Indymedia

Hello,

I'm trying to set s a basic indymedia-style site in a very short period of time (days). The most important thing should be that anonymous users can publish political news anonymously -- and by this I mean that not only will the users be able to publish their stories without prior registration, but, importantly, that their IP addresses and locations must be impossible to trace. Because of the current political situation, it is very important that the users are guaranteed that it is no-way that the governement will be able to trace their true identities!!!

Here are some reports from DrupalCon Barcelona!

• We had representatives of uk/nl, hungary, be, indybay & beirut imc present -- the conference as a whole had almost 450 people. of course we also met up with local barcelona techies who do use drupal -- they were just too busy to make it to drupalcon so we met up at a hacklab ;)

• The new Drupal 6, CCK, Views, FormAPI, Panels, etc. will be awesome -- but not without your help ;) as always you can help with user interface suggestions, documentation, testing, etc. etc.

The 1.0 release of the indymedia cities module is available. Please try it out and file any bugs/feature requests/support requests. Thanks...

http://drupal.org/project/indymedia_cities

Hi all,

I am pretty much the sole admin here at http://sbindymedia.org. We are still running dada (in archive mode) and I have been trying to put together a Drupal install that would suit our needs. (Trying for many months now). A suitable place to host is one of the last issues. (and then there's the dada import, eesh).

We started with a 4.7 install, but as 5 grows I'm highly considering switching to 5.1 and dealing with any lack of modules. Is there a list of issues related to getting 5.1 up and running as an IMC cms? Do people recommend sticking with 4.7 or just switching?

Can we at least get a wiki story going with all of the IMC groups that are running Drupal and list which version and modules they have installed? I realize some of this is on the docs.imc.org server, but it's down and this would be information that the larger Drupal community could use also.

The last part I've really struggled with lately is finding an IMC friendly Drupal hosting server. The server we lease is way outdated and needs a complete overhaul to run Drupal. Does anyone have recommendations on where we could host an install that is friendly to IMCs (logging, large upload size, etc).

onward!

-jon

kia ora koutou...

i created a module called hidden to have something in between the Drupal states of published and unpublished.
each article (node) or comment has a link 'hide'/'unhide' if the user has the permission to 'mark as hidden'. after having supplied a reason, the obscured items are available unter /hidden.

current caveats:
- comments for hidden items are disabled
- in admin/content/node, the hidden articles appear only as unpublished

dunno how to use the module infrastructure (without patching core modules) to get that straight.

Given how unreliable docs.indymedia.org has been - maybe we should move some of the information over to this group.
Also it would give everyone here a chance to comment on the work done so far.

What does everyone else think ?

Regards,
Isaac
indymedia.org.nz

I'm currently working on implementing moderation functionality to allow for hidden posts, and seperating newswires into 'free-for-all' and 'trusted users' in the hope of making quality content more visible, while still allowing open and anonymous publishing. I'm currently modifying the node moderation module to allow moderation of comments (and perhaps throw some AJAX in there for niceness).

Initially, this will be designed to let only editors or admins to moderate. Later I'd like to see it move to a more democratic/community driven system. Can I hear what existing admins/editors would wan