Title: Forumz installation profile
Abstract: a enhanced forum system, integrated the features in current forum-related modules (Advanced Forum, Forum Access, Author Panel...etc) and add the most useful discuz/phpBB-like features.
Overview: This installation profile will integrate current forum-related modules and add the most useful discuz/phpBB-like features into Drupal's forum module. It will make Drupal more popular in countries which netizen like talk/chat with others rather than blog his/her own thought.
Description:
Drupal is wonderful, but it's forum is not good enough. We have many forum-related modules to enhance it's functions, but it's not easy enough to make it a better forum system like phpBB or Discuz!. This project will try to integrate current forum-related modules and develop more features, to make Drupal a better forum.
This installation profile will make these things happened, easily:
- To hide image display by default. Web site visitors can click a button to display the images, to save the bandwidth of website.
- Visitors cannot download the attached files, unless he belongs to specific role (usually by posting article or comment to earn userpoints).
- Forum moderator can highlight(outline) contents in his forum and place them into a special section within the forum.
- User can easily post comment with a Good or Bad voting.
- Moderator can manage the official category with his forum. The category name will display before the post title as a prefix.
- And more!!
Mentors:
- Charles Chuang - will help with features planning and UI design.
- Jimmy Huang - a local mentor, and will help with coding standards and tips.
- Looking for more mentors from current forum-related modules developer.
Difficulty: medium
Timeline:
By 5/23 - talk to mentors, read documentation of forum-related
modules, plan the detailed scope of integrated modules and functions
By 6/5 - build wireframe/mockup for this enhanced forum
By 6/12 - pack the existing modules into a installation profile,
submit mid-term evaluation.
By 7/14 - develop extra functions
By 8/10 - freeze code and test/debug the installation profile in local
communites
By 8/24 - write documents and submit final evaluation
Bio:
I am studying in Taiwan Takming University of Science and Technology.
I have took part in the 2008 national programming competition and won
the third award. I have been the chief executive officer of the
association of Department of Information Management.
I am very interested in programming and familiar with PHP, VB.NET, MySQL、MSSQL.