http://drupal.org/project/volunteer_timeslots
Please brainstorm here about changes to this module for 6.x.
Should users need to be registered to volunteer?
Should the Event module dependency be traded for a CCK dependency?
Should making the module Views-friendly be a priority?
Moshe suggests looking at https://www.doodle.ch as one model - a registered used initiates, and then anyone who has the link can sign up.
Another idea is to create a "timeslot" CCK field that could be levered for quite a number of uses.
Erich suggests that the code for Event, Volunteer Timeslots, RSVP, Signup, etc be merged into one uber-module that handles all that. Or, it would be nice to have Event be like Userpoints is, with Volunteer Timeslots, RSVP, Signup, etc living in contrib.
Comments
How is this module significantly different from signup.module?
This sure sounds an awful lot like the functionality provided by http://drupal.org/project/signup. Am I missing something? There's already views integration. Slot limits. Reminder emails. CCK date fields (for reminder emails and auto-closing) are close (http://drupal.org/node/86462), using a nice layer of abstraction that allows it to continue supporting event.module. Both auth and anon signups are supported...
Not to be rude, but I don't see what this module provides that signup doesn't already do. ;) Why don't we join forces?
Thanks,
-Derek
Signup vs. Event Manager vs. Volunteer Timeslots
Dww, I agree, there appears to be a lot of overlap between signup, volunteer timeslots and the Event Manager modules. The only drupal site I do work on utilizes the Volunteer Timeslots module (thanks to Peter helping to get it working with Drupal 5.x a while ago). It has been excellent, but after seeing this post, I installed signup and it indeed appears to have all the same functions with one exception: Volunteer timeslots allows an event to be sub-divided into multiple signup time slots. My site does not need this functionality and could easily transition to a signup-based system. I'd be more than happy to test out modules and help where I can (I have no PHP or drupal coding experience, but have a working site I can test dev modules on until the school year starts in September).
I do not know anything about the Event Manager module other than stumbling on it at drupalmodules.com. It appears to be more popular than signup and I wonder if all THREE modules could be merged into one effort? Dww, any comments on this?