Posted by xavip on December 31, 2014 at 9:34am
Hi Time Banking group,
We have been developing integralCES, a suite of Drupal modules featuring social currencies management for communities. After some years of developing and setting up a production site with few thousands of users in Catalonia and Spain, we think it's mature enough to jump from an experimental sandbox to a drupal full project, in order to facilitate the installation and to share with any community who is looking for such a software.
Project aplication: https://www.drupal.org/node/2267557
Sandbox: https://www.drupal.org/sandbox/esteve/1367140
Demo site: https://demo.integralces.net
Can anybody help integralCES to become a drupal full project?
Thank you and happy exchanges.
Comments
IntegralCES - Would like more info
I would like to learn more about this new system from a Timebank perspective. I tried using the documentation but could not find an English translation. Nor could I sign-in to the demo site, evn though I typed the user names and passwords as they appeared in the instructions.
I could be available to help with this system, maybe even switch from my existing Community Weaver system, if I could learn more.
Thanks for any help!
Jim
IntegralCES - Working on translating documentation
Hi Jim,
https://docs.integralces.net is now in catalan/spanish because until now all developers and network administrators use these languages, but we're working on translating it to english. Some parts are already translated.
But for drupal admins, all help in admin/help/ices is in english: how to initialize an exchange group, how to activate it, how to register new users in the exchange group, etc...
About https://demo.integralces.net, user names are case sensitive: "Gauss", "Euclides" or "Riemann" are different from gauss, euclides or riemann. All passwords are "integralces". I checked it and it works ok.
Hope it helps.
Happy new year!
Your SSL certificate is out of date
Hi XaviP
I tried to have a look at https://docs.integralces.net but it appears you SSL certificate is either out-of-date, or misconfigured. I recommend having a look at Let's Encrypt:
https://letsencrypt.org/
Let's Encrypt distributes free SSL certificates, via an automated client program that requests the certs for you, and in some cases installs them too!
how to help
What can we do to help integral ces become a full project?
how to become full project
Hi matslats,
We think we've followed all steps to become full project, but the project aplication in drupal.org is still in "needs review" state:
https://www.drupal.org/node/2267557
We opened it more than 7 months ago, and in that time we've been correcting all bugs and standard code issues that reviewers has indicated. In parallel, the site in production has generated many improvements demanded by users and some bugs that we've corrected too.
So we don't know exactly what more we can do to become full project, as we think the code is mature and bug-free enough, and meets all drupal code standards. We suppose that a reviewer with permissions to declare it full project has to review it. Maybe it's a module with much code and it's not as easy to review as smaller modules. Or maybe the reviewers don't understand social currencies utility.
So, answering to your question, we don't know exactly how you can help integralces to become a full project. That's the problem. Reviewing the code and giving us your impressions would be good, but this is not sure that really helps. Maybe asking to someone who has the knowledge of what to do in this case.
Thanks matslats.
Reviewed & tested by the community
Thanks matslats for changing the status to "Reviewed & tested by the community" !!
Please give consideration to using GNU AGPLv3
Greetings
One thing I've noticed with community exchange server software is that there are a lot of projects using GNU GPL. It's great that you've all chosen a copyleft license, and for client-side applications, it's certainly the one I'd recommend, although I would suggest using version 3 "or later", to protect your users from DRM, patent trolls, and "tivoization".
The problem with using GPL for server-side software is that the copyleft provision only gets triggered when a re-user engages in distribution of binaries or source code, not when they only run it on a server. A company could build a commercial service on a modified version of GPL-licensed software (as may be the case with Community Weaver 3.0), without being legally obliged to share the source code of their modifications. GNU AGPLv3 is designed specifically to address this, by including network services (eg a timebanking website) in the legal definition of "distribution", triggering the copyleft provision.
I strongly recommend that all copyright holders of community exchange server software consider moving to AGPL.
Keep up the good work.
Warm regards
Strypey