Church Drupal Best Practices - Wiki

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The goal of this wiki is to collaborate on "best practices" for drupal for churches, with the future possibility of developing a distribution and/or installation profile.

UPDATE: Check out the updated WIKI page Drupal Distribution for Churches - Features WIKI for more features...

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Feature: Homepage and Basic Pages

Content and Module Options: Location and Service Times (Gmap module)

Pros/Cons, Comments, How To:

Feature: Calendar

Content and Module Options: Date and Calendar Modules

Pros/Cons, Comments, How To:

Feature: Audio/Video Management and Podcasting

Content and Module Options: SermonCast integration or module set (CCK, Views,FileField, FFPC, SWFTools)

Pros/Cons, Comments, How To: We may build a SermonCast integration-Lee

Feature: Admin Theme

Content and Module Options: Acquia Marina

Pros/Cons, Comments, How To: Suggest we standardize on Acquia Marina as the admin theme so that anyone creating screencasts for training can be used by others.

What about zen_classic ? Real themes are more likely to be built on top of zen, and it offers useful admin candy, like the hidden block administration links. (~Matt2000)

Feature: Newsletter

Content and Module Options: SimpleNews, Constant Contact module, iContact module, Notify, Notifications, Subscriptions, CiviCRM: CiviMail

Pros/Cons, Comments, How To:

Feature: Groups

Content and Module Options: Organic Groups also OG Subgroups

Pros/Cons, Comments, How To: Every ministry is a group (example- Life Groups, Bible studies, Student Ministries, Men’s Minstry)

Feature: Devotional Journals

Content and Module Options: Blog module

Pros/Cons, Comments, How To: For devotionals by individual members

Feature: Prayer Room

Content and Module Options: CCK and Views and Flag module

Pros/Cons, Comments, How To: Submit prayers

Feature: Staff Directory

Content and Module Options: View of staff, CiviCRM profile listings

Pros/Cons, Comments, How To:

Feature: On-line Giving

Content and Module Options: Ubercart and donations, CiviCRM:CiviContribute

Pros/Cons, Comments, How To: Being worked on

Feature: Ask the Pastor

Content and Module Options: Answers

Pros/Cons, Comments, How To: Accordion style question and answers from the pastor

Feature: Sermon collaboration

Content and Module Options: Wiki page or Node with comments

Pros/Cons, Comments, How To: For pastors who do sermon collaboration. Allow people to comment and update sermon outlines before giving the sermon.

Feature: Other??? – Add Your Desired Feature

Content and Module Options:

Pros/Cons, Comments, How To:

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