Posted by fibie on September 30, 2010 at 11:00pm
Just wanted to say hi, I am a drupal too and happy to help out if I can.
It would be good to get up to speed with what's planned here as local groups in Scotland have been asking us for microsites too and we don't want to go ahead and duplicate what you guys are doing.
What stage is this project at just now?
I am not much of a coder but been using Drupal for a while now so might be able to help with some stuff.
Will have more time once the conference is past in November (please do come along if you would like to! http://www.transitionscotland.org/content/join-us-november) but wanted to say hello and be part of the discussion.
Fiona
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Welcome!
Hi Fiona,
Things are still very early, I think the intent is that activity will ramp up more as D7 and related modules reach beta quality. But we are certainly at a requirements harvesting stage so do browse through the documented requirements so far (http://www.transitiondrupal.org/reqs-1.0) and add comments there or in a thread here.
When you say microsites, are you thinking of something like the Transition Network site will shortly support, sites within that site? Or rather completely separate websites for initiatives? If the former, is there a strong need for an independent Scottish hub site that supports this?
Its hard to say at this point what this group will do for hub sites, but its certainly part of the plan. However it would not make sense to overlap a lot with Transition Network. The initial focus may be more on an installation profile that can be used for one initiative with additional features that TN.org does not support (if anyone else sees differently do jump in ;-) ).
Thanks for the welcome :)
Hi there,
Will have a look at that and add comments if I have any at this stage
We do have a national hub in Scotland (www.transitionscotland.org) which we are still currently developing in terms of its capabilities and offers news, events, resources etc We are planning to offer organic groups / local directory listings very soon.
So far we have identified three main categories of requirement:
We realised that the needs of different groups would vary quite a bit and we identified three primary groups:
Those who have ning sites already (or equivalent) and are looking for a new solution now that they are being charged for this service.
Those who don't have a site yet but are bursting at the seams and now have capacity to manage a site and looking to set one up
Those who are just starting out but only have a limited membership so not ready or looking to develop a site of their own just yet but would like to have some sort of way or growing their membership and keeping in touch.
There may be others that we missed but this was our first thoughts.
The first two categories looking for their own unique site essentially and the third that might want the benefit of not having to worry about all that stuff and keep in touch with each other through the organic groups set up on our national hub which will actually be its own site the way TN have done.
I feel having our own group system is warranted as there are a significant amount of local initiatives or non official transition groups who might prefer to be identified closer to home and hope this is not seen as duplication. It's certainly not intended as such.
So, its the folks that are really wanting their own website essentially that I am talking about when I say microsites, sorry for the confusion.
So essentially we are being asked for,
Own branding
Own domain / email
Main site pages
Blog
Sub Group pages
Forum
Image gallery
Group email
Hope that clarifies where we have got to so far