Hi all,
Really interested in this project, but there seems to be little activity on it recently. What are its current movements? I would be very interested in working on this project, especially in Drupal 7, which by looking at the design spec, should be more than possible with today's state of modules. I'm happy & able to do the backend monkey work & less comfortable with the theming.
I've got ~20 hours a week to offer this project & I think we can get something sweet up & running in a couple of months (if I was basically working on my own). I will be free from the beginning of next week, so guys, give me a job! Or shall I just get on with building transitiondrupal7 from the ground up? Has any work started on this and is it required? Really want to coordinate efforts, don't want to do something silly like getting on with this without any communications.
Pleased to meet you all,
nick,
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Yes, status update
Yes, status update please???
A lot of groups in the US are using ning.com for sites and in Vermont we are very unsatisfied with that. We're talking about building a new site with Drupal to replace our horribly deficient transitionvermont.ning.com. I've been eye-ing this TransitionDrupal project for at least a year, what's the status???
Hey, I'm now thinking about
Hey,
I'm now thinking about Drupal Commons as a template for transition stuff, going to be starting on a non-transition community site presently. TransitionDrupal seems to be dead & noone associated with it is getting back to me regarding status, so taking it over doesn't seem to be an option.
So, I'm really fond of Commons, it has that discussion/community aspect which is surely really important to TT, I've asked for access to the Drupal 7 alpha, which they seem to be happy to share, then I can get started on this community site. But, for TT, if it's to move to Commons, it'd need a design spec & everything, are you interested in working together in getting something like this up & running?
Here's some stuff about Commons moving to 7...
https://drupal.org/node/1434520#comment-5593894
Pleased to meet you,
nx
Very exciting that you have
Very exciting that you have time energy for a Drupal solution for TT initiatives.
I wonder if a more versatile approach would be to bundle the various functions of a good Transition website in "Features" modules drupal.org/project/features ...? That way, we can use the features on any compatible platform or distro.
When looking at a variety of distributions like Commons, Openatrium, openPublish, Open OUtreach, etc, it seems like any of them could work well, but would need substantial configuring. If configuration will always be necessary maybe it'd make sense for us to use what platforms we're already most comfortable/familiar with and share Features that we build for specific TT purposes...???
Any thoughts on this?
I probably have less than 10 hours available for this over the next month, but come Spring time I hope to have substantially more. Looking forward to a Drupal solution to replace Vermont USA's deficient ning.com website.
Cheers!
An update
Hi,
Apologies for the silence here, those of us who were actively discussing Transition Drupal some months back went quiet due to various reasons, mostly other commitments and waiting for D7 to mature. What has emerged during that time is a collaboration with CommunityTools (http://communitytools.info/, mentioned here http://communitytools.info/2011/12/transition-network-and-ct/), so we are actively working to ensure that CommunityTools 2.0 (based on D7) is fit-for-purpose for Transition groups and local communities. The intent was to build and demo a basic working version of this and request feedback.
I've been drafting a specification of requirements and features that a Transition website might need (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1R_gwpg8v2T3QMnrfPxOJEjdOaUlmwJc4GX4t...) and attempting to get feedback from other Transitioners on this. It would be really helpful if those in this group could review this and offer any feedback. It's useful input to CT for building the distro.
cheers
paul
Call to arms
Hi!
I posted suggestion about using Commons distribution as a foundation for the real-world community web sites: http://groups.drupal.org/node/219564
Feedback is much appreciated. :)
Sorry for cross-posting, this is just in case somebody is only following this particular thread...
Cheers.