Neighborhood CCK

Think having all these neighborhoods wrapped into cck will pretty powerful! Especially interested in the audio/last.fm integration. Last.fm makes it easy to embed widgets (http://www.last.fm/widgets/) - has a pretty rich api (http://www.audioscrobbler.net/data/webservices/) - which is pretty conducive to mashups (http://www.programmableweb.com/api/last.fm).

Great work Aaron - Looks like it's going to be a rich neighborhood!

Gus Austin
PepperAlley Productions

I personally like it when the module name has a key word that I would be searching for, so I would vote for "Remotely Embedded Audio Video Field". Kind of ugly, I know, but very descriptive...

I like the term social, it lends a contemporary feel to it, together with the word "media" but expanding it a little more to describe what this module actually does to "social media", I suggest:
embedded social media field
embedded social media CCK

Christopher Skauss
TemplateGarden.NET frightfully discounted website templates

- - similar to: canonical, canonic, basic
reduced to the simplest and most significant form possible without loss of generality

Is there an agreement about commonly accepted module naming conventions?

I like Remote Media Field. I don't think Media Field is descriptive enough on its own unless you're planning to let people upload content using this module as well.

Wow! This has generated far more discussion than I thought it would. There are some great ideas here; I just love the collaborative nature of the Drupal community!

I'm going to set up a poll after lunch, to get a better sense of what people think we should name the module. I'm adding anything in the discussions that I've seen referenced two or more times (or once if I like it, since I'd also reference it in that case), in alphabetical order. If you think of a fantastic name (and someone agrees with it) before I set up the poll, I'll add it to the poll. Otherwise, there will be an 'Other' option, so you can add it in the comments there.

I'll add a mention on the project page to make sure anyone looking from there will know the name of the module is in flux.

With the exception of Media CCK (since Media Field already exists), I've changed anything with 'CCK' to 'Field' -- I agree with the points made that 'Field' is probably a better choice. You can make a case for 'CCK' here or in the poll; we can take that into consideration when tallying the poll, and probably be ok counting, for instance, 'Embedded Media Field' the same as 'Embedded Media CCK'.

I'll leave the poll up for two days. Sometime this weekend, depending on when I can get to it, I'll use the tally to rename the module. I'm not attached to the name we end up with; I want something the community agrees will be most useful. Unless the majority chooses something like 'Spaghetti Monster Pirate Module', in which case even though I'd like the reference, I'd have to veto for fear that no one would know what it was about.

The options as they stand right now: (let me know if I missed something or if you want another name considered)

• Embedded Media Field
• Embedded Social Media Field
• Media CCK
• Remote Media Field
• Social Media Field
• Other (Suggest name in comment)

Thanks,
Aaron Winborn
Advomatic, Web Design for Progressive Advocacy, Grassroots Movements, and Really Cool Causes

On another note, after some thought on the matter, we'll need to change the machine name for the module as well, because ncck will carry no meaning after the module's name change. That won't be a problem for any sites already using the module (I have two already that use it), because the fields are actually controlled by contributed modules (video_cck and image_ncck), and I won't change their names. It just means that sites using ncck would need to delete that folder and install the new folder.

I'll plan to change the machine name of the module to something that makes sense (and is short enough to make coding bearable, particularly with any required hooks). So maybe something like em_field, for instance, if we choose Embedded Media Field. Although that would make for some awkward function names, like em_field_field. But so it goes.

I'm open to suggestions.

Another item to be addressed, though not of as much import (since they won't get their own project pages), is what to name the contributed modules within the /contrib folder. I guess they would best be called something similar, such as (using the example I've been using) 'Embedded Video Field' and 'Embedded Image Field'. Again, they'll keep their machine names regardless, because otherwise there would be migration problems for existing sites using the modules.

Any thoughts?

Aaron Winborn
Advomatic, Web Design for Progressive Advocacy, Grassroots Movements, and Really Cool Causes

The module has been renamed to Embedded Media Field (with a machine name of emfield). The Neighborhood CCK project will be deleted in about a week, so if you're using it, make sure to replace that with the new module. (Simply remove the ncck folder from your modules directory, add the new module, and go to /admin/build/modules and hit submit to activate it.)

Thanks for all your input! I think the name is a good one. (With no more confusion about Google Maps or Mr. Rogers...)

Aaron Winborn
Advomatic, Web Design for Progressive Advocacy, Grassroots Movements, and Really Cool Causes

There are so many ways to contribute to Drupal! I'm glad to have found a community of developers and users that can appreciate the finer points of semantics, syntax, and purity of structure.

How will this CCK module work with the existing Video module? Will the future releases of the video module integrate with this CCK?

We have put quite a bit of work importing and tagging videos into the existing video module, so I would hate to lose that work and have to re-enter the information.

Any thoughts?