proposals

The NewsCloud Newsroom module makes it easy for Drupal-based sites to integrate an interactive, social media newsroom. An early test release of the module was released in February 2008 (http://drupal.org/node/219425) and is part of the Drupal CVS tree.

The Newsroom module is currently in early beta. The basic functionality works although a few bugs remain. We would like to improve the robustness of the module and add new features. We would also like to solicit feedback from the Drupal community to build a list of suggested enhancements for future development.

The outcome of this project will result in more organizations with Drupal websites using our module to attract interest in and generate activity on their website while increasing the level of engagement and knowledge of current events with their members; this in turn will help them become more successful in their own mission. We will also conduct a survey of groups that used the module and provide a post-mortem of the impact of the module on their organization's missions. The post-mortem will also assess whether ongoing updates to the module are necessary and what features might be included.

Introduction

The Internet has empowered people to share information and ideas in unprecedented ways. It has enabled people to easily and at almost no cost to be both producers and consumers of information world-wide. Nowadays, people are able to have their own channel of information, broadcasting ideas, photos, videos, etc. This is very exciting and brings many opportunities for education, research, business and entertainment. However, it brings many challenges as well.

Problem

This project will create two complementary sites: a Local Publishing Platform paired with a Regional Aggregation Hub.

The Publishing Platform will support a range of activities, from a K12 school magazine, a community paper, a writing project (something like the National Writing Project or Youth Radio), a college paper, etc.

The Aggregation Hub will provide a way for these different organizations to work together without losing any editorial control, or diluting the mission of the participating organizations.

Some use cases

Hi everyone, I've been working on several Drupal based community media projects for a while now. Glad to hear about this process and kudos to Knight for supporting FOSS! I'm going to post some proposals for this group to consider, here is the first one :)

FilmForge. FilmForge is a distribution (actually, an installation profile) of the Free/Libre Open Source Softare content management system Drupal, tailored to the needs of videomaking communities. FilmForge makes it simple to install and run your own video sharing site. Project wiki and more info: http://wiki.koumbit.net/FilmForge

I'm cross posting this because until I came across the PEG space Birds of a Feather session at DrupalCon I had no idea that there were two Drupal groupsworking on the resource and scheduling problems faced by community broadcasts. The other group had camouflaged themselves by using the insider name of PEG instead of something I'd have recognized like Public Access TV. Hopefully this can serve as the catalyst to get the two groups cross pollenating.