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Some brainstorming notes from the sprint

Posted by robertdouglass on May 9, 2008 at 9:49pm
Last updated by dww on Sat, 2008-05-10 16:11

Totally disorderly and mostly here for our own reference =)

Refactor node/user search implementations into own modules.
Control over the search interface.
Moving stuff between adv. search form and main search form and/or block.
Full search building interfaces. Create search environments; Each env. has own settings. eg. What content types are in search? What does the interface look like? Analog to building a view w/ fastsearch.

KDI: Spread the word

Posted by agentrickard on May 2, 2008 at 4:35pm

This page is a resource for members of the Drupal community. If you would like to promote the Knight Drupal Initiative, you can use the following materials.

For more information about the KDI, see the program goals and the FAQ. To submit a proposal, please review the application tips and the application process.

Program summary

A one sentence summary of the KDI.

* The Knight Drupal Initiative is an annual grant program for Drupal and is designed to help people improve their communities by providing a robust, freely distributed, open source digital publishing platform.

Elevator pitch

For use when you have thirty seconds to explain the KDI.

* The Knight Drupal Initiative is an annual, open grant funding process for the Drupal open source project. We want to enable more people to enter the digital conversation by lowering the technical barriers to entry. We will provide powerful tools for digital publication, free and open to all. Our goal is to encourage people to improve their communities by supporting the free exchange of information and ideas.

Drupal Camp India

Posted by gloscon-gdo on April 17, 2008 at 3:09pm

Start:

2008-08-08 (All day) - 2008-08-10 (All day) Asia/Calcutta

Event type:

User group meeting

Find all the information about this Drupal Camp at http://drupalcamp08.drupalindia.in

International Attendees may want to look at http://youtube.com/watch?v=XjeAtS4GGkk to know what Ahmedabad looks like.

Hello All Drupal lovers,

We proudly annouce the venue for Drupal Camp India at DA-IICT, Gandhinagar. Although it took really long for us as far as finalization of the venue is concerned, we finally got DA-IICT venu approved for first ever DrupalCamp in India between 8 to 10 August, DA-IICT is a well-known institute situated at Gandhinagar, the capital city of Gujarat.

CCK Integration for Panels

Posted by gordon on April 10, 2008 at 1:23am

I have just posted a patch which allows people to add a single field into a pane for much greater control over content layout.

See http://drupal.org/node/97375 for the patch to CCK

groups.drupal.org gives UI power to group admins with Pages

Posted by moshe weitzman on April 4, 2008 at 1:47pm

groups.drupal.org now features Pages, a major new feature added this week. Group admins now have much more control over the presentation of their group’s content. You may see this feature in action by clicking on the tabs in the redesigned Drupal Dojo group, or Los Angeles or SoC 2008. To learn how this customization was achieved, watch this screencast (blip.tv) by Josh Koenig.

Group admins may add as many custom Pages as they desire to their group. The admin may choose her own page layout, and may place whatever content she wishes into each region of the page. If this sounds like Panels module to you, then pat yourself on the back. This feature is a happy integration between Organic Groups module and the Panels module.

Group admins are encouraged to build out their groups using Pages (see screencast), and report bugs or feature requests in the groups.drupal.org group.

Many thanks to Earl Miles for Panels and Views, and to Josh Koenig for the screencast, and to the Post Carbon Institute for funding og_panels module.

Case study: running a small college site with drupal

Posted by David.Hamilton on March 28, 2008 at 8:35pm

Hi folks,

I'm following up on promises I made during the Birds of a Feather sessions at Drupalcon Boston to post a case study of how we're using Drupal at Amherst College. We've developed a module to facilitate hierarchical content creation and permission control that's also of potential interest to folks outside of the academic community.

Preamble aside - about 3 years ago the college decided to fundamentally change the way it was approaching the web, and a little over 2 years ago we started building on top of Drupal. The project had some broad goals:

NITF/Atom/NewsML extensions for FeedAPI

Posted by yelvington on March 13, 2008 at 7:13pm

Status: Added to official ideas list http://drupal.org/node/234652

I'm crossposting this to the following groups, all of which have a dog in this hunt: SOC2008, Knight Foundation, Newspapers on Drupal, RSS & Aggregation.

News agencies, "legacy" newsroom management system implementors, publishers and archiving companies all support an XML standard called News Industry Text Format (NITF), developed by the International Press Telecommunications Council.

We need a robust, broadly supported common NITF feed handler that works with the Drupal FeedAPI framework, ultimately enabling loading of NITF data into CCK nodes with configurable entity mapping. This feed handler should expose its own API so that additional handlers can be added to process NewsML (primarily championed by Reuters) and Atom wrappers (used by the Associated Press in AP Exchange).

SimpleTest DROP Tasks

Posted by cwgordon7 on March 11, 2008 at 12:00am
Last updated by skywalker2208 on Wed, 2008-03-19 00:09

Some SimpleTests would make great DROP tasks. So I propose we create a list of the most-needed SimpleTests, and at any given time, the top 3-5 are active DROP tasks. Edit the table below; I'll be updating the DROP issue queue(s) as necessary.

Introductions

Posted by webchick on March 9, 2008 at 7:07am

I figured we could start this group with a "virtual" edition of the Drupalchix BoF at Drupalcon Boston. Go around the "circle," as it were, and introduce ourselves, both to get to know each other a bit, but also so that we're aware that there /are/ other women out there in the Drupal community. ;)

So let's do some introductions... who are you, where are you from, what do you do for a living, what's your background, how'd you get into this crazy Drupal stuff, what do you do with Drupal, and whatever other random facts you'd like to share?

I'll kick it off, I guess...

Boston DrupalCon is over, Stay Involved!

Posted by jredding on March 6, 2008 at 9:51pm

DrupalCon just finished wrapping up and it has been an amazing week. Over 900 people attended over 50 sessions and over 30 Birds of a Feather (BoF) sessions. In the rooms and halls you could see knowledge virally spreading throughout the attendees as well as connections being made. DrupalCon may be over but don't let the knowledge sharing stop here.

This event was put on by people just like everyone here on G.D.O, don't let events like this stop! YOU are keeping this going!

Here are a few great events coming up!

Sydney, Australia May 18th-22nd, 2008 Drupal Asia/Pacific Conference.
The first major Drupal conference in Australia teamed up with CeBit.

Austin, Texas March 8th, 2008 BarCamp with Much Drupal love

Orlando, Florida April 5th-6th, 2008 Barcamp with much Drupal love

Paris, France April 19th DrupalCamp2!

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