Working group

Many Drupal projects are using Puppet for management of environments and setup of key Drupal pre-requisities (e.g. Apache, MySQL). Much of this work is duplicated across projects, causing time to be wasted and money lost on configuration of common services. This group is to discuss the creation of common Puppet modules to manage these services and to get Drupal projects up and running faster, particularly in enterprise and cloud environments.

Time banking is an alternative currency system that uses units of time as currency. This group is dedicated to Drupal-based time banking software, including Community Weaver and the Time Machine installation profile, and to discussing practices for using Drupal to manage time dollars or time credits.

Screenshots and Reviews of CMS apps. Especially focused on areas where they outshine Drupal.

Artesian Forum is a new Drupal module that aims to provide a native forum for Drupal that can compete with stand alone forum applications while also making use of the advantages of being a completely integrated forum. The purpose of this group is to have a place to plan the module in public where the community can watch and comment without it being hidden away on Michelle's blog or filling up the issue queue with meta discussions.

Not to be confused with THE Drupal Association, this group is for those involved in setting up legal entities in their home countries, but also for those organising less formal structures to support their local Drupal communities. There are a range of issues faced by every group that sets out on this journey, so this group aims to be a place to collect stories, share resources, warn about the pitfalls, and raise awareness of the issues we all face.

The goal for the Open App Standard is to define the purpose and high level components of an App infrastructure in Drupal, and to define the technical protocols required for the creation, use, and distribution of apps in the community and larger marketplace.

This group exists as a place for people interested to talk about Display Suite development or share use cases; all development talk is encouraged here, from people who want to work on Display Suite to people who are interested in the API for their own modules. This is a good place to:

1) ask questions
2) talk about problems
3) propose ideas
4) talk about DS related projects

This group is now unmoderated, and anyone can join at any time. Public posting of ideas is encouraged.

Drupal core major happenings and opportunities to contribute are announced in this group, please follow the RSS feed to learn about these.

Posting to this group is restricted to people listed in MAINTAINERS.txt. If you have an announcement you'd like to post in this group, please file a webmasters issue with the suggested text and for quicker attention paste a link to that issue in #drupal-contribute.

People need to gain control of their own data and digital identities!!!

A Personal Data System (PDS) movement, with various players, is gaining momentum and trying to provide this capability to individuals. Read more on this movement from one such player at http://personaldataecosystem.org/ or google 'Personal Data System' for many links.

Our given group will use and extend Drupal to develop a PDS application for individual users and PDS-as-a-service providers. A Drupal 'Full Project' proposal will be submitted after we get organized.

The aim of this group is:

• to give members an opportunity to share their stories about building a website with Drupal for their startups
• to create a space for those willing to learn more about Drupal and ways it can help online businesses
• to foster a sense of entrepreneurship and, at the same time, offer technical guidance to those who may not be familiar with Drupal

Over time, it is hoped that this group will become an important part of the drupal community as more people come to learn Drupal for developing online businesses, be they ecommerce websites or social networks.