This is the group for people who want to discuss Drupal's social networking tools. These tools include modules like Buddylist, Organic Groups, Invite, FOAF, Private message, and so forth. Sites that currently do successful social networking are:
The goal of this group is to foster communication between the developers of Drupal's social networking modules, discuss roadmaps, and collect community input.
A personal/community workspace, or another look at social networking
I've been thinking about some of the specifics of creating a personal workspace within Drupal -- although my main area of interest is education, these thoughts have applications outside education -- these are some rough notes, and I'm curious to see/hear reactions about what I'm missing/overlooking. These notes are not intended to be comprehensive, but a starting point in a conversation about some specific functionality
Some basic functionality--
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To accomplish this, I was thinking about some integration between BuddyList (http://drupal.org/project/buddylist) and the ACL (http://drupal.org/project/acl) or NodeAccess (http://drupal.org/project/nodeaccess)module -- members of a user’s Buddylist can be used to form an access control list on a node by node basis-- I’m leaning toward the ACL module as I think a generalized API that can be used by other modules provides some advantages long term. However, was the ACL module designed to work primarily with roles, or with individual users?
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Upcoming.org module and other third party APIs
Here's the low-down on the upcoming.org integration module:
Per the developers description: The upcoming.org module enables you to import events and venues from upcoming.org and display them in a calendar using the event module. Upcoming.org is a website that helps you share and keep track of your events. Synchronizing (using upcoming.org as the master repository) is also supported. Additionally, this module exposes the upcoming.org REST API, making clients written to use it interoperable with Drupal. This makes it possible to build a whole network of websites sharing their events, all using a defined API.
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The most amazing drupal site i've seen! + Profile solution discussion
Hi everybody,
While making my research about Drupal profile solutions, I was pointed to the following site:
http://www.goingon.com
I was shocked after surfing the site. This site is powered by Drupal and it's amazing! WOW!!!
I want that our BB project will have such full featured profile like in goingon.com. Does anyone have any clue which profile module this site is using? What are the other modules of that site?
Thanks and have a nice day.
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Hi there,
Can anyone post here links for examples of Drupal social networking sites?
Thanks.
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Buddylist.module Privacy feature
I've developed a privacy feature that works directly with the buddylist.module, written mostly in PHP with HTML forms. It is not a module, however, the code can simply be placed in a remote file with a block that contains the form code. Bascially, the user either chose (from a drop down menu) Private mode or Public mode. Private mode will allow only their friends to see their profiles and public mode will allow anyone registered to see their profile.
Again, this has not been developed as a module but can absolutely be developed into a module, by someone who has direct experience with the Drupal API, which I do not.
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package = Social networking
In the buddylist.info file I put the buddylist.module into the "Social networking" package. Is this a good classification of it, and what other modules would fit into the same package?
From buddylist.info:
package = Social networkingInvite and FOAF would definitely fall into this group. How about OG?
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The buddylist module has been updated for Drupal 5.0. Please test the module and report bugs that you find to the issue queue.
The module is maintained by myself, Wolfgang Ziegler, and Josh Koenig.
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