FAQ

Discussions for THIS group; Post your comments in http://drupal.org/node/2040979#comment-7734879 remember http://drupal.org/dcoc

For NOW! This is a Sandbox for people to test the Group Modules/Functions before you apply it to your group. And Play around with Creations of a new Pages, Taxonomy, etc... and play with the settings.

the “Page Title” should be in your name.

This is going to be a Quick Easy Guide about [Groups.Drupal.org] and it's Functions。In the simplest short intuitive terse explanations of it's Functions.

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Introduction to Drupal terminology; the Drupal Concepts shows a basic concept of the whole Drupal software.

Here's a list of helpful information created by others ...
• http://drupal.org/drupal-faq#whatis ＝　Official Text information.
• http://drupalize.me/guides ＝　subscription fee Information.

If your Familiar to FireFox browser; the Analogy would be is Drupal is the software to Website construction as is, FireFox is used to browsing the Internet。
And the Modules for Drupal are the equivalent to Add-ons of FireFox。

Terminology :　in order of relevancy of concepts

• d.o　＝　Drupal.Org; referring to the site。
• users　＝　are people who has a Drupal.Org Account。
• node　＝　there are 7 Types of Nodes：

In non-Alphabetical order︰
1. Discussion　＝　a Thread of Posts, replied by users。
2. Job　＝　Posting for companies looking for people with Drupal Skills。
3. Event　＝　the organizer Hosts a gathering/meetup for the Group; where users can Sign Up and post Comments in the thread. The [sign-up button] is ALWAYS at the bottom of the post, NOT the tab beside the View。
4. Wiki page　＝　Editable by Anyone who has a d.o account。
5. Group　＝　a Content type in group created by Group Organizers for users to join with the organizers and Members. Automatically subscribes to the Nodes associated with the group。
6. Poll　＝　a Voting thread for users that allows Comments。
7. Page　＝　is a sub-folder of a Group node. Where you Edit the layout and manage the content of Blocks inside。Blocks and placement of Nodes。

structure-wise　＝　#'s 1-6 are all in a pool of nodes under *.drupal.org site. They are Folder-ed as groups.drupal.org/node/######. So all the Nodes created are placed in ONE (1) php database folder, no sub-folders or trees。except the Page node

• modules　＝　are like blocks of programs/functions for Drupal。
  http://drupal.org/project/modules 。
  　 distributions　＝　a Bunch of modules merged together。a.k.a. distro
  　 http://drupal.org/documentation/build/distributions 。
  　 http://drupal.org/project/distributions 。
• themes　＝　are the Front-End appearance of a site。
  http://drupal.org/project/themes 。
• blocks　＝　are like Widgets that are placed inside a Panel。
• panels　＝　are frames that contain the Nodes and Blocks inside。

• layout　＝　the different sizes of Panels placed on a page, in any location and order。

• 　＝　。

Alphabetical arrangement of general Lingo terms：　

• issues　＝　are official tickets sent to the moderators。
  http://drupal.org/project/issues/drupalorg ＝　Changes/Modifications for the present Version 6 site that is currently being used.
  http://drupal.org/project/issues/groupsdrupalorg ＝　Changes for the G.D.O site.
  http://groups.drupal.org/prairie-initiative ＝　Changes for the future Version 7 of the d.o site.
• markdown　＝　Shortcut Tags/Procedures to activate HTML codes。↵
• 　＝　。

The Structure of the sites are Separated into (5) five sub-sites and even they are related they are treated as separate sites and have no relation to each other in posting stuff in side their site.
1. http://drupal.org

Issues is another "subsite" inside drupal.org that is separated from *.drupal.org subsite even though they are related to *.d.o subsite; contents are treated as separated from the subsites even though they are the exact same category.
• Issue terminology
• http://groups.drupal.org/node/125829

So the NODEs in drupal.org are not connected to groups.drupal.org

They may have the same modules used to construct the site. but some functions are different, and works differently even when identical codes are used.
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