></p> <p>Anyway, input and suggestions are more than welcome.</p> <div class="og_rss_groups"><a href="/newspapers-on-drupal">Newspapers on Drupal</a></div> http://groups.drupal.org/node/10012#comments web-to-print SoC 2008 Newspapers on Drupal Fri, 21 Mar 2008 12:28:55 +0000 stdbrouw@groups.drupal.org 10012 at http://groups.drupal.org http://groups.drupal.org/node/9989 <p>Ok, it's not anything great yet, but I'm using Drupal to put together an <a href="http://www.andersonfreepress.net/anderson-coupons">Online Coupon section</a> for my grassroots journalism sites.</p> <p>Things I still want to do:</p> <ul> <li>Track how many times each are printed</li> <li>Choose two (or more) coupons that you want printed on 8.5x11...</li> <li>Attach to PayPal for automation</li> <li>Auto expiration of coupons</li> <li>Create an RSS feed for the coupons and use FeedAPI to slurp them onto other sites in our local network. (On the business side, this will hopefully let us get the coupons in front of more people...)</li> </ul> <p>What I've Done so Far:</p> <ul> <li>Used CCK (with image field for the logo) to create a 'coupon' type</li> <li>Used <a href="http://drupal.org/project/print">Print</a> to have a click here to print this button. (I'm thinking this will have to be customized, though, to get it to count the prints...Haven't looked too closely for another solution yet, though...) Messed with the CSS a little to give it a "coupon look" - both in the print.css file and the template css file.</li> <li>Used contemplate to control output of data onto the coupon. This had some limitations, though, and I ended up having to add some code to template.php to use a custom page.coupon.tpl.php file. </li> <li>Used Views to <a href="http://www.andersonfreepress.net/anderson-coupons">show the coupons</a> (I used Taxonomy and exposed filters so there's a dropdown for coupon types. This could (read: should) be expanded to include expiration date and other filters...</li> <li>Used Location to tie the coupon to one or more locations</li> </ul> <p>Again, this isn't anything great (yet!), but I want to share the process and get feedback ideas as I grow the idea over the next couple months.</p> <p>Any comments/thoughts/questions greatly appreciated.</p> <p>Long live Drupal.</p> <p>K. Paul Mallasch - Publisher<br /> <a href="http://www.kpaulmedia.com" title="http://www.kpaulmedia.com">http://www.kpaulmedia.com</a></p> <p>p.s. I am available for hire at $40/hour...</p> <div class="og_rss_groups"><a href="/newspapers-on-drupal">Newspapers on Drupal</a></div> http://groups.drupal.org/node/9989#comments development howto Newspapers on Drupal Thu, 20 Mar 2008 23:45:59 +0000 kpaul 9989 at http://groups.drupal.org http://groups.drupal.org/node/9921 <p>I just noticed that groups.drupal.org has enabled an automatic preview for comments. Now a window is generated automatically to present a preview of a poster's comment, eliminating the need to click the preview button in order to see the comment.</p> <p>I kinda like this feature. Does anyone know what module does this? And whether it could also be applied to content types, rather than just comments? And whether there are irritating side-effects to doing this?</p> <div class="og_rss_groups"><a href="/newspapers-on-drupal">Newspapers on Drupal</a></div> http://groups.drupal.org/node/9921#comments howto Newspapers on Drupal Wed, 19 Mar 2008 09:14:19 +0000 femrich 9921 at http://groups.drupal.org http://groups.drupal.org/node/9918 <p>A copy of the official proposal can be found at <a href="http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/mew66/gsoc.pdf">http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/mew66/gsoc.pdf</a>.</p> <p><hr /></p> <p>Hello everybody,</p> <p>I'm Mike Wacker, Assistant Web Editor for <a href="http://cornellsun.com">The Cornell Daily Sun</a>. Over the past school year, The Sun has used a web publication system, codenamed MustRun, to manage our content online from when the story is assigned to when the story is finished. I coded the group of modules that are MustRun, and other web staff on The Sun have contributed to this project as well. Currently, I am working on the second version of MustRun, and I've found that there are so many things that can be done with this version, especially after getting feedback from the current version which has been in use for almost a year.</p> <p>Thus, I thought I should mention this as a potential Google Summer of Code proposal. Such a project would help expand Drupal's reach in the realm of journalism. The Sun built MustRun in the first place because it could not find a comparable contributed module. As newspapers consider switching to Drupal, it will be important that they can have a module out-of-the-box to help manage the publication of their content via the website. This is especially important for those publications that are limited in terms of their ability to create custom modules or modify contributed modules to meet their needs.</p> <p>First, I should start with an idea of how MustRun works. In MustRun, our editors at first will create story assignments online. Staff writers will then log on to the website and take these assignments. They then put the story on the website and mark it as finished. There is also a way to give people access to the website to revise the articles, but in the end the editors will mark the story as ready to publish. Then, when the online edition of The Sun is ready to go out, one person clicks one button and the entire online edition goes out on our website.</p> <p>For the second version of MustRun, I am going back to some problems I have looked at before and retackling them (as I often see a better way to do things now that I have worked with Drupal more), and I am also looking to incorporate new features. Here are some of the more important challenges:</p> <p>Permissions:<br /> Permissions frequently change with a node. All writers get access to pick up an assignment, then one writer who picks it up has access to it, but once the node is finalized, only editors should have access to it. Others can access it to revise the article, and of course there could possibly be a hierarchy of permissions for the editors, too. And of course, only sports writers should pick up a sports story, some stories should not be picked up by new writers, etc. Drupal's node grants have gone a long way in solving these challenges, but I am also experimenting with other ways to do permissions. For example, I tried using a form that programatically updates a node when a writer checks a checkbox to pick up the node and then submits the form. This lets me use PHP and the Form API to control permissions on an even finer level.</p> <p>Email Notifications:<br /> Writers should get notifications if a story is available to pick up, if an editor directly assigns them a story, etc. Also, editors may also benefit from some email notifications here and there.</p> <p>Dates:<br /> Articles just don't have a date they are published. They have a due date; there may also be an associated event which occurs at a certain time. Thus, not only must these dates be added, but they have to be integrated into the system.</p> <p>UI:<br /> It's especially important that the user interface to access all content in MustRun be intuitive and easy to use. From one calendar, users should be able to find content to pick up, view content they have picked up, and see the dates for all relevant content, etc.</p> <p>Ease of Use:<br /> Along the same line, a simple staff writer should have a very easy time using the system. But this matters a lot for the editors, too. They're managing all this content in MustRun, and they may not want to send an email notification for this article, change a setting for feature X, etc. As the feature set for MustRun adds up, the complexity of the administration pages could potentially grow to an unmanageable level. This complexity needs to be managed.</p> <p>These are just a compilation of my thoughts on the matter. I'm sure I've missed a few things, and I probably will have made a lot of progress on some of the other items before GSoC even starts. But I wanted to put my thoughts out here so I could get some feedback.</p> <p><hr /></p> <p>Version 1 of MustRun can be downloaded at <a href="http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/mew66/mustrunv1.tar.gz">www.people.cornell.edu/pages/mew66/mustrunv1.tar.gz</a>. Its provided on an as-is basis. Note that the architecture behind it is real esoteric (with changing node types and strange invocations to nodeapi) and has changed to something much more reasonable for version 2. Basically, the architecture is the closest you can get to hacking the core without actually hacking the core, and I needed the mustrun_image module just to make it work with the image module. mustrun_type and mustrun_group are two modules that provide MustRun with two more options on how to do permissions. I also believe that email notifications are spread between mustrun and mustrun_group. Keep in mind, this is the old version, and I didn't know as much about Drupal back then.</p> <p><hr /></p> <p>The newer version of MustRun in progress can be downloaded at <a href="http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/mew66/mustrun.tar.gz">www.people.cornell.edu/pages/mew66/mustrun.tar.gz</a>. It contains all the features that are fully working; some incomplete portions of code have been excluded. Basically, this has three main features: it has the fundamental architecture of MustRun, the ability to clone nodes (for a recurring assignment), and the ability to publish many nodes at once. The way permissions work now are (relatively) simple at this point.</p> <div class="og_rss_groups"><a href="/soc-2008">SoC 2008</a></div> http://groups.drupal.org/node/9918#comments Newspapers on Drupal SoC 2008 Wed, 19 Mar 2008 04:46:13 +0000 Mike Wacker 9918 at http://groups.drupal.org http://groups.drupal.org/node/9801 <p>The Daily Hampshire Gazette is located in Northampton, MA, and is one of the oldest continually published newspapers in the US, est. 1786. A one year project to redevelop GazetteNET.com is currently in BETA testing (<a href="http://www.gazettenet.com/beta" title="http://www.gazettenet.com/beta">http://www.gazettenet.com/beta</a>). We are looking now to build out our team and have an opening for a Web Developer in the New Media Department.</p> <p>We are looking for an accomplished and motivated developer who is both sharp and creative in their approach to problem solving. Ideal candidates will have a college degree in computer science and/or web or related technologies, or 3+ years equivalent experience. This position is more focused on client-side UI development, but familiarity and comfort working on server-side code is desirable. Demonstrable expertise in UI design/development and related technologies (Javascript, CSS, HTML) is required along with experience working within a LAMP hosting environment (PHP, SQL, XML, UNIX/Linux). Experience with Drupal 5.x a plus. We are a small team and you will work closely with the Sr. Web Developer and editorial staff to design and implement solutions. We pay attention to both what and how we get things done and make use of web and software development best practices (open source software, web standards, source version control, issue tracking software, etc.) in our working process.</p> <p>The Gazette is one of the regions largest employers and offers comprehensive benefits including health and dental insurance and a 401k.</p> <p>If you are passionate about the web, news, and would like your work to touch people's daily lives, email your resume along with links to 3 samples of your work to support+(AT)+gazettenet.com. Please include "Web Developer Opening" in the email subject line .</p> <div class="og_rss_groups"><a href="/western-massachusetts">Western Massachusetts</a></div> Boston Newspapers on Drupal Western Massachusetts Fri, 14 Mar 2008 17:25:57 +0000 chipk 9801 at http://groups.drupal.org http://groups.drupal.org/node/9795 <p>Following <a href="http://groups.drupal.org/node/9758">Yelvington</a> I'm crossposting this to the following groups: SOC2008, Knight Foundation, Newspapers on Drupal and Search</p> <p>One thing that would be really cool, is a module integrating <a href="/freelinking/sphinx-search%2520"> http://www.sphinxsearch.com/</a> and Drupal. Our experience is that core search doesn't play nice when you have alot of nodes (we have 150.000+). Indexing simply kills the server.</p> <p>So instead we use Sphinx. It's REALLY fast, both when searching and when indexing. BUT everytime we alter our content-types we have to manually reconfigure the sphinx configuration. This is why I propose this as a module for the SOC08 - a module that integrates Sphinxsearch and Drupal</p> <p>The module could adjust the Sphinx configuration according to changes made to content types. And it could reindex on cron etc...</p> <p>With more and more projects being dependant on enterprise scalability, this could be a project that would ensure Drupal a well-functioning search even with huge amounts of data.</p> <p>I not sure I have the knowledge to be a mentor for the project, but I would love to help out in any way that I can.</p> <p>More info about Drupal and Sphinx integration:<br /> <a href="http://drupal4hu.com/node/129">http://drupal4hu.com/node/129</a><br /> <a href="http://www.sphinxsearch.com/forum/view.html?id=100">http://www.sphinxsearch.com/forum/view.html?id=100</a></p> <div class="og_rss_groups"><a href="/knight-drupal-initiative">Knight Drupal Initiative</a></div> http://groups.drupal.org/node/9795#comments search soc2008 sphinx SoC 2008 Newspapers on Drupal Search Knight Drupal Initiative Fri, 14 Mar 2008 14:41:17 +0000 johsw@drupal.org 9795 at http://groups.drupal.org http://groups.drupal.org/node/9784 <p><strong>Moved to official ideas list:</strong> <a href="http://drupal.org/node/237907" title="http://drupal.org/node/237907">http://drupal.org/node/237907</a></p> <p>I want to propose a project for building a module that pulls news content from a global news service called Daylife (<a href="http://daylife.com" title="http://daylife.com">http://daylife.com</a>)</p> <p>Daylife is a global news aggregation service that offers an Open API platform called DayPI (<a href="http://developer.daylife.com" title="http://developer.daylife.com">http://developer.daylife.com</a>) for any developer, blogger, news service to pull stories and photos about any topic in the world. The API returns data in XML, JSON and PHP serialized formats. You can read the Daylife About page at <a href="http://www.daylife.com/page/about" title="http://www.daylife.com/page/about">http://www.daylife.com/page/about</a> to learn more about the company. All platform documentation is on <a href="http://developer.daylife.com/docs" title="http://developer.daylife.com/docs">http://developer.daylife.com/docs</a></p> <h2>Goals</h2> <p>The primary goal for such a module would be to talk to the DayPIs and help the site owners to:</p> <h3>Pull data by calling Daylife APIs</h3> <p>a) Pull stories related to a topic (e.g. <a href="http://www.daylife.com/topic/Barack_Obama/articles/today/date/1" title="http://www.daylife.com/topic/Barack_Obama/articles/today/date/1">http://www.daylife.com/topic/Barack_Obama/articles/today/date/1</a>)</p> <p>b) Pull images related to a topic (e.g. <a href="http://www.daylife.com/topic/Barack_Obama/photos/today/1" title="http://www.daylife.com/topic/Barack_Obama/photos/today/1">http://www.daylife.com/topic/Barack_Obama/photos/today/1</a>)</p> <p>c) Pull quotes related to a topic (e.g. <a href="http://www.daylife.com/topic/Barack_Obama/quotes/today/1" title="http://www.daylife.com/topic/Barack_Obama/quotes/today/1">http://www.daylife.com/topic/Barack_Obama/quotes/today/1</a>)</p> <p>d) Pull connections related to a topic. Connections are basically topics related to a given topic (e.g. <a href="http://www.daylife.com/topic/Barack_Obama/players/today" title="http://www.daylife.com/topic/Barack_Obama/players/today">http://www.daylife.com/topic/Barack_Obama/players/today</a>)</p> <h3>Help build blocks and pages using the data pulled from the DayPI</h3> <p>i) Build a block with list of stories, photos, quotes or connections about a topic</p> <p>ii) Build a topic pages which is a combination of data pulled in a, b, c and d above (e.g. <a href="http://www.daylife.com/topic/Barack_Obama" title="http://www.daylife.com/topic/Barack_Obama">http://www.daylife.com/topic/Barack_Obama</a>)</p> <p>iii) Provide admin interfaces to configure what is pulled from the Daylife API for each block.</p> <h2>Example Usage Scenarios for this module are:</h2> <p>a) I have a fashion blog and I want to put fashion news and fashion photos in a news section (full page) or in the right nav.</p> <p>b) I blog about NBA teams and players. I want to build full pages of these teams and players with stories, photos, connections and quotes.</p> <p>c) I want to put a news ticker about pharmaceutical news on my pharma blog. I will get the news by having a query that hits the Daylife Search APIs and gets a list of headlines.</p> <p>d) I see my blog or site is indexed by Daylife. I want to enable site search on my site using the Daylife APIs.</p> <p>I am cross posting this project proposal across the groups Knight Foundation, Newspapers on Drupal, RSS &amp; Aggregation, Soc 2008.</p> <p>I believe this module can help Drupal site owners put global news using this module in easy configurable manner.</p> <p>Vineet Gupta<br /> <a href="http://developer.daylife.com" title="http://developer.daylife.com">http://developer.daylife.com</a><br /> emailto:vineet-at-daylife-dot-com</p> <div class="og_rss_groups"><a href="/semantic-web">Semantic Web</a></div> http://groups.drupal.org/node/9784#comments aggregator api apis news RSS rss news feeds newsfeed aggregate blog portal SoC 2008 Knight Drupal Initiative New York City Newspapers on Drupal RSS &amp; Aggregation Semantic Web Fri, 14 Mar 2008 03:24:04 +0000 vineet 9784 at http://groups.drupal.org http://groups.drupal.org/node/9758 <p><strong>Status: Added to official ideas list</strong> <a href="http://drupal.org/node/234652" title="http://drupal.org/node/234652">http://drupal.org/node/234652</a></p> <p>I'm crossposting this to the following groups, all of which have a dog in this hunt: SOC2008, Knight Foundation, Newspapers on Drupal, RSS &amp; Aggregation.</p> <p>News agencies, "legacy" newsroom management system implementors, publishers and archiving companies all support an XML standard called News Industry Text Format (NITF), developed by the International Press Telecommunications Council.</p> <p>We need a robust, broadly supported common NITF feed handler that works with the Drupal FeedAPI framework, ultimately enabling loading of NITF data into CCK nodes with configurable entity mapping. This feed handler should expose its own API so that additional handlers can be added to process NewsML (primarily championed by Reuters) and Atom wrappers (used by the Associated Press in AP Exchange).</p> <p>This is a foundational piece that's needed for Drupal to be a longterm solution to many news-handling requirements of news publishers, who increasingly are flocking to Drupal as a website solution.</p> <p>I'm proposing this as a Google Summer of Code idea and offering to serve as a mentor to the project.</p> <p>This project is straightforward in theory but not in practice, as the quality of NITF implementation varies more than a little bit among the various data providers. In addition, both AP and Reuters have come up with significantly differing approaches to extending the capabilities of NITF to encompass multiple media types and sets of information. The AP is moving to a search-based "wire" in which editors will be able to create ad hoc and stored queries, exporting either individual NITF items or Atom feeds containing additional metadata and embedded NITF. Reuters originated and obtained IPTC approval of a "wrapper" called NewsML that predates Atom significantly.</p> <p>References:<br /> International Press Telecommunications Council <a href="http://www.iptc.org/" title="http://www.iptc.org/">http://www.iptc.org/</a><br /> <a href="http://www.nitf.org/" title="http://www.nitf.org/">http://www.nitf.org/</a><br /> <a href="http://www.newsml.org/" title="http://www.newsml.org/">http://www.newsml.org/</a></p> <p>IPTC also maintains standards for events, sports data, TV listings, et cetera. Any work on this project should provide a sound foundation for further projects in those areas.</p> <p>Town News, a US-based Web service provider to a number of smaller newspapers, contributed an NITF PEAR class that may be of use.<br /> <a href="http://pear.php.net/reference/PHP_Beautifier-0.1.1/XML/XML_NITF.html" title="http://pear.php.net/reference/PHP_Beautifier-0.1.1/XML/XML_NITF.html">http://pear.php.net/reference/PHP_Beautifier-0.1.1/XML/XML_NITF.html</a></p> <div class="og_rss_groups"><a href="/knight-drupal-initiative">Knight Drupal Initiative</a></div> http://groups.drupal.org/node/9758#comments SoC 2008 RSS &amp; Aggregation Newspapers on Drupal Knight Drupal Initiative Thu, 13 Mar 2008 19:13:12 +0000 yelvington@drupal.org 9758 at http://groups.drupal.org http://groups.drupal.org/node/9723 <p>For those who don't know, <a href="http://www.nexpo.com">Nexpo</a> is a gigantic trade show put on by the <a href="http://naa.org">Newspaper Association of America</a> every year. Over at <a href="http://morris.com">my day job</a>, I'm a member of the NAA, and <a href="http://ken.therickards.com/2008/02/06/presstime-interview-on-newspapers-and-open-source/">this interview</a> was with the NAA monthly trade magazine.</p> <p>As a result, I will be at Nexpo, invited by Rich Forsgren to appear on a panel to discuss "Content Management -- A Technology Perspective." I will be the open-source voice on the panel, which should include industry heavyweights SaxoTech, DTI, and other vendors of proprietary software.</p> <p>I will, as usual, be taking the stance that open-source is good for business and that it aligns with the core goals of journalism: namely the free exchange of information in order to build better communities. This should be a lot of fun.</p> <p>For those of you in the DC area, I will be in town for three nights [April 12 - 14], so make your dinner reservations now.</p> <div class="og_rss_groups"><a href="/washington-dc-drupalers">Washington, DC Drupalers</a></div> http://groups.drupal.org/node/9723#comments meetup newspapers nexpo events Newspapers on Drupal Washington, DC Drupalers Wed, 12 Mar 2008 20:24:42 +0000 agentrickard@drupal.org 9723 at http://groups.drupal.org http://groups.drupal.org/node/9589 <p>Hello!</p> <p>I already have a news website built on Drupal, but now o work on another news website and at this point i have a problem...<br /> What i need is to display a tree of terms like this:<br /> News<br /> --Industry<br /> --Technology<br /> X<br /> --YY<br /> --ZZ...<br /> "News" and "X" are terms in a vocabulary. "Industry" and "Technology" are therms in same vocabulary but the have as parent the "News" term.<br /> When i go to /news (the path alias of the "News" term) i want there to be list of all sub-terms of this term.<br /> Another posibility will be to display teasers of the nodes in "Industry" and "Technology".<br /> So i want the term "News" act like a page and display its sub-terms.<br /> Can some one more experienced tell me how this can be done?</p> <p>Thanks</p> <div class="og_rss_groups"><a href="/newspapers-on-drupal">Newspapers on Drupal</a></div> http://groups.drupal.org/node/9589#comments development Newspapers on Drupal Mon, 10 Mar 2008 13:36:05 +0000 lordlex 9589 at http://groups.drupal.org http://groups.drupal.org/node/9509 <p>[This is a cross-post from my blog.]</p> <p>We had a very successful BoF on Wednesday. The goal was to discusss how the Drupal community would manage our relationship with the <a href="http://knightfoundation.org">Knight Foundation</a>.</p> <p>For those who were not at <a href="http://boston2008.drupalcon.org">DrupalCON</a>, here are the basics:</p> <p>-- The Knight Foundation (KF) provides funding for open-source development, products and innovations that are in line with their core goal: improving communities through the free exchange of news and information.<br /> -- KF needs help from the community to review proposals that are specific to Drupal.<br /> -- The program will be ongoing, with the deadlines and length of projects to vary on a case-by-case basis.<br /> -- KF handles all the project management and grant management issues for acceptaed proposals.<br /> -- The Drupal community will try a two-step process for applications.</p> <p>1) Submit an idea for community consideration.<br /> 2) Ideas that get community support will become project issues in a special project queue. These proposals will get serious review from the community in preparation for passing to the KF for final evaluation.</p> <p>Let me stress that this is not a contest; it is an ongoing program that is an extension of work that KF is already doing. They are looking to the community to help, since we agree that Drupal and KF share some common goals, particularly about the purpose of open-source software and the desire to enable open communications.</p> <p>There will be some additional detail forthcoming over <a href="http://groups.drupal.org/knight-foundation">on g.d.o in the KF group</a>. For now, you can see the <a href="http://groups.drupal.org/node/9461">meeting minutes</a> from the BoF.</p> <p>In summary, here is where we stand on the process:</p> <p>-- Moshe and Josh are working on some CCK and voting widgets for use in submitting proposals via g.d.o.<br /> -- Gary Kebbel and his team are working on some language so that we all know exactly what types of projects they wish to fund.<br /> -- I will be creating a project page on drupal.org.</p> <p>We are going to have a check-in on or about March 21st, to make sure that we are on track with the work to be done. At that checkpoint, we will create the next round of tasks -- which will be focused on three aspects:</p> <p>-- Defining and communicating the goals of the program.<br /> -- Marketing the program to the community.<br /> -- Lining up volunteers to help manage the process.</p> <p>I have to say that I am very excited about the potential here. And I think that the members of the KF who participated in the BoF were equally excited to see how the community responded and began to self-organize.</p> <p>As a final note, let me stress that this will be an open process. We are striving for complete transparency regarding the proposals and the process for recommending them to the KF. If you were not at DrupalCON and want to participate, come on over and <a href="http://groups.drupal.org/knight-foundation">join the KF group</a>. Everyone is welcome.</p> <div class="og_rss_groups"><a href="/newspapers-on-drupal">Newspapers on Drupal</a></div> http://groups.drupal.org/node/9509#comments grants Knight Foundation process Knight Drupal Initiative Newspapers on Drupal Fri, 07 Mar 2008 18:18:19 +0000 agentrickard@drupal.org 9509 at http://groups.drupal.org http://groups.drupal.org/node/9388 <p>To all News folk at DrupalCon this week - just noticed the DrupalCon BoF event posting below and thought I'd post here to raise visibility. I didn't get a chance to meet others at Lucky's yesterday (raucous fun, but not too conducive to conversation!). Come on by if you're interested in Knight or just want to chat over Drupal.</p> <p><a href="http://groups.drupal.org/node/9383" title="http://groups.drupal.org/node/9383">http://groups.drupal.org/node/9383</a></p> <ul> <li>Chip Kaye</li> </ul> <div class="og_rss_groups"><a href="/newspapers-on-drupal">Newspapers on Drupal</a></div> http://groups.drupal.org/node/9388#comments drupalcon events Newspapers on Drupal Wed, 05 Mar 2008 03:38:01 +0000 chipk 9388 at http://groups.drupal.org http://groups.drupal.org/node/9289 <p>Kristine Lowe <a href="http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/editors/2008/02/29/online-journalism-scandinavia-danish-news-sites-benefit-from-doing-things-%e2%80%98the-drupal-way%e2%80%99/">interviews Nikolai Thyssen about Danish news sites using Drupal</a> for Journalism.co.uk, the British journalism website.</p> <blockquote><p> “The price of Drupal is an in-house developer. You get some good building blocks, but you have to think of Drupal as a framework rather than as plug and play: you have to discover everything for yourself,” said Nikolai Thyssen, head of new media for Information.dk.</p></blockquote> <div class="og_rss_groups"><a href="/newspapers-on-drupal">Newspapers on Drupal</a></div> http://groups.drupal.org/node/9289#comments drupal sites Newspapers on Drupal Fri, 29 Feb 2008 20:38:27 +0000 yelvington@drupal.org 9289 at http://groups.drupal.org http://groups.drupal.org/node/9190 <p>This thread is for colleges/universities who currently use or are planning to use Drupal.</p> <p>My n