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Hello all,

I'm currently developing a site for a group of political activists who want to be able to debate and vote on issues through the site. Everything about the Drupal project makes it the ideal tool for such a task.

I've checked out the various voting modules and with a little tweaking I'm pretty sure I can design what we need.

However, I thought I'd ask to see if anyone knows of any Drupal-based sites that have plenty of debate and democratic decision-making going on. Any ideas?

It would be great to get some inspiration.

Cheers,

James

Breaking Open Facebook with Open Source Software (Part 2)

it’s important for socially aware software developers to begin thinking about how to provide alternative services to proprietary social networks. While I acknowledge this is a very high level description scarce on implementation details, I hope that it spurs some spirited discussions and future innovation.

http://www.idealog.us/2007/10/breaking-open-f.html

I've been mucking around on FaceBook for the last week. It's cool, and the apps are nice.

And the dirty little secret is that MySite supports this type of "app" functionality through its plugin API -- it might even be made to read Facebook apps.

So where's the developer love?

/me stops whining

[UPDATE: I have stopped reading this thread.] 23-OCT-2007.

Honestly I'm the one hating cross posts, but I know it will be lost in the drupal's forum torrent of help request posts, so I decided to introduce again in a more suitable place, this community group. Sorry for the inconvenience! :D

I've developed a little module (5.X version of drupal ONLY) to control and disrupt the login operation on certain situations, improving the site security with new options.

You can find the module here:

http://www.drupal.org/project/login_security

I've included the readme.txt of the module in the post for so you can read it withouth downloading.

I'm glad to announce development of a buddylist 2.x module. Our team needs buddylist's functionality for a project, but decided that buddylist's (1.x) quality is too bad for use in our project and that the effort to fix it wouldn't be worth the trouble. So we'll build buddylist 2.x..

Buddylist 2.x design decisions:

• use views (for now with usernode..) for all buddy listing, so they are
  extensible and customizable
• use workflow-ng for all notifications, which provides e-mail notifications - or whatever you want (just write the appropriate action..)
• to simplify only the buddylist modus with "Confirmed buddies" will be
  supported - no one-way buddy connections
• only implement the basics in the module, other things should be built as add-ons.
  So there will be no buddy-group functionality, or tracker integration (for
  this views can be used nevertheless).
• we have also planned to develop an extension, which shows the shortest
  buddy connection to other people later
• Probably there will be no need for changing the db-scheme. So
  upgrading would be just a matter of replacing the module.

So in short the pros/cons of this design will be:
+ small, stable, performant module
+ good code reusing
- a lot of dependencies (views, usernode, worfklow-ng for notifications)

development will be done by nodestroy

I am reporting some findings that I hope will help others who decide to try any access control module currently available to Drupal 5.1 or earlier.

Hello,

I wrote a module derived from the drupal Video module to build a Youtube-like platform.
The site can be seen at http://www.kaouenn.net

Features:
- Creative commons licenses support
- auto transcoding to flash flv (with ffmpeg), with load balancing support (transcoding can be done outside the web server). Video formats supported include mpeg, realmedia, wmv... In fact the ffmpeg supported formats
- support video and audio only

The transcoding part is done with shell scripts updating the drupal DB through the XMLRPC interface.