Drupal Social Initiative (Social API) at DrupalCamp London

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Posted by dahacouk on March 1, 2014 at 2:49pm
Start: 
2014-03-02 11:35 - 12:00 Europe/London
Organizers: 
dahacouk
Event type: 
User group meeting

http://2014.drupalcamplondon.co.uk/content/drupal-social-initiative-soci...

This BoF is part of the Drupal Social Initiative looking at abstracting Social Networking functionality in Drupal.

Sunday, March 2, 2014 - 11:35 to 12:00 Room A109

Objectives

  • Provide a common interface to access common functions across multiple social networks. Making it easier for:
    • Developers to create and maintain social network integration modules.
    • Site builders to utilise social network integration modules that harmoniously work together.
    • Users to access social networks functionality.
  • Let's work on clarifying these objectives.
  • There are numerous modules for Drupal social networking integration.
    • Connecting with other networks
    • Pulling in content
    • Pushing out content
    • What else?

See the Abstracting Social Networking functionality in Drupal stack diagram.

Code review

  • We should be able to abstract these into a social networking API
    • OAuth for authorisation
    • Pluggable layer for
      • Notifications
      • Pulling in and using content
      • Posting to other networks
      • What else?

Future directions (need to add website links)

  • Federated social networking
    • WebID
    • OStatus
      • PubSubHubbub
    • OpenSocial
      • Portable Contacts
  • What else?

Use Cases

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  • What do we want to be able to do with social networks?
    • Downloading friends' lists
    • Posting pages
    • What else?

    Comments

    Drupal for a content and social hub in medicine

    Posted by Simon Currey on February 24, 2015 at 12:26pm
    Simon Currey's picture

    I am a marketeer based in Weybridge, North Surrey, UK. We are shortly to start building a virtual content store using Drupal. I am interested in the social dimension as I would like our medical users to post their profile on our notzhub.

    Please feel free to contact me. Unfortunately I have to attend a once a year business event this Sunday and so can't make your event.

    Best wishes, Simon.